50 things to be thankful for

1) A house
2) Having both parents
3) Having an education
4) Having heat
5) Being mostly healthy
6) Having clothes
7) Having friends
8) Having family
10) Having a pet
11) Having internet
12) Music
13) Having a white Christmas
14) Having a place to live
15) Books and writing
16) Fire places
17) Heat
18) Blankets
19) Movies
20) Television
21) Electricity
22) Beanies
23) Having rights
24) Pencils
25) Sketch books
26) Clothing
27) Phone
28) Phone case
29) Shoes
30) Having a backpack
31) Having skin
32) Headphones
33) Optometry
34) Hair ties
35) Computers
36) The ability to have a choice
37) The ability to speak
38) Pain relievers
39) Chocolates
40) Water
41) Food
42) Love
43) Nice people
44) Guitars
45) Picks
46) Jeans
47) Variety of frabrics
48) Shakespear
49) Edgar Allen Poe
50) Concerts

Speaking Of Courage

I liked how this chapter was called "Speaking Of Courage" and how it talks about them laying in a literal shit field. I liked it because sometimes, when you're in a shit field (figuratively or literally), you need courage to just lay there and let it smell badly. To have courage, you have to stay in that field, letting it touch you, letting it in your mouth so that you can taste it and feel the texture on your tongue, you have to let it take a hold of your senses no matter how bad it may stink. You would not have courage however if you just ran away from it, anyone can do that. Anyone can run away from shit fields, but guess who can lay in the shit fields? People with courage.

Update on novel; Prozac Nation

I've just started "Prozac Nation" by Elizabeth Wurtzel today, I've only read the first paragraph so far. The cover of the book is what got me to read it; A a tired looking teenage girl with the words "young and depressed in America" Tracing a fraction of her body with stitches across the picture. I'm very excited to read this and find out what it's about, there was no description or summary on the back cover.  I'm really hopeful for this novel, I want to finish it but then again, I don't. I have a feeling it'll be one of those kind of books, the kind you'll want to stay in forever.

The novel I'm reading currently is "Someone Like You" by Sarah Dessen. So far, it's not far fetched like some novels, so I really like it. It's realistic, you can picture something like this happening to you. It's not a love novel either, so that's refreshing. It's about two best friends, Halley and Scarlett. Halley is the quiet one and Scarlett is the girl who's more outgoing, everyone knows her. So, everything was going well in their little novel lives. Until Scarlett's boyfriend, Michael, dies in an accident and later finds out she's pregnant with his child. MTV has done a series of 16 year olds being pregnant (which I've never seen) but it's different when you read about it. It kind of pulls things into perspective that these kinds of things really do happen and not just on TV shows.