Learning from the past

Ok, so I moved back home to Iowa, living with my parents now, was looking through all my junk last night, and I found this journal entry - yes, I was reading them - and I wanted to share it with all of you because it touched me so and I thought, 'This will be perfect for my blog!' So here it is.

Make Life An Adventure
July 14, 2007 Saturday

It's pretty cool how a movie can just grab you, touch you in so many ways, inspire you to do something more with/in your life, or let you know you're never too old to be young and free and full of imagination. I don't usually cry in a lot of movies, but I did cry, a lot, in the one we just finished watching: Bridge to Terabithia; one of the best movies. It reminds you to "keep your mind wide open, all the possibilities." A few hours ago, the things that were on my mind and the things that I thought mattered to me, don't anymore. I kind of think this is God's way of bringing my mind back in the game. The reason why I'm here. The reason why we're all here: To return to our Father in Heaven. Destination: God's Kingdom. We never know when we're going to go and this earth, this temporary home, has so much to to offer. So many tings to see, places to go, people to meet. We should all look at life as a a grand adventure. Life isn't all that dull that we make it out to be . If we could see the world differently, not taking everything so serious or so literal, life would be grand. Only you can make you're life suck. Only you can believe in yourself and do the impossible. Make life an adventure. Dot he impossible. Be free. Be you.

Let's Play "Tag! You're It!"

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.



5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:
Ok, so I know Amy tagged me a LONG time ago, but I decided I ought to do something productive today. I too, looked back at old journals, or I should say, my old journal. I wasn't much of a good record-keeper when I was younger - I'm just glad I'm a little better now :) I'm also going to include my horrible spelling. Oh yes, I would have been 11 and in 5th grade. Well, here goes:
1. MARCH 15, 1998: "Yesterday Salas and Brandley came over, because we had to babysit them. Brandley would'nt eat any meals but litte snaks. He kept on crying. This was after we got him to sleep. And that took us a long time. We had to (Me and Becky), rock him in a blanket. AFter he wokd he cryed and cryed. I don't like when babys cry or anyone else, so I prayed that Brandley would eat and he ate lots of pineapples and a whole slice of pizza! I'm glad we have the gift of pray. We can use it in so many ways. From Megan and Mallory
2. APRIL 26, 1998: "Yesterday I was sick. I had a sorgh throught, a bad headache and I was very secentevened."
3. MAY 3, 1998: "Becky and I named a name for the rombi and a stick. It is called "Duck Hunting". It's a really good sport. Today is fast Sunday. We are fasting for a good house to live in and not to be so board."
4. JULY 19, 1998: "Yesterday at 1:30 we went to se "Mulan" It's about ulan whos goes as a man to fight in war. This movie takes palce in china. Today was Jade's Babtizpeted. Mom made me a new pair of B.J.'s. It's a pink plaid. It is very comforbore.
5. NOVEMBER 22, 1998: "Today in church, Bishop Dawosn was released form the Bishop rick. Do you know what? "Dad" is know the Bishop! I was and am scoked! I strated the calirent this year."




5 Things on my to-do list today:
1. Get well
2. Eat
3. Take it easy and be warm
4. Watch a movie
5. Get another Kleenex box for my room





5 Snacks I enjoy (today isn't the best day to ask me, since all that sounds really good is a cough drop, which I'm eating now! But I'll try my best not to gag about thinking of all my favorite sweet treats!):
1. It's not really a snack, but then again it is for me! Death by Chocolate - mmm mmm good!
2. Fruit snacks - more like sugar snacks!
3. Pretzels - chocolate covered, white covered, and plain of course
4. Almost anything with chocolate
5. Dried fruit and good figs






5 Things I would do if I were a Billionaire:
I say the same as Amy and Becky about doing the obvious things.
1. Get all the fliming equipment that I could ever possibly need and want to make my such fabolous videos/movies!
2. I like what Amy said about the houses - though I want houses like, inflatable ones, a house that has water in it, a house made entirely out of chocolate - like In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I also want a somewhat regular house with a completely white room that the family can go in there and get crazy with art without worrying about messing something up.
3. Figure out some kind of machine that can record your dreams at night!
4. Open up my own cafe - YourMom's Cafe
5. Travel the world



5 of my bad habits:
1. Reading late into the night - like 2 or 3 or even sometimes 5!
2. Not eating very well, or at all
3. Eating sugar junk a lot and lots of it
4. Picking my nails down to stubs until they hurt to do anything - and with that ruining my shirts in the process.
5. Sticking my nose in other people's business, even if it involves snooping.
I guess I have a lot of bad habits because I came up with these just like that!



5 places I have lived:
1. North Carolina - I don't even remember it, but I was born there.
2. Michigan
3. Iowa
4. Utah
5. Ha! I only just realized that I've only live in 4 states! But I guess my I could count the two different places I lived in Iowa: Iowa City and Davenport.


5 Jobs I’ve had:
1. Nanny with a family near us the summer I graduated
2. Fazoli's - great breadsticks!
3. Trafalga Family Fun Center
4. Subway - Eat Fresh. Acutally, my job at Subway was the longest job I've ever had: a little over a year. Rock on!
5. I guess I've only had 4 jobs in my life as well; unless of course you count all the babysitting I've done since I can't rememeber!



5 Things people probably don’t know about me:
1. I have strange ideas and stuff and when I try to explain them to others they just say to me, "You're funny Megan!" Gee thanks - just playing :)
2. As lazy as I am, I really like to work
3. As of right now, just thinking of eating something remotely sweet that isn't anything other than a cough drop, makes me sick.
4. I can't live without chapstick - I'm addicted to it
5. I'm not as quiet and innocent as I look or appear to be. I've been know to do some not so nice things to others and my family has told me numberless to shut up.

I tag Stephanie, except I don't know how to do that cool thing Amy did with our names.

I admit this took time, but it was a lot of fun. Probably the most productive thing I'll do all day :)

This has been
S.T. Harriot

Introduction

Hello! I am S.T. Harriot. I am a writer, an amateur at that. I love to express my views and opinions about life. I may not always say things the best possible way, but I do try.

I created this blog to be able to empty my thoughts, sort through them and then organize them. It is great to write down how you are feeling, in fact, it is quite healthy. It is also somewhat comforting when you know that others may be reading your thoughts and maybe someone is going through the same thing(s) that you are going through.

I am not going to describe much about myself because that is not really important. What is important is that I express myself, whether is sounds glorious or horrendous. When you express yourself, you say, 'hey! this is me! this is how i think, this is what i do, this is what i love, this is what i hate, this is what i care about' that's what expressing yourself is. You can express yourself in many different ways, and we all probably do express ourselves in different ways. For me, I love to write, take photos, journaling - sort of like scrap booking, but in my own special way :)

Unfortunately, my brain is not working properly today - my writing creativeness has left me and my spelling sucks. Hopefully the next time I write, it will be a little bit better.

Until then
This has been
S.T. Harriot