139 – Venting and Parenting ;-D

So I learned something today.  You can never vent online.  Yes, hiding behind a username gives you some type of security but the thing is that once this username is known, your life is now available to the whole world to see.  People can judge you, family can judge you, co-workers, bosses, EVERYONE can view everything you’ve written.  Also, while your in your venting mood,  you’re writing in that frame of mind.  When you’re in that frame of mind, you tend to over-do things based on that mood.  It’s a horrible thing.  So now, in my real world, the only people I can actually talk to would be: my close friends, the family (I’m living with… in this house), and that’s basically it.  You cannot use  Twitter, Facebook and/or Myspace to say anything you want because you build this online persona where everyone thinks your a punk with an attitude or a crybaby that gets anything they want and you can get the point.  You’re probably saying “I don’t mind being judge”, I don’t either, but when it’s , say, from your family or a boss… it’s kind of like a big thing.  Basically, having some kind of outlet online is not very ideal… keep a journal, talk to a best friend – just keep things personal, you don’t have to let the whole world know.  Let’s just say I learned the hard way today.

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, my Twitter, and maybe my Facebook, you’ll probably see that I get in some disagreements with my family.  I just want to put it out there that I have a wonderful family who raised me and my sister fantastically.  It probably doesn’t seem like that though, well that’s because I was indeed in that frame of mind I just mentioned.  I over exaggerated things!  My family respects me, and we do share a family bond.  Me and my mom fight sometimes because that’s what happens in most families, they don’t always agree with each other!  My family as a whole rarely ever fights.  If ever there is a fight, they’re just small disagreements. My parents are GREAT and know how to give me space, taught me wonderful manners and morals, and they taught me and my sister how to do the right thing since practically birth.  I frown upon  lots of other families sometimes, but I don’t necessarily judge them.
Also, my parents don’t starve me at all and we don’t eat frozen food everyday!  I sometimes just choose not to eat what my mom cooked at times mainly because at the time, I’m not up to that certain meal.  Sometimes I just want to eat ramen noodles and drink Dr Pepper for dinner.  You know.   :-D

From now on, this isn’t my place for venting.
It’s a blog that you can actually learn something, but from a teenager’s voice.
Alright? :-)

By the way.  I don’t really plan on typing my life on this anymore.  Just useful, non-boring stuff.
Sorry.  I’ll probably get rid of all my existing posts soon, just so people don’t look at my dark side.

138 – Sleep Deprivation vs End of Semester

Didn’t get that much sleep last night. Not because I stood up, but because I went to bed a little late. I fell asleep at around 11pm after playing a game of Left 4 Dead with my Dad for like an hour. I then woke up at 2am and I couldn’t go back to sleep until about 30mins later. So, I only got a couple of hours of sleep which leads to endless failed attempts to sleep during class. I mean I’m trying to sleep during class, but I hold back because my parents would be pissed! ;-)

Christmas is approaching very quickly and so I was forced to think of some things I wanted to give, and some things I wanted to receive. My little “list” was simple with a couple items: Zune, Pants. LOL. Everyone says that iPods are better but they’re just so old now. Not as many people have 120gb Zunes here, plus! they have bigger screens for tons of movie watching. The pants are not just PANTS, they are very nice CCS Cords. I don’t have any corduroy pants and I want some that don’t cost $60. I had one other thing, but that’s a secret. :-p

With Christmas comes the end of 1st semester, and with that comes the excruciating finals. The classes I’m in this semester are Architectural Drawing, Drafting 1, and Algebra 2 Honors. I guess I’ll explain what we have to do with the finals in each class. :-D
Architectural Drawing, we have to create like a little motel room with all the essentials and everything in tip-top shape. It’s harder than it seems, you have to have enough room in the bathroom for the door to swing open and not hit anything, “water closets” (toilet) have to be a certain distance from the shower, beds have to be some size depending on the room and you probably get the picture.
Drafting, we have to construct this part, used in many types of machinery, based off a drawing with dimensions giving you the various sizes of everything on the part. We have to create a 3d Drawing of it, create an isometric view of the part, give a 3-view drawing off the part showing the Front-Top-Right and lastly supply all the dimensions so “imaginary” people would be able to create it using all of those things for instructions. Complicated I know, but it’s just a little easier than I just explained it. A little EASIER…
Algebra, haha I don’t know what we’re going to do for that final. Probably just a big test that we take on a ScanTron sheet asking for like A-B-C-D-E. I’m still not look forward to it at all though.

Well, that’s all I have at the moment. I’ll keep you all informed as I go through with my life! :-p You can be constantly updated by adding me on Twitter.

137 – Maturity and Making a Plan

I do not know if I can consider myself mature for my age. I definitely know my limits and how to say No to the stupid things and stupid people. I think about a possible outcome when I get the choice of doing one thing or the other. Why I doubt my maturity would be that I’m pretty lazy at times (homework, cleaning room, chores things like that). A main problem I have is finding mature friends. People that get me, and don’t necessarily think only about now. It’s not always hard to make friends, but it is difficult to find GREAT ones.

The reason I was thinking about this was because I read a blog post of how this guy is already starting to make a plan for when he moves out. He was around my age and he had what he was going to do already set up. A comment I read was that moving out is based a lot on your maturity. Maturity meaning if your going to go party every night or if your going to be generally smart and responsible. All of this got me thinking if I wanted to move out when I turn 18 and if so, and how was I going to do it.

Would I go find an apartment to rent, or possibly go stay with a friend? How much money would I need for college? How would I be able to keep my financial status in tip-top shape? I have to decide whether I want the comfort of my parents or to take on the challenge of living without them. Living without them would definitely be hard. I would have to pay for a lot of things if I moved out; water, rent, internet, phone, food. I must consider moving out a little at a time, I still want to enjoy my life as a teenager and we all must keep in mind the classic don’t focus on growing up so fast, enjoy your younger years while you can.