My lists

I don't know why, but I am in a list making mood today. I sat here thinking on what I wanted to make my lists about, and I decided to create two lists: things I love and things I hate. I'm still working on the things I love list, so I'll start with the things I hate list for today.

Things I Hate:

1. Chipped nail polish
I love doing my nails. I'm usually broke so since I can't go get them professionally done, I do them myself. Sometimes I don't paint them though because I cannot stand when they chip. And they always do. I'm a fairly impatient person so I hate sitting there for an hour waiting for them to dry. So I'll go do a bunch of other things and chip them. I hate it, but it always happens. Using that fast drying polish usually helps, but they don't make it in many colors. One of my nails is even chipped right now. It drives me crazy.

2. Non-matching things (some stuff)
I think the whole non-matching, trendy kind of look is really cool. And it looks cool when it's done right, but most of the time I think it looks bad. The two things that really drive me crazy are when the tone of my jewelry doesn't match and when furniture doesn't match. When I say the tone of my jewelry, I mean matching silver and gold. I cannot wear say, an all silver bracelet and an all gold necklace. Unless there's silver and gold in one piece, then I'm fine with mixing them. It isn't just jewelry though, it's even the minor things, like the little buckles on my sandals or the clasps on my purse. I have to incorporate both colors in my outfit somehow in order to wear both gold and silver. If I'm not wearing both, then I have to wear just one, or it will make me feel all out of order all day. The same goes for furniture. I'm fine with mixing prints or colors. But I don't like when wooden furniture doesn't match. Unless it looks like it's supposed to not match (like a vintage type of look), then it doesn't bug me. I don't know if this is normal or not, I'm thinking I'm just weird.

3. People who are oblivious to their surroundings
As a new driver, I'm pretty cautious when I'm in my car. And I'm aware of my surroundings (I try to be anyways). But there are some people who think they own the roads or something. Some of the time it's people in their cars, but around here it seems to be people on their motorcycles or pedestrians most of the time. I'm not bashing these people, because the majority of them are fine. But all it takes for me is that random person who doesn't pay attention to any of the pedestrian lights and just runs all over the road. Sure, I've been guilty of crossing the street when the pedestrian light says don't walk, and I'm sure most people have. But it's only been a few times when I've been late and I tried to hurry across the street as fast as possible and at least paid attention to the people driving around me. I get the whole pedestrian has the right of way rule or whatever, but some of these people are ridiculous. I swear, they walk out into the middle of the road at the most inconvenient time and are on their cell phones and walking as slow as they possibly can, all while having the traffic back up. And then there's that occasional guy on his motorcycle who thinks he's the hottest thing around, going about 30 miles over the speed limit. Sure, Mr. Motorcycle man, I get that you're cool and you worked hard to get your bike. But there's no need to race your friends on the highway during the busiest time of the day. Again, I'm not saying this is everyone, because 95% of people aren't like this. It's just a few who make it irritating.

4. Soda
I don't know why, but even as a little kid I've never really liked soda. When I was younger I would get the occasional Sprite at a restaurant, but I've always been more of a water type of person. Soda makes me feel sick sometimes, and I feel like it's a waste of calories. It's basically just water with sugar in it.

5. The kids who party and brag about it
I'm not the partying type at all. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family, but I don't drink or go to random parties to hook up with random guys (I have a boyfriend, but even if I didn't I wouldn't do this). Now that I'm out of high school, I feel like this type of thing won't be quite as frequent. I always hated sitting in class and hearing the kid behind me talk about how hungover he was to his friends, like he was bragging about it. Sure, it's your life, do what you want. But I don't really care that you drank to the point of passing out or hooked up with your best friend's cousin's ex-girlfriend. This is probably the number one reason I'm not going away to college. I probably would have gotten a really cool roommate, but there's also a decent possibility I wouldn't have. And I don't think I could have dealt with this type of thing 24/7.

6. Pressure
For things like working on a project for school, I actually do well under pressure. I've never been one to succumb to peer pressure. Even though I can be shy at times, I do stand my ground and don't do things that will harm myself or others. The topic I'm going to talk about here is kind of a personal thing, and it could make people feel kind of uncomfortable, especially the guys (sorry in advance). Ever since I was young, I've always believed that there's one person for everyone. I've always believed in only being with one person. I don't think it's bad to date more than one person, in a lot of situations I think it can be a good thing to hangout with someone and get to know them. But I believe in only "being" with one person (I don't know if anyone is going to pick up on what I'm talking about here without me actually saying it). I guess I'm old fashioned when it comes to that kind of thing. I don't believe in doing that unless there's some level of serious commitment such as engagement, or marriage, or something of that nature. It seems extreme to some people, but that's what I believe. Is it right for everyone? Probably not. But that's what I want. Being a spiritual kind of person, I'm not going to say that religion doesn't play into that decision at least somewhat. There's other reasons too. It's not always an easy thing. I've been dating my boyfriend for almost two years. While it's been a rocky road some of the time, this has definitely been an issue on more than one occasion. It's not that he doesn't want to wait, but he feels like I don't think highly of him or love him because he thinks I'm waiting for some other guy down the road to come along. I can see where he's coming from, and it makes it tricky. At what point does it become ridiculous in a guy's mind? A month, a year, two years, until marriage? I just feel like if a guy doesn't want to commit, then he won't stay with me if something were to happen. It's always in the back of my mind that he will meet someone else who doesn't need a commitment of some sort for that to happen, and then he's going to leave me. I know this all sounds kind of silly and juvenile, but it's a tricky topic.

That's all for now. I'll probably have my other list up tomorrow or sometime soon.

My prom dress

This is going to be a short post because I have to go work out (which I really do not feel like doing at all right now). I was going to post some actual pictures from my prom, but since my desktop computer is kind of broken, I can't upload the pictures. So for now I'll just post a picture of  what I wore to my prom.

The picture of the front isn't really that accurate. The way the girl's standing makes the slit look like it comes up to about her neck, but I promise in real life it doesn't.
Anyways, hope everyone is doing well. I'll try and post again soon.