Hello Love...

I'm the type of person who doesn't care what people think about me. Sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes it's not so good. Here's an example of why it's a not so good thing... I've always been the person who doesn't really have great control over my mouth and over my emotions (I blame my Korean jeans for this one. I hear Koreans have feisty tempers). Growing up with 3 older brothers, I learned to be tough and how to defend myself. So once I got into middle school, I wasn't exactly the nicest kid in town. I kicked, I punched, I yelled, and hit all the guys in my youth group. If they made me mad, or just caught me on a bad day, then it got ugly. I knew they were probably stronger than me, but I didn't care. That didn't stop me from doing whatever I had to do to get my point across. I didn't care if I hurt them, as long as I made my point then I was good. Now that I'm older, I look back and realize...I WAS ONE HECK OF A MEAN PERSO...

"Do what you love, and love what you do." That's a pretty basic statement that people say, right? I love hair. I love styling it, and really when I say styling, I mean styling. Curling, straightening, up-do's, etc. I can do everything else like cutting, coloring, perms, but that is what I love more than anything. Stupid to go to cosmetology school for 2 years only to get licensed to curl someone's hair, right? Even though I don't do all the cutting and what not, doesn't mean I don't love it. It doesn't make going to school a waste of time. I still love it and I still want to pursue a career in hair. That will never leave me. But something else I love just as much is photography. Whether it's taking pictures of people, sports, nature, whatever. I love it. I'm not great by any means, I'm just an amateur, but I do a good enough job that people don't say my pictures suck (Or so I'd like to think they don't say that). Yesterday I...

I wish I could go on exotic vacations, or go shopping whenever I wanted, but I can't. Why? Because I'm just your normal, everyday, work my butt of to make nothing kind of girl. I wake up only to go to work and barely make ends meet. But that's okay, I'm okay with it. Again, why? Because my parents, from the time I was very young, taught me how to be repsonsible and budget my money. Seems kind of lame, I know, but once I was 16 and realized how many kids don't pay for a single thing, I was okay. It makes a difference when you have something handed to you and when you pay for it yourself. Almost cliche, I KNOW . Sheesh, but it's the truth, it really is. I've been working since I was 15, and I've only ever had 3 jobs. My first job was a good first job. I learned valuable skills that I would need to know at other jobs. I won't go into detail about each job I've had, but what I'm leading up to is each job and each paycheck taught me responsibility...

I am one who does not like change. In fact, I hate it. I hate how everything is going well and then suddenly your schedule is all mixed up. I don't like being pushed out of my comfort zone, but that's what change does. It pushes you so far out of your comfort zone that you don't even know what to do with yourself except accept it, learn from it, and grow with it. My 3 year old niece and I are a lot alike in the sense that we both hate change. I, being almost 22, can handle it better than she can (most of the time). If my brother & sister-in-law know a big change is going to happen (like when she was going to have a little sister) they do a good job of preparing her for it. Easing her into the situation and talking about it with her. But sometimes change happens so fast that you can't prepare for it. It just happens and you have to find a way to handle it. My dad just resigned from being the pastor at our church for the last 20 years and my parents are moving an hour...

Tattoo's; they can be a controversial thing most of the time. Yes, the bible says your body is a temple, but the body is also my own. I'm free to do whatever I want to my body. If I choose to fill it with tattoo's, then I can and I will. If I want to paint myself blue like an avatar, then I can and I will. I'm not saying don't listen to the bible, or that the bible is wrong. I'm just saying that people give a lot of crap to those who have tattoo's saying things like "what will that look like when you're older?" Or "you'll regret that one day." Do you not think we think these things through? I only have 1 tattoo at the moment, but I'd like to get a few more because I like them, and my tattoo's have meaning behind them. 3 years ago my brothers and I all went and got tattoo's together. I got my birth name and a lotus flower (my Korean name means lotus flower) tattooed on the back of my shoulder and my brothers all got...

"Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 Relationships are fun, but they can be hard work. Girls these days have all these high expectations of what their relationship should be like. They have these high expectations of how they should be treated. Don't get me wrong, a lady should always have high standards and never settle for less, but so many girls are focused on what a relationship is like based off some picture they saw on the internet. A relationship is about give and take, learning to love through the flaws, communication, trust, vulnerability, and a relationship with Christ. If you don't have any of that in your relationship, then it's not going to work. Relationships a...

Some people say not to wish for high school to "fly by" because once it's gone, it's gone, and you'll miss it. I'm not one of those people, I'm glad my high school days are over. I don't miss any part of being in high school. I don't miss the homework, the fake friends, or the drama. Don't get me wrong, I'm still friends with a select few that I graduated with, but overall I don't talk to about 98% of my graduating class. Call me a terrible person for saying this, but as of this moment (obviously I have plenty of time to change my mind) I don't want to, nor do I care to, go to my high school reunion. High school wasn't a fun time for me. Freshman year was one of the hardest and worst years of my life, not just because I lost friends, but for many other reasons. I can honestly say though, that if it weren't for my English teacher and my algebra teacher, then I would have found a way to leave and go to any other school except ...