I hope everyone is blessed with a best friend like mine

Tomorrow will be the start of my best friend's foreign exchange trip. It's unbelievable to think that it's already here! So tomorrow begins the year of remembering. Remembering what a great friend she is, remembering how she has stood by me and supported me, remembering all our jokes and adventures. 

One of my favorite quotes is one that she showed me one day while watching our favorite show-The Walking Dead :) :) 

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie the Pooh

The tennis tournament in which Skye and I became best friends :)

Despite how much I'm going to miss her, she needs to do this. We all find who we are in different places and ways. I have begun to find myself in the studio at school. Skye, I am certain, will find herself in Belgium. 

Au revoir pour l'instant, mais je vous verrai bientót!

Good bye for now, but I'll see you soon. 

6 Things You Should Know About Me

1. Is this how you imagined your life would be?
No way, Jose. I thank God every day for the people that he's put in my life. No way would I have such a great job and love my classes so much if it weren't for the people He put in my life. Or did He put me in their lives? I have decided to go into broadcast journalism, but I know I wouldn't have decided that on my own. I am so blessed for everyone in my life-my friends and family. #livinthedream
2. If money were no question, I would purchase...
And I'm not going to be one of those pageant girls that say, "I would save some for college and the rest I would donate to charities and cancer research..." I genuinely would want to give my grandmother money and those in her hometown. As for me, being in the college research mindset, I would apply to my dream college- Columbia Journalism School in New York City. If only money were no question...
3. What's your drink of choice when out with girlfriends?
All things Dairy Queen. #nobrainer
4. What do you love about yourself?
I hate these type of questions. I don't know. My smile?
5. Name one good deed that you did that went unseen.
As much as I love awkward moments, I feel a bit uncomfortable with these type of questions. Oh well. Back in middle school I packed a lunch almost everyday. However, one day I remember standing in line because it was one of the few days the cafeteria was serving pizza. And lemme tell ya. That pizza was good. Sent directly from God himself, or made by God himself. Well I recall seeing one pizza left when I was up to choose. I know the girl behind me, a less fortunate girl, wanted it so I decided to get the gross, clumpy rice. That's my good deed. As insignificant as it is, I will always remember it.
6. What hobbies do you have that you don't mention on the blog?
I'm one of those weird kids that love school. I one hundred percent enjoy learning and being surrounded by classmates. So I shall proclaim learning as a hobby :) I also try to spend a few minutes every night staring at the stars. #nerd I also spend a lot of time hashtagging stuff. Sometimes I accidentally speak in hashtags.. or on purpose...

Still undecided

Today I stared out the window for what seemed like ten minutes.
I stared and thought about how scared I am for my future. Yesterday my friend told me she had already started applying for colleges. All these people know exactly where they're going and what they're going to do. I've got nothing. I wish I had some set course like that bird. Nature is so incredible. No one tells the bird where it must travel, it just does. May I learn my path quickly because I'm so scared.
Help me little birdie.
And follow Skye to Belgium and take care of her, please.
Little Abigail

Rhyming Words Wednesday

Coffee Lips 
by David Ferry

The guest who came in to the street people’s suppers last night,

An elderly man with a lost smart little boy’s face and a look

As if he might turn against you anytime soon,

As if he’d just come into this world and he was extremely

Wary about what the world was going to be, and he said,

“If I ask you a question will you give me a truthful answer?”

And I said, “That depends on what the question is,”

Thinking the little elderly boy looked sophisticated and

As if he’d in fact been a long time in the world

And would get the tone right, and maybe he did, or maybe he didn’t;

At any rate he went on to ask the question,

“When I come into places like this and there are people holding

Coffee cups to their lips and they look at me,

Are they about to drink the coffee or not to drink the coffee?”

He was balancing the world on the tip of his witty unknowing nose.

I felt like I was falling down someplace else than anywhere there.

A Quick Story Ladies and Gentlemen

Let's get right to it. Yesterday I brought some left over enchiladas to work to eat on my break. I packed the homemade munchies on a plastic plate with a fork and covered it with tin foil. I placed it in the fridge and went to work. A few hours later, on my break, I open the fridge door and look for my lunch. No plate. However in the corner I some tin foil with a familiar looking fork on top. I remove some tin foil, take a peek, and discover my dinner. But where was my plate?? Who would steal my plate instead of the mouth watering enchiladas? Especially since there are plates on top of the microwave not even a step away. Odd. Now let's back up to last summer. Trying to save money, I packed myself a sandwich almost every day for lunch. But one day my sandwich was gone and I'm pretty sure someone ate it. It wasn't too much of a loss since someone bought me dinner from my favorite restaurant in town :) I just hope this doesn't turn into a summer tradition haha. As Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs (1992 version) said, "Let's figure out who the bad guy is."