New Blog?

I was thinking about starting over with a new blog, but I don't know if that is what I really want to do.

I think I will keep thinking about it.

<3

I love my iPhone

And that is not secret. She is perfect.

I got my first cell phone when I was seventeen. Most people I know had cell phones for at least 5 years by the time I got my first one! But my parents didn't think teenagers needed cell phones, so I never had one. Then I got my license, and my overprotective parents gave me my first cell phone.

It was a smartphone, but an android, and my dream phone had always been the iPhone. I knew my first phone would not be an iPhone, so I wasn't disappointed.

My phone had a slide out keyboard and it was a pretty good phone for a while. I always let my cell phone-less friend borrow it to text her boyfriend when were together, and she would slide the keyboard up and down so much that it started to loosen. Eventually it was hanging by a literal wire.

I was sitting on the porch with my sister one day and she threw pincher bugs down my shirt, so I stood up and screamed and flailed my arms, and my phone flew out of my hands and the wire separated and so my keyboard was in one spot, and my screen in another, and that was the end of that phone.

This was very disappointing. Especially because I had just exchanged number with my cute neighbor haha.

So the next day, I activated my dad's old junky android and that was my phone for 3 months.

But on a glorious day in June, I finally had enough money to buy my iPhone. She's an iPhone 4S. I have Virgin Mobile, so I had to pay full price for the phone, but it ended up being on sale during the month of June (I paid $400.00). All four hundred dollars were totally worth it because my phone is fabulous.

The iPhone camera has AMAZING quality. I love this, because I rarely carry my camera around anymore sadly, but I always have my iPhone handy. :D

Also, the apps for editing are great. I edit most of my pictures using these apps and the pictures always come out looking pretty good.

Here are some edited pictures that I took with my glorious iPhone:

One of my favorite edits ever.

Took this for my Canadian friend. In front of 1500 people at my old church. It was so awkward.

First day of school!

haha

I absolutely love the trippy effect.

<3

No filter or edit on this one!

Only some normal editing here 

My little sister, and just one filter was added to this picture.

Yogurtland---my obsession. Just an instagram filter on this one. :)

I also love how you can customize your iPhone with cases and how there are so many available for the iPhone! My current case is a California flag one from Tilly's. :)

Tomorrow my family is going to the LA County Fair, so I am going to take a lot of pictures and I will blog about it! :)

Until next time,

Tabitha Brooke :)

Friday the 13th?

So today, is Friday the 13th.

I am not superstitious and I honestly don't believe in luck, but for a day that is supposed to be considered unlucky and horrific, I am doing very well!

Today is actually just awesome!

First things first, one of my friends is flushing all of her hard drugs down the drain and that makes me SO EXTREMELY HAPPY! Drugs are horrible things that seem fun, but get you hooked and it is so hard to quit, and  I have seen the toll it has taken on her and I am so happy that she is taking this major step to recover!

Thennnn, I finally sent a package to that friend and she sent a package to me. We have been planning to do this FOREVER and we finally got around to it. It feels like Christmas and now I am going to be waiting for the package like everyday!

I also bought glasses online! (Praise GOD!) I normally wear contacts, but glasses are necessary to have around for lazy days, mornings and nights, or when my eyes don't feel up to wearing contacts. I  have glasses, but the prescription is wrong now, and they are way too big and the temples are different, so in a few weeks I will finally have a nice pair of glasses! I went big and hipster again this time. But even better than the last time I think. :)

I also took two walks today. One around my block and one through downtown, where I purchased some pretty good candy haha

My job is going well (even though it is EXTREMELY boring). I am saving up to start taking phlebotomy classes soon! I am so excited about this. I can't wait to start pursuing an English degree, but I need money first, and working as a Phlebotomy technician will be a great way to raise up money and it is a good fall back career.

Also, I'm reconnecting with a certain friend (more than?) and I am hoping everything goes well in that area.

I hope you all are having as good a day as I am!

