thinking yesterday away

Here’s a link to my new blog that will be just my reviews!

Sweet & Sour

Please check it out and follow me!

I need help naming a new blog. It’s going to be purely for reviews of random events, places, people, shows, just about anything from my everyday life. I’m still going to have this blog for Mary Kay and stumble upon nights and just about everything else, but this new blog is going to be more professional in nature and for only “one” topic.

I’m looking for a catchy name that revolves around critiques or reviews or something like that! No song lyrics please! And you will get major props!

So, any suggestions??

I just finished watching ABC Family’s original movie Cyberbully. I have not honestly been so moved by a movie in a long time. Overzealous, cliche ending? Maybe. But the message is well worth it. Everyone with the Internet, not just parents and school-aged kids, should watch it. Today.

I’ve never personally felt cornered by anything said publicly online, however, personal chat has gotten me into a lot of trouble. I was ganged up on by classmates and even when my life was threatened on someone else’s wall my teacher said there was nothing I could do about it. In fact, he turned it into being my fault. When no one would stand up for me it hurt, but I was lucky enough to have been born with a strong foundation and the will to stand up for myself. I was also lucky enough to have been born knowing, no matter the circumstance, I would never attempt to take my own life.

People feel more comfortable starting fights and saying harmful words online because they don’t have to stand up for their words. They don’t have to face their victims. But the problem is not only do the victims have to face it, but it’s permanent. They have to face their bullies 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Facebook doesn’t close on the weekends or for holidays.

This movie portrays what the worst part is. People who don’t know the person think it’s funny to join in. They don’t feel guilty or bad because they may not know the person well or even at all. How can it be wrong if you’re not hurting someone personal to you? Right? How can it be wrong to hurt someone who puts their life out there, or even a celebrity who puts themselves in the limelight? It is because no matter who it is it hurts all the same. Not only is it not funny, but I think it is exponentially more malicious when a person chooses to judge the life of someone they don’t know.

But you can make a difference. Don’t join in. Choose not to add to the predators comments. Every comment you leave unspoken keeps someone else from responding to you. You leave the fire unfed.

Or take the next stop. Delete the Digital Drama. Speak up and protect your friends and those being ganged up on. Stand up for yourselves and report those abusing the Internet. Parents, teachers, principals, and even cyber bullying moderators. They will fight to shut down the bullies page and help you. Visit stompoutbullying.org to learn more!

Join ABC Family and Seventeen Magazine and Delete the Digital Drama from not only your life, but the lives of the ones you care about. Add the badge to your Facebook and/or Twitter account to show your support and say you are done with the drama! There is help out there! ABC Family even has a conversation starter for you to get out there and start talking about it with your friends.

Watch Cyberbu//y online now for a limited time only and join me in the rally to stop the bullying! Call up your friends, bust out the popcorn, pull up the laptop, print out the conversation starter, and get the ball rolling on slashing out the drama!

And know, if you are a victim of any kind of bullying, you are not alone. I, and many other people out there - professional or not -, are here to listen and to talk. As her mother says in the movie, “And there is nothing wrong with asking for help … You’ve put so much into your life; your life is so precious.”

All my love, Bridget

photos courtesy of abcfamily.go.com

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Maybe if my breakfast looked like this I would be more inclined to actually make and eat it… :) Which reminds me - I really want to go to J. Christopher’s! Any takers?!

I absolutely love this song. It’s going to become my anthem. I don’t know where all my self-confidence went to, but I need to find it. Fast. http://www.lyrics2liveby.com/

This actually makes me want a studio apartment just so I cant use this. But we all know it would only actually be folded and unfolded maybe… twice …. before I just let it be. And maybe for company haha.

I never would have guess that this lake is in China. Nevertheless, take me there. Yesterday. Please.

Again, China. Apparently every time I said China wasn’t in my top 5 places of countries I wanted to visit before I die I needed to reconsider. It’s there now.

