Thanksgiving

So I am home for break!! Yays!! I took a plane to get back home and it was sooooooo worth it! Got to sleep in, see all my amazing friends, and just chill. I'm here at my grandparents house actually and we are having a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, collards, beans, turnips, cranberry sauce, olives, and gravy!! It all smells amazing!

While we wait for food i am drinking Tanzanian tea and it is really good! There were a bunch of leaves at the bottom of my cup so I decided I wanted to try and 'read my tea leaves'

I see pigglet holding a pinwheel. XD

Anyways I am really thankful for everything that has happened this year. I am thankful i could come home and take a break, i am thankful that all the roommate drama is almost over, i am thankful for friends, and i am thankful to be in school learning so many new things.

Well looks like dinner is served! I will blog again soon. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :)

We live in such a negative world......

Okay, this is something I normally don't complain about but today I am. I AM SO FUCKING FED UP WITH THESE FACEBOOK PSA's!!!!! THEY NEED TO GO AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK!!!!!

There are a couple people on my facebook news feed that really like to strongly voice opinions that are very touching subjects to some people. One friend is EXTREMELY conservitive and is not happy that Obama was reelected into office. So he goes on and starts posting very negative things about democrats, how republicans are better, how the country is shit, and it's really pissing me off! Some of the things he say are also just plain stupid! I am neither republican or democrat, I am independent. Personally though there shouldn't be parties, there should be AMERICA. ONE NATION. Not a bunch of divided parties that fight all the time.

That's another thing that pisses me off. The reputation of the United States. We have one of the worst reputations in the world. We are greedy, selfish, fat, lazy, uncaring, and violent. We really are and it's not a good thing to be known for. I want to travel the world one day and I am going to be embarrassed when I say I am an American cause I know I will be automatically judged. I don't want to be judged as the stupid american, I shouldn't be ashamed of my country but I am...

Another thing that has been pissing me off to no end is the religious posts. I understand free speech and all but COME ON!! DON'T BE POSTING OFFENSIVE STUFF ON FACEBOOK!!! I am a Christian and proud of it, but I am also respective of other religions. I like to talk about them and learn their stories and how they live their lives. The Hinduism and Buddhism are fascinating to me, they connect so well with their bodies and spirits that it's just mind blowing. Once you start offending me and not caring, then I get pissed! One of my BEST FRIENDS posts very anti-christian things and posts at the top "If you get offended, I don't care." SERIOUSLY????????? If you want to stay my friend you will RESPECT MY VIEWS!!!! I respect yours! I try my best to respect everyones views whether you are a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Atheist, Freethinker, Buddhist, or one with the earth, I will respect you and what you believe in. Just don't go and bash my own religion and not care what I think. That will just push me away from you no matter how close we may be. It's hurtful and disrespectful and just stupid. I don't do that, I don't go around saying that God is the only one and that every other religion is wrong, or that something within the religion is wrong. I DON'T DO THAT SO WHY SHOULD YOU?????? I was so tempted to unfriend soooo many people today...

Another thing about being a Christian is they have a bad reputation as well... there are countries I cannot visit because I am a Christian and i would be in danger. That hurts me deeply! I want to go to Jerusalem one day but I cannot because of so much religious conflict.

It seems that everything I am, an American Christian, is viewed very negatively. I don't want that, I want to be known as someone who will respect you for whoever you may be. If you are an African Jew that is fine with me, if you are an Indian Hindu that's fine with me, if you are an American Muslim that's fine with me! Be whoever you wanna be, just don't go making others think the way you do...

I'm sorry, my rants on these kinds of topics are annoying for me because I shouldn't have to complain about them. This world has turned into something so negative that it is ridiculous. I'm not trying to preach about 'World Peace' or anything like that, I just want there to be some respect for each other. Respect for where we are from, respect for our beliefs, and respect for who we are as a person.

