Silence is louder than words

High schoolers have a social media problem. Writing this I am not saying that I do not have the same problems because I know I do some of the things I am going to talk about as well. I really don't think there is any way you can put a stop to things on social media no matter how hard you tried. Almost everyone puts too much out on the internet for the world to see, including me. This has become a major problem in society today. It is ruining so many things for us today and pulls people apart rather then bring them closer together. Now we can tweet and show our emotion and what we are doing instead of directly telling someone.

 Being the over emotional teenagers we are, we feel the need for everyone to know our emotion and feel for us or relate to us because no one wants to be alone. People tweet things so the can show other people a lot of time that they hurt them or have made them upset that way they can try to make them feel guilty and apologize to you. A lot of people also most pictures of them being happy and doing fun things to one up other people and show people that they are other another person and they can do whatever and it doesn't bother them. Then there are the people who just party and want to show that they party and brag to the world that they have alcohol and they are having a good time. People feel the need to show the whole world everything they are doing at all times of the day. Showing everyone all the things that.
My point in trying to get across is it is so sad to watch our society on social media. We are constantly complaining and one upping another trying to see who cause post the best thing and who can get the most favorites and likes. Its so sad that we have to put all our thoughts out there for everyone to see because then when we individually tell people it just isn't as special anymore! I am not saying that social media is totally bad cause its not and it can be fun and enjoyable. Next time before you post though just remember how powerful silence is sometimes.

The new Pandora

I was very skeptical when the new download came out for the iPhones a few weeks ago. I wasn't sure if I was going to like all the changes and I didn't know how different things would be with the new one. There are things I like and don't like but I think one of my favorite things about it and something that I am getting a lot of use out of is iTunes Radio!
If you haven't used ITunes radio yet I recommended trying it as soon as you get a chance or next time you get a chance! I was just going to ignore its presence in my music until my friend convinced me and told me all the great things about it! It is a lot like Pandora but right in your music app. You can type in a song, artist or genre to choose from what kind of songs you like. If you don't want to type in something certain there are categories of stations you can pick from that they think you would like. When you have found a station it starts on a setting of Hits. This means you are listening to more common music that you hear more. You can go to the info button on the top middle and change that though! You have the options on a scale from Hits to Variety to Discovery. Discovery are usually not very well know songs but things that it thinks you will like! Variety is in the middle of those two so you get some hits and some not common songs. When there is a song playing you can pick the star to click that you like the song and to play more songs like that but there is also an X so you can click to never play the song again. You can skip songs but be careful because there is a limited amount of skips. You can also use the + button to add it to an iTunes wish list of songs you want to buy or you can even buy them right on the spot. There is also a button to change if you want to allow explicit tracks or not that way you can choose that depending on what kind of crowd you are in. If you are really enjoying a song you can make a new station from that song you are listening to which is always handy to have more then one station depending on your mood.
You can make as many stations as you want and can change at anytime. I love iTunes radio and I am so glad this is a new things in the music app. I am currently listening to the Lana Del Rey station as I type, which by the way I recommend! I love finding new songs so I always have it on discovery and I have found new songs already that I want to buy and now I cant stop listening to! I hope that you try it and can find some good songs you love too!

Good Style?

Everyone wants to fit in somehow but do you really want to become a part of something that you are just normal and like everyone else. I am not saying there is anything wrong with the people themselves, I personally have very good friends who are part of the "in crowd" but I just think that everyone seems to dress and look the same. They all have the same typical outfits everyday. It isn't really style its just wearing the same thing everyone else is everyday to fit in with everyone else and not feel left out. There are some clothes I don't wear to school because I know I would be judged. No matter how much we say we all don't care if people judge us we all do at least a little.
The most common outfit for the winter that I see everyday drives me a little insane. Everyone wears buckle jeans with a Victoria secret pink sweatshirt and UGG boots. Yes I do own all of those items of clothing and I am sure I have even worn them together once or twice but so many people wear them everyday. That's all that people will wear because it all they buy but that isn't style, to me its just the normal trying to fit in. I used to be against Buckle Miss me jeans and other brands like that until I tried them on and I actually really like them. I am not saying that you shouldn't ever wear it, just everyday. Another thing that I notice is whenever they dress up then they always just wear UGGS with there tights and tight skirts and v necks. Yet again I own all these things but that doesn't mean every time I dress up that I have to wear them all together. Especially the UGGS with the skirt, you can buy other shoes that match and look better with it too!
The point of this blog was not to insult anyone but just to point out the things that people are wearing around us everyday at school. Do you want to fit in or do you want to stand out and be your own person? Be your own person and make your style. Don't follow the norm like everyone else. Dress how you want and don't let anyone judge you because you can do what you want.

