Summer 2015

Okay, I am terrible at maintaining a blog, or anything for that matter. I kept telling myself I need to blog, I need to blog. Buutttt, that never happens. Now that it is summer and I have more free time, I am going to try this blog thing again. I started a whole other website/blog site thing, but I made one post and never got back to it. So, I'll probably delete it and stick to just using blogger. I am going to start keeping a journal of blog post ideas so that I can try my hardest to keep this up and running. Hopefully after posting more and more will help me continue to blog.

~Maddy

Technology

We live in a world so caught in technology. Everyone walks around with a phone either gluded to their hands, eyes trained on their device, not looking up. Granted, I am guilty of this, big time. And who is to blame all of us who want to stay connected. Maybe, some of use feel safer with our phones on us, being able to use it as an escape to a world where we can hide behind a piece of glass and a keyboard, carrying on electric conversations with people who could be 2 feet, 2 miles, 200 miles, or whatever away. Gone is the world where people actually picked up the phone and now is the time where nobody wants to talk on the phone and carry on an actual conversation with people. Now, it is about checking our Twitter or Facebook feeds to see what other people are up to, maybe jealously wishing that we could take away the social awkwardness and actually go have fun adventures like seen on Facebook feeds. There are times where I just want to disconnect, but I have gotten so accustomed to having the safety net of my phone that I can't seem to get rid of it. We have just become a super connected society and that most likely won't change anytime soon.

I recently read an article online that said that teenagers are going to have serious back problems when they get older. Scratch that, they are starting to have back problems now. Because teenagers spend so much time looking down at their phones, it is putting a strain on their necks. That also is affecting their posture, being hunched over their phones/tables/computers. Even I have noticed that my back and neck are pretty sore, so I've been trying to limit my technology use, or even try to sit up straighter, but old habits die hard. The thing is, the habit of being hunched over isn't even that old. Maybe four or five years old, but just doing it repeatedly for that many years can make it hard to change. At this rate, who's to say that we won't be looking like cavemen, walking with our knuckles dragging on the ground? The picture showing evolution could look like a mirror image of itself one day, with man slowly starting to resort back to cavemen.

So here's to the future. Who knows what the future holds? We could end up seeing how connected to technology we are and try and fix that, or we could become so reliant on it, more so than we are now, that we become fat, useless, society members who sit around and video chat each other, just like the people of Wall-E. Let's hope it doesn't get to that point.

Sweet 16

6 more days. It may seem like no amount of time, but for one girl who is waiting to turn 16, it can be a very long time. That's right, in 6 days, I will be turning 16! I'm so excited. My parents told me that after 18 you will want to turn back the clock. I agree with them, but at the same time have to tell them that I am not yet 18, I am only turning 16. Yeah I know the day will come where I turn 18, buts that is not for 2 more years. So let's not dwell on that. I am super excited for this weekend. A bunch of my friends and I are going to a dinner comedy show! It is supposed to be really funny so I am really excited! To get to my party, I have to deal with FCAT writes. No big deal, I am a good writer and will pass. This is nothing to stress over and my English teacher has been preparing us for it.

I Am Poem

We were asked to do an I Am Poem in English class for our Alpha-Biography and I think mine is pretty good(: Here it is:

I am a band geek and red headed.

I wonder what people think of me.

I hear my bed calling my name during school.

I see the clock at school moving faster.

I want another cat.

I am band geek and red headed.

I pretend that I can sing.

I feel happy to be blessed with amazing friends.

I touch my phone to make sure its still there.

I worry that my hair is messed up.

I cry when my heart gets broken.

I am band geek and red headed.

I understand that I can’t always get what I want.

I say what is on my mind.

I dream that one day I will find someone who makes me happy.

I try to do my best at everything I do.

I hope that people judge me on my personality and not my looks,

I am band geek and red headed.

Mardi Gras

Wow! Mardi Gras is AMAZING! Standing in the crowds hoping to catch beads is one thing but standing up on the float throwing beads is so different. Last night my family and I (along with a family friend) got to be on the King and Queen float at Universal Studios Mardi Gras. After a while your arms starts to hurt so you quickly try to switch your throwing arm without the guests getting really angry. Since we were up high it was hard to get all the little kids in the front who had a few beads around their neck. At one point we stopped and we still had to throw beads. We were told to be halfway through the beads by the halfway point. Unfortunately, I was halfway through before the halfway point so I tried to slow down but it is really hard. People started to scream louder and jump to try to get my attention for more beads. Luckily, our bead captain came around and gave us more beads. Before we got on the float we were told to get rid of all the beads. By the time we got halfway I was trying to keep throwing beads so we ran out but not to run out until the very end. The parade was done so quickly I hadn't realized that 45 minutes had gone by. I am so glad that we got to do this again and I hope to do it again next year! :)

Mardi Grad

Tomorrow night my family and I get to be in the Mardi Gras parade at Universal Studios. This is not the first time that we will be in the parde. Last year we were in the parade and it was really cool. I just hope that my dad wil feel better since he slept most of today. I am so exicted!!!!!

Books

So I just finished this really awesome book series called Christy Miller. Man, that is one of those books where you have to spend every waking minute on it even though you don't want to finish the book. At the end of the very last book it ends very well, but I wish the author would continue the story. The author did come out with a spin off called the Katie Weldon series and the Sierra Jensen series. They are both friends of Christy from Christy Miller. The Christy Miller is one of those books that makes you taste what she tastes, see what she sees and all the other sense. It even makes you want to curl up in bed and just cry when Christy cries about something. Once you finish though I wanted to throw the book against the wall because of how it ended. But then I realized that the Katie Weldon series continues after Christy but from Katie's view, not Christy's. If you need a good book to read then I highly suggest it!