The best...of Lindseyslifeisaverage...

In light of Everyday Thoughts: A diverse blog's 1 year anniversary celebrated yesterday, I've compiled my favorite moments throughout this blog. All of these are my favorite quotes or sections from all my posts on my blog. So if you are just now starting to read my blog, this is an easy way to catch up! most of these are thoughts of mine or important events to me....Get an insight into my thought.

We all have flaws and I accept that I, Lindsey, am a complainer. Get over it. You have problems too, when we can all learn to get over ourselves, we can see that we are all alike in the fact that we all have issues. 

I wish I could read people’s minds....or change people’s minds...just have some power for once.

“If there’s one thing that bugs me, it’s older people thinking that they can train kids to be nice. In my experience, if somebody’s a jerk, he’s a jerk, period, end of the story.”

I always know I can depend on myself. I try to get things done quickly, and before they are due so I am before schedule. However, not everyone has my mentality...

I am currently in LOVE with watching 24

I don’t know what to expect the first day. I guess everyone will ask the 5 most common questions 1) are you new? 2)whats your name and grade 3) where’d you move from? 4) why did you move? 5)do you like it here?

It’s the same fie questions everyone asks, and it’s quite annoying to tell the same story about how I came to Lebanon again and again....ugh

Between Kristin Stewart’s bad acting or Rob Pattinson’s strange faces..I can’t pick which one was my favorite to laugh at.

Whatever happened to Lizzie McGuire, That’s So Raven, and Even Stevens? Now those were good shows.

Something that means a lot to me is truth.  It’s vital to living in this world....we have to begin to be able
learn the difference between truth and lies.

I wish that I were better about being concerned about other people...So much of my life is ALL about ME. At least I can admit it....

My biggest insecurity is definitely what other people are thinking  and saying about me all the time.

Have perseverance despite what anyone says

I absolutely hate nail files. They give me the “heebie jeebies.”

My whole life changed when I was adopted. I was adopted when I was five years old by my parents currently.

It doesn’t matter the circumstances or adversity in your life...God IS bigger than that. Trust in Him.

Just think, if you could do it all again and go back to first grade and befriend some of the people who are good people now would you change your friends from the ones who you used to hang out with that are now not so good? People change so fast.

What does everybody do on the first of every year? Make Resolutions. They make resolutions that they know they will fail at....But, they still like the thought of having a “Goal” or a “Dream” something that they’d like to happen or hope to happen, but they know they will never attain.

Personally, I just want to be in a house. I want a home. Not just a house to live in for the time being, but a place where we can finally settle in and unpack everything and decorate

ATTENTION. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.YES.

I FOUND STARBUCKS.

Christ asks us to come out of our comfort zones so that we don’t become complacent. :)

As I’m looking forward to moving I have to be prepared myself-just like the sunscreen. I’ve got an optimistic attitude so I’m not going into this move thinking it’s just gunna stink.

I am not a believer of “Global Warming” and I have been known to say that I think it is just a conspiracy theory made by Al Gore and his gang to make $Money$ from gullible human beings like yourself.

Well, today I learned that after a sunburn gets better and turns into a gorgeous shade or tan, it starts to peel.

After working at a public pool for 2 years now I’ve learned that I will never go to a public pool for fun...just don’t. Too many people, too many accidents, terrible music, and lame water attractions all are what makes the fabulous Cape Splash a bore.

I have every classic Mario for my game boy that you can have. And I have beat them all multiple times and I have all the levels and the extra star levels...and I have the 5 star rating or whatever on most of them or whatever the highest rating is. What can I say? I love Mario.

You know how when you are walking down the stairs in the dark, and you are expecting that last step...then it’s not there and for a brief moment you have that scared out of your mind-floating-feeling that you totally weren’t expecting. Like you were totally prepared to take one more step....but it wasn’t there. Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole moving thing...and I think it’s like the step. Like maybe I thought that the “step” that I was expecting...like staying in Cape...was gunna be there, and the likelihood of moving was slim to none...just like the falling feeling.

BRETT MICHAELS WON!!!!!

In the past 10 years or so, I wonder how many times I have been asked the age-old question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I probably have written enough essays and answered enough of this same question that I could write a novel about it.

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought. LLIA.

One Year Anniversary

Hello fellow readers!!

Can you believe it's been a whole year since I started this blog?? I admit, the beginning of this blog was pretty boring...But I think that it continues to get better over time.

