Tattoos

Recently I have a huge urge to get a tattoo. I've always said that it has to have meaning. I still think the same but I think of that differently now. I used to think it had to be for someone or have like actual meaning but now I think it could be a quote that speaks to you or something like that. Like it still has to mean something but not how I thought of it before. That sounds super confusing but I hope you know what I mean. Tattoos have become a huge part of our generation. It seems like everyone and their brother has a tattoo. I used to think that it will look weird when you get older but since they will be more common, it will be the norm. Everyone in the old folks home will be all tatted up. This is obviously something that I would want lots of opinions in and I would put a lot of thought into it but I think it will make me feel a little more rebellious. The Mark Twain quote really spoke to me.  "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” I want to get the entire quote tattooed on my back. Just Kidding! I really love the part "Sail away from the same harbor." As you can see from my blog title. But I think the reason I like it so much is because, as I said before, I am not an adventurous person. I would like to be but sometimes I am just scared. This part of the quote is like get away from your comfort zone, do something you have never done. It inspires to do something that scares me. At least that how I interpret it.

Quotes!

Well hello there! Long time no talk! Do you even remember who I am? Well I'm Mia, nice to meet you. Recently I have been addicted to looking at quotes online. After a while it starts to make me feel depressed and I am sure the depressing music doesn't help either. But hey, I think we all need to take a day (or 5) to feel a little sorry for ourselves. I am going to share a few of my favourites. By the way, I have no self control so beware.

 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ― Marilyn Monroe  by the way that blue is driving me crazy and I can't figure out how to change it. So sorry if it burns your eyes as much as it does mine. 

I think those two quotes are actually my all time favourite ones. Do you ever read something and it just sticks with you? Well that happened with those two quotes. I think I like the first one so much because I want to try to lead an adventurous life. I want to be outgoing and brave and I want to be exciting. But sometimes that is hard to do because I'm scared. So whenever I think that way I try to remember that quote. As for the second quote, when I was 10 years old something not so great happened in my life and my Gran said to me "everything happens for a reason". All my life I thought she made that up then I found this. Since then anytime anything bad or upsetting happened to me I think "everything happens for a reason". I know this doesn't work in all situations but for most, I think it does.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.Anthony Hopkins

 Every song has a CODA, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It’s just life.  

One Tree Hill 

When you can feel someone else’s pain and joy as if it’s your own, thats when you know you really love them.Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood) 

An Anyway Friend is the one person in your life who no matter what they say or do, no matter what they’ve been through with you, they love you anyway. No matter how old you are or your responsibilities, if you have love, real unconditional love, you can make it.Sam Bennett (Private Practice) 

It’s funny, isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall)

 Maybe, sometimes, it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they’ll always love you, no matter what.Ann Brashares 

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like a sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.Chris Colfer 

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ― J.K. Rowling This darn blue is haunting me! 

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz

 “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” ― Muhammad Ali 

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.-       Alexander Graham Bell

I also have about 500 picture quotes but I decided to leave that for another time because lets face it, we all don't have 4 hours to look at pictures.

 
 

This explains my life fully!

Life

Since I waited years to write about the Folk Festival, Georgie beat me to it. So I am just going to give my two cents. It was so incredible. It was so awesome to hear new bands that I have never heard about before and become completely in love with them. I was seriously in bliss. I am already counting down the days until next year. A lesson I learned from this Folk Festival experience is to read signs and ask questions because getting lost 4 times in a matter of 3 days and only going back and forth from one location is a little ridiculous if you ask me.

On another note, I have a new goal. I haven't given up on this be more outgoing situation but I feel like that is a lifelong commitment. This new goal will add to the outgoing one. I have decided that I will find a way to talk with my neighbour. If my mum can have a conversation with him then I sure can. The he is going to fall madly in love with me, but lets just take this one step at a time.

Tomorrow I will be halfway through my 6 day stretch of work. Then I have 2 days off then I am working 6 again. I hope this pattern doesn't continue because it is slowly killing me. Its not like they are short shifts, they are like 8 hours. What has my life come to!

Georgie, I like hoop nose rings too. I think they look cool!

I wish I was friendlier

This is getting ridiculous!

Starting tomorrow I am going to start blogging everyday or every other day. This blog has been severely rejected and let's face it, these questions aren't really cutting it. I was thinking about how in December I always had stuff to say because I thought about it during the day. So from now on I am actually going to be posting things, they may not always be writing things, somedays it might be pictures and instead of "saving" them and then forgetting about them, I will actually post them.

Make Music Vancouver

Obviously Georgie is a little tired and made a bit of a mistake. What she really meant was met Mia's future boyfriend tonight.