And now, every time I blog, I feel like I always give like a hair update! haha well I am in the process of going to a new exciting color, but I have to go white blonde first. So I am in a blonde stage now. Here is a picture. It's from today. I'm making a weird face, yes, but get used to it! :D

And by the way, I posted this picture on Instagram which is basically where you can keep up with me :) brookitha_ is my username. I changed it! Sorry if you were looking for my old username. ;) Follow me and I'll follow you (or leave your username below) I love instagram!

I also have facebook, and if you leave a comment below saying you wanna be my friend, I'd be more than happy to be your friend! But I never post there, so it's basically pointless.

And I have twitter! If you have twitter leave your username, and I will follow you!

In Need of a Serious Update

That is all.





But seriously. This blog has been so neglected. Now I have access to a computer though. I should make it my goal to put up at least one good post a week haha

I SERIOUSLY need to update you guys on my life. But I can't at the moment. The struggle.

Blogging.

There was a time when I was obsessed with blogging. I loved writing posts and reading blogs. 

I really miss those old days. 

Now, so many blogs I used to read are long gone and I seemed to have lost my love for blogging, but I want to get back into it and blog like I used to. 

I don't know if any of you know this, but I had a blog before this one. I feel like those were the "glory days" haha 

I miss reading all of my homeschooled blogs too. They all seem to have disappeared now. 

Well I'm starting work soon! That's insanity. I hope to get a laptop next month sometime. 

Also, I'm most active on Instagram: @brooke2327 and recently I have begun using twitter @tabithaschuyler 

Mostly Instagram. Follow me on there! :) 

<3

I win worst blogger award

It has been so long since I have blogged. Shame on me. I was thinking about blogging today, and my fellow blogger friend, Tabitha, messaged me on Facebook and it inspired me to write a post. 

I'm writing this from my iPhone. And I can tell you I'm not a fan of blogging from my phone!

(Testing)

I have a job coming up soon and I'm considering buying a laptop then. 

If I get a laptop, I could blog SO much better. 

I have some deep posts in mind too. 

Particularly one I want to title, "People Change" so stay tuned I guess. 

Me and my sister :) ^^^

Does anyone even care to read my little blog anymore? Haha

Grad Day/Night

May 25, 2013 I officially graduated from high school! I can't tell you how happy I am to be done. It's like I'm free! Haha, but next comes the hard reality of jobs, and bills, and life, and you name it, but for now I am going to enjoy the little freedom I have. 

I live an hour away from my school. We left my house at 12:50 pm and headed out into Memorial Day traffic. Everyone and their mother was on the freeway! LA traffic is bad, but memorial day weekend traffic towards San Diego is horrific. I was supposed to be at the church at 2, but I didn't make it until 2:40! My graduation was at 3. I was freaking out to say the least!

I was just happy I made it in time to graduate! Here is all 19 of us. We sang the song, "God's Been Good" as our graduation song. It was emotional for a lot of us and our families. 

After graduation, everyone went outside and visited all of the graduates our tables. Everyone is so generous in their giving to us! I was so surprised! Thank you to everyone who gave me a gift!

all of us girls in our dresses :)

the parents and I :)

best friends til the end!

<3

Graduation was amazing. I am going to miss all of my classmates so much! Thank God for facebook! 

After the graduation, my best friend (in the last picture, the girl who isn't graduating because she is a Junior) and I went to the mall and In-N-Out and to another friend's grad party. Then we went to the bowling alley where we met up with a lot of the graduates and a few juniors and it got a little crazy, I have to say. 

We also started stretching our ears! We did it a gas station. How typical. 

So happy and blessed!

By the way, anyone on here have facebook? I finally am allowed to have one!

2013 Graduate

All Done!

I'm Back!!! For Good!

Hi Guys!

It's been a while, hasn't it?

I've missed blogging so so much!

I'm so excited to start blogging again!

Tomorrow I am officially graduating from high school.

It's scary, terrifying actually, but it's also very exciting.

I don't know what my future holds, and I've changed so so so much my senior year, but I'm ready to step foot into this journey of "after high school adulthood" and I'm glad to bring all of you along with me!

I know this post was short, but can we say it was sweet? For me at least it was! So happy to be back in the blog world!

I love you all! Thank you for reading this, because that means you are still here after all these months of nothing from me!

