Friday, July 30, 2010

What do Winnie the Pooh and Jack the Ripper have in common?


The both have the same middle name.



HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

oh jokes...

Faith - Jordin Sparks


Hey there sad eyes.
What's on your mind?
Don't look so down.
Give it some time.

You don't have to be so hard on yourself.
I know the world can be a brutal place.
Please don't let it steal your smile away.

Cause when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.

Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby, baby have a little faith.

Let those tears fall,
You gave it your all.
It's all you can do.
I'll be here for you.
And there goes your pride,
Crushed on the ground.
Sometimes it takes a wall to tumble down,
For you to see who's gonna stick around.

Cause when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.

Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby, baby have a little faith.

Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better yeah.
And it takes so much to be brave.
Sometimes it feels like forever.
But when all the lights begin to fade.

And when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.

Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby baby.
And have a little faith.
Have a little faith.
Ooh, oh, ooh.
Have a little faith.
Have a little faith.


I just really enjoy this song. :)

- H

Getting things done.


Okay, so my family and I are going to the beach soon and that means the fun job of packing ensues. Wha wha.

I mean honestly. Packing is boring. It's just a bunch of running around and pulling things out and making a mess, then packing up the mess, and then you have a huge bag that is in the way until you can pack up the car. What joy.

Yesterday, to make light of the activity, I turned the idea of packing into a video that I hope to post on Youtube. I am quite excited. Listen. I have wanted to make a Youtube channel for a VERY long time. VERY LONG. And now I am so close. Ah!! It's wonderful.

Once I actually make an account (maybe tomorrow) I will post the link to it and the video here. :)

  1. Get back to having my quiet time everyday
  2. Get tan
  3. Get my hair cut really short (DONE)
  4. Read four good books
  5. Make a youtube channel (ALMOST DONE!!!)
  6. Practice breakdancing
  7. Work on splits
  8. Go to the gym/ workout
  9. Spent quality time with my family at the beach

ps - school is starting soon... mixed feelings....

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Stupidity.


I know, I know. I didn't post yesterday. And yes, I did realize that the world stop turning due to my negligence. However, the story that I have to tell you today about what happened yesterday will more than suffice for two whole posts.

Where to begin...

On Monday night I asked my mom if she had seen my paycheck (you see, because we weren't going to be able to go the bank for a while I used fifty dollars that I already had to go shopping so that when I cashed the check I would be back at square one). She said no but she thought that it was on the island. Well that seemed like a good enough answer for my so I promptly forgot about the darn check.

Tuesday morning, around 10 o'clock, my mom brings the check up. It's not on the island. Not even. Well this leads to us going through all the papers on the island, on my mom's desk, going through my cubby, and searching my entire room. Narrowing down the number of places it could be. "Could it be..." "No" "Could it be..." "No" "Could it be..." "No" "Could it be..." "No" ... on and on and on. Fifty dollar check. As you can imagine both my mom and I got a little stressed about the whole situation. It was not good. Well then we decided that to take our minds off of it we would go to a movie. We went and saw Killers with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher and it was so good. I mean really. Quality entertainment. But as soon as the movie was over, the check was back at the front of my mind. Now something I forgot to mention was that, after a week of living in the Sahara, it rained the petting zoo. For the drive home my sister, Morgan, decides that she wants to drive. (I HATE it when she drives.) And so she nearly crashes the car like three times and if I wasn't stressed before I am now. So after 45 minutes we get home and resume the search. For some reason I was convinced that it had gotten knocked in the trash and so my mom and I went through ALL of our trash. The entire trash can. It smelled awful. Open a bag, dig through. No. Fifty dollar check. For five more hours we looked. It was ridiculous. Some stupid little fifty dollar check has now taken up the entire day. I told my younger siblings, Katharine and Jack, that if either of them found that check they could keep the money. I just wanted to know where it was. I had tried to retrace my steps but I couldn't seem to remember anything but leaving it on the island. I was completely emotionally exhausted and was too worked up at the time to write about it, so I just went to bed and prayed for a good long time.

