People

okay....you see..i was going to add this to my give thanks to everything post down two below
but then as usual i got lazy and i just didn't add it, cuz i didn't have enough time to write about everyone that i wanted to....

so i'm just gonna post this for now..and then do continuations
sound good? :]

As for order, I'm starting off with one person and then the next person is connected to the previous one in some quirky way that my mind thinks of :]

Bria my most awesome, biomass dissing, anime loving, and overall such a purehearted friend. i dont know what i'd do with out you sometimes cuz you're able to make me forget whatever i'm upset about and can make me laugh NONSTOP haha...plus my sister loves you..which is another tiny perk haha. through volleyball, orchestra, just EVERYTHING..i feel so so so so so sosososo blessed that we were on the team together in freshman year. seriously, it so changed everything...and i love that we were able to just hang out and just be the gruesome twosome haha i know that you'll be silly and hyper at times and yet serious and deep at other times..and those two put together ..wow

they make up one of the most amazing personalities that i know <3

Jessie wow...wow..WOW.. there is no other way to describe you jessie and yet, i'm still going to anyways :]. as Tom Cruise says, "you.....complete me" cept ur not renee, you're much MUCH more awesome, like the big ol' blazing sun. haha..i know that i'm probably going to repeat a lot of what i said on your facebook post..but still, its all 100% true.

we've had so many memories together haha..thats the sign of when you spend too much time with someone..when you have so many memories that you forget half of them lol. let's see here: nashville (category of its own), sunday school, ocee park, MUSCLE, haha movies, retreats, netherworld, youth group, every sunday..man do you know how good it feels to see your sunny face every single sunday? honestly, its something that i always look forward to and something i deeply miss when you're not there :] and best of all..i love how we can talk about nothing and everything and RELATE haha and walk with god together

Monique haha who would've thunk that you'd be the person i'd spent the most time with in thxsgivingisk festivities :D BWAHAHAHAHA ahaha i finally realized that if you can spend a night with someone where you are both SOO loopy that you are willing to play with mr. potato head, then you can talk about everything and anything forevermore haha.. dang girl..same with jessie...NASHVILLE...oh my changed everything in my life but one of the greatest things was that it brought you to me! wow..i just love you and your whole family and you've been through so much even though you attempt to be cheerful 24/7..and i love you for that too..honestly, with so many people, especially you, i just have so much love for..because i don't think that i would be anywhere close to where i am now in my path with god, without your loving support..and just EVERYTHING!! haha..yes, including your infamous megan fox pose LOLOL

Ivan where to start..i simply don't know where haha. since sixth grade, i have to say i've always admired you so much because of your violin skills haha you know i have a weakness for just watching someone play and be like o.o lol. but you know..that's old school..everyone knows that you can play well. the part that i love about you the most is definitely absolutely ultimately your awesome personality, no doubt. haha, i know that i tease you tons, get mad (actually not really lol x]) when you and say stuff bout certain people, and i say stuff i really don't mean, but the good stuff..i really DO mean :] cuz honestly, i really love each and every time i get to talk to you about some random thing, whether its on facebook or some random meeting lol. wow we've just been through so so much together haha..surviving middle school orchestra, surviving three different high school conductors, math team, new york, SCHOOl, and there could be soo much more haha if you actually come to the stuff i invite you to :]

but all in all...your friendship really means a lot to me TRULY AND DEEPLY!! :DD

Daniel hey mr. chyan.. mr. i never see at church anymore..LOLOL..oh my i just thought of something that happened last sunday..haha i was asking your dad if you were coming to church (gosh mr. absentee ;) and then WABAM..haha he whips out his cell phone and is like..daniel? mmhmm oh yeah..rebecca's asking for you LOLOL and i didn't even realize it until he said my name ahaha....but yeah..miss you tons at church..how long you've been my service partner for? mmhmm quite a while. ever since nashville. ohh my nashville..each person i write to i look back to it. Remember that last night, all that crying, all that deep talk until like 5AM, don't you want to go back to it so much? haha..i need more memories with you for sure :] but you've been so good to me daniel, honestly, always being one of the first to greet me every sunday, helping me get over my grandfather's death, so much, and i really TRULY appreciate it. :D also, thanks for being an inspiration for violin too...i remember being scared when i first met you..cuz i was like..wow i've heard so much bout this guy, but then you made me feel right at ease..cuz that's just the type of person you ARE!! haha.never change and skip all that asyo stuff on sunday :]

Alex oh my do i honestly need to explain myself AGAIN?!! haha..well 1) you are just too awesome 2) reading your work makes me feel like i'm reading an actual author or theologist 3) i love having someone remind me 24/7 to focus my concentration on God 4) i'm excited to go against you in a video game someday haha..not online..like legit game system -.- 5) i love your laugh..it reminds me of sunny..your whole mouth is a perfect curve up and then the eyes squint up like this xD 6) do i really need to explain this to you all over again? ahaha...go read your facebook you internet addict ;D

