Just Another List

Yes, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "But Naomi, how do you think you're ever going to become a writer if all you write is lists?"
And to that I say...I have no idea.
But oh well.
And besides, when I write lists they're more of numbered paragraphs, right?
Just nod and agree.

1) School in eighteen days. It seems longer when I write it like that...so, school in two and a half weeks? I'm kind of freaking out about it. Actually, I'm quite ready for school to start so that I have something to do.
Just kidding.
I have lotsa stuff to do. I just don't want to do it. And school is usually quite a viable excuse ;)

2) The schedule this year? Omnibus (English/History), Rhetoric, Spanish 2, AP Environmental, Pre-Calculus, writing class from the Christian Writer's Guild, and possibly Korean depending on how I feel about my schedule once everything starts up.
And that's only for the first semester.

3) I desperately need to see The Help.  I'm in the middle of the book now, and I want to see the movie so badly. I was actually going to go see it Saturday, but then I remembered the hurricane.

4) Speaking of which, is anyone else totally geekin' about it? And what does geekin' mean? Where did I even pick that up? Oof...

5) I've decided to begin charging money for people to talk to me. Because they like to tell me their problems. And their mother's problems, and their father's problems, and their sister's and brother's problems, and their goldfish George's problems...

6) I got a K-Pop song in my head earlier this week. This is basically what was running through my head- "Hmmm Hmm...lalala....lkahsgjh....HAJIMA (stop, don't do it, etc.)"
I think I should take Korean....

7) I'm thinking about painting some of my walls with blackboard paint. Then I'll be the coolest kid in town.
JK.
I already am.
;)

8) I have yet to go on any behind the wheel lessons with an instructor. Procrastination mixed with a lack of want to drive around for two hours with a stranger is a bad combination.

9) This list is taking me an awfully long time to compile. As so you can see, I have been doing nothing. Ergo, nothing to write about. It's so bad that I'm even cheating and using one of the things (bullets, numbers, points?!?) to tell you why I can't fill them up and you didn't even notice.
Oh wait....

10) I just laughed really hard when I saw that Jojo is touring with Joe Jonas. It's like..."Jojo & Joe Jo(nas)" Hahaha...I'm so easily amused.

Okay, that's all. That was painful. I need to go skydiving or hitchhiking (kidding...) so that I have something to write about. It will pick up once school starts, I promise you!
That's probably going to end up being a lie because I'm probably going to be swamped but that's okay...believe it for now.

Leave me a comment, telling me what's up! Just kidding. Remember what I said? Payment is involved. Five dollars for every three syllables.

;)

Okay...bye!

Celtic, K-Pop, Country & Cameron

Hey, so remember that time (in my last post) when I said I'd be back with something I'd been meaning to post for a while? Yeah, I lied ;)
So now you get to hear about my insane taste in music that keeps changing.
Now since I've already admitted on here that I'm an avid watcher of The Next Food Network Star, I guess it wouldn't do much damage to admit that I have also started watching The Glee Project, of which my favorite contestant was Cameron Mitchell. Who left. But that aside, I bought his EP and am now in love with his voice.
Also on TGP is Damian, who is Irish, and part of the group Celtic Thunder. Which I am now obsessed with as well.
Along with my obsession with Southern accents has apparently grown a love for Country music, specifically Russell Dickerson, who is unsigned, but in my opinion, the best.
And then all the way on the other end of the spectrum (and the world) I have now started listening to K-pop (Korean pop music).
Uh.
Cameron has...well, kind of just the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. A very soulful sound I guess?
Celtic Thunder...self-explanatory. But it reminds me of Riverdance, so obviously I'm in love ;)
 Russell Dickerson...I can't find any songs of his that I can link to that are good quality. But, it's that deep-voiced Country sound that I used to hate but now really like.
And, lastly, K-Pop...is just...I don't know how to describe it. I don't even know why the heck I like it. I can't even understand half of it, haha.

