2 Years Later...

I'm back! Just decided to drop in here and see how everything on Xanga has been changing tremendously. When I first started, which was back in my Middle School years, this place was mainly just a blog. Nobody really posted pictures much or where obnoxiously annoying as they are on Facebook. Then again, when I started, it was only the Asian crowd that had a Xanga and rarely no other race were found. However, I was hanging with my boyfriend and his friends and the topic of online blogs came into conversation which eventually resulted into mentioning Xanga as my boyfriend claimed he had one, which shocked me as I asked, "Wait, white people were on there??" (My boyfriend is Italian and is pale white, even his own mother asks him why he's like that.) And apparently he wasn't the only one as his best friend (who is also Italian) said that he had a Xanga as well. As far as I recalled back in my days of Xanga, only the Asian kids owned one and white kids had MySpace and causing trouble for themselves all the time.

So, instead of studying for my psychology quiz tomorrow on the topic of Thinking Processes, I decided to try and look for my boyfriend's Xanga, but have no luck of finding it as of so far. Not really that determined to find it, I decided to take a look at what my Xanga looks like now and I have to say, not displeased by what I see and thinking about keeping this place more updated. Does anybody know if there is a way to combine Xanga with Tumblr because I update my Tumblr and Twitter almost every day, it is VERY rare that I never update it. 

I'm right now feeling really unmotivated to study hard for my quiz tomorrow now that I have a good grade in the class and there's only two weeks left of this General Psychology course. In addition to the mere fact that I actually was terrible at learning of how the Thinking Processes work on people since there are five Methods of Problem Solving. One way is Heuristics which is a method of educated guessing; in other terms it is having the experience to help gain knowledge of gaining the right answer. Example of this would be trying to solve 18 x 9 and you're given four possible answers. Your best and fastest way of solving it is simplifying the problem by figuring that 8 x 9 = 72 and since the last digit is "2" and looking at your options you can break it down by finding the answer ending with the number 2. 

Another method is the Trial and Error, I'm sure a lot of people have been hearing this saying for so many years as I have, it is basically "try again and again" until you get it right. The third method is Algorithms--step-by-step rules that will lead to the correct answer. Example of this would be like the format of long division. Insight is a method of reorganizing the problem, meaning the solution comes instantly into your mind without hesitation. The last one, which I seem to have difficulty understanding, is the method of Means-end analysis. It is similar to heuristics, but the starting situation and the goal determined are differentiated and then steps are taken to reduce the differences.

However, there are flaws with using these five methods as well and solutions may not be apparent. Confirmation Bias is the tending to use clues that fits one's belief and ignoring other evidence, Mental Set is the tendency to persist in using solving pattern that worked before and lastly, Functional Fixedness is only thinking about the object with its typical use. Example of functional fixedness is the inability to find the scissors to open a package and yet there are other objects nearby that can be use as a substitute for the scissors such as your car keys, knife, pen or an envelope opener. In other words, we ignore the less possible and obvious uses.

Well, enough with summarizing my studies and time to hit the books before I have to wake up at seven in the morning. Take care everybody!

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Turning 18...

Is not what I expected. Instead of finding an amazing guy or getting that car I've always wanted, I'm like having the crappiest 18th year of my life. It seems like life right now is going backwards on me, I don't feel its going forward. I feel like everything is happening to me either too slowly or too fast, at the wrong time or place. I can't really explain how this is possible, it's just small little things, but they make a huge impact on me.

So is there something wrong with me? Am I being influenced by what's happening around me? Sometimes I just feel so disconnected with the world sometimes. Maybe I always have been a little bit off, like in my ownlittle bubble. I find myself observing more than being actually part of something. I'm so sick of it.

Maybe I'm just complaining too much. I'm sure there's plenty of other kids my age feeling like this, but it feels like the area I'm in, there's just nobody I can connect with. I hate it. It's a suck-ass feeling, like no matter how hard I try to find a way to connect with reality, it seems like I'm so far from it.

But it's like my third day of vacation and I'm wondering, "where the hell are my so-called friends?" I'm pretty sure not everybody went away, or maybe I'm just stuck. I'm starting to feel like that rock on the ocean floor, just watching everybody else move.

So, I'm just gonna try and update the layout of my xanga. After all, it's been a long while since I've changed the layout of this place. Though, most likely, I'm probably going to have country music on here, since I've seemed to really be into country now.

Eclipse Awards!

Well, not a lot I can say, but christmas just past and I'm still chillin' around. It's getting hard to keep track of this xanga thing again because I don't rant on about my life that much. I like to keep certain things to myself. Which is why I kept my mirror book near by me, but I've been getting either little sleep or too much sleep that I can't remember my dreams. I've just shut my head off.

All I can say is that  the best thing happened to me on Friday night. I met another Wiccan just like me! She's a Wiccan Christian as well and she and her frioend had invited me to join their group since I was one of the elements she was missing. She's a Pieces, threfore she's water and her friend's an earth and I'm fire. I'm so thankful with  my life right now. My Goddess answered my prayers.

I've waitied to find other Wiccans like me. I was starting to believe I should just live my life as a solitary wiccan. I  mean, it would be nice, since every wiccan has a different way to worship the Goddess and not every wiccan believes in dualism, like me. But I was so glad to finally share my beliefs with someone who understands me. We are all trying to find covens near by the area, but yet, we'd like to keep our own personal way of worship to ourselves.

So in a way I'm still a solitude wiccan due to the fact that my friend made a good point. When you join a coven it's like you stick together and you follow regulations they want. I would like to find a coven that will be flexiable, since I'd like to keep my way of worshiping. But man, I'm really happy with how this vacation is starting.

I was praying to the Goddess to please help me find someone else like me by Christmas. I've kept my faith up and she answered and I'm more than grateful.

Winter Solstice Begins

Happy Yule Everybody!

& And Happy Chanuka.