November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and ate a lot of food and spent time with the families. This post is going to be about our Dahlborg Thanksgiving Adventure (a family experience).

My parents woke up this morning at 2:30 am with the power out. I woke up around 7:30 am to the power still being out. With no tv or cable to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade instead we played boardgames and ate cookies for breakfast. We hoped after we were done with our games that the power would be back on so we could start working on dinner. That didn't happen so we decided by 11:30 am we would go to get Chinese food. Online the restaurant said it was open. We drive 30 min to the Chinese restaurant and it's not open. Next option is to drive 20 min to an Italian food place. They were too packed when we made it there, and by that time we were so hungry we left. We ended up going to another Chinese restaurant that is a buffet. They were running on a generator and the food was cold, but by that point we were so hungry we ate it anyways. We make it home around 1:40 pm. No power, and the house is starting to get really cold because we also didn't have heat. Thankfully we were saved by some relatives that saved us some of their dinner to feed us. By the time we got home 7:30 pm, the electricity was back. We lost power for a total of 17 hours. Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful. I can tell you now we are SO thankful for that hot meal and spending time with family! 

November 24, 2014

Today's my birthday and I've had an amazing time celebrating it with my family and friends! Its been so fun to go down to Boston for the night and walk around the city. Here's a collage of my birthday weekend.

November 15, 2014

I just wanted to say thank you so much for everyone who have seen and have read my blog posts. It means the world to me knowing people around the country are looking at my words.

I've noticed lately more things about myself that I've never seem to concentrate on before. I think about the way I react to things, or the way I listen to things. To think about ourselves in such a way makes people self conscience and awkward. But then when we are in a conversation with a friend it is so easy to know what they're about to say. You could think of this idea as knowing them more than you know yourself. Don't think of it that way though. It's easy to make assumptions about people without really knowing them like you may know yourself. We live in a society where we focus on what other people might be or what they might think instead of focusing on what is good for ourselves. They could be called "prude, innocent, slutty, whore.." and the list goes on. But do we really know them? I like to think we label people simply because it's in our nature to do so. Then again, I also see it as us seeing flaws in ourselves and finding the same ones in other people. So the first thing we do is judge them on it. Is it the right thing to do? Not necessarily. But do we do it? Yes. Even though I'm young, I'm starting to see who I truly am. I recently just saw something on the internet and it said, "Rumors and lies, they're just words." I agree with that quote, I just wish there was a part in it saying that some words are more than just words like love, hero, identity, and value. Words can do so much both positively and negatively, it's just how we use them is what matters. One thing that we should think about is finding ourselves before judging someone when they haven't figured out who they are.

Happy Late Halloween!