did a 5 year old write this?

no actually, i did.
lets just say i hate, hate, hate my handwriting. because of my learning difficulties, i have a horrible pencil grip and i just have awful handwriting. like it looks like a 5 year old (or a jr. high boy) wrote it. i have always hated it. girls should have cute, girly handwriting with hearts over the "I's" right? yeah, thats not mine. ask anyone who knows me. it actually embarrasses me.
but i'm trying to fix that.
so here i sit with the "Italic handwriting series" book. so far, it's improving, after my one lesson. i have written "a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" like 7 times, but hey, that's how you form a habit right? basically i'm going to feel like i'm in kindergarten for the next few days, but hopefully, this will pay off in the end and you will be able to tell that it was a girl writing that note, not a boy.

i think it's pretty funny that my generation is so good at the typing and texting, but so horrible with actually writing. i mean think about it, when was the last time you got a letter in the mail? mine was July 26th, but that was because i was in Malibu and the only way you can communicate with home is by mail. but besides that, i'm not sure i could tell you when i got a letter. heck, even if i send one, then most of the time it's a letter that i typed up on the computer and just printed out and signed. so maybe my bad handwriting isn't that bad. besides for when i have to write an in-class essay for my final... i'm glad my teacher likes me, or i would have failed that based on handwriting and spelling alone.

totally off the subject, but tonight in the girls bible study, we talked about beauty. about how inward beauty is more important, but how we often look and judge based only on the outer beauty. so this week i'm supposed to look at people and see how they are beautiful on the inside. i know this will be hard. but i really think it's something that everyone should try to do. like why wouldn't you? wouldn't you want to see the beauty in everyone? so this is my challenge to all of you to do the same with me.

well i'm gonna sign off for now, it's almost time for teen mom! (i love that and 16 & pregnant, both are actually really well done and show it like it is.)
random fact
i can not stand the sounds that people make while they're eating. it's disgusting.
until later
emilie