Im Back and Doing Hard Things

Well blogging world I'm back. I'm not dead even though some days I didn't think I would make it. You see what I have learned over the past year is that, girls are mean, cruel, and vindictive. We will do anything to insure our own personal survival, even if it means tearing down everyone around us. In high school I see this happen on a daily basis. For example there is a girl I know lets call her B, who will be your best friend for purely her own benefit. B is your friend so she can get rides around town and money to feed herself with. But then as time goes by B will find a new shiny victim to be her new "BFF". You see girls do what they must to get what they want, whether it be a ride to the basketball game or if they need lunch money. We are cruel, but if you look at it in retrospect high school is cruel. It's cruel because we judge everyone all the time. Even when someone who judges or uses you and really hurts you, we turn around and to what they did to someone else. We are all guilty of doing this, we all judge the girl who is a little to peppy, the boy who wears old sneakers, or the girl who has kissed one to many boys. We aren't perfect, and life is hard. It's hard to keep hold of your standard and beliefs. Its hard to keep your head on strait and its hard to always we happy, but in the end you have to keep thinking WE CAN DO HARD THINGS. Then every moment you think that you can't make it through another day of fake people, judgement, and loneliest. Just think WE CAN DO HARD THINGS. Because hard things and trails forms us. They form our personalities, they form our opinions, they form our life. Within every hard thing we do or go through, there is a blessing is deep disguise. While in trails these blessings are what we must look for, because without looking towards them we will lose hope. Without hope we have nothing. So we have to keep our heads up better and just take it one day at a time. Always remember that high school is only 540 days long. Although that sounds long and miserable just remember we CAN make it, because WE CAN DO HARD THINGS.

Does Anyone Still Read This?

Well if you are reading this I commend you for not giving up on me and they little blog! I apologize like every other day with my random and not often posts. But we have tons to catch up on! Do you ever have those days when you look at a person and just ask yourself why you haven't thrown a chair at their face yet? Well folks this week has been full of them! For example the other day I was sitting at a table near a rather unpleasant girl and she just was being as annoying as can be! I'm telling ya she had almost blown my top off with her stupid comments and girlish over-reacting. All I have to say is I am so gr

grateful for primary songs because without them a table not a chair, may have been harshly thrown hopefully crushing her. That sounds quite dramatic, but I'm over it. So since its the day of loooovvvveee I am going to give the privilege of some of my words of wisdom on boy, men, life ruiners or whatever you may refer to them as.

SAMS WORDS OF WISDOM. 

1. Boys are stupid. So sometimes you cant hint to them that you want something, to get what you want I would advise you to follow the following steps.. 
1. Throw a rock at their head so you know you have their attention (not to hard, there's no need to knock them out) 
2. Give them a chance to redeem themselves by giving a obvious hint, like throwing a rock at them with a little note attached to them giving them a clue to what would satisfy you. 
3. Well chances are they won't redeem themselves so go up say sports, then tell them what you want. 
2. Let them come to you, or make them think its their idea. (THIS WORD OF WISDOM ONLY APPLIES TO NORMAL GUYS NOT ANY CELEBRITY, if it is a celebrity jump on that train and run to them.) 
• Be sly and clever in all decisions, for example if you want a kiss, girl start playing with your keys! 

Well thats all the wisdom for one day. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

Blind Spot.

Life has many blind spots, for example when you hear a rumor that your "close" friend spread, or even that test the teacher told the class about, but for some reason you didn't hear about it. Well lately these blind spots have been everywhere. Although they come with heartache and confusion, in the long run are for your benefit. With blind spots I think they don't just come in blind and out of site, but also they can leave you blind. The blinding powers can make you sad and hopeless thinking that the sun won't rise in the morning. It can consume you and all of you light. The only thing you can do it wait. Wait for the sun to appear again, wait for the blessings to come, and wait for the rose colored glasses to be lifted up and see what life has in store for you. But don't take waiting literary.. Don't just sit and wallow in your troubles BE HAPPY. I've noticed that through the past months of blinding spots that the spots I sit and feel sorry for myself with are the ones that I never get over or the ones I caught myself tearing my life up and making it worse than it is. But hey what do they say? When life gives you lemons make lemonade... Lemonade is hard to make, but I promise you that it is the sweetest lemonade you'll ever have. And just think HE knows you can get over it, you can defeat it and go on living. To close up one of my favorite actresses of all times, Audrey Hepburn said, "For nothing is impossible, for the word itself says, IM-POSSIBLE!"

