Date a Girl Who Reads

I found this quote/essay on Pinterest a while back, but I've never seen the whole thing. I didn't think there was an extended version. When I found this, I about jumped out of my seat. It is so cute... I wish I could write something like that!
This is why you should date a girl who reads...

“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted.
Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent.
Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.”

By Rosemarie Urquico

Some Thoughts

OK, ready for a bit of a rant?

I'm just going to come out and say...people are stupid. We all know that. For various reasons and at various times I just want to pimp slap people. I'm normally a very nice, calm, happy person, but today I'm mad.

I'm not going to get into any details.

But...

People are stupid. Just saying. I feel like pulling out my webcam and doing a "Jenna Marbles" style rant on stupid people. I also want to bury my face in a pillow and SCREAM. But I won't. That's why I have a blog.  *sassy grin*

Anyone know anything on relaxation? :/ Imma gunna need it, OK. OK!

I don't like hot tea, thank you very much,

Tay

Back To School...

No...I don't wanna go. I don't want to think about it. I don't want to know about it. I don't wanna even talk about it, but I will anyway.

I'm homeschooled, so back to school isn't as big of an ordeal as it would be for  "normal" people, but it's still school and it's dull, boring, and slow. I start after Labor Day, but everyone else around here starts today. Their stress is rubbing off on me. I don't like it one bit.

In Sunday school yesterday we sat down and wrote out our week's schedule. Everyone had that typical pained look on their faces. The point of the lesson (and for the past few weeks) had been not to over do it with your schedule. People kill themselves to be perfect and they don't take time out to relax. When you don't relax you crack. So "Work hard, play hard." (Whenever we hear that song we joke about "Hey we sang this in church!" haha not really of course).

So on a happier note, here is a picture that speaks truth to all:

So, don't freak out. Relax. You've been doing this for how many years now? You can do it again.

Going to buy my rainbow wig now, 

Tay

Jillian Michael's 7 Day Water Detox Review

It was right after my period and I was bloated all over. I had been eating salt a lot and I felt like a balloon. I knew I had a lot of water weight in me.

Then... I remembered the Pinterest picture about the natural way to lose 5 lbs of water weight. I forgot all about it all until that time... so I googled it and I found it again. Here is the picture:



And... it works. I started last Saturday and yesterday was my last day. The taste isn't too awful and I feel skinnier. I read on Pinterest some people use this a week before their wedding or to kick start a diet. Unfortunately it's just water weight so you will gain it back in 1-2 weeks, but that's okay.

Here are some tips:

1. Let the drink sit in the fridge for an hour or two after you've made it. For some reason, this drink seems easier to gulp down when it's cold. Also, cold drinks burn calories as opposed to warm.

2. Let the tea bag stay sit in the drink for a while before you actually drink it. I read that some people brew the tea and THEN put it in the drink, but I didn't. Lemon is the main component in this drink next to water, so it covers up the lemony sour taste if you leave it in there for a while. The first day of drinking this I didn't do this and just a few gulps at a time made me gag. So leave the tea bag float around for a while.

3. FYI - 60 ounces = 7 1/2 cups. I had to Google this, so I thought I'd help you out for those who are bad with measurements.

4. Be at home or near the John when you go. Because you will be going to the bathroom every 15 minutes until you drink it all. You'll notice your pee will be crystal clear which means it's doing it's job.

Yours,

Maddie

Be So Happy...

 

 
This picture is true on so many levels it's insane. It really speaks to me.

Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too...

Have you ever met someone who is just always so happy and immediately makes you perk up? Of course you have. Everyone has. And we all wish that person was us. Guess what, it can be you. Think about it.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

¹⁶ Always be joyful. ¹⁷ Never stop praying. ¹⁸ Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

Love Ya,

Tay