Most of my posts at the beginning of this blog had something to do with some really deep topics on my mind and then mostly about my weird obsession with the Celebrity Apprentice.

Yesterday, I was thinking out loud to myself...."Hmmm....The Celebrity Apprentice is on tonight...Just one year ago I was creating my first blog post. I should write about that."

In the past year my blog has gone through many changes...

It changed fonts 4 times.
Changed picture at the top of the screen 2 times
Changed layout around 20 times
And many many more....

I have tried to update as much as possible, I apologize for the "lull times" when I don't post. Sometimes life throws you curve balls and you have to focus more on the events of life than the extra things in your life.

I'd like to think that this blog has been accomplished...I mean I've had 1,500+ views in a year's time for just a 15-16 year old girl's thoughts....I'm impressed with myself.

I think that this blog has been good for me...I have learned to really think about the abstract-ness of the world...I have learned that I can't be perfect and we all have flaws...I have learned what people would most like to read...and I have also learned that some people actually care to read a blog.

I would definitely encourage YOU to start a blog. Even if it's just for yourself and a few friends. You would be surprised at how much you can learn from just spending some times writing down your thoughts or writing about things that you truly are passionate about. It's a super fun extra thing in my life that I can look forward to.

So I thank you readers...for making this the best year a blogger can have!

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

Day 26: Truth

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Something that means a lot to you

Something that means a lot to me is truth. It's vital to living in this world....we have to begin to be able to learn the difference between truth and lies. So many times we just believe in lies or don't even know what the real truth is...We just believe what other people tell us to believe and we don't think for ourselves...We don't understand what real truth is because we don't even think for ourselves.

It's kind of like politics...We affiliate ourselves with one political party or the other and we just believe what the party believes and we don't even think for ourselves.

Another aspect of truth is that truth keep people together. Not telling the truth can ruin relationships, friendships, working conditions etc. It's so important.

I hate being lied to...If you want to keep yourself out of trouble with me just tell me the plain truth without buttering it up and that will make everything so much better.

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey Shares an Everyday Thought. LLIA.

Day 25: Perfect day

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 25: A picture of your favorite day

My favorite day is when I can sleep in ALL day and I don't have to worry about being anywhere or doing anything. I love my sleep so much, and, like any teenager, I'm very sleep deprived. So, any day that I can get away from the world and just sleep is a good day for me :)

On my favorite day...I like to just put my phone on silent and not answer any calls or texts. Lately I've been really getting tired with texting people. Normally I just like talking to people via text over talking on the phone...but lately I've been in a lazy mood and I don't wanna have to type out everything that I need to say...I'd rather have face to face conversations.

The advantage of actually having a real conversation in person is so you can see their facial expression and hear their tone of voice and hand gestures while they're talking, something you can't see or hear while texting. Many times while texting I've gotten the wrong idea about what someone said or that they meant in a joking manner, where I took it the wrong way because I didn't know how they meant it...I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way. I think that people are losing that communication that is vital to survival--we are replacing it with technology and machines.

All of our friends are on Facebook--no need to hang out with them in real life...We talk to each other on phones and see what each other is doing on Facebook--no need to catch up in real life...

I know this is a random post, but if you have any comments please comment!! I love to know that someone is genuinely Reading my blog!

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

Day 24: Waiting on the world to change

 30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 24: Something you wish you could change

I wish that I had the power to stop
  human trafficking.

It's something that you don't think about... Slavery. We all think that it was left in the past after the Civil War;however, it still goes on today. Human trafficking is a criminal  in which people are recruited, harbored, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery. The USA is principally a transit and destination country for trafficking in persons. It is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked to the U.S. annually. This is absolutely terrible and needs to be addressed. We need to raise awareness...do something about it. No one should have their bodies sold for slavery...It's a terrible thing.


And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

Day 23: Columbine

30 Day Photo Challenge

Day 23: A picture of your favorite book

My favorite book ever is Columbine by Dave Cullen. It was the "Book of the Year" book in Cape last year, it was a part of the curriculum for the journalism program. After the Columbine phenomena hit my school I got sucked into the hysteria. I read the book, even did a book report on it because it was so amazing. I reccomend this book to anyone. I own a copy so if you would like to borrow it just let me know. Just get through the first couple chapters-it introduces the people that you have to know about later. It will captivate you and it will make you want to not put it down...It takes a lot for me to finish a book so you should definitely read it. It reveals the truth about the shooting, tells you the real reports, and tells you the flaws of the police. So grab your snuggie a box of tissues and read this book! 

