Wedding

My sister Bridget and I went to a wedding yesterday and it was a lot of fun! I was Bridget's date, which was pretty interesting... like, "No, I'm her sister." haha As a rule, I don't wear

dresses. So I got to wear my favorite suit ;)

The ceremony was really nice. You could really tell that they loved each other, so it was great to see :) Afterwards we went to the reception for a few hours, ate an amazing vegetarian dinner, drank, and danced a little bit. It was all live traditional music, which was nice.

Today I'll be going drive back to my university... I gotta clean my apartment and write a paper. Not looking forward to that...

Until next time!
XOXO

Thanksgiving

Yesterday was Thanksgiving, and I ate far too much! haha It was a lot of fun though. In the morning my mom and I woke up early to deliver food to people who can't afford a thanksgiving dinner or are shut-ins and cant leave their homes. It was a really great experience :) My mother and I do it every year on Thanksgiving and Easter; its become a little tradition of ours. (This is our box of food to be delivered. Looks smaller than it was.. haha)

After that was pretty much just thanksgiving auto-pilot... just went to my aunt's house, saw and chatted with my relatives, ate a lot, then went home. We also had birthday presents for our relatives whose birthday was in November (we have a party each month for birthdays :) ), so we had some amazing ice-cream cake along with pumpkin pie! So good...

I was supposed to wake up early this morning to go shopping with my sister and mom, but... I was too tired haha I decided to just stay home and sleep. And now that they're home and napping, I might do the same :)

As a random side-note, as horrible as this semester has been, I've gotta say that I'm happy again. After everything that's happened, I've moved on and I think I'm a better person than before. I don't even think about the person who broke my heart anymore! Completely over her :) I'm with my family and friends, I'm happy, and I'm happy with myself. Life is good :)

(my sister Bridget and I on the way to my aunt's house..)

Until next time!
XOXO

Meg's Big Gay Post

I feel need to write about this due to the recent news with California and a bunch of other states banning Gay Marriage. And I believe it was another state as well prohibited gay adoptions.... ok people. Lets talk, shall we?

In this past election, we had the greatest voter turnout in generations. People waited in lines for HOURS, for Christ's sake! It was amazing! America's slogan became "Yes We Can!", but after the smoke cleared and everything was said and done, our slogan was "Yes We Can! But Gays, No You Can't..." We had the greatest voter turnout for African Americans in history, however in their huge turnout and call for "equality", they voted to deny gays the right to marry. Wow... its must be really easy to go from the oppressed to the oppressor, huh? Thanks.


Honestly, what do people have against Gay marriage? I heard a lot of people say that homosexuality is wrong because it is sex outside of marriage. Well... wouldn't this fix that little problem? Let gays marry and it WON'T be outside marriage, right? That's a simple fix.

I've heard another argument say that homosexuality is wrong because it can't produce children, and that is what sex is for. So... sex without being able to have children in general is wrong. Ok, fine. What about people who are sterile?? Are they not allowed to get married or have sex because they can't have children? That makes sense, right? What about old people? Are old people not allowed to have sex? Granny can't push out any more babies, so sorry, no sex for you. really? Come on...

Then I heard the argument against gay marriage be that "Marriage is a tradition, damnit! A union between man and woman!". Ok, ok... lets take a quick break though to look at marriage in a historical way. HOW many cultures in the past have let men marry multiple women? Yeah, LOTS?? Why? Because at that time, you needed as many babies as possible because they probably wouldn't live through their teens, and out of the ones that survived, you needed to at least have 1 or 2 sons to carry on for you. So there goes your 'one man to one woman' crap. Even Abraham had a baby-mama cause his wife couldn't have no kids (uh-oh! sex outside of marriage! so much for that sanctity thing, huh? "Marriage is holy and should be upheld... as long as your wife can push out babies. otherwise anything goes). But over time, marriage has changed as culture and ways of thinking have changed.... TIMES CHANGE. You don't see a man marrying three woman and panicing because his children won't survive the winter and he won't have a male heir for his thrown or farm... come on, people. Use your heads!

