Celebrating Thanksgiving

     Hey all! I figured since we just celebrated Thanksgiving, I'd try to answer a question that's been on my mind: Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving when we do? I looked into the issue a bit online and pulled from a paper I wrote a while back about Thanksgiving.

What's in my bag

     Hey everyone! I feel like I need to come up with a better way to start these posts... But anyway. Recently I got a new purse - it's actually a backpack because I wanted to switch from my old crossover style purse. So far I really like it, and I thought I'd just show you what I keep in it.

Tips on getting your license

     Hey all! I'm back with a sort of sequel post to last week's, this one about getting your license. A license is basically the key to freedom, which means its really important. XD Also, since I'm 100% in the test (one for one!) I once again figured that I'm obviously the expert on this whole subject.

Tips on getting your permit

     I'm here!! *throws confetti in the air* I hope you all had a great Halloween/Reformation Day/Wednesday if you don't celebrate it. XD I got to work at Chick-fil-A that morning and we were not allowed to wear our uniform. We had to come in a costume. I wore a black shirt with a paper fork print-out sewn to it. Yup, I was a fork in the road.

My Chick-fil-A Story {part two}

   Here I am! Yippee for sort of having time to write a blog post. XD Fair warning - this is going to be mostly pictures since I don't have a bunch of time to write anything. So as I covered in my last post, I got hired on August 1st and had orientation on August 10th.

My Chick-fil-A Story {part one}

     So... I got a job. Yeah it's sorta insane. I hinted at it over here on TAJ and promised more info. This is the post with all that info. Basically, I'm just going to walk through the process and how I felt/how it went and whatever else pops into my head. This is only going to be a part one, I'll cover the other part later.

Thoughts on Being Seventeen + on life

     Guys. I'm seventeen. *leaves for a few minutes to have an existential crisis. I'm just kidding. I wouldn't call it a crisis per se... More like a realization that I'm nearly an adult and a tiny minor freak out about how I need to maybe act a bit more adult-ish. (Also sorry I didn't post last week... I'm getting some posts scheduled so hopefully that won't happen again.)

 

Just checking in

     Hey guys! Just wanted to give you a quick update on my sorta hiatus thing that I'm doing. Last week turned out really well, so that was awesome. I'm going to be back next week with a full post, and I'm not 100% sure where we'll go from there. I'm really in the process right now of learning to juggle school, work, and other responsibilities and the blog is honestly lower on my list of priorities. 

     But I do really enjoy writing on here, so I hope this won't be a long-term thing. I'll update you again next week. :) Until then!

~ Anna

Time for a break...

     Whelp... Hey. I'm writing this Sunday night as I try to plan out my week. Let's just say that I'm just a little stressed right now. So I'm going to take a one or two week break from blogging. Hopefully, I'll be back when life settles down a bit.

~ Anna

A Trip to Laguna Beach

     Hey guys! I'm back with another post... I'm trying to make an effort to have at least some of these not be school-related, but that's basically my entire life right now. School and a bit of church-related stuff. Not complaining a bunch - I enjoy it - but it doesn't make for much variety in the blogging world.

How to Learn

     Whelp! School has officially started!! This is the beginning of my third week, and I'm already falling into a bit of a rhythm which is really good. One of the classes I'm taking this year is English 1A at our local community college. It's going really well so far. We've been learning about how our brains learn.

Things about Ireland

     I'm here again! Sorry this was late... I had 25 hours of work last week plus the first week of school, so it was a little insane. I was going to do this post earlier, but I sorta forgot about it. When we were in Ireland, I made a list of things there that were different or seemed funny/strange to me. Even though we spoke the same language and lived in more or less the same way, there were so many things that were different and caught me off guard.

Regret?

     Hello everyone! So sorry this is a bit late. I was going to put something together but it's taking longer than I realized so this will have to do instead. It's a narrative paper that I wrote during writing class last year.