Victoria victoria i adoria you..haha you remind me of a disney movie, ignore the fact that i'm watching aladdin right now as we speak lool. knowing you're there at EVERY SINGLE church event wow. you are by far, the most dedicated person i know in your pursuit in your walk with God and your love for everything in the world around you, children, friends, the daily blessings in life, and DOMO haha. you're gonna do so much in the world victoria cuz you've already done so much in people's lives just around little old atlanta. i ALWAYS see you going out of your way just to talk to someone...and i love all of your complex emotions, whether they're hurt, joy, frustration, love hehe, and so much more, because you deem me special enough to share them with me, and i love that openness about you..PLUS your awesome sincerity. honestly, i could go on all day listing all day ;D

and..there is oh so much more...
i haven't even begun...
so watch out for your name :]

Cards

I absolutely love cards..believe it or not
I keep almost every single one of them that i've received..and even if they just say merry christmas, love so and so, they picked out that card specially for me and took the time to actually write one.

But, the ones that are the most special year after year aren't the ones that have fancy glitter or little pop-up figures or those crackmeup sayings (though some are quite funny :])
They can be only a sheet of notebook paper, on plain typed up black and white printer paper, or maybe this tiny post it note ripped in half.

I was looking through these cards the other day...hundreds of sentences, thousands of words, and millions of letters, all spent on me! haha..don't I feel special :]

But there's so much difference a card can make. The best kinds of cards sometimes don't even have to say good stuff, they can talk about the bad stuff too. It's not just handing out obligatory compliments or giving random quotes. It can say, "I'm using this font because it comes from Batman cartoons" (gee..i wonder who this card was from LOLOL)
or there can be a drawing that touches your heart..because 1) you could never do that 2) you KNOW it took that person forever.

And then, the greatest part of all..the WORDS!♥♥♥
oh my goodness...i cannot tell you how much those words envelope me when i read them, the sentences that read completely sincere..dang..they just ring in my head.
And I love how each one reminds me of exactly the moment when it was given to me.
Honestly, I'm getting excited just writing about it haha ;]

Sometimes when I write cards too, I can tell people so much more than i can in real life. Sometimes, I just don't take the time to tell people the things I do in cards.
Sometimes, I'm just too shy to tell people stuff in real life.
Sometimes, maybe I just want to let them have an everlasting memory of me

Anyways, just wanted to put this out there as a tribute to cards, cuz I know for me, they brighten up my day by like 18 degrees celcius
and when this cardgiver isn't there with me...
I can look back, and all the feelings, memories, and thoughts I have of that person just come rushing back like no other.

Give Thanks for ....Everything

Give thanks for the sun give thanks for the moon
Give thanks for the fresh clean air
Give thanks for the mountains sea and shore
Give thanks for the love that we share

Give thanks for the food we're about to eat
Give thanks for our neighbors too
For now is Thanksgiving and most of all
I'm thankful just to be here with you

We all have someone who's helepd us along
Who was there when we needed a hand
We all have something to be grateful for
It isn't very hard to understand

The high pitched voices of my fifth grade classmates pierce me even now, you know...that cute little chirp even the boys have and the exaggerated gapings of the mouth...
But this song we sang every year and I just remember it was my favorite thxsgiving tradition for chorus
six years later
and I remember it perfectly.
Really, sometimes I don't think that Thanksgiving gets enough hype. Especially for not it's worth.

Every single day, I look around me and go wow..I am blessed..so undeservingly it's crazy and I know that too. It kills me after I make such a big fuss about some minute miniscule little matter, some trivial materialistic fight, cuz when I look back on it, it's so ridiculous I can't even admit that that person was me haha.

Sometimes God blesses me too much too, cuz I will sit back and be like, what did I do to deserve to be this happy? And I probably shouldn't be that happy, cuz then I get complacent. But sometimes I just can't help but be happy, loving this life I have, reminiscing about every blissful memory, it's a habit whether good or bad.

But, getting off topic of my original point (for those of you who had mrs. hartfield, TANGENT!! :D) I'm so happy and thankful that I have each and everyone one of you guys around me. so, yup this is my turkey day shoutout, cuz I truly am thankful to you....some of you have impacted my life in more ways than you could possibly imagine, and I don't think..
actually i KNOW FOR SURE
that I would not even be close to being the person I am today with the same morals, values, thoughts, habits, everything.

I really love you guys...and don't you forget it :]
Happy Thanksgiving Y'all...
(I gotta use y'all, i'm so used to having a southern thxsgiving with my family after all xD)