I'm so happy I could scream right now! (I just did!)

<3

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Almost the end...

I honestly cannot believe it.

At the beginning of this year I was practically depressed that my high school years were coming to an end. I was scared to grow up and move out and on. I would literally cry every night when I would think about it.

Now, with only three months left until the end, I am so excited. I cannot wait until I receive my diploma and my life really starts.

It's scary, because I don't know what my life will be like after I graduate. I don't even know what college I want to go to yet. I still need a job, and I don't know if I'll make it to the fall semester of college, but inspite of all of that, I am so excited to be done with school.

My eighteenth birthday is on the 27th of next month, and that is insanity in itself. 18? No way. That's a legal adult here. I am not an adult! Are you kidding?

The only reason I want to be eighteen is so that I can drive my friends around without an adult. It would be awesome to be able to just go to the mall with my friends whenever I felt like it. :) And we have a few Venice Beach/Los Angeles trips planned too and for that I cannot wait.

So my childhood days and my school years are coming to a halt, and my college years and adult life will begin. It is exciting and terrifying at the same time.

Another change that I will be experiencing soon is I am moving from the town I have lived in for ten years to a new town (well it's not really new to me.) to my grandma's house. It is 45 minutes from where I live and I will have to drive down everyday to go to school here for the last few months.

Before, I was really negative about the whole thing, but now I feel better about it because I ignored the cons and looked at the pros.

• It is only 23 miles away from Los Angeles
• There is so much more to do there.
• It is a nicer neighborhood
• There is a really nice pool and jacuzzi in my grandma's housing track
• More money for my family which will be an amazing blessing

Something sad though is I have to move churches. It is really sad because it is my last year to be here before moving for college, but I know I'll make it and I can still visit occasionally.

Well three more months, and I will be a regular blogger again! I miss blogging so much,

I love you all! :)

Made me laugh...

Watch "Los Angeles Overreacts to Cold Temperatures" on YouTube

This is funny and accurate. :)) haha

Lost things and Cold

Hello one and all.

Lately I have not been very satisfied with my blog; it's been boring and filled with all kinds of improper English.

I have nothing to write about and my camera charger is NO WHERE to be found. My iPod is also missing, so all I have to take pictures with is my Android phone and the quality just isn't that great.

I'm praying that I find both my camera charger and my iPod. I am going to Arizona in just 11 days and I really really want to take pictures. After I come back from my Arizona trip, I will finally having something to blog about! :) I am so excited for the trip! Well maybe not for the actual trip part. I hate long drives. I don't know how I'll handle the drive to Kentucky in March! I'm just excited to see my friends and to be in a different place.

My real license came in the mail on Saturday. It feels more official to have the real thing in my hand. My first reaction to my picture was "Wow, I am tan!" especially compared to right now. I'm pale as...something pale haha. The picture was taken in June, so I had been in the sun a lot. I miss being tan!

pale me with my new license :)

And I feel like I have to blog about the weather....if you've been following my blog long you would notice I talk about the weather a lot. 9 times out of 10 I'm talking about the horrible heat, but today I'm not.

We are having winter. It has been so cold I actually need a jacket during the day time and I can see my breath in the morning and sometimes at night. It's so cold we have to turn the heater on in the car. Oh, and there has been frost in the grass and on cars and rooftops. If it would rain it would snow, but of course it doesn't rain. It never works out that way.

I say that I prefer the cold, and over the heat YES A MILLION TIMES YES but I really don't know if I could handle such cold weather for months at a time, and I know it gets colder than this in other places. I don't know how those people do it.

I feel like I might like some 80 degree weather right now. I can't believe I just said that. Normally I'm praying for 54 degrees and clouds, but I honestly miss the warm weather. Maybe 72 degreees would be nice. It's not cold and it isn't hot, it's just nice. Well it won't be long before that weather is here and then I'll be back to wishing for cold again. I guess I'm never weather satisfied...well I wouldn't say never.

Winter sunsets are gorgeous though. Even with a bad camera.

And the other day I painted my nails like this and I really liked the results. The color is BRIGHT neon pink. I only like pink if it is BRIIIGHTT neon pink like this one. You can't tell in the picture but in real life it is crazy bright haha.