Okay, well that's about it...just thought I'd share! I promise I'm coming up with new things to post about. I might do like a weekly obsessions favorites post, since we all know how I move from obsession to obsession favorite to favorite rather frequently!
As a side note, whenever I use strike-through text I feel like I'm mentally tripping. 
I'm normal, I promise.
;)

ICan'tThinkOfAGoodTitleToday

Alright, so first off, sorry I haven't had a good post in a while. I actually have like 43567 ideas, but none of them are really translating well from my head to the keyboard. But I promise I'm going to try and post something really, really soon!
But, until then, here's something that I wrote that I honestly don't even remember writing...I'm pretty sure it was around four in the morning when I wrote it? Not sure...but I kind of like the mood of it- it's kind of different from what I usually write. Soooo I might be spinning it further into a full story. :)

~~~

     Kierra skidded to a stop, grabbing onto the wall to maintain her balance. She leaned her hands on her knees and tried to catch her breath. The heavy footsteps banging against the cement floor were becoming more audible with each passing second. She allowed herself only one more second of rest before taking off in a sprint again and continuing her search for an escape from this stone-walled prison.
      As she rounded a corner, Kierra spotted light streaming in behind a tall stack of boxes. She heaved her foot towards the center of the stack and smiled slightly as the boxes crashed to the floor, landing haphazardly at her feet. The window was small- perhaps only a foot wide and two feet tall, but she knew it was her greatest chance for escape.
      She stacked up three boxes and leaned towards the window, struggling to unlatch the heavy plated glass as her pursuers moved closer through the warehouse.
      "Finally," Kierra whispered breathlessly as the lock came loose and the glass swung open. She spared herself a moment to breathe in the cold morning air, but it was a moment she could not afford. Just as she was pulling herself out of the window, a gloved hand reached up and grabbed her ankle, pulling her to the ground.
      Kierra squinted up at her attacker, struggling to remain conscious. She gasped as the black mask was removed, revealing a face more familiar to her than her own. The last thing she muttered was "I always loved you..." before spiraling into darkness.

~~~

 So yeah! I kind of feel like I could work with that and write a good story, but I'm thinking about saving it for later, in case I want (or have time) to do National Novel Writing Month in November. We shall see. 

Anyways, hopefully I'll be back later this week with a post I've been wanting to write for a while now! 

Hope your day/week/month/summer is going wonderfully! :) 

P.S.- Country music and coffee is my life now. ;)

15 Questions!

 Helleww. So...it is quarter after three...in the morning. And I'm awake. While everybody else is asleep. Don't tell my mother.
Actually, I was feeling a bit under the weather today and slept a lot, so...I'm not really tired. And I really want to clean my room right now but I can't because my sister is sleeping...I don't know. I'm weird.
Anyways! I decided I would blog, but then I couldn't think of anything to blog about, so I decided to find some questions I could answer and I tried to find some I haven't posted before...so enjoy! Or don't read it at all...I really don't care. Haha :)

1) What is your most played song on iTunes? 
Okay, so technically, the song with the most plays is "River Flows in You" by Yiruma, but that is only because one night I was listening to it & I fell asleep with it on a repeat loop, so it was playing over and over for like eight hours...But the song that I actually listen to with the most plays is "Coast and You" by Since Forever. Which won by one song play over "Healing Begins" by Tenth Avenue North, which really is one of my favorite songs of all time!

2) Name three things that are close to you. 
Sweet Riot cacao nibs, a ring, and a pair of scissors. 

3) What was the last movie you watched? 
Uhhh...Made of Honor? I think...unless there's some movie I watched on TV that I'm forgetting.

4) What is your ringtone? 
I keep my phone on vibrate! But on the rare occasions that the sound is on (when my mom yells at me for having it on vibrate and not picking up) I'm pretty sure it's "Pretty Things" by Tenth Avenue North. 

5) Can you taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke? 
 YES. Weird fact of the day- I can't stand Coke- I will only drink Pepsi if there's a choice, but when it comes to diet, I hate diet Pepsi and will only drink diet Coke.

6) What is the last book you read? 
Erm...I have no clue. I wanna say Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen... Yep, let's go with that. 

7) If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be? 
Definitely to not overreact and be super dramatic about things, to listen to myself more instead of my friends, and to not hold grudges. All three of which I've learned the hard way. Oh, and I realize that's not really one piece, but in my mind they are all kind of tied together!

8) Would you rather have the superpower to read minds or to be invisible? 
Hmm...I think I'd rather be invisible. And that sounds really creeper, but I mean, reading minds is too...it just seems like being invisible, you could choose where to be and when and what you want to see or hear, but reading minds you'd just know everything. OH. And if you were invisible you could sneak into concerts for free! So yeah, definitely invisibility. Not that I would ever sneak into a concert ;) 

9) Put your iPod/iPhone/mp3 player on shuffle and list the first three songs that appear. 
"Radiator"- Family Force 5. My favorite song in the world. Not really. But I do like it.
"No Other Saviour"- Starfield
"Put Ur Hands Up"- Family Force 5. Potentially the weirdest song I have...

