Stress

At some point in our life we all experience some shape or form of stress. Everyone handles stress in different ways but some of us don’t know how to, which can lead to mental, physical and emotional problems. But what is the definition of stress?

According to answers.com the definition of stress is “A mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influenced and capable of affecting physical health…..”. Now for me when I’m under a lot of stress, I feel like I cant handle life and it leads me to be a little depressed. If I am under stress for long periods of time I loose weight without noticing, well, until someone tells me. The other day at my work was a real stressor ( I don’t even think that’s a word but too bad, im going use it). I work at McDonalds by the way, just so you know what I am going to be saying. So around 6pm is out dinner rush, and their were 2 people taking orders (me and some other guy) and their was 1 runner (the person getting the food and giving it to the customer). Well around 5:45 they sent the other person taking orders home early. I don’t know what they were thinking but whatever. Anyways didn’t we get a rush and I got overwhelmed and felt like crying. When im stressed I scratch myself without noticing (don’t ask me how because I don’t know) and I get mad and have a short temper. Luckily I didn’t loose my temper with anyone, but I was mad. Luckily my hair was in a pony tail cause I have been known to pull my hair as well. But my poor neck was all red and I still feel it today.

Now you may be asking how to calm down and let all that stress go away. The first thing you want to do is understand why your stressed and what caused it because if you don’t you will keep getting stressed out. Once you know what stresses you out, you can try to avoid those situations. If you cant avoid those situations you will have helpful tools to help you calm down. What I find helpful is to do something you like doing. For me that’s mostly reading. Now for those people who know me, I have a walk in closet with shelves at the back and two full levels of those shelves is dedicated to my books. I have A LOT of books!! But I also have other ways to calm down, for example playing guitar, singing and doing nail designs. Another thing you can do its remove yourself from that stressful situation and close your eyes and take a deep breath. Try to calm yourself down, because the more stressed you are the more you are going to feel like you cant handle it. When you have calmed yourself down try to go back with a positive attitude. I also find a stress ball helps, I know it may sound silly but trust me it helps.

     So I hope this helps, and just remind yourself you can get through this. Everyone goes through stress and that includes kids as well. Talk to your kids about what stresses them out and help them through it. Find a way to release that stress in a positive way that works for you.

Good luck!

Titanic

The last photo of the Titanic, taken April 11th, 1912 

On this day at 2:20 am 100 years ago the Titanic sank. Today my mother, my sister and I went to go see the movie titanic. Now I have seen this movie many times, and I’m sad to say when I was younger I laughed at people who fell, and made jokes about peoples suffering in the movie. But today as we were watching it, my mom leaned over my sister to tell me that today was the day that the titanic went down. Now before she said this to me I was having a good time making jokes about the movie, but after she told me that, I just sat back and thought, I may have been laughing at things people may have actually gone though. Now when I was younger I went though many stages of interest, for example for a year I read as many books, articles and watched many videos about the holocaust. Then I went through a stage about finding out as much as I could about the titanic. Now I’m still very interested in both those topics, but as I watched the movie I could see much truth/facts about the titanic. Like the people, Margaret Brown (Molly Brown) was a true person, and according the book “Titanic love stories” by Gill Paul, she did indeed argue with the crew members on board the life boat to go back to search for survivors. In the movie they also speak of John Jacob and Madeleine Astor, they were true people as well.



Now that I’m 19, I’m starting to see things in a different way. Things that were funny before are not that funny now. Its like I’m seeing the world with new eyes. I cannot imagine the fear those people felt when the Titanic was sinking, the sadness they felt when they got onto the life boats, never knowing if they would see their loved ones again. The part that makes me sad the most is that the Titanic was carrying 2,223 people and 1,517 died. 130 first class passengers died, 166 in second class and 536 in third class. Their were 899 crew members and 685 of them died. Most women and children in first class survived, the same cannot be said for those in second and third class. Although their were not many children on board a lot of them died. 53 children died that night which is about half of them. In the end the highest casualty rate was men, 1,347 of them died and 103 women died. Their was a strict women and children first rule when it came to letting people on life boats.


