I'm the girl who...

...Just a little something I came across while I was on Facebook. I thought it was cute, and I felt like I could relate to it a lot.
I figured maybe some of you would be able to relate to it as well, so I felt like sharing. :3

New Chapters in Life and Good Connections

So it's officially summer vacation, marking yet another new chapter in my life. Since this year's seniors finally graduated today, I guess from this point on I'm considered a senior. Not looking forward to yet another year in the educational hell called school, but I still have months until it starts up again. Huzzah for only having to face one more year of high school~! :D

But anyways, now that it's summer I'll have the time to post short updates every now and then, and I'll probably be posting a couple more food tutorials if anyone's interested. To catch up on what I haven't blogged about yet, A little less than a month ago, a relative and her two kids decided they would temporarily move in with my family and I. The oldest, a boy, is 4 years old and the youngest, the girl, is only 2. Just from knowing their ages, you can probably guess that there's endless amounts of energy flying around. They're absolutely adorable so I don't mind having them around. It's like having younger siblings all over again <3 XD

In other news, I was able to get a temporary job for the summer. My mom's close friend owns a little empanada store in SoHo, so with the help of mom good connection, I'll be helping out there every now and then. I just started working there today and I already feel as though I've been working there for a long time. XD  Couldn't have asked for a better first part-time job. I'll be working there again tomorrow for the morning and afternoon, and I have to get some sleep now; Otherwise i'll die in the morning from sleepyness.. So I guess I'll end it off here~.

Hasta la vista people~ :D

Friendship

Take a look at this picture here. I was taken almost a year ago. 

He looks incredibly happy doesn't he? :D

Now..

Take a look at this next picture below~.

Does he (the one on the right) look happier than he did in the first picture? 
Does he look more annoyed? 
Or was he just really sleepy that day?

Hm... It could be all three or just one of those reasons. Maybe it was just the bunny ears bothering him. We'll never know. 

But.. what we DO know from this picture is that Shiro now has a roommate! That's right people! :D We got a second doggie about a month ago.

His name's Frosty and he's a 7-month-old fluffball that drives Shiro nuts with his overflowing energy.  Despite how similar in appearance they are, Frosty and Shiro have complete opposite personalities. 

Opposite personalities?! Isn't that a bad thing??

For some people, having opposite personalities is a bad thing because it means having nothing in common. It's true for Shiro and Frosty too, and because of their opposite personalities, it took almost an entire month for Shiro to accept Frosty into the family. 

But does having completely different personalities mean friendship is impossible?

If you can accept your differences, then friendship is definitely possible. The keyword here is acceptance. If you're stubborn and aggressive like Shiro, It might take a while for that to happen. At first, Shiro would growl at Frosty if he was even a foot away from him. If Frosty wanted to cuddle with Shiro, Shiro would find a way to scare him away from the doggie bed with his aggressiveness. Now, however, they can sleep through the night in the same doggie bed and can't stand to be away from each other. XD

If it takes so long to accept someone else, why even bother? 

In Shiro and Frosty's case, they had no choice. But if aggressive and shy dogs can learn to accept each other, humans can do it to! We have language to our advantage too, so the ability to verbally communicate shortens the amount of time it takes for people to accept each other. 
Once you get past the acceptance step, there are so many things you can learn from each other to keep each other from getting tired of such a complicated friendship.

In Frosty's case, he learned to stand up for himself when facing off against Shiro's aggressiveness, Shiro taught him the difference between barking and squeaking, and he's not so shy anymore.

Shiro, on the other hand, learned that too much aggressiveness is a bad thing, he learned to accept other dogs into his territory and personal space, and he learned to share things like food, his bed, and the attention they get.

Of course, with humans, the learning-experiences may be a bit-- if not completely-- different, but there's always something new to learn from a friendship. 

So in the end everyone wins. Unless you associate learning-experiences with a negative connotation, there's really nothing to lose and you'll just make positive memories along the way.

In summary, Dog-Bunny Shiro just wants you to know that all friendships are a good thing, and they're something we should cherish always.  If he was able to accept and learn from a friendship, we all can. So don't let your chances of having an awesome friendship slip away. :D

End of 2011

As of now, it's December 31st. Even though this post was started at around midnight, the post's date will still show up as the 30th. Nyeh. Something like this happened last year too for my New Year's post, making the date show up as December 31st even though it was past 12 am, January 1st. XD Anyways..

I don't know if I should feel relieved or sad that a year like 2011 is ending. So many things have happened this year. I've definitely made some good memories, of course with some painful or annoying memories mixed in every now and then. Those are some things people can never avoid completely though, so it's fine. My favorite memory of the year has to be when I got Shiro. I still can't decide on my worst memory.

Reflecting on this past year I realize that although I tried to succeed at first, I failed the two resolutions I decided on last December 31st. Maybe they were unreasonable resolutions considering my personality and the habits I've had for years. This time I'll try to make more reasonable resolutions.. but at the same time I wont forget about my procrastination resolution. I really need to get rid of my habit of procrastinating or who knows how badly I'll do in college. =_=; So~

Resolution 1: Learn to play guitar and bass
I got Rocksmith for Christmas this year with the guitar and everything, so I'm hoping to learn to play it well by the end of the year. And hopefully in music class at school I'll learn to play the bass well too~!

Resolution 2: Become more focused in anything related to school
It seems that something may have depressed me somehow either last year or this year. I didn't notice my slight depression until a very observant friend, and then my mother, pointed out the possibility to me. Because of that slight depression, (I still don't know the cause of it) I've been slacking off in school and procrastinating more than usual.. Or rather, more than I should be allowed to. I've been told that Junior-year is the most important year in high school but it's the year that I've gotten the worst grades in all my life. I hope by the end of this year I overcome that and become a lot more focused on schoolwork.

Resolution 3: Be less negative/More positive~!

I had been blaming school for how negative I've become toward a lot of things, or even life itself. It's most likely that depression I mentioned earlier, but anyway.. My third resolution is to think of everything in a more positive way so that my negative thoughts don't turn into something more serious. =_=;

Resolution 4: To make this year the best year of my life so far.

In a reasonable way. Not in a stupidly reckless way. I'm gonna work twice as hard to make more happy memories so that instead of seeing every passing year as worse than the prior one, I'll see this year as the best one in a long time.

Resolution 5: Stop Procrastinating.
'Nuff said. I have nothing more to say about this one since I'll probably fail it again-- ah, wait. But that's being negative.. =.=; I'll still try!

I wonder if I'll accomplish any of my resolutions this time.
With this post, I bid you farewell 2011. Happy New Year 2012 everyone~!

15 Day Challenge: Day 13, 14, and 15.

Because if I drag this on any longer or don't finish this eventually, this is gonna haunt me somehow...
I'll post the remaining 3 'days' in one since they're so short. I probably should have combined everything since Day 11. xD

3 Ways To Make You Cry

1. Hurt an animal in front of me. (Example: Kick a puppy)

2. Shove an onion in my face / poke me in the eyes.

3. Seriously hurt my feelings.

LOLWHUT
It's actually not very easy to make cry anymore ._.

2 Ways To Win Your Heart
1. Respect? Don't disrespect me in public. That's not cool, it's embarrassing more than anything. D: (LolDomesticEmotionalViolencewhut) So basically if you can acknowledge my existence as an actual human being,.. yeah ;3

2. You'd have to like me for my personality more than anything, not just because of my face or my physical appearance or whatever.

..But I don't actually think my appearance would play a part in any of that really, because of my self esteem and all that jazz xD

1 Thing You Need To Say

1. ...The most epic way to die would be to spontaneously combust, so I think that's the way I want to die. xD