Skinny Love

One of my favorite songs ever is Skinny love. I originally heard it by Bon Iver and I couldn't stop listening to it for weeks. Then I found another version by Birdy and I honestly can not decide which one is better. Here are the lyrics to the song and I want you to listen to both and decide which one you like better.

Bon Iver

Birdy

Come on skinny love, just last the year
Pour a little salt, we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

I told my love to wreck it all
Cut off all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my,
my, my, my,
my, my, my, my,
Right at the moment this order's tall

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind

And in the morning, I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines

Come on skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassiere
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind

And now all your love is wasted
Then who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the bridges
And at the end of all your lines

Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall,
Fall far behind?

Come on skinny love
My, my, my,my, my, my, my, my, my, my,

My, my, my, my, my, my ,my, my, my, my.

 Lyrics from metrolyrics.com

Gossip Girl

I am a very active user of Netflix but because of my slight addiction to it I have found some of my favorite shows! One of my favorite shows that I finished a while ago but I still love it so much, is Gossip Girl. I was the first of my friends to start watching it and slowly as the first season went on I feel  in love with all the characters. I got all my friends to start watching it too that way I could have them talk about how much they love it with me. Of course once they started watching it they all got hooked too. There are 6 seasons in gossip girl and as soon as we got to about season 4/5 we decided to throw a Gossip Girl party to show out love for it! 
Here is an a little snip about the Pilot episode from http://origin.www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl
"The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively,) is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.

No one knows Gossip Girl's identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena's closest friend, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan.
Once the Upper East Side's most notorious party girl, Serena's reasons for returning are mysterious, although they may have something to do with her younger brother Eric (Connor Paolo, "Alexander"). Whatever the reasons, the change in Serena is obvious, especially to Blair, whose friendship with Serena has always been competitive and difficult."
I was Blair at the party because of my brown hair and my attitude like her. She is stubborn and wants to get her way to succeed in life. She also loves fashion as do I which made it even better. Her on and off lover is Chuck bass. This was played by my good friend Jenna at the party. Which was hilarious how good she was at getting herself to look like a boy. Blairs best friend Serena was played by my good friend Marisa, because they both have very long blonde flowy hair so it really was just that they looked alike. We also had my friend jill who played Jenny. They didn't really look alike but it also isn't to hard because to be Jenny all you have to do is put a lot of dark goth makeup on. Some of my friends also just were some other smaller part characters. My friend Lauren was Vanessa in the show, which she is in for a few season before she moves. My friend Emily was also a temporary character named Olivia. We took a whole bunch of pictures and acted like we were at a fancy high class party! It was a really fun time! I recommend watching Gossip girl because it really is a great show!
Also here are some picture from the party so you can see how into it we really got!
XOXO GOSSIP GIRL