Forgiveness... Its a virtue right?

All I want for the holidays this year is for all of the probably three people who read my blogs forgiveness.. Remember a few blog posts ago I talked about the procrastination bug? Well I caught it when I came to my blog... You wouldn't believe all of the half-written blog posts I have just waiting for pictures, editing, and etc . So to fix this small problem I am going to come up with a new segment called SAM CRAM!!! Which is basically going to jam three holidays   a whole pack of drama and fun into on somewhat small post. Here goes nothing!

1. I made it through the first quarter coming on semester with minimal damage                                          
2. Had my first dumb i'm only fifteen Taylor Swift fling
3. Went to Wyoming
4. Learned how to shoot a gun! 
5. Met a new friend
6. PASSED my drivers license both rode and written test, so I am just trying to survive the anxious waiting till the big one six
7. First High School dance, but it was stag.... does it even count as a first dance if its neon and stag?
8. Had the Halloween of a life time!
9. Figured out how to get egg of a car in the car wash 
10. Went to some rockin sweet sixteen parties for the girls
11. Essie and Danika got got their license... hello new taxi drivers! 
12. I got a job, even though its not the idea dream job
13. I lived through my extreme binge at Thanksgiving
14. Did the whole stand in line in the cold at late hours of the night Black Friday for the first time! 
15. I got over all the drama and learned that sometimes letting go and moving on is often good for the soul and decreases stress like nobody's business
16. Sang at Temple Square...
17. And many other venues 
18. Learned that its the little things that can make the difference when trying to make something sad, something positive
19. Survived the End of the WORLD!! 
20. My best friend since birth and forever/cousin is moving out to the great and empty Idaho, but hey they have cowboys so its all good! 
21. And last but not least ITS CHRISTMAS!!!! 

Now to make it more interesting here's some picture of previous events..

WE LOVE WY!! 

22 Rifle :) 

Cheyenne. She's from AZ 

Who needs a therapist when you have Jones? 

Make a difference and do one to! 

Digital, Does it count as a dance? 

Haunted Houses! 

We're all turning 16 left and right! 

Black Friday Shopping! 

We survived the Apocalypse! 

Temple Square with Tess :) 

Lydia, the best friend ever! And choral edition bud 

Merry Christmas!! 

Look.

Sorry for not posting as often as I should, but quite frankly my life is pathetically boring. On the other hand some of my fellow bloggers have done posts about watching people.and noticing the weird things they do. I find amusement in these posts so I thought why not give it a try in class.

To the boy who is sitting in his chair on only two legs, just wait one day o will tip you over
To the girl in the hallway whose gum fell out while yawning, I saw that throw it away
To whoever in the girls bathroom, take care of it its gross you are the reason I don't like public bathrooms
To the guy who keeps tapping his pencil every vowel the teacher says, stop I will shove it up your nose
To the kid who picked his nose and ate it.... Gross just gross.
To the girl who likes to leave her phone in the open and leave it there for a period of time, I will take it when your not looking and you'll be sad.
To the many girls who keep tugging on their tank-tops to make them cover their butt, just tuck you tank top in. It'll make life a trillion times easier and not stretch your tank-top to the floor. 
As you can see people all around us do weird and corky things. Hopefully mine aren't as annoying like some of these are. Well we are in our fourth week of school, wish me luck in all my many awkward encounters.

It's a Jungle Out There, bring a shot gun.

