Jane Austen, summer adventures, concerts and music

Yo, dawgs. How we doing? I hope you all are having a spiffy summer! Have you done anything exciting? I've had a great summer, even though I'm still doing school.
May...Kicked off the month with the NCFCA regional touranment. Had our home-school play about the Titanic. It was a fabulous experience and worth all the hours, sweat, and tears poured into it. Two of my sisters also graduated in May and we got to go to Cali for our older sister's graduation.
June...Went to Minnesota for Nationals, which was awesome. Got 14th place in duo with my lil' sis.
July...Went to our Uncle's house at the Lake of the Ozarks for the 4th of July. Ate wayyyy too much ice cream! :) Had a good time boating and tubing. Yesterday I went to a Cody Simpson/Big Time Rush concert with my homegirls. It was an amazing show with fireworks, confetti, beach balls, crazy lights, and amazing singers. I always joke about marrying Cody Simpson, who is like the Austrailian Justin Bieber. :p And Big Time Rush was my friend's favorite band so it was perfect! I frantically listened to BTR and Cody Simpson music a couple days before the concert so I would actually know their music. I've also been having lotsa sleepovers, watching Jane Austen movies, writing poems, researching for debate, and making sandwiches at Subway.

Lately I've been learning how you really can't decide if you're going to have a good day. Last week was like a rollar coaster; one day was good, the next was bad, and on and on. I decided life is a lot like tubing; you can't decide where the waves take you, or how high they are, or bumpy your ride is. All you can do is hold on and have the time of your life. And even if you can't decide if you're going to have a good day or not, you can decide what type of attitude you're going to have. Make lemonade out of lemons, my friends.

I am not creative; my sisters, however, are. So what do I do? Steal their ideas. For instace, my sister Rebekah started something called a joy jar. You get a jar and everyday, write something you're thankful for from the day and put it in the jar. At Thanksgiving, Christmas, or the New Year, you can open it up and look at everything you wrote. Count your blessings.
My sister, Bethany, also started a prayer box. Now, I hate to admit it, but I always forget to pray for people. So I "borrowed" Bethany's idea of having a prayer box and writing down prayers for people and putting them in the box.

Why am I telling you guys this? Because I want you to steal the ideas, too!! :)

Okay. Peace out, my friends.