So lets take a moment to remember those people who died on the Titanic.

Little Brother Video Bombs Sister Dancing

Just thought I would put a smile on your face. that boy reminds me of my brothers when im filming for my youtube channel. Always in the way. but hey thats what brothers do.

Things about me

Hey guys. Sorry this post is messy. (I mean with the pictures still trying to figure it out) So today when I was at my co-op placement at my old high school. What I do is help students who are special needs or just have an IEP with their work. Anyways today in one of the classes the teacher handed them out a assignment, well its more like questions but whatever, and they had to answer them. The questions go from 1-10 you will see what I mean in a moment. So, I was working with 2 girls on their assignment and I kept thinking about what my answers would be. (they really make you think), so I’m deciding to post them here so u can get to know me a bit better. So here they are:

1. If I could change one thing about the world it would be that Aids and STD’s didn’t exist.
2. Two achievements that I am proud of is getting the Newman perseverance award at my graduation (it came with a $100 check, not bad eh?) and being in a sport called winter guard for 8 years.
   
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3. Three things that make me laugh are funny movies, funny pictures and when my sister Madi is hyper
4. Four things I do in the morning before school are (in no particular order): eat breakfast, get dressed, do my hair and put on make up (notice how I didn’t put make bed, my view on this is why bother your gonna sleep in it later, I only make my bed when people are going to be in my room)
5. My top five movies of all times are:
   Whip It, Harry Potter (all of them), Little Miss Sunshine, Fired Up, and Toy Story
   
6. My six favourite toys when I was a kid (I had a lot of fun thinking about this one):
   tamagotchi (the very first ones that came out, not the new ones), Play-doh (still love it), The ball with the rope on it (you know the ones you through against the walls while standing with your back to the wall), Sega (loved sonic), Magna Doodle, Light Bright
7. Seven things I ate and drank Today: Ice Capp, Waffles with peanut butter (don’t dis it till you try it), Caesar Salad (made fresh), Coke, Hickory Sticks, Banana, yogurt
8. Favorite show you watched when you were seven: (their actually 2 shows)
   Pokemon and Arthur
9. What do I do at 9 O’clock at night:
   Usually on Facebook, youtube or at wor
10. One thing I will be doing in ten years:
    Working as an educational assistant or writing a novel

So their you have it, 10 more things you know about me. Comment below and tell me what your favourite toy was when you were a kid, or what’s your favourite movie.
See you guys next time!!

A new chapter

Hey guys. So im new at blogging so bare with me (we all have to start somewhere). So since im starting college I kind of want to document it here. Im gonna try to explain troubles and hardships of everyday life with having ADHD, an IEP and how to over come them. So here's a little info about myself. Im 18 and live in Ontario, Canada. No gonna tell you anymore then that. I started a program at college (notice how I didnt say the name of the college lol) called a bridge program. So you might be asking what a bridge program is, so this is what the website says:

This dual credit program offers high school students the opportunity, upon successful completion, to earn up to 2 secondary school credits at their home school and 2 additional optional credits towards their OSS. Students will also earn up to 2 general education elective courses towards the completion of a college program. Students will spend half of the day in their home school and spend the other half of the day (Monday to Thursday) at ............ college.

So the perks of this program is free text books, free transportation and its 2 less courses I have to take when I do the full time program. BTW I graduated high skool already

So I am the second born of 5 kids. The order is my older sis who is 20, me 18, my younger sis 16, and my two younger brothers ages 14 and 8. My parents are divorced but my mom is with my step dad he is the father of my youngest brother. My gave birth to him so he is my brother.

So I think that should be it for today, plz follow me and I will be trying to post atleast 2-3 times a week. I will be not only posting about how to overcome obstacles but might also post something funny or even show off some of my cool nail designs that I do. So until next time bye!!