So all of you who read my title with some worry, never fear I did not bring a shot gun to my jungle of a school. It was a metaphor (for those who didn't catch on). High School is a jungle full of every shapes and sizes of animals. You have your lions, tigers, moles, the small, yet very dangerous spiders, and so on. You need to prepare yourself or bring your "shot gun" daily for this safari you are about to partake in. You need to learn how to work with anyone, no matter how awful or annoying they may be. You need to learn to smile all the time, I know first hand how that can change your whole outlook on the day. Learn to broaden your horizon, or in this case friends. I think one thing I struggle with is judging the book by its cover, but today I we proven wrong. I regret not talking to the person because they were "stechy", He gave me some valuable advice that I have needed for quite sometime. Also learn to see both sides of everything and know when you're wrong. That is also another issue I have is not looking at both sides and jumping to a conclusion (which are often wrong). Now that I have done my guru like segment of the day lets talk about the trials and tribulations of Spanish Class. In honor of my "amazing" teacher I wrote a poem

The makes me want to jump out a window Teacher.

by Samantha Turpin

The moment I walk through the door this feeling over comes me to a peak

It's like none other I have ever experienced before

It one that makes you realize you rather eat raw meat

Although that might seem awful just you wait

And hear my teacher speak

She talks and talks and talks

So much I will almost drop

It gets so bad the I begin to jump almost out of my seat 

I rather go to a reaping then sit and listen to my teacher speak

She likes to do tiger bravo's

To the point where I would just want to eat gross spaghetti-o's

All you have to do is say my dad's cousins best friend in England is a medic

Then say hello to whole lot of extra credit

Your dad's cousins best friend in England can get you lots of extra credit.

But all you really need to do is circle and write 50 points extra credit 

As you can see my poetry skills are not sublime, but I hope you get my point. This woman can turn "Okay lets get out a pencil" to "The history of a pencil is..." then ramble on that for thirty minutes to "You have a pencil with 0.5 lead, 100 extra credit points!" As you can tell I am over exaggerating just a tad. This is only the story line of the class. Well at least the class will be a easy A, considering I have already accumulated over 300 extra credit points. Now lets hope I survive the jungle for at least 520 more days. 

Tie Me to a Tree Please.

Tie me to a tree please. Tie me there on the tree, where time will stop and I can just breathe. Tie me so I can just freeze and forget of all the bad times and only remember the good times. It seems like just yesterday drama was what you read about in books, and always was entertained by. When did it happen that the entertainment of the book slowly became dramatic encounters in your own life? If only there was a book of life and in this book there were chapters to explain what to do and what will happen. Then at the end of this book let you know that everything is okay, and you will live happily ever after.

We should get him Beef Jerky for his birthday because he's a JERK!

 If only life was that easy, but sadly its quite the opposite! Each day especially now you make decisions that will change your whole life. Rather it a phone call or even just a simple look, your world can flip upside down in seconds. Lots of this has been happening lately with boys, friends, family, etc,. I think that the best thing we can do is pretend we are tied to that tree where you can only remember the good not the bad, and most importantly not dwell on the past. As of today I have learned my lesson, thinking about the future and dwelling in the past, there will be no time to grow in the present.

WE GOT THE HORSE 

     Enough from my guru side and more about high school, because this is the purpose of this blog! Well lets have a week in a flash, We got the horse (an trophy that our school and our rival compete for. Its mostly bragging rights) 47-0, I survived two weeks making it only 530 days of school left, I dodged content tutoring, and received my dreadful school picture. So in this past flash of a  week I got my school pictures, lets just say my forehead and Frankenstein's are defiantly cousins. Then I was told I would have content tutoring, but some how didn't. I'm really glad that someone is looking out for me! And finally duh-duh-duh the IRON HORSE. Only the biggest football game of the season that we acceptably win and practically the whole school goes to. This is the game where tiger pride shows either through fighting, who has the biggest switch blade, or the amount of orange and black paint we can paste on ourselves. Despite some of the ghetto fights and paintings it some of the most fun you have all year! Well until I find a magical tree to take me back, and let me forget about almost everything, I have 528 days left of high school. Lets hope I make them count!