10) What do you order at Starbucks? 
Alright, so if you know me, then you know I love coffee. But I don't like Starbucks hot coffee...so I either get an iced coffee or an iced green tea!

11) What kind of style would you define yourself as having? 
Ashun. -_-
Haha. I always have a hard time describing my style, because it's kind of this weird mix of Boho/Preppy/Modern...? And then, I found a website called atseoul.com, which is full of Korean fashion and it's all my style...so yeah. Azian. ;)


12) What's something you want to do before you die? 
Eek. This has potential to be a long answer. There's quite a few things...I want to be a published author, be in love, get married and have children, go to Korea, strongly impact at least one person's life, stay out all night, live in a house with dormers & set up a book nook, have a private library, and see the people closest to me who haven't accepted Christ accept him. And there's like a very very very small sliver of being in me that wants to go skydiving one day.

13) What is one food you cannot live without?
This is another answer that just screams Asian. But I can't help it. So, uh...rice. Heh.
I mean, if you stop and think, it's one of the most versatile foods ever. But I'm not going to list all of them...right now ;)

14) Would you rather publish your diary or make a movie about your most embarrassing moment? 
I wish I could be like "Psh. I don't have any embarrassing moments!" but, alas, I do. So you know what? I'd rather have my diary published. Because guess what? It's completely anonymous! It's not even really a diary because all I do is write vague letters to anonymous people. Hah.

15) And, because this week (or last week?) is (was?) National Book Week- Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 56, and enter the 5th sentence.
Okay, I didn't even read this book...it's from the library and it's the first one I pulled from the stack. So...yep.
"She opened the door and a young man came in with two goats, one black and one white, at his heels."
Oh my goodness...that made me laugh. Out of all my books, all those sentences, and that's the one that is here? I have no clue the significance of that since I didn't read the book...so you can have fun interpreting that :)

Grace Found Me

I can't even tell you how many times I've been wallowing in self-pity and thought to myself, I have nobody. I always come up second best and I'm tired of it. I really don't have a best friend...but oh yeah, I have God.
So basically, I tack Him on at the last minute, as a last resort at making myself feel better about the world.
But last night, as I was listening to the song "Grace Found Me" by Rush of Fools, I realized that I had it exactly the opposite of what it should be.
The lyrics are-

I get that things have changed
Yet I still feel the same
But I'm not alone

'cause Your grace found me
I thought I wasn't breathing
My heart now sings
'cause You chased for me
I never saw it coming but my eyes now see
Your grace found me

If You had given me up
I would have nothing left at all
Nothing to give of myself
No one to take my place
But You came along

"If You had given me up I would have nothing left at all". Those lyrics really just show how backwards my thinking was. I could have the world at my feet, hundreds of friends there to listen to me and talk to me 24/7, but if I didn't have God's grace, I would be nothing. Absolutely nothing. So the appropriate thing to be thinking is really "I have God's grace, that's really all I need, and oh yeah, He's blessed me with friends too!" 

Oh, and for the record, I do have absolutely wonderful friends. I just get stuck in that woeful mood sometimes.

I Hate Writing

Just kidding. But I do hate writer's block.
I actually haven't written anything in like...over a month, maybe?
It's really horrible. Even when I sign on here (when I actually have something to write about!) the words just...don't translate well from my brain to the computer (or paper, which I like the sound of much better).
The thing is, writing is my passion. Whatever I write, be it a story, a report, a letter, or just me venting about my daily woes, it gets all of my emotions out, because when I write, I feel free. Writing helps me forget about my problems, stress, etc.
And lately? I haven't been doing it. At all. Not even in a journal. I've barely written a grocery list. So I've been releasing my emotions in other, not so tasteful ways, such as yelling and laying upside down on my bed with headphones in.
Anyways, I have a lot of cool things that I've been wanting to write about on here, so hopefully I'll get to that soon. In the meantime, I'm going to try to shake this writer's block just by writing anything, so expect a few random posts here and there.
I hope ya'll are enjoying your summer as much as I'm hating mine! Kidding.
But not really.
;)

P.S.- I know something must be wrong with me because I haven't even been reading!

P.P.S.- That may have something to do with the fact I've been watching Merlin 24/7...

P.P.P.S.- Oh dear I'm turning into such a dork. Help me please.