More info: It is a comprehensive examination of the Columbine High School massacre, perpetrated by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold on April 20, 1999. The book covers two major storylines: the killers' evolution leading up to the attack, and the survivors' struggles with aftermath over the next ten years. Chapters alternate between the two stories. Graphic depictions of parts of the attack are also included, plus actual names of friends and family were used as well (the only exception was the psydoneum "Harriet" which was used for a girl whom Klebold wrote obsessively about, as her real name has never been disclosed).

Cullen, a freelance reporter in Denver, spent ten years researching and writing the book. He previously contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times and The Guardian. He is best known for his work for Slate and Salon.com. His Slate story "The Depressive and the Psychopath" five years earlier, offered the first diagnosis of the killers by the team of psychologists and psychiatrists brought in to the case by the FBI.

Publication was timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, which occurred on April 20. The book spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list in the spring of 2009, peaking at #3.

The book gained considerable media attention for discussing the so-called Columbine myths widely taken for granted. According to the book, the massacre had nothing to do with bullying, jocks, the Gothic subculture, Marilyn Manson or the Trench Coat Mafia which has caused somewhat confusion since many witnesses reported hearing both shooters yelling at "jocks" to stand up. Cullen also writes it was not intended primarily as a school shooting, but as a bombing. Cullen reports that Harris and Klebold intended to perpetrate the worst terrorist attack in American history. The book garnered glowing reviews from Time, Newsweek, People, The New York Observer, and The New York Times Book Review. One of the few dissenting views came from Janet Maslin.

In addition to spending eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, Columbine won the Edgar Award, Barnes & Noble's Discover Award, and the Goodreads Choice Award. It was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the American Library Association's Alex Award. The book is also nominated for the Audie Award, and the MPIBA Regional Book Award. Columbine was named to two dozen Best of 2009 lists, including the New York Times, LA Times, Publishers Weekly, iTunes and the American Library Association. It was declared Top Education Book of 2009 and one of the best of the decade by the American School Board Journal.

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

Day 22- LindseyLand is my Land

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 22: A picture of something you wish you were better at

I wish that I were better about being concerned about other people...So much of my life is ALL about ME. At least I can admit it....I get so caught up in my magical world called "LindseyLand" that I don't even take time to think about the other things in life that don't involve myself.

Yes, I am frequently stressed. Yes, I have a lot of stuff I have to do and a lot on my mind...However, I need to remember that everyone is stressed and I have to take that into account when I talk to people etc. I don't like to be blown off, yet I do it to other people all the time and don't even realise it without another thought about the situation.

I'm just being real with you guys...Do you ever think that the world revolves around you??? Well it doesn't. And, it doesn't revolve around me either. I'm still working on that lesson that my parents have been trying to teach me since I was in pre-school.

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares and Everyday Thought.

Day 21: Fail

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 21: A picture of something that you wish you could forget

I wish that I could forget all the times that I've failed and not done my best at something. I hate not succeeding... Most people do. Sometimes I wish I could just go back in time and re-do circumstances in life and have a fresh start and do or say something better to avoid confrontation or failure...


And  that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

A picture of something you wish you could forget

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Day 20: Viva la Europe!

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 20: A place where you would love to travel

The Trevi Fountain

I would love to travel to Europe! Ever since I watched the Lizzie McGuire movie I've wanted to go! It's so beautiful....here's just a few tourist attractions I'd love to see:

The leaning tower of Pisa

The Collesium

Day 19: Letter

A picture and a letter....Well I've already put up a picture and a letter! So please refer back to the letter to Mr.Lowery a week back and you will have it! Thanks :)

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought.

Day 18: Biggest Insecurity

30 Day Photo Challenge:

Day 18: Your Biggest Insecurity

My biggest insecurity is definitely what other people are thinking and saying about me all the time. It always bothers the living daylights out of me to see people whisper and talk behind someone's back, including my own. I'm always worried that I've done something wrong, said something stupid, or I look completely stupid and my clothes don't match or I look fat. Typical teenage girl right? I'm just telling the truth...

