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What's the best mistake you've ever made?

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:58:25 GMT

After I started talking to him on the phone, fighting errupted on all fronts. Everyone was lying to one another (there was a total of seven of us talking to each other), and sides were chosen. Me and one other person against the other five. I was on the losing end of everything and got hurt pretty bad. (gotta love teen drama).

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Mother's Day {help...}

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:19:49 GMT

For Mother's Day my sister and I decided we wanted to give my mom and grandma a spa day. I did some research and every spa was way too much money for almost nothing. So we chose to give them one ourselves, besides it's always better when you do something yourself right?

We were planning on giving them a massage, a pedicure, and a facial. Great right?

Well, as I recently found out, my grandma really doesn't like people touching her face or getting massages. I'm completely fine with not giving her those, but I would like to figure out something else we could do for her. She deserves something more.

Can anyone give me any ideas that I could use besides the three already listed and manicure?

Help please,

♥Nik

Hey, All! I'm Back!

Fri, 01 May 2009 01:03:50 GMT

As anyone who was actually reading any of my posts would know, I've been MIA from Xanga since I think January.

Well now I'm back for the most part. I have to get myself back into my blogging ways. Muahahaha. (:

So yeah...

Love y'all,

♥Nik

The average person moves at least 13 times in a lifetime....how many times have you moved?

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:08:19 GMT

I've only moved once in my lifetime so far. It really wasn't a huge move. It was one street to another in the same town.

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Trafficking of Children

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:19:16 GMT

Trafficking is a violation of fundamental rights.

Trafficking in children is a global problem affecting large numbers of children. Some estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year. There is a demand for trafficked children as cheap labour or for sexual exploitation. Children and their families are often unaware of the dangers of trafficking, believing that better employment and lives lie in other countries.

Child trafficking is lucrative and linked with criminal activity and corruption. It is often hidden and hard to address. Trafficking always violates the child’s right to grow up in a family environment. In addition, children who have been trafficked face a range of dangers, including violence and sexual abuse. Trafficked children are even arrested and detained as illegal aliens.

Some facts:

* UNICEF estimates that 1,000 to 1,500 Guatemalan babies and children are trafficked each year for adoption by couples in North America and Europe.
* Girls as young as 13 (mainly from Asia and Eastern Europe) are trafficked as “mail-order brides.” In most cases these girls and women are powerless and isolated and at great risk of violence.
* Large numbers of children are being trafficked in West and Central Africa, mainly for domestic work but also for sexual exploitation and to work in shops or on farms. Nearly 90 per cent of these trafficked domestic workers are girls.
* Children from Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana are trafficked to Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon. Children are trafficked both in and out of Benin and Nigeria. Some children are sent as far away as the Middle East and Europe.

Sexual exploitation

Sexual activity is often seen as a private matter, making communities reluctant to act and intervene in cases of sexual exploitation. These attitudes make children more vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Myths, such as the belief that HIV/AIDS can be cured through sex with a virgin, technological advances such as the Internet which has facilitated child pornography, and sex tourism targeting children, all add to their vulnerability.

* Surveys indicate that 30 to 35 per cent of all sex workers in the Mekong sub-region of Southeast Asia are between 12 and 17 years of age.
* Mexico’s social service agency reports that there are more than 16,000 children engaged in prostitution, with tourist destinations being among those areas with the highest number.
* In Lithuania, 20 to 50 percent of prostitutes are believed to be minors. Children as young as age 11 are known to work as prostitutes. Children from children’s homes, some 10 to 12 years old, have been used to make pornographic movies.

******This article came from http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html

Some People Learn a Language, I Learn Teeline.•

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:18:17 GMT

I decided of late (which translates into about 20 hours ago) to learn how to write in short hand. I specifically chose to learn Teeline Shorthand. It’s not used very often because it’s not a very fast type of shorthand. But I”m not learning it for the speed of it.

I chose to learn how to write in Teeline because I would like to write without my snoopy friends being able to, well, snoop, while I’m writing or after I’m done. But now their going to read this and learn or make up a cheat sheet for themselves so they can read it.

