We're There. We're SO There.

It's taken over the internet. 

All of our feeds and cluttered with them.

You can't browse anything without seeing them.

We've all done it... heck, even the Doctor has done it.

And we should be ashamed of ourselves.

What is this awful thing that we can't get away from?????

The selfie.

Today's prompt is to give a rant, and I wasn't sure what I should rant about. I asked Leah to help me out - she usually is a good person to go to for these sorts of things.

She immediately said "Selfies."

I didn't even occur to me until she said it, and the more I thought, the more I realized-

I HATE THEM SO MUCH.

Granted, we've all taken them. The two photos you see here on my blog (the one of me in my header, and the other one with me in the yellow sunglasses) are both selfies.

So, I understand that you do what you gotta do sometimes.

But if you look on Instagram - ALMOST ALL OF THE PHOTOS ARE SELFIES.

If you are unfamiliar with the "selfie" - I found this article from the Huffington Post for you. 

I can't tell you how many times I've looked at my Instagram feed and rolled my eyes at every single picture I scrolled through. Self portrait after self portrait. 

I'm not talking about photos of yourself. I actually like those a lot. A picture of yourself with your friends, or when you're on vacation, or doing something fun. That's fine. Those are good.

But when the ONLY photos you take are you just looking at the camera - UGH STOP IT. 

I know what you look like and after awhile all of those photos look EXACTLY THE SAME. If I wanted to see your face I can either go see you face to face, or I can just look at your profile picture. I don't need twenty closeups of your nose to get that. 

It's annoying seeing so many bathroom mirror photos over and over again. I have seen far too many toilets on the screen of my iPad and smartphone.

Most of these don't even look good.It's too close up to the face, it's all blurry, no filter will make it look better, and the angle is always wrong. 

Again - on a rare occasion having a selfie is fine. It happens and you do what you gotta do. (I mean, come on, it's not fall until you've taken a photo of yourself drinking a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks...) However, there is such a thing as too much.

And we're there people.

We are SO THERE we've passed it.

So please, the next time you feel the need to take a selfie, stop.

Or at least find someone around and say "Hey, can you take a picture of me? Thanks."

Is it really that hard?

Nope. People understand, and they might even respect you more if they see you're making the effort to snap a decent photo.

Down with the selfie!

Favorites

I have written over 300 blog posts over the last few years.

That's a lot of writing! Especially for someone who doesn't blog every day unless it's for a challenge like May.

Trying to narrow it down to my favorite posts has proven to be difficult. How do I pick only a few to show off to the world? Yes, there are a lot of posts that I probably never should have published, but there they are. Then there are others where they actually aren't that bad, and I'm truthfully very proud of. Which is exciting.

Most of the posts that are my favorites are featured in my "Catch Up" page. I picked some of the main topics I talk about on this blog and a few entries to go along with it.

However, there are still a few that aren't featured on that page which I want to share with you all.

Am I Good?

As you're reading this, I am probably laying in bed attempting to get some much needed sleep because Sunday night I would have stayed up all night at a lock-in.

As I'm attempting to sleep I'm probably wondering why staying up all night with a bunch of teenagers was a good idea.

So, here's hoping I'm getting rest right now.

Anyways. Moving on.

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Am I good?

I feel like it's something we all wonder about. Not good as in "am I a good person?" Although I suppose we all wonder this as well at some point, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Am I good at what I do?

Show the Love

I can never pick favorites.

When asked for my favorite book or movie I'm always like "Well... I really like this one right now. But this one, and this one, and this one are all amazing too!"

So when asked about my favorite blogs - I have the same conundrum.

However, for today instead of picking my 5 favorite blogs I will share with you 5 blogs that I read regularly, that I LOVE, and I feel like need to be given more love.

Memories

For some reason, I have a hard time re-creating memories. When asked to tell you a story about growing up, it takes  a  lot of effort for me to think of something which can create a whole story. It's easier when I have photographs. There are so many times I can remember looking through my mom's old family photo albums and once I see a picture of an event in my life, it suddenly comes back to me and I can recall what happened and how I felt.

When I don't have those photos, it's much harder to remember.

This morning when I woke up I immediately realized I hadn't written today's post today. I got up, took Bandit out, and while making my coffee I pulled out the one photo album I have of some of my childhood memories. My mom had put it together for me for my 8th grade graduation and it chronicles my years at St. Paul.

No Pictures, Please

I don't usually like photos of myself. It's just... ugh.

I'm not very photogenic and when I go through photos of myself I can't help but cringe.

Yes, I realize a lot of girls say this. But from what I can tell (at least in the blog world) most girls are all "OMG I hate that picture because I'm making a silly face and I look kind of awkward" when in reality that weird face and so called "awkward" pose actually works on them and they look adorable.

Some girls can wear sweat pants and make the dumbest facial expression ever and still look amazing in photos.

That's not me.

Rambling and Books

Here I am again, early in the morning and I'm attempting to write a blog post before 8am.

I had full intentions of writing about the prompt for today, Something Difficult About My Slot in Life and How I Plan to Overcome It. But i just couldn't bring myself to do it. I had a crazy day yesterday, and there is a similar topic later this month so I guess I'm covered for that. 

A Day in the Life

It is a shame this prompt didn't land on a Monday or a Wednesday. Heck, my whole week other than Tuesday are going to be far more interesting than my Tuesday. I could have shown you play rehearsals, the school where I volunteer, Starbucks, along with my regular day-to-day stuff in the office.

However, the prompt was for today and therefore you get to experience my boring Tuesday.

Tuesday because I am attempting at scheduling my posts the day before so that way, the day they are supposed to be up it's good to go right away in the morning.

I did my best to make this interesting for you all.

If you follow my Instagram, you've already seen all of these photos clutter your feed. I'm sorry.