That Good Feeling You Get Until You Realize You Messed It Up

Depressing title? Ehh, I know. Here's the story in a nutshell.
There's this site called Teen Ink, it's where teens (much like myself) post their stories, photos, poems, etc. Shaina is the one who got me hooked on it. I have pictures up there and I've submitted a short story and a few poems. Anyways, I got an email saying my story had been accepted. This made my day! I was so happy. So I go on the page to admire its beauty, right, and guess what I see. I submitted my version with all of my edits in it (edits in parentheses like this). Well, this did not make me happy at all. The good feeling was gone and I was so mad at myself for making a mistake like that. One of my friends said it was fine and that I could just tell people to ignore them, but I can't. Being the perfectionist I am I HAD to resubmit the story without the correction comments in it. That so did not make me happy. Then to make matters worse the site uploaded the wrong photo. WHAT THE HECK?! So now I have two stories that are the same and two photos with the same titles. Why am I so stupid sometimes? That got me thinking though, we all make mistakes, right? I mean some there's nothing we can do about them, but others we can.
Today at BYD we watched a Mormon Message video about a man and how he lost his wife and three of his children to a drunk teenage driver. He talked about the loneliness and grief he felt for them, but how he was thankful for his two sons that survived. Then he said how early on he decided if he were ever to lose someone to a drunk driver that he would let go and forgive. The man forgave the drunk teenage and told him that he should let go and move on with his life as well.
Now, submitting an edited version of a story doesn't seem like a big deal, but I think I just need to move on from it. Like a lot of things in life we just need to accept what happened and move on. The quote "forgive and forget" comes to mind and I think there's some truth to that. We don't want to just forgive if we don't really mean it, and I don't think just forgetting about things makes anything better. I think we do need to truly forgive and not forget, but remember how this experience strengthened us.

Okay, so I don't know why I went all deep there. Haha. This past week was filled with band camp funness. Why yes, I am the type of nerd who actually enjoys band camp for the most part. This week I have band and choir camp and then school starts! Ehhh, I'm looking forward to seeing my friends, but I'm not too sure about the school aspect. Maybe if my teachers are good I'll enjoy it more. That's about all really. There is more I could possibly talk about, but I don't want to bore you.

Oh, and here's a link to my short story "Escaping Fate"!
http://teenink.com/fiction/sci_fi_fantasy/article/238275/Escaping-Fate/

-Lindsey

It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!

Why yes, that is a quote from Despicable Me. I went to see it yesterday with my sister and I really liked it. It was such a cute movie, though I have to say that Angus (AKA Fluffy Unicorn Girl) made the movie. She was just so dang cute!

I think that I shall update this thing every week. Fair enough, right? Yea, right.
Nothing much has happened over the last week. I went to band camp, came home, did pointless stuff, went to bed and then repeated. Fun, right? Ehhhhh, maybe. Sometimes I wanted nothing more than to quit and go home but other times, call me strange and psycho, but I actually wanted to be there.

Thursday at church the Young Women got together and just hung out while we painted each other's nails (Shaina and I both fail at painting my nails). Then on Friday I got to spend the afternoon with Sheri hanging out at the towncenter and after that I crashed my best friend Carlyn's house. If you thought I couldn't possibly do anymore in one day I could, I went to a swimming party and Alexa's. Saturday there was a church dance that was kind of lame seeing as no one really danced and people left early. The only thing that made the dance worth going to was the lovely conversation I got to have with Savannah. I love her! (:

That's it basically. Tomorrow I'm going shopping with Savannah and then Carlyn is spending the night. Then Monday is DISNEY DAY! That's right, I go to Disney and I still think it's cool.

-Lindsey

Inspiring? Probably not.

So, I was looking at Shaina's facebook profile like any normal friend would do and I decided to click on her blog link. Well, I see that she hasn't posted in way over a month so I decided to inspire her. Yea, this won't be much of inspiration but oh well. I tried, right?

For my first blog I have no idea what I want to put. A summary of the summer would be way too long, but there's not much to tell about today. Can some blog posts be short? I'm gonna go with yes, yes they can.

To lengthen this post a tad I will mention highlights of my summer. That sounds fair enough. Okay, so there was Trek, Girls Camp, EFY, and right now band camp. I think out of all of these my favorite would have to be EFY. Shout out to the best group ever, the Punishers. That was by far the best week of my very young life. If y'all are reading this and you're elidgeable to go I suggest you go. It's worth it all, the price and the sacrafice of a week. The friendships you make and the growth in your testimony of the gospel are the amazing things that you get for going. So go, okay?
Hmmm, band camp. Well, today was only the first day so not much to say about that. Is it going to be an amazing marching season? I believe so. The opener sounds awesome. I just can't wait! X: The Journey. (:

I think that's all I have to say at the moment sadly. There's a review of my summer so far. Exciting, isn't it?

-Lindsey