Graduation!

Well, it finally happened. Myself and all of my amazing classmates are finally done with high school! Yesterday was so fun. I never knew how good it would feel to graduate knowing that I have worked hard for this and I don't have to go back. It was amazing except for the fact that everyone let me walk around with a crooked hat!

Here's to the class of 2012! We did it!

Final Dance Recital

This year's recital went amazingly. I loved everything about it. It was heartbreaking and exciting and I'm going to miss it so much. I just wanted to post and say that I have danced with so many amazing girls (and guys :P) and that I love each and every one of them. I will miss you all. I never plan to stop dancing, it just may not be in classes. We'll see :)

and Melissa Sletto is and amazing photographer!

Regression on Gay Rights..

I think America is going backward when dealing with gay marriage. I know, everyone hears about this all the time, but I would just like to say that I think people who think they have a right to control what love is and which people are allowed to be together are completely and utterly mindless. Seriously, what does it matter?

I found this online. I thought it stated my point quite nicely:

10 Reasons to Ban Gay Marriage

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we only have one religion in America.

9. Children can never succeed without a male and female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

And I thought this was perfect to show how utterly stupid the reasons for not allowing gay marriage are. Our society needs to get with the program here. I think we should be worrying about more important things like poverty or drug use or war prevention or the economy rather than who is getting married. Let them. They have as much right to be with who they love as straight people. Why is that so hard to figure out? And why should we be encouraging people to have more children? The whole world is extremely overpopulated the way it is and unwanted children are being abused and neglected and put into orphanages or foster homes every day. And in my opinion, a child adopted by a gay couple will be a lot more accepting of people and an all around better person because of the way they are raised. It does not mean that they will be gay, they will simply know what love is.

Evan Odde

Sunday night, our friend Evan took his own life. He was John's best friend..

This is all so weird and really confusing. He was the happiest kid and didn't seem to have a care in the world. I think everyone is still in so much shock yet that the reality hasn't really set in. I feel really horrible about my feelings. I'm supposed to be sad, and I really am.. but there's also a lot going on with me right now like my dance recital and graduation that it's hard to have time to be sad. I feel selfish, but I honestly don't think sitting around thinking about it will make me feel any better. Everyone needs to continue with their lives because that's the best way to get through it I think..

The worst part about all of this is that nobody will ever know why it happened. No one ever suspected him to do anything like this.. but then again he was a very impulsive person... Sometimes I don't think people think about what will happen to the people they leave behind, or maybe they don't really care. I think sometimes people do this just to know what it's like. In a split second of wanting to know and knowing that you can find out if you really wanted to..

I'm happy to see a lot of people coming together from this.. We all need each other in this difficult time. I said before that I think this is a sign that everyone needs to be a bit nicer to each other, because you never know what could happen. My thoughts are with all who knew and loved Evan Odde. There are so many people that will miss him..

On a lighter note in my opinion, I'm pretty sure my last words to him were "You look like a girl."

Creepers

I'm getting really tired of all these men being creepy towards me. It's something that bothers me constantly. I shouldn't have to put up with guys, and it's older guys, not people my age, staring at me and following me and saying creepy things and asking me to do things with them. I want to be attractive and keep my body fit and looking good, but I shouldn't have to live in constant fear of every man around me. I feel like I have no freedom to wear what I want or be nice to people without them thinking they have some right to know about me or what I'm doing. I don't think I will ever get away from it and I feel like it's totally choking me...

Psych Final... Success!

I'm glad to say that I passed my Psychology final with an 88.4% which gives me an 86.1% in the class :) I'm so glad to be done with this. Psych really took a lot out of me for some reason. I'm glad I didn't decide to become a psych major... I might have died. But now that that's over I'm in the final stretch of high school. I just need to finish reading 1984 and Watership Down and finish glazing my final 4 projects for pottery and I'm done. I'm so ready for summer and being able to read all the books I want since I've been kind of put out on that this last term. I also hope you can all make it to my graduation party on the 19th :)

Also, raffle tickets for Ink Spot are still being sold until June 1st. We have 2 $90 tattoo certificates (that's one hour), 2 $35 piercing certificates (that's one piercing w/ jewelry), and a couple tshirts I believe. They are $2 each or 3 for $5 so let me know if you would like to buy any because I'll be carrying them around until the drawing at the Relay for Life. All of the money is going to the American Cancer Society. :)

Eventful Weekend :D

This weekend John and I went to Sioux Falls since Friday was our 2 year anniversary! :D It was so fun. Definitely a win sort of weekend.

We left town on Friday early enough to get there just in time to eat dinner at Olive Garden. That was lovely :)

Then Saturday was excellent. We woke up and went to the Sertoma Butterfly House first. They had so many of the huge blue ones this year. They had also added a mini aquarium since I was last there and I thought it was very nice because the fish were so lively and colorful. John was kind of afraid of the butterflies flying around is face though.. hehe :3

After we were done there we went to the Century Theater to see The Raven, which was a really awesome movie in my opinion. The theater was so cool thought because you could get so much more in the concessions than you can at Carmike where I work. We got a hotdog and pretzel bites. I just thought the whole thing was cool. It was also the first time I have been carded for a movie :/

Then we decided we wanted to go to the zoo. It was pleasant. Pretty much all of the animals were out and about. I think my favorite was the anteater that we saw tromping around and sniffing. That was really cool because I don't think I've ever seen one of thoes. And then a peacock put on a very nice display for us. This tiger came really close to the cage and I managed to get several decent pictures of him. He decided that he was going to start sizing up John after a while so it was a good thing he was in a cage.

John totally fell in love with one of the little monkeys so I took a video of one. It was so cute. And the lemurs up top there were pretty awesome. I got a video of those too.

In between all of those things we managed to go to the mall and the pet store and Barnes and Noble of course. We also went to Poppy's Popcorn which has amazing flavored popcorn, some drizzled in chocolate :) I got cinnamon roll, chocolate cherry, mint chocolate, and puppy chow flavors, plus one of those little marshmellow sticky popcorn balls with m&ms in it.

Saturday night we went to eat at Hu Hot which is always good. If you haven't eaten there and like Mongolian food you should definitely check it out. It's a fun atmostphere.

My weekend was amazing. This boy has surely treated me to a ton of fun. I love him :)

So now we are home and I just got done typing a 500 word essay for this scholarship I'm applying for so hopefully I did it justice. Fingers crossed.