Resolutions: Smize

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Smize

"Smile with your eyes," as coined by supermodel Tyra Banks on the thirteenth cycle of America's Next Top Model. Ever since its introduction, the term became part of the daily lexicon of Tyra and her minions. The art of smizing is epitomized by the legendary Super Smize.

For more examples of Tyraspeak, see "tension", "H2T", and "Ty-over".

Tyra: You need to smize more in your pho-to.
Erin (C13): "Smize"?
Tyra: Smiling with your eyes.
Erin (C13): Excuse me while I go throuth ("throw up in my mouth").

by drbazzi October 29, 2009 

(Copied and pasted from UrbanDictionary.com, Dec 31 2015)

We can't all be Tyra, I am sorry to report. Instead of making your resolution to be Tyra or Heidi or Kara (Goucher, ultra-runner, don't ask), choose simpler and more specific goals.

     i.e. "Run 15 miles a week" (fyi it is totally doable and I'd encourage you to step it up to 20 mpw), but NOT "Run more"

OR

     i.e. "To not eat any refined sugar fora week" NOT "Eat less refined sugar"

Stating your goals loud and clear and writing them down and making them reasonable will help you be a more effective you. If you have trouble sticking to resolutions, rewarding yourself when you meet a goal could be beneficial. If you aren't motivated to stay on top of your running goals, sign up for a race, get a running buddy, or stash away a dollar for every mile or five miles that you run. After you have met your goal, use your stash of cash (rhyme masta in da house!) and buy something you like or do something fun with your running buddy or break a time goal. Güd luck! 

'Just do it!" --- or something like that...
(found on Giphy.com, Dec 31 2015)

   

When Your Mother Takes Away The Keyboard...

a summer photo diary of me and my sibs

photo by Ivan

photo by Ivan

photo by Ivan

photo by Ivan

Music Monday: Crushing and Pining

Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

Closer - Tegan and Sarah

Snap Out Of It - Arctic Monkeys 

Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen

Alone Together - Fallout Boy

Tee Shirt - Birdy

R U Mine - Arctic Monkeys

Let Me In - Grouplove

Don't You Want Me - The Human League

I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys

Brand New Colony - The Postal Service

Music Monday: Throwback

Oops....I Did It Again - Britney Spears

Speak Now - Taylor Swift

Crazy in Love - Beyonce

E.T. - Katy Perry

Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles 

Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

Ice, Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson

Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child

Like A Virgin - Madonna

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley 

Making Summer Memorable (aka Bearable)

I agree with Mairin, summer can be great or boring as fuck. It's kinda bipolar. And this summer, I'm diagnosing it. Mercer, Mairin, and I compiled a list of 'fun', or at least interesting feats to complete in the remaining month and a half before we are unwilling forced into a brick prison called 'High School'. So, here is the said list:

1. Eat nothing but ice cream all day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacking.

2. Hold a seance with yo homies. Ghost themed playlist and ghost shaped cookies should accompany such an occasion.

3. Swim in as many different bodies of water in 24 hours as you possibly can.

4. Write fanfiction. Post it. Become internet famous. 

5. Ouija board. Do it.

6. Direct and put together a fashion editorial. Cast your friends as the models and make it look perfect. Gorgeous. Professional.

7. Go on a date. 

8. Voodoo s'mores. Are you annoyed at a certain person? Construct
their figure out of marshmallows, then ROAST it over a HOT AS HELL, BURNING pit. And enjoy that perfect chocolate-marshmallow-graham cracker combo.

9. Make mix tapes for ya besties. Great way to improve/broaden music taste and make 'em happy.

10. Do one of those impossible Pinterest DIYs. AND ACE IT!

11. Learn the choreography to any Bey, Destiny's Child, or Fifth Harmony video.

12. Watch a horror movie.

13. Spend ALL day in bed.

14. Pull an all nighter.

15. Pretend to be a book character for a day. Act, dress, and eat as the particular character would.

16. Run/bike at 5 AM.

17. Make croissants or another impossible baked good.

18. Go rock climbing.

19. Go skinny dipping at night.

20. Create squad jean jackets.

21. Go cosmic bowling.

22. Make old-timey sodas.

23. Pretend to be a wild animal around dusk. Do this at a nature reserve or park.

24. Have an alone day. No friends. No internet. No phones.

25. Dance in a summer downpour.

26. Be a tourist in your own town/city minus the annoying tourist persona.

27. Have a moon celebration in the light of the moon.

28. Collect wildflowers to press.

29. Again. Climb a goddamn tree. 

30. Have a partay.

31. Reach your Insta goal. You got this!

32. Eat food beside a pool. Wear shades when you do this. Feel 10000% cool as fuck.

33. Go on a nature ramble. Go on several.

34. Make your own ice cream sandwiches.

35. Get some Kool Aid and dye shit. Clothes, hair, tongues.

36. DIY water slide. 

37. Go berry picking. 

38. Spend an afternoon in a used bookstore. So many treasures, so little time.

-Emma (aka The Coolest Person You Shall Ever Meet)


**Note - Some of the activities on this bucket list were inspired/may appear in this article on Rookie. We were inspired by their summer bucket list and creative ideas so we made our own, however we used some of their ideas here. Thank you, Rookie!

❂Beach Daze: Day 5

Music Monday: Mood Improvement

Chasin' Honey - Wild Party

When Did Your Heart Go Missing - Rooney

First Two Days Without You - Wild Party

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage the Elephant

Valerie - Amy Winehouse 

Back Against the Wall - Cage the Elephant

Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

I Want You Back - The Jackson 5

Twist and Shout - The Beatles

Say My Name (feat. Zyra) (RAC Mix) - Odesza

ABC - The Jackson 5

Sand Land - Rehearsal Week At An Outdoor Drama

 We have snacks. Dress rehearsals need food.
Reading Rookie saves me. I'm trapped in a metal building with 11 other beings under the age of 15.

 Mercer is reading Solitaire AGAIN! She highly recommends it. Clara and Ursa color. 

 Ursa is focused on something. That's new. Freyja is reading. She decided to help fill our lack of male child presence onstage. What a trooper.

At the end of our night, I probably decided that a pile of disregarded coloring pages, my moccasins, and my smexy, Revolution era dress were 'aesthetic'. Good job Emma, double bad.

 My sister acting cool. Luckily, this is rehearsal week.

Mercer is not amused.

 Myself, in a moment of reflection.

*sarcasm

Aren't my other sisters cute?

 MIRROR SELFIE!

Helping each other is a big part of backstage life.

 Before rehearsal, we often go to a park close to the amphitheater. Artsy.

Coloring is also a huge part of our acting lifestyle.

 She's being weird or I'm just sooo funny.

Blurry photos are aesthetic.

 The Bois

Again, coloring.

 OPENING NIGHT HATH ARRIVETH!

Starring my brother's intense eyes...

 ...bad mascara...

....and Emma's profile with a photo bomber.

And now, the cast partay!