HAPPINESS INC JACKET

It is known in high school that if you are in a sport or activity or a club of some sort that the day of or the day before the big event you dress up. This way the schools knows you are in that activity and you have a game and event soon! This is tradition has been going on for a long time now. All sports do it where sometimes they dress up  or wear something representing there sport or team. Sometimes the football guys wear there jersey and girls wear the practice jersey. The volleyball girls wear t-shirts they made and things of that sort. I am involved in swimming and showchoir and both those activities do it too. We dress up on swim meet days if the meet is an away meet that day so when we show up to there school we look really nice. If it is a home meet we wear either our team t-shirts or jackets that day. For showchoir we usually switch on and off depending on if we have showchoir that day during class because they don't want the girls in giant heels and short skirts trying to practice during the day. If we don't dress up we usually wear our very bright Happiness jackets.
The whole school in all other activities can wear there team stuff but for some reason when we wear our Happiness jackets we get a lot of crap for it. Yes I will admit they are very bright jackets and they do make quite a statement but still that is no reason for people to get mad. All other sports can wear there things but people get mad when we wear ours and its not fair. I personally love the jackets because they are different and stand out. They are bright yellow and they are kind of raincoat material and in green words on the back they say "HAPPINES INC." On the front you can your name or nickname. When you get into Happiness it is a privilege to get your jacket, its like what you look forward too. I assume it would feel like how it would to get like your varsity jersey for the first time. It makes you feel good about yourself like you made it there finally. It is also a very unique thing that we do it to pin buttons on them. You can pin whatever button you want to. Some people fill there jacket with like 100 and others like me just have like 5. Either way I think it looks really cool and I think it is something different from all other teams cause we don't just have plain jackets or t-shirts. Though of course we do have normal sweatshirts and t-shirts to if you want them also. I take to offense when people tweet mean things about them the day we wear them. When we wore them for the first time this year I saw tweets like "watch out the yellow bananas are loose" and "the obnoxious jackets are back everyone" and things along that line. I wouldn't care except for the fact that people only tweet it about showchoir and not when other teams where things together. I almost feel sometimes it is because it is showchoir which a lot of people think is dumb and boring but its really not to us who are in it.
I have heard and seen so many people say mean things about happiness and our jackets. So whether you like them or not you can keep it to yourself because we are just like any other activity at school and we can wear them together. Happiness is more then just a team we are a family too.

Discovering new music

I don't know about you guys but I am always looking for new and good music to listen too! I absolutely love when people give me suggestions of bands and songs that they think are good and you can end of spending a whole night looking them up on youtube and just finding more and more good songs. So today I am just going to quickly list some of my favorite songs and bands that maybe you will look up and love as much as me! Some of them are bands that have just once popular song but you have to listen to more then just that one song!

-Of Monsters and men, My head is an animal album
-The Lumineers
-Mumford and Sons, every album and song they have made and even the ones that aren't on iTunes
-City and Colour, especially the song The Girl
-Margot and the nuclear so and so's
-Ray Lamontagne
-The Neighbourhood, the whole album
-St Lucia
-The Civil Wars, my favorite is the one that got away
-She's so high by Tal Bachman
-Fidelity by Regina Spektor
-365 days by ZZ Ward
-The quiz by Hello Saferide
-Skinny love by Bon Iver
-Imagine Dragons Night Visions Album
-EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING BY LANA DEL RAY
-Little numbers by BOY
- Honey let me sing you a song by Matt Hires
-Hide and seek by Imogen Heap
-Everything by Norah Jones
-Be OK by Ingrid Michelson
-Young blood by the Naked and the famous

I could list on and on of all the good songs that I love but for now I will leave you with this list for now and hopefully you find a song that you really enjoy!:)

Pants or not pants?

Walking through the halls in high school you see lots of different styles. High school is a time to express yourself and to be and show who you are to the world and just hope that people will accept you. Looking around you question a lot of things that people are wearing, trying not to judge but we all know we do, even I do. Everyones style is unique and different then yours but yet if its not to our liking suddenly we don't like the person as much or see them in a different way. Its such a problem in our society but yet we all continue to do it anyways. Somethings that I know I probably get judged for most is that I think leggings are pants. This has been a debated for a while now and people have very strong opinions on this subject. It seems like such a silly opinion to have but yet I get so heated about it when it gets brought up so I feel that I should cover this topic since it is so important to me.

