Future Graduate Here

     It's weird. I'm graduating from high school this Friday, and while during the school year I was too ready to graduate and couldn't wait, now that it's a few days before it's as if I'm not ready yet. Not that I'm scared or nervous mostly just that-well for one I have to finish my speech. Yes, I am making speech that night, and surprisingly I am not nervous (at least not yet!) The hardest part I found out is trying to figure out how to word it all. I want to thank some of the people that had an influence on me getting to where I am, but every time I try it ends sounding like a suicide note or something.

      "Yes, I love you all and I thank you for all that you've done for me, but I'm leaving now. I will miss you, but this is what's best! This is not good by, but rather see you later..."

     Yeah...because that doesn't sound stupid at all. I guess the other thing that kinda is bugging me is that everyone knows I love to write, so when asked to write and give speech at my graduation I feel like everybody's expectations are super high and if my speech is terrible there goes my reputation. I feel as if the next week I'll be walking around and people are all whispering in the corners and texting as soon as they see me. Oh there's that girl that bombed her speech. Yeah I heard she thought she was decent writer too. Well I guess she never heard herself speak! Okay so yeah, I may be a little paranoid about the whole thing, but it'll work out in the end. Until then I guess I just hold my head high and pray like crazy!

     Until next time,

     Green Girl

Happy Belated Memorial Day!

Yesterday was Memorial Day and I was crazy busy playing soccer, eating hot dogs and s'mores, and playing card games...however, I was going to post a poem saying thank you to all those who gave their lives for the freedom of this country! Thank you, and though it is a day late the following poem is dedicated to those who have died in the military serving our country. -Green Girl

Thank You Freedom Fighters!

By: Green Girl


Freedom to be who I want to be
Because people payed the price.
In order for us to be free
They withstood the battles of fire and ice.

Thanks to those who fought,
We are who we are, and we do what we do;
And because of what they sought
We get to live in the red, white, and blue.

The greatest country of them all
Is no doubt the US of A,
And we get to enjoy it
Thanks to those who fought and paid!

The Best End-of-HighSchool party EVER!

Yesterday was a crazy day. It was the last day of my four amazing years of high school. A couple months ago I had planned a awesome party I was going to have to celebrate it, but now I had a job and life was getting very hectic quickly so it didn't look like it was going to turn into anything. What I had originally planned was just something small. I just wanted my family to attend and we were going to have pizza, glass bottle sodas (because that is the only real way to drink soda!), tye-dye shirts and watch a movie. It sounds kind of boring but it's all I wanted--nothing big. I had work that night till 8 p.m. and so it seemed like my plans were doomed. My mom, however, was adamant about having this party probably because I was just as stubborn when I told her I didn't want a big graduation party and she thought I was nuts. She kept on asking "What kind of pizza you want?" "What movie do you want to watch?" "Where is the stuff for tye-dying?" I kept trying to tell her that we should just post-pone it since there was no way we were going to be able to fit it in that night and since I was unprepared. That was the last I heard about it. I went to work; my mom picked me up; we went home. I was dead tired and I couldn't wait to eat something, brush my teeth, and hop into bed. I opened the door to our house and walked inside and I was amazed! I was revived almost immediately upon walking across that threshold. The bright lights and decorations sucked all the tiredness out of me. The giant Elvis wall decoration made me giddy and the 50's music just completed the feeling. On the counter my favorite candies were scattered: Dum-Dums, Red Vines, and Laffy Taffys. Out back under the overhang were streamers of home-made decorations and a CONGRATULATIONS center piece on the picnic table. It was so perfect! I must have looked ridiculous because I was honestly in shock. My mouth was probably hanging wide open and my eyes may have been popping out of my head, but I didn't care. Later after Costco pizza (the best), vintage glass bottle sodas, making super cool tye-dye shirts, and watching Sky High I reminisced over the whole ordeal. It was the best graduation party ever and cannot thank my brother, sisters, and my mom enough. They are the best. Plus since it was a surprise party I can now cross that off my list of things to do before I die. :)

Thanks for reading!

-Green Girl