I had a very nice Thanksgiving, it wasn't completely how it was originally planned out to be, but that's ok.
Today is black friday... you couldn't pay me to go shopping today. People are nuts.
I had lunch with the Wicki's today, it was so nice. I miss them very much; we're all so busy with school and life in general that when we have down time we just want to rest. I ate lobster ravioli (delicious!) and visited with them for an hour and a half, then came home to do school work.
I can't find my glasses. It's so annoying, and completely unlike me. I don't lose things. I've never lost my glasses. I mean, on one hand it's fine, it's not like I'm blind, I have 20/20 vision. I only wear them for my astigmatism's. All the work I do on lappy, my eyes get tired so fast, and the glasses reduce the strain on those muscles. Gr. I hope I find them.
In a few hours I'm going on a triple date :) I think we're going to Silk City and just chillin' for a little bit.
My sister just called to remind me that Santa Claus is coming to town tonight! Every year it's on black friday. And just about every year since I've been in high school, I've forgotten. It's so much fun, and now I'm a little bummed I'm missing it. ::sigh:: o well
There once was a turkey named Fred
By Thanksgiving he'd surely be dead
They'd take out the inner
And fill it with dinner
Only after removing his head
Love this song. And the music video is so cute :) every girl loves dancing and pretty dresses. a;lkdjf
The other day someone commented on my weight. I took offense, I didn't bite their heads off, but I felt the need to share with them that their words are powerful, life is already hard enough, and they don't need to be tearing people down to make themselves feel better.
Ever since I was born, I've been a string bean. I take after my mother, I'm tall and skinny. All growing up people have always said things to my face or behind my back about my weight. "Oh my god, are you anorexic?", "Wow, you really need to eat", "You're so skinny! I hate you. No, seriously". Even people that have known me my whole life would do this! Has my weight ever fluxuated? No… this is how I'm built A hole. You're a sucker to society, and jealous of my body type because the world tells you you need to have this body type to succeed in life and be happy. Be happy with who you are and how you're made. God doesn't make junk. Besides, being skinny isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Stop judging.
When I was younger, it was more of an annoyance than anything when people would say that stuff. Now that I'm older and almost lost a dear friend to an eating disorder 2 years ago… I hardly find it humorous, whether the person is 'joking' or not. I was a complete mess when my friend almost died. It is no joking matter. And I learned so much through them and through my own research. I wanted to help them and never hurt them or trigger them to make them start down that path again. I am no longer ignorant to the realness and seriousness of the matter.
I wish people would realize that it's not something to joke about. Also, what if I did have an eating disorder?? How would them bashing me about my weight help? IT WOULDN'T. People don't think before they speak. That's part of the problem, but even when they do 'think', how come they don't see that they're being rude and that maybe they shouldn't say the idiotic thing about to come out of their mouth? People don't even realize, and that's a shame because there's so many people that struggle in this area.
Up to 80 percent of women exhibit signs of an eating disorder at some stage.
Up to 24 million people in the United States experience an eating disorder.
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Chances are, someone you know struggles with an eating disorder, and you're not even aware of it.
I found it disappointing. I went in with low expectations, and I found certain elements of the film well done, and other parts I was like... seriously? I think they could have found a better actor to play Edward. His character didn't feel right. But the rest of the cast I liked. I don't know, I can't say much without spoiling the movie for everyone else... so I guess I'm just leaving it at that.
When you go see the movie... be sure to let me know your thoughts!
Lappy has been struggling these last few days. Hence no blog entries. woo woo i know. I'm just hoping it gets me through this last month of school.
Little recap of this week thus far. Tuesday, did school work, went to a bible study, it was great- i haven't been able to make it to this particular one in over a month. The insanity!!
After that, I came home and jumped in a different car... my sister and I went to North Star Bar in Philly to hear The Aqualogic play! They did so well! I was so proud of my Matty! Kate and I split a woodchuck cider (so yummy! it's sorta like spiked apple juice or something) haha So the band was awesome, and the won battle of the bands (WOO!!!) I can't wait till they start recording. o yis.
Yesterday, I went to the chiroporactor twice. That's right twice. Not because I was injured or anything. The first time I waited a long time and still hadn't been seen, and I had another doc app to go to, so I left and returned later and they pushed me to the front of the line. (Thanks Maggie!) I went to the OBGYN for my yearly check up. I don't care man, it's awkward and slightly traumatizing every time you go. Eesh.
Seriously.
I started my christmas shopping. It made me extremely happy. Then I did school work for the rest of the day until I had to go to church to sing worship. AFter that I went over Matt's and we got burgers from Zac's, and then played some wii, then snuggled and fell asleep. It was wonderful. heh
And this morning, I woke up to flurries coming down outside. I ate breakfast and went to Marshalls to try to find a skirt suit... and OH MY GOODNESS I found the perfect one. It's exactly what I was looking for. I'm so excited :) :) It's Ann Klein, it was marked down from something positively ridiculous to $60, and to my surprise it had an additional 25% off, so I got a two piece skirt suit for $44.75. O YEAH!!!
Conversation: Pain, Hope, Questions and Community.
I got to the Burlap and Bean, where the event was held, and the place was already packed. They had already reached maximum capacity, and had a crowd of people outside not minding the cold, sticking around just to be a part of the night.
I thought it was so beautiful. Jamie Tworkowski (founder of TWLOHA) spoke with such sincerity and passion about this cause it brought tears to my eyes. I love the fact that TWLOHA didn't have any intention or any idea that it would become something this big, reaching thousands of people from many different countries.
Whether people struggle with depression, addiction, an eating disorder or self- injury, the one thing we all relate to is brokenness. It seems as though our world is afraid to talk about these things, and I positively love that there's this group of people of there going on a 'tour' to talk about them.
Jamie shared how TWLOHA started, then his friend Aaron (who also is a counselor) talked, and asked us questions, like why are people afraid to talk about these deep issues? I don't know, it was just really awesome. I wish the coffee shop could hold more people, I wished so many friends could be there just to hear what they had to say. It was truly touching.
Some musicians played in between speakers, I had some great hot chocolate, and eventually got to talk to Aaron and tell him a little bit about my story. I would love to get more involved with the organization and even get to know Jamie and Aaron better to learn about their lives and experiences.
Last week I got soap in my eye, my books didn't get here in time for my class to start, I went to Borders to at least get some of the reading done, and they didn't have my friggin' book either!! LAME!
But the next day, my books got here and that made a happy Megan. blah blah blah. Friday evening Matt and I went ice skating with Ashley and Nigel. Twas a lot of fun. I haven't gone ice skating in years and Matt is the only reason I didn't fall.
Yesterday we went to York to visit Jen & Ty. We went out to lunch at Longhorn's and then watched Kung Fu Panda and played some Mario Kart on Wii. Soooo much fun. Annnnd on the ride there and back I introduced Matty to David Sedaris. We were listening to Me Talk Pretty One Day. It. was. hilarious.
Today I got up early to be trained for Audio Resources at church, took a one hour nap, then went to see Dana in her school's musical. It was really cute.
After that, came home to my house for dinner to celebrate my grandparents 55th wedding anniversary. :) awwwww. such great love.
Now I'm doing school work and watching Je
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