Next blog post will probably be about Arizona. See you then :)

This girl can drive...alone!

Ok, so the moment I had been waiting for FOREVER finally came on January 3, 2013. I, Tabitha, finally got my license!!! :))))))) I can't tell you how excited I am that I passed the first time.

This was the sunrise on the morning of my test it was gorgeous! So much more beautiful in person.

So early in the morning, my mom and I headed over to the dreaded DMV and I took my license test! I was so nervous and my examiner had such a thick accent I could hardly understand him and he was so grumpy it was unbelievable. He didn't smile once. haha I ended up passing and oh my word I was so happy! I barely passed though. The number a person can miss is 15 and I missed 14. I think if my examiner wasn't so grumpy I would've missed less!

my outfit haha

Me driving with my doggy pal.

I love having my license and driving alone. Seriously. LOVE.

My little sister took this picture. I look so angry though! haha

My temporary license. I blurred out all my personal information so no one can murder me! lol #notparanoid

I can't wait for my actual license to get here. It should only be a week and a half more!

And these next pictures are random...most are from New Years.

I stayed home on New Years this year and so my sister and I had a "crazy party" we put on a TON of makeup and fancy dresses and super high heels. It was really fun and a great way to spend my new years. :)

So much. makeup. It took to wipes to get it all off.

AFTER the makeup faded into my eyes making them red and irritated. I took a  picture because...just look at me. haha

So my new years was pretty good. :)

And if there is something you should know about me. I mess with makeup. a lot. So here are two more pictures of me with a terrible amount of makeup. Oh and a fake lip ring. I'm like an actress...but in pictures.

Terrible...I know haha

AND because I am random, here is a picture of my bracelets that I wear everyday. 

Rasta--LA in the fashion district
Cross--Rue 21
Wish--Rue 21
Prolife bracelet--Prolife event.

<3 you all!

2012/2013

(wrote this on January 2, 2013)

I honestly cannot wrap my mind around the fact that it is 2013. 2012 flew by so so fast. Seriously, where in the world does time go?

I cannot say that 2012 was a bad year, but it certainly wasn't the best. I went through a lot of tough times with myself. I made it through though, stronger and probably a better person then before I went through that.

2012 had some good things happen too, of course. The biggest for me I think would be finally being able to drive. I wanted to get my license during 2012 and I was supposed to but things happened and I had to reschedule. My test is tomorrow though eek!!

In 2012, I made some amazing new friends. The thing about these friends is that I didn't meet them at church or my tiny little private school.  I met them in my apartment complex and online and that for me was something new. :)

In 2012, I learned more about myself. The good, the bad, everything. While 2012 wasn't my favorite year ever, and I won't look back on it and think "wow, that was an amazing year!" I can look back on it and use it to benefit not only myself but hopefully others in the future.

2013 scares me. It's going to be a year of change for me. For one, I am graduating this year...that is insane! So with graduating comes a ton of new things and challenges and exciting adventures. I'm going to be turning 18 in just a few months, and wow 18 just sounds too old and I do not feel like an adult! I think 18 is technically a teen still right? I do not want to be an adult!

I also have so much to look forward to this year. First, hopefully getting my license tomorrow! Then I'm headed to Arizona this month to attend a conference and see some friends! :) then, next month I have winter camp up in the snowy mountains!

In March, my family is roadtripping to Kentucky as we might be moving there. I'll be with my best friend checking out a college out there and attending a youth conference again. I am also turning 18 in March.

Then in April, I have a day planned to go to my favorite city ever, Los Angeles. When I was 16, we celebrated my birthday there with my mom and my two best friends, and so to celebrate my 18th we are doing a repeat of the day. I am seriously so excited. I don't live far away from LA at all, like an hour if traffic is good (which it neevveerr is) but I don't go there enough, so I am ecstatic about this! (Venice Beach here I come!!)

Soon after comes graduation and my first summer as an adult. Then I have an unclear future ahead of me.

2013 is going to be a year of change and I don't feel ready for it. But I say bring it on, '13.

Wishing everyone an amazing year!!!