#highschoolprobs

1. Annoying & stupid teachers

I really want to become a teacher someday just so I can be a better teacher than all of my terrible teachers. 

2. Drama

Boys, friends, relationships, enemies... It's all getting so old. Plus, it's just plain exhausting. When will we all just grow up?

3. Parents

I know they love me, and I love them more than anyone else, but I really wish they would back off sometimes. I need to make a mistake every once in a while, don't I? I can't do that with them breathing down my back.

4. Sex

Unfortunately, it's everywhere now. Whether you're ready for it or not, it's an obstacle now. It causes paranoia, insecurities, stress, and a lot of other bad feelings. Add it to the weight on your shoulders. 

5. College

If you're psycho like me, you've been thinking about this since Freshman year. Most normal people don't start thinking about it until Junior or Senior year. Well, Junior year is approaching... Time to decide want you want to be when you grow up. Great. 

6. Driving

The thought of being behind a large and very lethal moving vehicle is the most frightening thing in the world to me. I've just recently started getting behind the wheel, and I hate it. Why can't I just fast forward through the learning part?

7. Jobs

Getting my first paycheck was the coolest thing ever. Actually working for it was lame. What were we all thinking when we said we couldn't wait to be grown ups? Five-year-old me was brainwashed into thinking this whole adulthood thing was cool.

8. Frienemies

That girl that used to be my best friend but turned into my least favorite person? I still feel a knot in my stomach every time I pass her in the hall. Especially since I'm best friends with her ex-boyfriend. 

9. Stupid People

Those seniors who think they are better than everyone else a grade below them. That smart kid in math class that's a no-it-all and is a jerk to everyone that isn't a human calculator. That girl who constantly talks smack about people you like. I won't be missing you when graduation rolls around. 

10.  Everything you're not allowed to do because you're not officially a grown-up yet

Either completely treat us like we're 5, or completely treat us like the legal adult we're about to become. I feel like I'm in middle school again. Which was arguable the worst 3 years of my life. Joy.

What are your top 10 high school problems? 

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Out with the Old, In with the New!

For those of you who used picnik.com as religiously as I did to make your pictures look pretty and professional, I'm sure you are just as heartbroken as I am to hear that it is closing... What a shame.

On the flip side, I found a wonderful replacement suggested by Picnik! PicMonkey.com has similar features to Picnik and is super fun to use! Just as easy as Picnik too! So your photos can stay just as pretty as they've always been!

Still wanting to submit my viewer art! Please e-mail me you artwork, writing, photography and more to my e-mail at navy.brat@yahoo.com

Happy Wednesday!

Smiling Like an Idiot

I love it when God has a good week planned for me. When one moment I'm confused and torn, and the next I can't stop smiling. It's the way things turned out today. It was a good Monday.

Before I go on, let me wish everyone a belated Happy Easter! I attended my first Catholic Good Friday service and it was just... breathtaking. It's been a long time since I have gotten choked up during church and let me say was I almost in tears during that service. It was haunting. It was beautiful. So much love for my Savior is filling my heart.

After Good Friday I had an uneventful weekend, with a relaxing Easter Sunday (lovely family pics to come). I hope everyone else had a stress-free and beautiful Easter as well!

After that relaxing weekend, I was faced with some choices today.

I chose to endlessly complain about my Chemistry teacher, my three back-to-back quizzes tomorrow, and boys.

I could write a book - SEVERAL books - on how confusing, arrogant, and immature boys can be. And then I could write a sequel to how lovesick, naive, and stupid girls can be.

 But that one would end up being an autobiography.

All that drama and confusion left me with no hope for male beings. And then, here comes Cupid again poking me in the butt over and over.

After every sweet text message, after every "goodnight beautiful" text, after smiles and jokes and flirts and tickle fights, Cupid stabs me again and again.

 And I'm left on the sidewalk smiling down at my cell phone like a crazy person.

I'm so fickle. But I can't help but loving the crap out of this guy.

Even if he does have a few tattoos...

HEY GUYS, LISTEN UP!

To my other Starving Artists and talented writers:

It's your time to shine!

 I want YOUR WORK to post HERE on my blog! If you want your writing, artwork, photography, or anything else artistic that needs to be recognized to be featured here on my blog and my Tumblr page, please e-mail me at navy.brat@yahoo.com. This is a fantastic chance to gain some feedback from strangers and fellow viewers! (These strangers and friendly, I promise!) I would really like to see what inspiring things are hiding out in my readers, so send me some of it!

*This will be an on-going chance*; whenever I recieve something creative in my inbox, I'll post it here!

Along with your art, I would also like at least ONE picture of you included, as well as a brief answer to this one easy-peasy question:

Little Maggie says: INSPIRE ME!

Why is art important to you?

Then we're good to go! 

So get crackin', artists. I'm ready to be inspired.