If leggings aren't pants what are they then? What is there purpose? Leggings just like sweats and jeans cover your whole bottom, hips and legs if they are fitting right. This means they are covering the same amount of area as jeans or sweats and much more area then if you were to wear shorts, a skirt or a dress ever would. I also have repetitively pondered what their purpose would be if they weren't pants. You can't wear them under a dress or shouldn't at least in my opinion. That was the style like 8 years ago when I was little and would have the matching set and it came together, I know you know what I am talking about girls. Now we have tights for things like that so why would I use leggings for what I should be using tights for. You could say that I wear leggings quite often and I would not deny maybe even more often then I should, but they are very comfy in my defense and easy to match with. I own about 8 pairs of just solid black leggings for my everyday wardrobe because they are so plain, simple and cheap. There are so many good things about leggings that I feel they are more beneficial then negative in any way. They are the in between of sweat pants and jeans, so you don't look like a total slob but you also can be more comfy then jeans are. You can also dress them up with a nicer shirt and accessories or dress it down with a crew neck or sweatshirt of something in the range of clothing item. People have told me to buy yoga pants from places like Victoria Secret because they are thicker then leggings but they are also about $40 more then leggings from like Forever 21 and just as cheaply made and can get holes in them just as quick. There are also tons and tons of super cute patterned leggings out there right now which makes them seems more think or some are even made thicker. Leggings overall are a great basic thing to wear and easy to make look fabulous on a daily basis. 

I will admit that there are some negative things that people have mentioned to me that I can see some points they make. Leggings are not always meant for everyone and that people need to be sure that they are wearing the right size leggings when you wear them. If they are to small or are starting to get old they get very thin and worn out and that is something people don't want to see that. You also shouldn't wear leggings with extremely short shirts like crop tops to places like school specially. If you raise your hand in class and your stomach shows a little fine but if you are coming to school with your bellybutton showing with leggings that looks especially inappropriate. You need to make sure that you are wearing leggings in a appropriate way in public. 

So I hope you can see where I am coming from when I say that leggings are pants and that is really their only purpose. They are also easy to match with, comfy and affordable which makes them even better! I understand some people wear them inappropriately which needs to change but enough people wear them the right way so we should let it happen. Leggings cover up just as much as other pants so why can't we let them be pants? 

The Christmas Outfit

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Years!  I thought I would bring up about the importance of  the Christmas outfit. I don't know if you are as into Christmas as my friends, family and I are, but if you are I know you know how important it is to the perfect Christmas outfit! You want to make sure that your outfit is the perfect look! There are usually lots of pictures and you want to look good for all of those. You always go to Church and see everyone because it is the time of year where everyone goes even if they don't go a lot of other times in the year! And who doesn't want to look your best when you see a lot of people am I right? And usually you want to be kind of fancy if you are like me! I always go out and buy a brand new dresses or something kind of fancy like, almost always a dress though! This year I bought my first Ted Baker dress ever and probably my last for a while cause they are so stinking expensive! But it is one of my all time favorite dresses ever! I wish I could wear it everywhere! I usually tend to go for sparkly wow dresses but this year I decided less tight and sparkly look. It its a very classy dress. I got it in red which really fun and sassy color. When you walk into I room I feel like wearing that much red instantly draws attention to you! But of course I cant go without some sparkle so I still wore black sparkly tights with it which added the perfect touch. For shoes I wore my black pumps and tried to not kill myself walking through the snow! It carry all my things in I used my very nice early Christmas present, a Michael Kors purse! This was very exciting because it is my very first Michael Kors! My goal was to curl my hair to look Like AnnaSophia Robb (Carrie) from the Carrie Diaries! Here are links to show you so you can get a better idea of the look I was going for. This is a link to my Ted Baker dress! Here is a link to my new Michael Kors purse!  Here is a picture of my inspiration for Hair from AnnaSophia If I were to change anything I wish I could have found the perfect statement necklace to go with it but I just didn't have time! I hope you all found the perfect outfit for you over the holidays too! Good outfits can always make a day better! Have a good one loves and continue being well dressed into the New Year ahead of us:)