This beautiful, glorious, wonderful Wednesday morning my brother, Jack, comes in my room and tells me that I need to come down stairs right now. So I go down, disgruntled thinking that it will be something stupid, just to humor him. Standing there by the fridge is my mother with that fifty dollar check in her hands. Suddenly it all came back to me and I literally almost fell over. On Saturday night I had my check out and I was admiring it and I said to my mother, "It's too bad that our fridge isn't magnetic or I could hang my check on it." But the thing is, the sides of it are. So using a clip I hung it on the side of the fridge that faces away from the center of the room because the other side was full. The side of the fridge that you can't see unless you really want to. That means that while I was looking for that stupid stupid fifty dollar check I must have walked last it 500 times.

What utter stupidity.

Monday, July 26, 2010

One down.

Today, as you may have guessed from my picture, I got my stinkin hair cut. Personally, I really like it. A lot. It's so short that I don't really have to do anything with it, which I love. Score 1 for short haircuts!

  1. Get back to having my quiet time everyday
  2. Get tan
  3. Get my hair cut really short (DONE)
  4. Read four good books
  5. Make a youtube channel
  6. Practice breakdancing
  7. Work on splits
  8. Go to the gym/ workout
  9. Spent quality time with my family at the beach
Heck yes.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Who am I?


I have been thinking a lot today. I mean legit silent, contemplative thinking. Some about school, summer, summer being over soon, friends leaving and going to college, and about me and where I am. This thinking made me realize that I haven't been my usual self lately and that really bothers me. I know that part of the problem is a server lack of sleep for a month (while I was in a show) to all of the sudden having not much to do. It's easy to keep going, even when you are on 0%, when you have places to go and people to see; but when you have virtually nothing to do all of your tiredness catches up to you and just crushes you. Literally.

Although it would be easy to blame it all on a lack of sleep, I know that sleep aint the only problem.

Recently I have been lazy. In all areas of my life. My room is not clean (dirty clothes, trash, etc.), wearing sweats every day, I haven't been reading at all really (B-A-D), and, worst of all, I have been slacking off on my quite time only doing it every other day or every two days. DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER. Aaannndddd the number one reason why Haley has not been herself recently is... lack of quiet time. Ugh. Not okay. God showed me today that I was slipping. I love my mom, she's amazing, and we have always gotten along so well but recently we have been out of sync and today I snapped at my mom in the car and didn't even feel bad about it. Who am I? Without asking for and acknowledging God's peace and guidance throughout my day I get on edge and other people feel the effects. Well not anymore, this is me saying things are going to be different.

My goals for the rest of the summer are:
  1. Get back to having my quiet time everyday
  2. Get tan
  3. Get my hair cut really short
  4. Read four good books
  5. Make a youtube channel
  6. Practice breakdancing
  7. Work on splits
  8. Go to the gym/ workout
  9. Spent quality time with my family at the beach
This blog was a really good idea, my mom's of course. ;)

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Not much.


I feel as though not much has happened today...

This morning we went to the pool (when I say we I am referring to my mom and my four siblings, my dad was busy). It was disgusting. I mean really. Gross. First of all it was H-O-T hot outside which, I know, sounds like the perfect time to go to the pool. Wrong. The water was maybe 5 or 10 degrees cooler than it was outside. NOT REFRESHING. NOT AT ALL. So we only stayed for maybe an hour and a half and then went home. By then it was about 12 and everyone was getting hungry so we went to Target to get food (the one near us is a super-center so there is a grocery store) and ingredients to make tacos. I love tacos. Yumm. Anyway so we went to Target and I spent my aforementioned paycheck of 50 dollars. Yeah, nothing makes a girl feel good like spending what she brought while shopping and finding sales all the while. Whoo!