That's all for today.
Time to go work on my finals stuff. I hope everyone has a good day today.

hugs and kisses
Anna xoxo

BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

I AM NOW 19!!! WHOOOOOOOO!!!! Had a pretty decent birthday. Started off like any other day, had classes and did my work. Around the afternoon things got weird. My friends were avoiding me and acting strange so this got me suspicious, so i decided to watch Hannibal Rising with one of my friends who hasn't seen it yet. I also was doing my laundry that desperately needed to be done. While I was putting them in the dryer i noticed that int he room across from me there were some of my friends blowing up balloons. hmmmmmmm... lol

So I go downstairs after the movie to fold my clothes, my friend S'mia stops me and takes me upstairs to chill in her room. After about 20 minutes my friend Andora brings me downstairs, blindfolds me, and takes me into her room where all my friends had made a surprise party for me. :) <3

There was cake, snacks, music, and just chilling with my friends. After all the roommate bullshit I was very happy to have wonderful friends do this for me. I love them all so much!

My decorated door! :)

New Job!!

I got a job today!!! I am now a Buyer for Belltower Books! You may ask what is that? Well, Belltower Books is a small company that will buy new and used textbooks from students. What's so amazing about it, they offer cash on the spot! Who wouldn't want that???

So one of my duties of being a part of this company now is to get the message out that there is a buyer on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University. The only downside to this is they only operate during finals week. But that's okay. I'm gonna try to get my name out there as much as I can before so people know, when finals comes up in a month, I will be willing to buy their textbooks. :)

So here is the link to my facebook page. There is also a Facebook badge on the side of the blog for you to click on as well. Hope you go and like it! :)

My Belltower Buyer Facebook page

FREEDOM!!!

What a title for the day of the presidential elections, but it's true! I am now free of my roommate!!! She completely moved out yesterday morning and now I have a room to myself!!! I moved my stuff around to how I want it, but my room is still a huge mess. I have so many papers all over the place it's crazy.

Here's my new room!! Yeah I know it's dull and messy, but that will change soon!!!

I took my roommate's desk and put it next to my bed. I'm gonna put all my beauty products on it.

My working desk, and random dresser. I have extra sheets, blankets, ext. in there and on top is where my TV is gonna go. :)

My food corner! I have my coffee pot, hot pot, toaster, fridge, and ottoman of food. I also have my colorful lamp and some prayer flags. I bought the flags in Asheville, they were pretty. 

And the closets. As she was moving out, my roommate took the curtain and rod I was using to cover my side of the closet. Her dad bought it for me so I guess she thought she was entitled to it. I don't really care but still, that's just juvenile. 

Anways, that's my new room!!! I like it and I am going to be adding rugs, curtains, wall decorations, the works as soon as i can.

Hugs and kisses
xoxo Anna

Things are changing

So yesterday was a very interesting day. I found out what happened to my corset... apparently my roommate and her friend stole it and took it to the other freshman dorm. They then went to my roommate's boyfriend's apartment where they cut it up and threw it in the dumpster... yeah, they destroyed my $200 corset.

I am relieved to know what happened to it, but i am also so fucking pissed off at them for it. Their reasons, there was none. It was something to do.

So I know about that, also she left me a note on my desk saying that I was moving her stuff around and that she doesn't want drama anymore. Bullshit. She's the one stirring the drama pot, constantly. So i tell my RA and she reports it to the RD. I didn't talk to her at all that day and she avoided me like the plague. I didn't care, I didn't wanna see her face.

Anyways after my choirs ended I went back to my dorm to work on some homework. My white board was scribbled all over but i erased it and laughed at their immaturity. I was in my room for a couple minutes and then i heard my roommate and her two friends talking shit about me like crazy, they didn't know I was in my room. So I'm sitting there listening to everything they are saying trying not to laugh at their stupidity. So they walk in and have the "oh shit" look on their face which I loved, I get up and decided to go and hang out with some friends upstairs.

One of my friends got so pissed she started confronting my roommate over text messages and freaked her out so much, I go back to my room and all her shit is packed up. I think my friend scared her away! XD Not stopping them from telling resident life everything though, so here I sit waiting for a response.