I wish there was no such thing as gossip...I wish people could always think nice, happy, uplifting thoughts about you...However, the world only likes to point out the flaws--it's just human nature to point out the bad instead of the good. Everyone who has been a teenage girl has probably felt this at some point...."Gosh I wish I could just look like her" "I wish I could be as rich as her...be skinnier like her...be more popular like her..." However, I think that this stage of life where we are super insecure will pass eventually...that's what makes the adults different from the kids. Mature adults just live their lives, wear what they want and do what they want despite what other people think. Despite this confidence building as adults I believe that everyone will always have a certain level of insecurity, paranoia of what others are talking and thinking about them, and of envy of the people that they want to be like. Maybe I'm wrong...But that's just my thought :)

And that was Lindsey's thought of the day, where Lindsey shares an Everyday Thought. LLIA.

Day 17: Mrs.Hicks wins...yet again.

30 Day Photo Challenge:
A Picture of something that has impacted your life recently.

Okay...I'm going to sound very nerdy, but last week I had to write a paper for English Class and I had to compare the world of the book 1984 to our world today. I guess Mrs.Hicks won this battle because she wanted it to be a thinking/exploratory paper on my thoughts about the world...I probably could have gone on writing but I couldn't because it could only be 3 pages. I really enjoying writing thinking papers because, personally, I think I'm a pretty good thinker. My Publications teacher said she thinks that writing thinking papers come more naturally to me because I'm a blogger...Perhaps she's right. At any rate I am going to put a few excepts from my paper in this blog so you can have a "taste" of what I wrote. Enjoy! :)


P.S. I do ask that if you somehow found these excepts on the Internet that you don't plagiarize and steal my work...These are my opinions and thoughts so get your own! 

      "Everything that humans think or attempt to comprehend is a direct result of what is being poured into our lives. The media is one of the biggest influences—most of the time for the good—informing humans about facts and events—but sometimes it is the biggest tool that can slowly brainwash humans who do not even realize that their own thinking is being sucked out of them. From TV commercials, to radio stations, newspapers, magazines, Facebook, blogs, and YouTube, the media is constantly sending subliminal messages to humans who seem to have no concern for the impact they have on their lives. Sometimes these messages are telling people that they are fat and need to lose weight; others try to persuade them to try a new product that they absolutely must have, although most often the product is not a necessity."

    " The media makes commercials about why we should respect one another, why we should eat a Big Mac, why we should not eat a Big Mac, why we should vote for a Republican, why we should vote for a Democrat, and the list goes on and on. We have watched and heard these commercials every day for years, and yet we never really pay attention. These advertisements try to persuade us by sometimes speaking to our deepest desires with the intention of driving us to buy a product or do something that may not exactly be the best for us."

         " Why do we give into these advertisements and purchase products like the Big Mac that will clog up our arteries, kill us faster, and empty our pocketbooks? Everyone else is doing it. Ever since we were little kids we have always paid attention to what other people are doing or telling us to do and that was what we did. Most of humanity has no individual thinking; we just regurgitate what the media and others tell us. Our lack of individual thought continues to get worse over the years since the Internet has entered into main-stream media. We use the Internet in place of the dictionary, the encyclopedia, books, newspapers, music, social contact and other types of entertainment and references. Because of the Internet we do not spend as much time studying, researching answers or conversing with others. The Internet has almost made libraries obsolete. The age of technology is eroding away our thinking. Instead, it does the thinking for us. Whether it is using spell check to correct grammar when writing a paper or using Wikipedia or Dictionary.com to get a quick reference, it is all the same. We are slowly becoming mindless machines."
         "   We are becoming machines in the aspect that we cannot think for ourselves and we just go along with what the "crowd" tells us to do. This is how most politics work. People label themselves with one political party or the other and will side with that political party on all issues without thinking. We do not make individual judgments about different policies; we allow the label to think for us. Humans are becoming machines that perform a function. We are not thinking for ourselves."

         " Some people’s lives have become a conquest to discover truth. Some strive to acquire truth through religion, others through exploring nature. What is certain is that not all humans can know truth. We are all living unintentional lives of lies, being continually viewed under a hypothetical microscope of humanity. We are becoming machines, being persuaded to think and act in ways we normally wouldn't choose. While some still seek to think for themselves, most have lost the ability to discern fact from lies. For most people they will continue to live their ignorant blissful lives of lies, and for others the conquest for truth will continue."