prioritizing

Over the weekend, I bought a new phone. About a month ago, my phone would randomly decide to go out of service for like an hour, then randomly come back when it wanted to. So annoying, but I dealt with it. Now, I know that because of the whole A.C.-button-fiasco, you all are thinking, well why didn't you just turn your phone off and turn it back on?! Well to all you hata's- I did. I did everything. It would just come back whenever it wanted. Anywho, a few days ago, it got to the point where the service never came back even after multiple hours. And the battery wouldn't hold a charge for more than a few minutes, so.....I just thought, ehhh. This phone's served me a good two years, it's probably time that I get another one anyways.

So we went to the T-CRAP-ile store, and much to my dismay, I found out that after 9 faithful years of being customers to T-CRAP-ile, my parents took themselves off contract and are on a plan that's unlimited everything for a set amount every month without being on contract, but the only bad thing is that when your phone busts like mine did, you have to pay full price for a new one. So a phone that would have cost me $100 on contract, ended up costing me $300. And I agreed to pay for it.

And now, 2 days later, I feel awful.

I love my new phone and I definitely needed it, but my mom gave me one of those lectures (actually more like 3 sentence-long speeches) that can make you feel like crap about what you did, much more effectively than a punishment. She basically said that after all these years, she thought she taught me how to save money, look for deals, and only buy necessities. {siiiighhhhh}. I thought she taught me that too, but ehhhh.... I guess not.

Oh well. Life lessons. Actually speaking of effective punishments, during my mom's relief society lesson she announced somehow that I bought a $300 phone-much to her disappointment-and everyone turned around and looked at me and laughed. Whatever.

Anyways. My point is, that maybe I should really start prioritizing my life. Like how I budget my little bit that comes in from my piano students every month. And the other thing I HATE to admit to, is that I'm awful about paying my tithing. I do it, but I don't do it monthly. I'll just sort of guess-timate how much I've made since the last time I paid and grab a few 20's from my wallet and call it good. That really needs to stop.

I also could be spending my money on stuff that's more important to me like: the stuff I need to finish re-doing my bedroom; the money for an expensive calculator I need; some money to go get my oil changed in the Red Devil; a little bit to go get my hair done....etc..... Ok, so maybe that last one shouldn't really be at the top of my list but hey.....anyone can look at the nappiness at the top of my head and will agree it is a necessity. Alright well I'm glad I got some of those thoughts off my mind. I guess I'm gonna put this priority goal into use and go work on homework, or something.

From the bottom of my corazon,

Haylee

Meet The Red Devil

This is The Red Devil. It's my car:) basically, I love it.

It got its name from....well actually I don't know. I think, one day I was driving friends around and I had to do something that I thought would only take about 10 minutes so I said, you guys can just wait in the car, I won't be that long.. Well I actually ended up taking about 30 minutes and my poor friends were trapped inside the hot, smoker-smelling car. And from that day on, it's forever been called the Red Devil.:)

Well that was about 3 months ago when I first got it, and now the smoker smell is pretty much gone and the Red Devil has been through some crazy times!!:) Some things I love about the Red Devil:

1) The driver's side door is broken from the inside so if I want to get out, I have to roll down the window, reach outside, and open the door from there.
2) The windows are manual so I'm cranking my window up and down about a hundred times a day to get out.
3) There is a huge crack going across 3/4 of the window.
4) I can go from 0 to 60 in about.......5 minutes.
5) Whenever I try to go from 0 to 60 in FASTER than 5 minutes, the engine shifts extremely violently and I feel like I'm going to go flying out the windshield.
6) The passenger side door doesn't lock.... I probably shouldn't announce that..
7) It likes to play tricks on me and think that my A.C is broken for the whole month of July, when all I really needed to do was push the A.C button.....that was fun...
8) The window tinting is peeling off reeeeally bad on all the windows so....it's basically a classy car in general.
9) The brakes are reeeeally sensitive so when my friends and I wanna be our true gangsta selves, I can bump the brakes really hard to the beat of our gangsta-lovin' music.
10) The LAST thing I love about my Red Devil is that there's no better car in the world for ME and I wouldn't trade it in for any other car!:)

Post #1

Well, I started a new blog. Nothing was wrong with the old blog. And it even would have been a whole lot easier to just keep that blog. But getting a new blog is representing a lot of new changes in my life. Nothing drastic, at least they may not seem so to others, but for me, with the start of junior year, I've really been trying to change things!:)

The biggest thing was getting rid of my Facebook. It truly was an addiction. The thrill of logging on. Checking notifications. Reading messages. Accepting friend requests. Browsing what 800 people are up to. Then noticing that 2 hours has gone by in a blink. And what got accomplished in those two hours? Nothing, except I was cought up on who's hanging out with who, who's going where, what's going on with this person who i barely know. It's a crazy thing! And like I said, I was so addicted. One day about two weeks ago, I just went and deactivated my account. Cold Turkey. I thought, pshhh, I'm gonna be riiiiight back on here tomorrow. But actually, to my total and utter surprise, it was the biggest burden off my shoulders. It felt in comparison to having a huge project due and always knowing in the back of your mind you have to work on it, then finally finishing it, then that amazing feeling of knowing you don't have to work on it anymore and can be doing other things. Strange analogy, I know, but at first I was always thinking, yessssss....I don't have to get on Facebook so instead, I can do this, this, and this. And the weird thing is, I never had to go on it, but just the thought of some kind of notification or message was waiting for me if I didn't log kept me getting on every spare second. So actually deleting it and knowing that I wouldn't be missing anything has set me free.

Now in those multiple hours a day that I'm not on Facebook, I am accomplishing things and being so productive. And it's been life-changing!:) On that note, something to think about--what would happen if EVERYONE in the world gave up facebook? Or t.v watching? Or any other mindless and pointless thing that takes up so much time? The world would change. The speed of the evolution of our society would increase unimaginably. What are some things in your life you can cut out, or at list limit? I know I am sounding preachy and weird, but getting rid of my facebook was such a lifted burden. Now I have time to improve my wellness all around by practicing piano/voice more; spending more time on homework (not just doing what's due the next day), but truly studying and not procrastinating (and I've already seen the result of it through my grades); reading the scriptures/working on Personal Progress more, spending real time with friends, as opposed to interacting through facebook; reading more books; working out more; and starting this blog.

Unlike my other blog, I really don't care how many people read it or comment, and I'm not going to write my posts based on what other people want to read, but more what I want to say. And I'm going to try to do this mostly in a journal format.

Well, now I'll wrap up this wordy "introduction." Sorry for the serious tone of this post, for those of you who know me, it's really not like me at all, but in the future, look forward to more posts about my new, more productive life:) They'll be more fun and crazy, because let's face it, I'm Mormon and 16! I kinda sorta know how to party!:)

Peace out!
Love, Hootie