Gays are citizens. Gays are people. Gays love. And when has love ever been wrong? How can you deny two people from loving one another? Shouldn't we be encouraging this?? With our high divorce rate in this country, why aren't we encouraging marriage, no matter who it is between? Two adults who love one another... it's as simple as that. I personally am tired of being a second class citizen. I want to get married, I want to have a family... does it matter who with? Is it up to the government to tell me who I'm allowed to love? No, it isn't.



I'll end it here, i'm getting too emotionally involved with this post now. I will write a post dealing with my actual life sometime later haha

Until next time~!
XOXO

Posting again??

Yes, I'm posting again!

why? Because I'm sick and have slept so much today that I can't sleep now. Damn me...

Ok... Ok.... Meg's juicy post? Sure.

I got a request from Ben (HA I said your name! :P ) to elaborate more on everything from this past semester and to write more. I won't use names or anything, because I'm sure the people involved won't want me telling people (so don't worry!). So here I go!

After returning home from Japan I only had one week before my classes began. But instead of relaxing and getting over jet-lag or reverse culture shock, I had to move into my new apartment and get ready for the semester. So in a sense, I didn't really ease myself back into normal American life and culture, I was violently thrown in... so that in itself was hard to adjust to.

Add in the fact that after coming back, I got sort of lost again as to what I wanted to do after graduation. I knew I wanted to go into graduate school and generally knew what I wanted to study, but hadn't a clue as to HOW to go about studying it (gays in Asia isn't exactly a widely studied issue). You know how frustrating to get lost while already on a path? It's silly.

And here is the major issue that kicked my ass into pathetic-town: I fell in love with someone who doesn't love me back. I know what you're thinking, "Meg, that happens to everyone? Why are you so whiny?". Well, shut up. :P Because this situation is a little different from most others. I won't go into the details now, but... yeah. Falling for someone who doesn't love you have really hurts.

So with all of that compiled together, I hit rock bottom and just lost all motivation and drive to do anything. I stopped caring about everything. But recently i've been getting better. My friends are here for me and always listen to me and give advice, and my family is always there to tell me to stop being stupid and pick myself up haha (Thanks Bridget). The person I fell in love with and I don't really see or interact with each other that much anymore... they have been really busy with their new person and doesn't really have the time to go out anymore. Maybe it's for the best though, right? I want to move on and forget everything that happened. I'm better off :)

And that is that. I will save my Army enlistment post for later... this post is long enough! Ah!

So yeah, thanks for everyone who has supported me throughout all of this despite my silly stubborness and stupidity. I love you guys :)

Until next time~!
XOXO

Why Blog?

Good Question. Why should I blog, anyway? It will probably be boring to most people who read it... which is true. But I don't care :)

I'm starting this blog because I've decided that I need a fresh start with a lot of things. Ever since coming back from Japan in August, there has been a LOT of crazy stuff going on for me and it's affected my school, family and friends, and mental health... so after talking about a bunch of stuff over with my awesome sister, I've decided that I just need to start fresh.

So what does "fresh" mean, anyway? Well, basically I'm letting go of and tossing aside what was driving me crazy and work on figuring myself out while just living out my life and having fun with my friends and family.

I'm not exactly sure just how many people will read this blog, but for those of you who do, thanks :) I will probably keep this blog going for a while. Over the next few years I've got a bunch of new things going for me (like graduation, joining the army, basic training, language training... yeah, I'll explain that later!), so I will have things to write about.

Until next time~! :)
XOXO

PS: I'm getting sick...

First Post!

It's almost 2AM and should be sleeping, but I want to write a short post for my new blog. I used to have an old blog on LiveJournal but don't really like it so much.... so I want to try this blogger thing and see how it goes!

LONG day tomorrow... I have a presentation tomorrow night that I have yet to write, so I will be spending more of my day doing that. But after that, most of my week is pretty free. Whoo~~ :)

英語だけで書かなくて日本語でも書くかな。。。いい練習でしょう？だけど、Mixiがもうあるから、要らないかもしれない！

whatevs haha

XOXO