Quotes

"Here will be a few of my quotes and others I pick up along the way:
If I don't find the puzzle pieces to my life, I might throw away the game."
~Secret (my favorite response to this is: Don't give up.Look at the box!)

"I'm more like Humpty Dumpty: Now that I've fallen apart I don't think anyone could put me back together again."
~Bethany Cole, Double Identity, pg 199-200

"The Longer you fall the harder you hit the ground when you stop, and the more likely it is that you will die. I've been falling far too long."
~A note I found in the school hallway, and let it go again so someone else can see it.

"Of course. A mother's death is a wound that never heals, no matter how tough the scar tissue. One can only protect that scar, hide it from others. And, if necessary, from the self."
~Ichabod Crane's Mind, Sleepy Hollow, page 33

Please, anyone that has a quote please contact me with it somehow! I will post only the ones I find good.

The Cousins

A little bit about:
my cousins
Hmm, my cousins, jeess what can I say? I guess I'll name them
OJ, 5, an adorable bundle of energy
Ab, 4? (oops i should know that shouldn't I!), quiet little girl
MK, erm 20? (wow this is sad), typical older cousin, acts like she could be my older annoying sister
Teddy, wow um 27?, getting married soon (I'm gonna be in the wedding! [and not a flower girl for once!]) acts just like my pap did
Boo, I'm gonna say 25?, getting married as well (just got engaged but is getting married before Teddy who got engaged last year!), awesome actor, very short :) (i've been taller then him for like 3 years)
Little Buddy, um 8?, went to NYC with me last year, we are BEST BUDDIES!! Love her shes at that age where shes cute but not as annoying as little kids :)
Meg, 4? (I give up trying :)), little bouncy girl, reminds me of OJ
Greg, 6?, that kid that tells on you, but he's cool :)
Thats all my little cousins, I don't feel like naming every single one I know of though so I guess that's all I have to say about them!

Rant: Crying

So I went over to my little cousins today for her birthday party/memorial day party I guess you could call it. Oh wait thats not the news though. So she just turned 5 and shes like a normal kid, has little Cd's about behavior and crap and wouldn't you know, a song about 'big girls don't cry' (no not the fergie version, the weird old people sing to kids version) and I got mad. No I am known for my strong views (ok maybe not) on some simple things like this. Well heres my first thoughts. 'WHY WOULD THEY TEACH LITTLE KIDS THAT IT'S NEVER OK TO CRY!' Then I thought, 'Well I guess that's good because you know little kids cry quite literately at the drop of a hat!'. But now that I can think about it without the noise of older people talking too loud, that annoying song in the background, and the hypnotizing swing I was on, I think 'wow this really isn't a cool message!' I mean, it would be ok if they had somehow twisted the lyrics so that it said something like 'its ok to cry when you mean it?' I don't know but something there just struck a cord. Not that I would ever cry in public unless it was completely necessary! But I don't want my little cousin to grow up thinking crying is wrong. The hardest part was hearing my aunt saying that ling to her 'Big girls don't cry *insert my little cousins name here*' I guess I'm just hard headed and think too much...but I care

30 Seconds To Mars

I find the part when it goes *boom boom boom* and it's just the guy throwing a tennis ball at a hollow metal thing hilarious

The Title

A little bit about:
The Title
I told you day one I would explain why I chose From The Side Of The Road to be my title. Well now I am on this boring memorial day.
Well it was a long time ago, like 4th grade maybe even 3rd, when I was in bible school (wow I was in bible school? Jeess this was a long time ago!) and we were talking about that one guy that got beaten up and left for dead on the side of the road and a preacher, some Jewish people, and a camel? all walked past him until a good samaratin walked past and helped him. (please don't be mad at my choppy bible story recreation, my church doesn't like read and memorize passages). Well after that we started talking about how there can be people on the side of the road mentally like in our school, you know the people that sit alone and have no friends, or even people that seem surrounded by friend but are sad (I guess we could say they were talking about depressed people). While I was a little freak of a kid and then I thought I was 'On the side of the road' because the stupid 'popular' people didn't like me (only my little 3rd grade self would think thats bad!) So from then on that little line stuck with me, morphing as I got older and cared less about fitting in and more about standing out and now just about being as invisible as possible. i guess it's a little thoughtless and bratty title now that I think of it, hoping that someone will pick me up off the road instead of me just getting up and asking someone to help me. I don't even know what I want help with! But all I know is that I label myself as 'on the side of the road' and I continue to look for anyone that seems like that too (not like anyone in my school could ever be like that, those rich brats and freaky nerds and my pretty normalish group of friends). So that's my title and this is why, say what you wish, but I like it.

The Parentals

A little bit about:
My Parents!
Well well well, looks like we are starting off with a description of my parents. I guess their your normal family? Oh wait, did I say normal? No no no, I mean, erm how do I say this? Their kind of crazy to the extreme... First off, my Mom works at this totally high power job (or what I think is high power, but then again you all can't say cus' you've never been sitting in her office while shes working [I barely saw her at all that day]) So she's gone when I wake up for school in the morning and doesn't come home till like 8 at night (on good days). But I wont ever tell her that bothers me :). And when she is home on half of weekends, it's fun! But I guess it seems like she doesn't know how anything in the house works or that I've been wearing eyeshadow for the past month? I guess that's my Mom in a nutshell (oh and she has the less crazy family, oh wait no I forgot both of my parents family's are equally crazy :) )
Second, there's my D a d, Dad. He's home just about all the time! He taught me how to ride a bike even (for which I am ever grateful). He taught me about the outside, about different plants, how to clean, what the little things at the top of the baseball game on the T.V mean, that the yellow line on the ground in football is imaginary, and all that stuff. He's a bus driver, but he only drove my bus for one year, after that I didn't allow him to because no one would talk to me for fear I would tell on them or something (keep in mind this was in like 1st grade). Now he drives for private schools I think they are? His true love is the outdoors, he's so glad that it's getting to the time of year where he can be outside 99% of the day. Well I don't know what else to say about him then?
Those are my parentals. Don't we all love their acts of kindness? My favorite right now is how they have to check EVERY song that I download off of iTunes

Beginning

This is the first post of my blog. (as if you didn't notice) I guess on here I'll just write of my life just like so many people do. I don't know if it's noteworthy but it seems to keep me always thinking and stuff. I'll also try to post some things about me that interest me and stuff, just so I don't completely bore you to death. Well thats all I have to say, you will be hearing more from me soon!