“If you don’t ask the answer is always no.” I learned in Mary Kay training last week that the story is always fiction until you’re verified it as fact. The ONLY way to do that is to swallow your fear and face down your demons. Half the time the stories you’ve been telling yourself were wrong all along. They were just obstacles you were putting in your own way of succeeding. Be your own fact checker!

100 Dirt Cheap Recipes for the Poor Student

Where were these when I was living in a 5x5 dorm or paying over priced rent for a shitty apartment?!

I love silly cartoons with so many layers of meaning. It’s all about perspective. Literally.

Story of my life. Just add a smile and a half-cocked laugh and you’re golden.

The La Villa hamster in Nantes, France is a one room hotel for those who always wondered what a hamster’s life was like.  The room is outfitted with a giant working hamster wheel, a metal water spigot you activate with your foot and a bathroom filled with giant wood chips (and a human toilet). —- Um, because that’s every person’s dream vaca. Click on the link… there’s more.

TRIANGLES!

I just spent like 30 minutes on this site. If you’re bored… go here. You won’t know where the time went. Just make sure to hit the arrows and explore the triangles of anti-bordem lol :)

After the dream I just had I’ll be surprised if I sleep at all tonight - and this is not a night I should be going without sleep. Soon I’ll be working at 8 a.m. That makes me feel entirely too much like an adult. Can’t I just stay a kid forever with all the perks of being an adult?

I came on here to write one post. To relax and hopefully go back to sleep. I read one post by an acquaintance and I’m enraged. Why does death put me on such an edge?

To all those who lost their lives (now yesterday) we will never forget. Remember me 9-11-01.

Happiness. Pure, uninterrupted happiness.

The kind that makes everyone else annoyed by how happy you are.

My future.

I changed my major in an attempt to move on. It turned out that I was good at it. Basically, I got lucky. But there are days I wonder if I took the rationale route or the right route.

Communications is practical. I can do almost anything with it. So many options… so many paths to take. Event planning would be fun if I can get my foot in the door. Plus, there is steady money in communications. And, if I’m lucky, there can be good money in it.

However, English is my passion. Writing is what I’m good at and it’s what I love. Sure, there are times when I have to work to get my creative juices flowing, but I like working at it. I just got sick of being told what to write every minute of every day. I was afraid I would lose my passion if it was what I had to do in order to live. But now I rarely have the time to do it for please. Am I losing my passion altogether?

The poetry class I took at Kennesaw and the Irish Lit. class I took while abroad are still my two favorite classes. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

I miss it.

Bridget

It’s definitely changed a lot over the last several years. I never drank until I went to Ireland, and even though I was 20, that was still technically legal. Now, I won’t say when I got back I didn’t drink until I turned 21, that would be a lie. I know in the past I was adamant about the drinking age and really I still am. I think people drinking while they are young is stupid. I think there is a drinking age for a reason. While you’re young you don’t really think about what you’re doing to your body and the consequences. You don’t think about the harm.

Now, yes, I do drink. Yes, I have been drunk, granted that’s only been twice and I still remember the entire night. I’ve been tipsy more than once or twice. But I will still say people who drink to the point of passing out, people who drink and drive, people who drink and act recklessly, are stupid. I don’t care who I offend, you are just plain stupid. If you social drink in moderation that’s fine. But even when I know for a fact I was drinking to feel numb I never once saw the point of doing it to pass out. How is that fun? When you start putting other people’s lives in danger I no longer see you as a good person and I won’t ever sway from or apologize for that.

Just drink responsibly. Please.

Pretty much the last few sentences goes for my outlook on drugs too. They’re illegal for a reason. If you know the harm they do to you body and your mind and you still do them… you’re stupid. If you do them to the point where you can harm other people… I no longer think you’re a good person.

There are SO many other ways of having fun. REAL, endorphin producing fun. So, start actually living and stop pretending to live. At least I know how to have fun without the assistance of illegal substances. And I’m very proud of that fact.

I love what my teacher said in class yesterday, “The knew cigarette labels are being put in place because it’s the only legal substance that, when used AS DIRECTED, can and most likely will kill you.”

Okay, rant over.

Bridget