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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Life of a Blogger: Handwriting

Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Novel Heartbeat!

So what does your guy's handwriting look like? Write me a message, take a picture, and send me the link! I'd love to see (:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Life of a Blogger: Guilty Pleasures

Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Jessi over at Novel Heartbeat!

I honestly have so many guilty pleasures. One of them being The Vampire Diaries. And I mean no offense to that show whatsoever. It's just that I never thought that I'd like that show. Ever. I'd always been so adamant on not watching it, then one day when I was home sick, I just got on Netflix and started watching it... Yeah, long story short: I couldn't stop.

I've turned this post into an obsessions one rather than guilty pleasures because guilty pleasures makes it sound like I'm, you know, guilty of liking these things, but I'm really not.

The Vampire Diaries. I'm just so invested in their lives; I can't stop.
The Originals. Same goes. Spin-off series about Niklaus? I'm all up in that.
Bones. I just...I don't know what to say about this one. I just love this show so much.

And really my only other guilty pleasure slash obsession is learning new things and one-upping other people. This sounds very shallow of me, but I'm serious. One of the guys in my class came to school and knew how to solve the Rubiks Cube. He showed off for three weeks before I finally taught myself. Now I can solve it in less than a minute.

And let's not forget books. Books are an obsession of mine. Not really a guilty pleasure, though, because I'm not ashamed of liking to read.

So tell me—what are your guilty pleasures or obsessions?

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Life of a Blogger: Introvert or Extrovert

Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Jessi over at Novel Heartbeat!

There will always come a time in life when an introvert will need to be a bit like an extrovert and an extrovert will need to a bit like an introvert. This is why I'm glad that I'm both. Honestly, this may be a weird way to answer the introvert/extrovert question, but it's true. I am both an introvert and an extrovert.

You might be thinking

but it's really not that weird when you think about it...

When it comes to going outside and hanging out with people versus staying inside and working on the blog or reading, I'd rather me working on the blog or reading. Unless my friends are playing volleyball, then I'm all over that.

Part of being a team in volleyball would be getting along with a group of people and doing things that other people like to do with said people. At first, it was very difficult for me to get along with the rest of my team because I felt awkward and out of place. Naturally, I'm not an outgoing (extrovert) person until I get to know somebody. Then once I get to know somebody, I guess I can be a bit...crazy. But until I get to know them, I'm either (a) cold or (b) an introvert where I won't talk to them at all.

I'm under the impression that people need to approach me first, which shouldn't be the case. I should approach them first otherwise we'll probably never talk. I'm slowly getting better at approaching others first, but I feel like I'm doing it all wrong, and I'm only succeeding in freaking them out.

Theoretically, I'm an extrovert. Anybody who knows me would say I'm an extrovert (I've asked). But if you asked me and I didn't let other people's opinions influence mine, then I would say I'm an introvert. It just depends on my mood and who I'm around, really. But isn't it like that for everyone?

So tell me: are you an introvert or an extrovert?

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Life of a Blogger: Genres of Music

Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Novel Heartbeat!

I love a total of three things in life: books, socializing, and music. (I'm leaving out family, because I think it's a given that I love them. They're my family.) Honestly, I have a very eclectic taste in music. I'll just list some songs that I like, and you can decide what genre I like. I'm doing this because I don't want to list death metal or hardcore as a genre that I like because there are only some death metal and hardcore songs that I like... I don't think any really hardcore songs will be making the list though, because I haven't been too into that lately. Please don't judge me. Everyone has a different taste in music.

WARNING: Some of these songs have foul language. I'm not going to listen to each and every song over once to see which songs have profanities, but here's a list of the songs that could have obscene language: Backpack, Gas Pedal, Hoodie Allen's music, T. Mill's music, Tennis Court, FU, some The Neighbourhood songs, anything by Sleeping with Sirens,

As you can see, I like a variety of things. I only wanted to have about 10 songs/artists listed, but clearly there are a lot more. It seriously depends on my mood/what I'm writing. Yes, I like Justin Bieber's music (not him. His music. His music). Yes, I sometimes jam out to Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, maybe even Taylor Swift if I'm feeling particularly Swifty. Yes, I head bang to metal and sway my head to classical tunes as well.

The point is, everybody has a different taste in music and mine just happens to be a variety of tunes! I even like some Spanish music (mostly the Spanish rap) by Abusadora and La Pregunta (yes, I know what these song titles mean. Abuser and The Question, respectively).

So hopefully you got to listen to some new songs today and got a feel for what I like, which is basically anything. (Hell, I'll admit that I even listen to One Direction at times. I particularly enjoy Story of My Life right now thanks to Joey Graceffa and Luke Conrad.)

I wish I could list all my favorite songs/artists/albums, but that would take so long! Let's leave that to another, more summer-y post? (;

Love you all (:
Tori ♡