Playlist, Vol. 2

     Hey guys! Whoop, whoop for some consecutive blog posts! :) About a year ago I posted a school playlist and I thought I'd reprise that post. 

Road Trip Essentials

     And I'm back from my trip! We were in Arizona from last Monday until yesterday, so I'm recovering a little bit still. But it was super fun. It is a decently long drive out to Phoenix, where we were (about five hours) and we've gone on four month-long road trips before. 

In July...

     Hey! So I've only done one of these in the first half of 2018... Let's see if we can maybe try to top that in the second half. Shouldn't be too hard. XD Here's what I did in July!

Lessons from Junior Year

     Hey everyone!! With school fast approaching (eek!) I thought I'd share some things I learned in my junior year. Junior year was - for me - the hardest year of school yet, by far. I took several college classes, which definitely caused some of that, but I think I garnered some good tips to share with y'all. :)

Organizing Inspiration

     Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed reading about my trip to Ireland last week. These past two weeks have been sorta weird as I get back in the rhythm of being at home and in the United States. XD But I'm well adjusted to the time difference and it's been super great to be back with friends from here - even though I do miss friends from Ireland.

Ireland 2018

     As promised on Friday, this post is going to be about one of the things that made life super busy, especially from June 23 to July 7 - my missions trip to Ireland. Eleven other people and I went for two weeks to both Northern Ireland and Ireland proper (or Ireland-Ireland, as I've often referred to it). 

Update & I'm Back!!

     Hey guys!! Whew, has it been a while since I last posted or what? I'm sorry that I totally abandoned y'all but I needed that break. I'm feeling a little more motivated to start posting now (and I have more free time) so I'm going to make an effort to post regularly again.

Piano & School

     So here's my belated Picture Every Hour post. I did this last Saturday, so even though I technically woke up at ten, I was only half awake so it officially starts at eleven. (I know, I sleep in... It's my Saturday treat.)

An Interview: featuring myself

     So today, since I was fresh out of blog post ideas and totally forgot that this week was supposed to be a picture every hour (*rolls eyes at self) you're going to get a little interview of myself conducted by my friend Triniti. 

The Book Lover's Questionnaire Tag

     Whelp, y'all, I got tagged to do one of these "tag" posts and so I'm going to do it! This one is called The Book Lover's Questionnaire Tag and my friend Chinalyi made it up over at Histories and Mysteries. So without further ado, let's get going and answer these questions!

My Favorite Things About Winter

     I'm going to do a little four-part series this year about my favorite things about each season. I definitely have a favorite season (*cough* fall *cough*), but there are things I really enjoy about every season.

In January...

     Welcome to the first of a series of monthly wrap-up posts on this blog! I'm going to start to try and do this. I've seen other bloggers do it and it seems pretty fun. We'll see how it will go.

Pop Quiz!

     Here's a shorter post for your Monday! I'm just going to throw a little quiz at you to read and answer. Some of the answers aren't as easy as you'd think. :) The answers are linked below on a seperate page so you can't cheat. Even though I can't really tell anyway. XD

Theater

     Hey all! I'm loving this new theme. It's really made my drive to keep posting go up a lot. I'm more motivated to sit down and write. So that's good. Be sure to comment and/or shoot me an email. I really want to get to know my readers! (If I have any other than a few faithful friends and my brother. XD) I promise I don't bite.

Bible Update: January 2018

     Ooh! How weird to type "2018." I seriously have some sort of complex with the novelty of the new year. Today I'm going to be talking about my Bible time. Obviously, with the new year, there are a bunch of resolutions about reading the Bible in a year and all that. So read on to learn more about my Bible resolutions!

2018 Goals (& welcome!)

     Welcome to Intertwining Melodies, everyone! This is my first post with the new design. I'm super excited for this. :) (Let me know if you like the design in the comments below.) Today I'm going to show you around the design and then go over some goals for 2018... On to the post!