25 Things about Me... or not

 I was going to post this/ type it up tomorrow but when I thought about it I realized that it probably would not have happened, like at all. So much to do, so little... Motivation.

Sad.

 

Anyways, here we go!

25 facts about me!

 

Wait. my Ipod is downstairs... so I can't take a cuter picture of my intro page thing... shoot.

Whelp, I guess y'all are going to still have to wait for that. I am sitting here trying to think of a rant and I can't. and that rhymed. Heh.

 

OH! I can tell you one fact about me! Ready?

Okay, I think REALLY REALLY fast. I know that if you know me you are probably laughing to yourself saying, "Bailey... you laugh at jokes like 5 minutes after the punch line is told"

A) shut up... and B) That isn't the fast that I am talking about.

 

Imagine saying something totally relevant to the topic of conversation. Okay now wait five minutes and Imagine saying something random. Now, over the five minutes you waited you thought of something else to think about, wading through multiple possibilities that somehow connect to each other.

That is exactly what happens in my head in about 3 seconds.

EX :You are talking about pizza, I comment on my favorite type of pizza and three seconds later I comment on how small wiener dogs are.

 

HOW DID THAT EVEN CROSS YOUR MIND?

I can tell you EXACTLY  how.

 

Pizza>Peperoni pizza>what is that even made out of?> Hot dogs>dogs dressed in hotdog costumes> Weiner dogs>Pretty much the low riders of dogs 

 

Yep, that is how it goes.

 Normally, in general conversation the path is longer. My closest friends have learned either to ask how I got it or even what my "mind path" was to get there... Or just ignore me. Normally the latter.

Yeah.

It probably would have been a better idea to type this in the morning. Now you know a fact you probably didn't want to know. You are very welcome.

Here is a picture of one of those dogs just for you.

So Cute.

So tired.

Obsessions.... Or Addictions

 

So I have been wanting to post but every time I get around to it I get distracted. And it is the distracted that lasts hours.

 

So here are a bunch of random things I have been wanting to show you.

 The Fairy Statuette I told you about... seriously it was just sitting in my closet wrapped in sweaters...

 

 This adorable card that I got from one of my preschool kiddos. I had the realization that they are now in kindergarten yesterday. It made me stop in the middle of the road while I was walking into Target...

 

 Look how blonde I was!!! This is my 3rd grade self.

 

 I was going to post something about how wonderful nature is and especially the sky and its largeness... yeah.

 

And a 25 fact thing, that I was going to post weeks ago amidst my project downsize chaos... did it happen?  Technically I wrote them all down but I never got to typing them.

 

Would you like to know what has stopped me? Not Pinterest, or Facebook, or YouTube or any other normal geek distraction.

Oh no.

 Blogs. I have become practically addicted to blogs.

 But not normal blogs.

Missionary blogs.

 Yup, I admit that I find them on Pinterest, but as soon as I do BAM I have to start from the beginning with their mission call or even before that. It has gotten to the point that I know their P-Day's and get excited because I know there is a new post.

 

Here are my favorites but BEWARE. I am telling you, I was normal ...once.

 

http://bellainberlin.blogspot.com/ -The start of it all. BEST stories ever!

http://hermanasilva.blogspot.com/ - Just found this one. Lots of smart teaching ideas and lots of pictures!

http://olivermissionary.blogspot.com/ - My best friend. Nuff said haha.

 

 

It is crazy. I just sit and scroll up (not down because blogs are posted with the newest one at the top :P) and then laugh or cry or run downstairs telling my mom a story that I just read. And the problem with it is that I am here reading about these missionaries encouraging others to read their scriptures or write in their journals and what am I doing?

 Reading about them encouraging me to write in my journal and read my scriptures and thinking

 "Yes, I will definitely do that" *keeps scrolling*

My goodness.

 

My name is Bailey, and I am a Mission Blog addict.

 

In all honesty, These blogs are actually really comforting.

 You can see the trials that they face and yet you can see that they overcome them like it was a piece of cake. I am so excited to serve a mission, so that I can help bring others to the truthfulness of this Gospel. One of my leaders has a daughter out and she was told that 99% of your mission is super hard, but that 1% makes it sooo worth it. How cool is it that we can serve and teach and learn at only 19? Super cool.

 

 

Click the link... You know you want to!

----- mormon.org/ -----

Downsize

Last night my I-pod refused to take a picture, insisting that my storage was full. On this 8GB piece of technology, I have 178 songs, and 301 pictures. Most of the pictures had already been transferred to my computer so I deleted 127 of them and almost all of my non-current emails and still, "Storage full". So of course I go to my settings to find out what was taking up all of the room... it was Pinterest.

 

 That lovely app of joy and cuteness was making it so that I couldn't take a picture of my friend pretending to sleep so that she could see what she looks like when she sleeps by using 1.6GB of storage! That is insane. What is also insane that in the moment I deleted the app. Yup, I will most likely regret it but for now I just remember the ever looming 11,000+ "likes" that need to be pinned and try not to panic. What is that? You think that I'm addicted to Pinterest? No way! Me too!

 

Getting rid of that reminded me that not only are we moving into a significantly smaller house really soon but I am leaving in a year and I should probably get rid of some real stuff, along with my dream wedding and closets.

 

I still have notebooks from kindergarten for goodness's sake! Notice the plural "notebookS" yeah I have five of them and it isn't just kindergarten! its EVERY single grade.

A while back I had the thought of taking pictures of certain mementos and memories to keep rather than keeping the ugly fairy statuette itself. That way I can have a memory book rather than 5 memory boxes that fill up my closet.

 

I can post pictures of fun stuff I find and maybe of my different handwriting because believe me when I say that it is different... way different.

It shall be called Project Downsize.

 

Did I mention that I hate cleaning and I am like a world class procrastinator. Hmmm we shall see how motivated I become.

I have decided to post whenever I have a post in mind. "But Bailey it is called 'everyday BA' not 'when I wanna be a BA'!" Yeah but you don't want to be reading "So today I watched a movie... it was cool". Food for thought.

 

Oh and for all of you who panicked at the thought of deleting your Pinterest, don't worry it is still the most visited site other than Facebook on my computer. Now I have to work (login and type stuff) for it rather than just pressing the logo.

PS We finally got around to taking the picture... this morning.

#4

 The summer after graduation is... Busy. Considering I have technically written this so called "first post" 3 times already and never really got around to publishing any of the drafts. So instead of publishing the now null and pointless posts I have decided to write a new one, #4 if you wish, in which I will finally introduce myself and my loverly, yet hectic life.

In reality, My life is actually uber calm but my need to procrastinate is a source of excitement so I let it continue. My mind definitely has a mind of its own.

 

So.

 

My name is Bailey. I just turned 18, graduated from High School and I am probably the only one out of my entire posse that isn't currently back to school shopping. Instead, I am going to be working( The job to be found hopefully soon) and I am just barely starting to drive on real streets rather than just in the church parking lot. Yeah. This time next year I should be heading off to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today my best friend is flying to Spain to serve his two year mission and I am pretty much a mess. But that is OKAY!

 

Although I have never had braces, through the things I have heard about them, sending your missionary out is an awful lot like getting braces. You get them on with full knowledge that the end result will be 100% better/cooler/awesomer ( <- totally just made that word up.) but the pain is way worse than you imagined. The only difference is that when you go in for a tightening, it hurts more and when you get a letter, you feel like all is well in the world.

 

But that is how life works. We know the end result but it is still hard along the way.

"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest"- Joshua 1:9

 

Couldn't have said it better Myself.