Miss Midwest Galaxy
Posted by: Ashley on: September 13, 2009
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I awoke to an email today from the director of the Miss Midwest Galaxy Pageant, inviting me to the next event that will be on March 6th, 2010. I immediately sent in the entry form. This pageant is a preliminary to the international Miss Galaxy, and this system is a more “Miss USA” style with competition rounds including panel style interview, photogenic, swimsuit, evening gown, and fashion.
It will be held conveniently in New Castle, In. which is barely a 20 minute drive from my home and I should have plenty of time for preparation. The entry fee is $300, not including personal expenses which I will be seeking sponsorship from local businesses, as well as friends and family to cover all costs needed. As of today, I did some research online and found a link to the personal interview questions and starting filling those out and I started a notebook with a list of all items needed for competition and all expenses. To help with my own motivation and organization, I’ll be posting updates on here as I go along until the day of the pageant. Very excited!!!
Quotes
Posted by: Ashley on: September 12, 2009
Just some of my favorite quotes.
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
Patricia Neal
“I’m can be selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”
Suzanne Somers
“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
Roy Thompson
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
Anonymous
“Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.”
Benjamin Franklin
New Pets!
Posted by: Ashley on: September 7, 2009
Last week, we went to a reptile show in Indy and took home two female baby corn snakes. They are pretty awesome, except one of them isn’t eating. The other one has ate 3 or 4 times since we got them and is already growing quite a bit. I have decided to name them Ivy and Ariel.
Ivy.
She is the smaller one that isn’t eating. Several people have told us that this is kind of normal because she might be stressed out, and also some snakes don’t eat before they shed the first time. We are going to try to feed her again in a couple days.
And this is Ariel.
I never thought that I could get into snakes that much, but they are actually pretty interesting and fun to watch and hold. I like them!
Miss Universe 2009
Posted by: Ashley on: August 25, 2009
After watching Miss Universe 2009, I am absolutely in love with Miss Czech Republic’s evening gown.
Can you get more gorgeous than that?
Procrastination
Posted by: Ashley on: August 4, 2009
An article I wrote, in thought of it almost being back to school. [Published on Associated Content]
Stop Procrastination
Are you always seeming to do everything in the last minutes of time? Just about everyone has procrastinated their homework and school obligations at some point in their lives, but allow me to help. Here is a list of things you can do the next time you feel like putting off your work.
1. Break your task up into pieces. It is often overwhelming to do all 40 of the math problems all at once. Instead, try doing ten at a time, take a small break and do another ten. Repeat until you have it all done. You can also break it up into pieces of time. Like if you have to read a novel or a long chapter, tell yourself that you will read for 20 minutes, then take a break and then go for another 20 minutes and so on.
2. Know that it doesn’t have to be perfect. Believe it or not, perfectionism is one of the biggest causes of procrastination. Another one along the same lines is fear of failure. But don’t let that get to you. Once you get started doing your homework, you’ll often realize that it’s not as hard as you have been making it out to be in your head.
3. Starting is the hardest part. It really is. But once you get started, it’s easier because you’ll be more motivated. It’s a fact that people are more motivated to do something that has already made some progress. So get it started, and it will be easier from then on.
4. Do it now and you won’t worry later. You probably know the feeling, when you have had 3 weeks to do a big project and every day that goes by, that’s one less day you have to finish it, and every now and then during the day, that thought pops in your head and it puts your mood down. Now, you only have 4 days and you are kicking yourself for putting it off. But if you were to have started it right away, that worry would have never came. You could ave went about your day perfectly carefree about that project. So remember that annoying feeling you get when you put off your work and stop it before it starts but starting it as soon as you can. Remember, the feeling you get when you finish your work is so much better than the guilty feeling you get when you put it off.
Hopefully now you won’t have the worry and problem with having to cram a task into the last possible moment.
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