Honest Scrap

I have been instructed by my beautiful, wonderful friend Sarah to do the Honest Scrap Award thinger.

The Rules:
1. Tell your readers 10 things that are true that they might not know.
2. Tag 10 other bloggers to do the same. (I am skipping this step since Sarah tagged everyone that I know that reads my blog! haha)

My Top 10:

1. I am COMPLETELY excited to begin my job! I know I should probably be terrified, but the fear has not set in yet. I am only thinking about how I have been waiting for this day for six years.. I finally get my own classroom and I get to inspire children's lives! I have told myself over and over again that as long as I make a difference in one child's life then my teaching career will be worth it. So here's to making a difference!

2. I actually completely love the Twilight series. I try to down play it but they were my first "romance" type novels and I enjoyed them immensely.

3. "Working out" is the best way for me to relieve stress. I have been walking the dogs for about an hour and a half pretty much every day to help with my stress and to hopefully get myself to sleep at night (doesn't always work). I like to run on the treadmill but only if I am watching a t.v. show that I can concentrate on. ALSO I was able to actually run (well running for me) an entire mile and a half without slowing down! I was rather proud of myself.

4. I am always trying to find ways to improve myself. What I am working on now: not thinking the worst will always happen. I tend to do that, especially with the men in my life. I never think they are going to do the right thing, which is not fair for them and something they do not deserve. So I am working on being a better person in that matter.

5. One of my dream trips is to travel the east coast. I LOVE history and want to stop at all the little museums and churches and see the history of our amazing country. This is a little bittersweet because my mom and I had planned on doing this trip together one summer. But I have made a promise to myself that I will do this trip no matter what. It's what she would want.... on to something a little lighter :-)

6. I continually design my future apartment in my head because I am in a designing mood and don't have anything to design! (Although I do have that painting I have been meaning to paint for over a year now...)

7. I love to paint. I found this out when I was painting pottery for Christmas presents. This makes me tied to my father's side because my entire Dad's side were painters or opera singers. It makes me feel connected to the people I am connected to but have never met.

8. I love to take care of people. This is one of my best and worst personality traits. It makes people like to be around me but sometimes it means I get taken advantage of. Although, I am the one that allows them to do this (another thing I am working on.. standing up for myself). I think this is one of the main characteristics that made me want to be a teacher. I have always wanted to take care of people, and who better to take care of then children?

9. I LOVE musicals, plays as well, but definitely musicals. I try not to miss any of the Dallas Summer Musicals (it's the Broadway musicals on tour). They make me come alive. Here's a secret about me: I would absolutely love to be in a musical. I, of course, would be awful because I can not sing and I get nervous in front of crowds. But when I listen to the soundtracks I always picture myself on stage and being able to make people feel the way I do when I watch musicals. (another family trait?) I would also love to be a dancer. I don't think this one is as far off because I have pretty good rhythm and my mom said I was good in my lessons when I was younger (we didn't have the money for me to continue). This is why I want to start taking dance lessons, never to late right?

10. I want to make a difference in the world. I don't know if you know that about me. But I have always wanted to make a positive mark in everyone that I meet. That damn song from the 3day Breast Cancer walk (which btw I have decided not to do this year anymore due to I would not make it emotionally for those three days but I will be cheering Rachel and her team on!) makes me cry every time because well the cancer stuff, please it is saying what I am always thinking. I want to make a difference in the world. When I leave this awful, beautiful planet I want people to remember all of the things I did to make it better. It doesn't have to be changing the whole world. Just being a good friend, making a difference in a child's life, being a daughter that made them proud, being a sister that is always there for them, being a mother and wife (if I get to that point) that they knew they could always count on and that loved them. These are the things that I think make a difference in the world. The big exorbitant things done such as trying to cure cancer or hunger in the world are obviously very important but for most people the difference they make will be in the little every day things that make them important and change peoples lives. That's what my mom has done for me and I hope I can do that for others... well look at that.. getting all emotional again. :-)

I will leave you with the lyrics to the song I was just discussing.

It's by Lady Antebellum called: "I Was Here"

You will notice me
I'll be leavin' my mark, like initials carved in an old oak tree
you wait and see
maybe I'll write like Twain wrote
maybe I'll paint like Van Gough,
cure the common cold
i don't know but I'm ready to start cuz i know in my heart

I wanna do something that matters
say something different
something that sets the whole world on it's ear
i wanna do something better, with the time I've been given
and i wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life
and leave nothin less that something that says i was here

I will prove you wrong
if you think I'm all talk, your in for a shock
cuz this streams too strong, and before too long
maybe I'll compose symphonies
maybe I'll fight for world peace
cuz I know it's my destiny to leave more than a trace of myself in this
place

And I know that I, I will do more than just pass through this life
I'll leave nothin less that somethin that says I was here, I was here, I
was here, I was here

Wanna do somethin that matters
somethin that says I was here
wanna do somethin that matters
somethin that says I was here, I was here




Also something to ponder: What will you leave behind?