Life with Madi

A poem to someone I love.  Goodness.  If there's one thing I suck at, it's writing poetry.  After all, I used to write poetry when I was younger and I found some the other day, and laughed for an hour straight, just reading them over and over again.  That's how bad they are!  Just to prove it, here's a line from one of them:

I've been adding on to my bucket list for years.  There's so many things I want to see and do; I've got to jot them down in order to remember them.  Here's a few of the things that are on my list:

The first thing would be the fashion show.  I'm proud of myself for sucking up my self-conciousness and feeling confident when I walked out on the runway, and for agreeing to do it.  BUT most of all, I'm just proud of Molly, since her idea was amazing and she executed it so well!  My sister's going to be famous, y'all.

Today, I embraced my inner Gisele and Tyra and walked the catwalk for my sister's Fashion Merchandising runway show.  I was nervous at first, but ended up having a blast.  And something I realized?  I'm just a tad fierce.

I'll post some photos of the show tomorrow, but for tonight, I'll post my Day 8 blogger challenge.

Short term goals for this month:
1. Pay for everything I need to pay for: yearbook banquet, ILPC attendance money, Colorado State deposit, etc.
2. Sign up for Freshman Orientation.  (This is sounding more like a to-do list).
3.  Find time to read what I want! I'm always too busy procrastinating or sitting in front of the TV.  Once I learn better time management, I'll have more time for leisurely reading.
4.  Have a just-for-me night.  A night spent by myself, where I'll make a nice dinner for myself and watch whatever I want...by myself.  Just one night, though, because then I'll get lonely.
5.  Finish a homework assignment earlier than 10:00 pm?  God, I'm such a teenager when it comes to homework.

And that's it for now!  It's actually good to see all my goals laid out in front of me, almost like a checklist.  It's very helpful!

Pictures to come tomorrow,
Cooper

I've been telling everyone it's a road trip, but in actuality it only took me about 20 minutes to drive to my sister's apartment in Denton.  I guess it felt like a road trip since A) I had to use the GPS, B) I was flyin' solo, and C) Highway 35 has a very deserted, road-trip-y feel.  It was fun.  After all, my GPS only toppled down from the window twice (the first time I had to pull over to fix it, and the second time I had to fix it while driving my car 75 miles an hour with only my knees used to steer).   I felt like such a college kid, drivin' back to my college town.  Only when I really drive to my college town, it's going to take a lot longer than 20 minutes to get there (try 18 hours).

I meant to take a picture of me driving and post it, all road-y and fun, but I forgot.  As a substitute, I will post my road trip playlist that got me here without wanting to pull my hair out.   Here it is:


1. Cherry Bomb- The Runaways
(a little badass-ery to start my trip out right)

2. Gotta Reason- Hard-FI
(It's so upbeat and fun.  There's no way I wasn't shakin' a shoulder or bobbing my head.  This song is downright CATCHY)

3. Fans- Kings of Leon
(This is my all-time favorite KOL song.  When they played it at the concert I attended, I nearly dropped dead.  It reminds me of barbeques and summertime and sunglasses and late afternoon.  I love it.)

4. Someone Like You- Adele
(Such a sad song, about how someone she loved has a great life now and is married and all that jazz.  Don't worry, Adele, you'll find someone like him!)

5.  How- Maroon 5
(This is such a cliche love song, but I love cliched love songs so that's GREAT.  It's wonderful.)

As for the person or event that has affected me the most, I guess I'd have to say Natalie Brown.

I like the guys that don't need superpowers.  The guys that use modern technology and general smarts to create justice and all that jazz.

One of my favorite places in the world is the Cayman Islands.



We stopped there as part of a cruise to Jamaica, and went kayaking and scuba diving in the clear-blue ocean.  It was amazing.  I would love to live here someday, right along the beach, and swim in that water every day!

Just joshin' ya.  It's not brand-new.  It's thrifted!  I got this top at Goodwill a few weeks ago:

Wearing my mother's sailor hat and getting in on the ruffles trend early on- that's me at about 4 years old. My, how quickly we grow up:

Welcome to Day 2 of 30 Days of Blogging!  Today's topic? The meaning behind the blog name.

Technically, I have two: Cooper Calamity and the one on my domain, 'shesacalamity' (She's a calamity).
Cooper Calamity stems from last year, when my sister, Corey (last year's prom date and one of my good friends) and I were listening to The Like (below) and decided to make up a fictional 1960s pop-rock band, changing all of our names into something radical and fun.  Molly became Birdie Jones, Corey was Flash Ferdinand, and I, Cooper Calamity.  I started using it for everything- usernames, code names, and, more recently, a blog title.

She's A Calamity is simply used because my old blog, domain name coopercalamity.blogspot.com, was sadly deleted after my google account was spamming everyone in my address book.  Blogger wouldn't let me use it a second time et voila, shesacalamity.blogspot.com was born.

Terribly stimulating, I know.  But don't turn that dial- day 3 is coming in fast and strong and that's when I'll let you see a photo of me...as a child.

Happy Sunday,
Cooper

I found this guide during my 30 for 30 and fell in love with the idea of sharing these things with the blogo-sphere.  I guess I'm just into 30 day gimmicks- but seeing as how I'm already on the bandwagon, I may as well just start this and share with you guys a little bit about me.

Here's the guide I'll be following:

We're back from the farm, and it's so much fun in the Spring since everything is blooming and the weather is gorgeous. I love it out there.