Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

I don't know what is was about this cause that really caught my attention, but it did. And it's something I really care a lot about. Please, this November, take the few minutes out of your day each day to vote 3 times for Hannah's Hope Fund in the Pepsi Refresh project. Also, try to get others to vote as well. Thank you. ♥

Every single time I'm in the same room as her, the only thought in my mind is "Notice me. Notice me. NOTICE ME!" Hoping, praying, wishing on an imaginary shooting star, that maybe, maybe, maybe she'll say hi to me. Hoping she'll say anything to me. Now she tutors at one of the same times I tutor at. And, I mean, she talked to me. For half a second. There were no tables left to tutor at, so she said I could sit at her table with her. When someone showed up for me to tutor, it was so hard to because she was sitting right there. Like right across the table from me. I was so.... I don't even know. I was trying not to notice her. Trying to pay more attention to my tutee. Trying to pretend that I don't like her, that my mind didn't go blank just because she'd said I could share the table with her. One of her (guy) friends came in, and she greeted him with a smile and a hug, and I was so jealous. I'm kind of friends with this guy too, but no...

This is Ron (Nikki's boyfriend) and his baby brother, Aden. Aden is just over a year old, and is so super adorable! Ron wants it to get a million views. Why? I don't know. But let's try anyway. It's only 45 seconds long; watch it and pass it on to everyone you know. :)

LOVE ♥

I'm at school right now, sitting outside the library, where it's supposed to be quiet but never actually is, typing this up on my laptop. And I'm in the most amazing mood ever. God I love it when she talks to me. For an hour this morning, maybe a little bit longer, we talked. Just the two of us for a while. It could've been a dream. Everything from nonsense outfit vs. just clothes right to the recent lgbt suicides was discussed between the two of us. We were serious. We were silly. We talked. And my day was made amazing. All day, since 8 this morning, I've been floating through the air. It's like I'm not all here because half my mind is going over and over and over this morning. Some of my friends keep saying that they'll figure out who I like, that it won't be too hard to find out who "he" is. Problem is, for my friends who want to know who the "guy" I like is... is that it's not a guy I'm so head-over-heels f...

I typed this up on Twitlonger, but figured I'l post it here as well. Yes, I swore a few times in writing it. Bullying starts at home when parents don't teach their kids tolerance and acceptance of people who are different from them. Am I blaming parents/poor parenting for all the bullying going on today? Yes, partly. But SCHOOLS need BETTER anti-bullying policies too. My old high school had (and still has) the one of the WORST bullying problems of any of the schools in the county I live in. Possibly the worst, I'm not 100% sure. Would they (school teachers/employees/officials) ever admit that though? No. Because they all live in fucking perfect little worlds, and refuse to admit when there's a problem. Well, there IS a problem. Open your damn eyes to it, why don't you? It's RIDICULOUS. There's students, not just at my old high school, but all over the country and even the world, who commit suicide because they can't take it anymore. It becomes too much,...