Day one of the writing challenge!

Okay, so if you haven't noticed, I've kind of been struggling with what to write about in my last few posts, which is part of the reason why I haven't been posting much lately (also school and work and life and such, but that's not the focus of this right now.) Anyway, to combat this dilemma, I did what any 20 year old college student does when they don't know something.

I googled blog writing ideas.

And I actually found some interesting stuff! Some weird stuff, too, but that's to be expected from the deep recesses of the interwebs.

Anyway, a lot of the stuff I found were like these 30 day writing challenges that give you a list of topics to write about, and there are actually some neat ideas, so I'm gonna try them out.

Now, before I get started, I'm gonna go ahead and lay it out that there's no way I'm gonna write 30 consecutive daily posts. That's just unreasonable for me (because of the aforementioned school and work and life and such) but I do promise to try and post fairly regularly. I'd also post the list ahead of time, but I didn't really find one that had 30 things that I'd be willing to write about, so I'm actually going to combine like three lists together, but I promise there will eventually be 30 writing challenge posts.

Okay? Okay. (For those who have read The Fault in Our Stars, I apologize for the unintentional reference. Just tuck those feels away for now.)

So, challenge numero uno: 

Weird things I do when I'm alone.

    We're just starting this off by going all in, huh? Okay, let me think...weird things I do when I'm alone...

Well, for starters, I talk to myself. Quite a bit. I mean, sometimes it's an internal monologue, and sometimes it's not, but it definitely happens.  I also talk to the TV/Internet streaming entertainment that I'm watching, because sometimes characters make bad decisions and they should listen to me but they don't and it's frustrating.  This sometimes turns into what I like to call "quiet yelling", where I'm yelling but not actually yelling because I live in a building with lots of other people and I don't want to have to explain to my CA why I was having a fight with a fictional character on a television show.

I also sometimes have random one person dance parties, but that shouldn't be too much of a shock.

Sometimes I get crafty and start to make stuff, especially decorations for my walls. Recently I made stars that are on my bathroom door, and a wall of quotes in my little entryway of my dorm room for people to write their favorite quotes on and be all inspirational and stuff. I also like to color, because coloring is important.

When I'm feeling musical, I bust out my lovely guitar and play one of the like 10 songs that I know how to play. This usually leads into some Jesus time, which is my absolute favorite time. Me and Jesus just like to hang out sometimes. It's nice.

If I'm feeling poetic, or in need of inspiration, I usually browse quotes on Pinterest and write some of them in my Lion King journal which is filled with different quotes and verses and songs and prophetic words that I've gathered over the years and that have inspired and/or encouraged me.

When I have time, I also like to read books for fun. But right now I don't have a lot of time for that. Although I have started listening to more audio books because that seems to be one of the only ways I can enjoy fiction books during the semester. I currently am listening to the Mockingjay audio book, which is my favorite book from The Hunger Games series, but I'm taking a bit of a break from that now because it's getting into some parts that bring up a lot of feelings because I am invested in these characters and I know what happens and I don't know if I'm ready to relive that just yet.

I have a lot of Hunger Games feels. So many.

Uh...what else do I do? Homework, I guess. I also like to make lists that I never really follow, but for some reason they make me feel organized so I keep making them. I browse the Internet a lot, check the various social media outlets I am a part of, the usual.

I don't really like to be alone all the time. I mean, I don't want to be doing something every second of the day, because I'm totally cool with being in a room with someone else and we're both doing our own thing. I just like being around people. People are pretty cool, like at least 74.6% of the time. And that's a fact.*

*There is no actual factual basis for this claim.

Hopefully I'll post writing challenge 2 soon, but it'll probably be a bit because I have like 3 tests in the next week and I probably should study for those.

That's all for now!
Alaina :)

Short little update

I have recently received a request from one of my biggest fans (meaning my mom) to make a new blog post.

It's like I haven't written one since like March or something.

But hey, when there's a request, I'll do my best.

                                         .............except I don't know what to write about.

I guess I could write about college or something. (I mean, that's the reason I started writing this in the first place.) 

Let's see....I'm on my third year of college now! That seems so weird when I write it out.  Sometimes I think about something that happened in high school, and then realize that that happened like 6 years ago, and that feels so weird! It's not that I feel old, but kind of. (And yes, I realize that I'm only 20 and I'm not old. Hush, mom.)  I'm finally starting to get into some of my major classes, and am actually almost done with my Spanish minor! Thank the Lord. My Spanish class this semester is a history of Latin America class...completely in Spanish.  AND I HAVEN'T DIED YET. I mean, my first test isn't until next week, so I'll reevaluate then, but thus far I have survived.

I still don't really know what I want to do with my major, if you're wondering.  I'm kind of thinking that I might be interested in helping communication between the people within a company--meaning between managers and employees and such. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but it sounds interesting! (Well, to me.)

Anyway, that's all I've got for now.  Work is going well, classes are okay, I'm not dead. All in all, a decent time. ;)

I'll try to update again soon!

Alaina :)