Then we came home and made said delicious tacos (which were, in fact, delicious) as late lunch/ early dinner.

So yeah, not much.

And yet, I am still really tired.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Yeah, I earned it.


Today was a momentous occasion. I, Haley Richardson, received my first paycheck. It had MY NAME on it. Isn't that fantastic? I mean it's not like it was a ton of money but, hey, now I am 50 bucks richer. And I earned it. Fair and square. I was given an envelope that even had the name of the people I was working for on it. Totally legit.

This week for three hours every day (5 days) I went and helped out with this summer arts program for kid who were 7-11 as the teachers assistant (TA). Now that may not seem very hard, I mean I sure didn't think it did last Sunday, but let me tell you. In the mornings it was nonstop energy and squirming. Oh, and I did mention there was twenty-four of them right? Twenty-four. Yeah. Have ya ever heard twenty-four kids all talk at once? It's like a swarm of bees. Vicious bees that went to harm you, and are not taking prisoners. But wait, there's more, at around ten thirty they are all hungry and "I have to go to the bathroom!!" and then they are just cranky.

Having said all of that the kids really are adorable. It was such a blessing just to be around them and hear what was on their minds. This one little girl, Jessica, she was the smallest of the bunch and, though I love them all, she was my favorite. There was just something about her that was adorable. Just think cute. as. a. button. I mean really just precious. But every day there would be something that would bother her, and not in a way that made her throw a fit, it just simply baffled and upset her. One day it was because someone else had the same cat name as her, and one day someone took her seat. I think you get the idea, just "little things". The thing is, thinking about her little things made me remember when I used to think things, like someone taking my seat, were a "big deal" and now I just find somewhere else to sit. Everything always seems like a big deal at the time especially when you're little. And I think that God used Jessica to show me that one day, when I'm older, I will think about me as I am now and refer to myself as little and think that the things that bother and worry me now (college, cough cough) will not seem like such an enormous deal and I will realize how stupid I was to worry. I think that God is putting things into perspective for me. Isn't He just great and fantastic? I mean really. Wow.

"Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you." 1Peter 5: 7

Today was their showcase for their parents and they were awesome. They learned four songs from CATs in five days and they had their faces painted (by me) and they looked fantastic. Eh, I was just a little proud.

And now, it's time for a nap. It was a great week and, hey, I would have done it for free...

But 50 bucks is nice too.



Thursday, July 22, 2010

Worries.


I have been worrying about school and college (which I may add is still 3 years away, but, hey, that's just my personality) and growing up and it's REALLY overwhelming, I mean REALLY. For instance I have this irrational fear that I wont get accepted anywhere for college, and it is not like I am not smart or anything, I just doubt myself.

My dream college would be NYU to major in musical theatre or dance (I haven't decided yet). I have what it takes academically (I hope), and I have the drive, and, I think, the talent. It's just that right now, it seems unattainable. Literally like a dream, that doesn't exist.

Breath, Haley.

Also, I have been worrying about school next year. I am going to be a sophomore and I just feel... old. I know, I know. I'm not. But still. Not to mention that I am going to have a heavy work load, and I want to take 3 AP tests at the end of the year (Chem., Bio., and World history). No big deal, right?

Breath, Haley.

And the thing is, it is useless to worry and make plans that I think are the only way everything will work, because God is in control and He knows what's best for me. He has me and He won't let me fall.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3: 5-6

Here goes nothing.


Let me start by saying that I don't really think I am a fantastic writer. In fact I know I'm not. My words might not be funny, inspiring, poetic, or even memorable. But, they might be at times. This blog, my blog, is not really for anyone else's approval, it's for me. You see, I realized, quite recently, that life is going by unbelievably fast and I want to write down as much of it as possible: 1) So I won't forget and 2) So that I take the time to process what I am doing and not just fly through the rest of high school without even thinking, if you know what I mean.

So, here goes nothing.