Then we could start a society where we only wrote in Teeline. And then we could like, like… Whoa! Got slightly off topic there, sorry.

Really Teeline isn’t that difficult to learn if you want a simple shorthand to learn. In a lot of ways it is similar to the English cursive.

Here’s an example of it.

There is, of course, other, more well known, but also, more complicated types of shorthands to learn. They consist of: Pitman Shorthand, Gregg Shorthand, and quite a few others.

So that’s about it.

This is going to be fun.

~Nikki

Do I care what people think about me?

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:36:55 GMT

If you asked me this question on any normal day, week, month, year, I would tell you the same thing, No. Normally I don't care about what people think of me. It's their opinion and their entitled to it.

But...

This past week I found out that this boy, that I may or may not have liked, was minorly upset that I was trying out for our school's musical because he doesn't like me. Now, he had never led to make me believe he had any problem with me, or so I thought.

But I think that's the problem. I thought, and I've thought so much about what I could have done to make him dislike me that it made me upset. Not only that but I've thought about the signs, or what could be percieved as signs, as to him taking a disliking in me. Thinking about those signs, and seeing that most of them were obvious, made me feel like I was naive and could take a hint. I felt stupid for thinking that he might think of me as friend.

If I look back on the time I thought we were fine, I was always trying to impress him. It just doesn't feel like me. He best friends with a couple of my friends and I guess part of it was if I'm not friends with the whole group I tend to get pushed away when I'm with them. Not literally of course, but while we hang out I slowly get pushed away from conversation until it's like I'm not there anymore.

Yesterday I decided it wasn't worth my energy to care about it anymore. It's done, and it's over. I just felt that writing it out, and blogging about it, might help me get over it better. I just can't figure out why it bugs me so much that he doesn't like me.

Oh well, his loss I suppose.

♥Nikki♥

Is Christmas, Christmas Anymore?

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:34:40 GMT

Christmas has changed so much, some people don't even know the meaning of it anymore. If you ask some children what they think Christmas is they'll tell you it's a time when Santa comes and leaves them gifts under the tree.

Christmas is the day chosen to celebrate the day of Jesus' birth. December 25 is also the day of the Winter Solstice. Christmas is also an adapted version of Yule. Yule is an old Pagan holiday that the Germanic peoples celebrated.

Christmas is the time of year for "giving". It's a time for being with your family and friends. It's a time for spreading joy, happiness, and having making great memories to share with generations for years to come. At least, this is what it's supposed to be.

Modern day Christmas is a time for buying and selling products to distribute between friends, family, co-workers, ect. Isn't that giving? Yes of course it is but that's all we get out of Christmas now.

When we talk about Christmas it's always about what we want to have. It's about getting all of the shopping done before it's too late. Everyone's so busy all the time running around, doing this and that, no one really sits down to relax and sit down with the family.

The Christmas season seems to start the day after Thanksgiving on Black Friday. From then on there's no rest until the day after Christmas.

What do you think? Has Christmas changed a lot? Has Christmas changed for the better or worse of our now very materialistic world?

Twilight Movie

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:08:35 GMT

I went and saw the Twilight Movie tonight. Here's my review.

I give the makers of the film and E for Effort.

It was a really good movie and my friends and I enjoyed it a lot.

But...

The producers really did butcher it quite a bit. They mixed and matched scenes together and it worked I suppose. For an avid Twilight fan though, I think it was a little weird having things mixed up like it was.

All in all, a very good movie. It really didn't disappoint me.

So an "E" for effort.

That's the end of my extremely short, really no insight on the movie, review.

;) ♥Nikki♥

It's been a while (Updates of all my stories)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:42:09 GMT

It really has been a while since I've posted anything here. Well we're going to go in this order, Xanga stuff, School, events coming up for me, and dreams.

Really, it's hard for me to be posting everywhere at once. Lately I've only been able to update my stories in school, which means I can't get on to Xanga. I've been posting my stories on to a site called Booksie. Both of my stories are update.

XANGANIAN NEWS:
Vampryc Moon:
Chapter nine is now up of Vampryc Moon. If you're interested in reading it, here's the link. http://www.booksie.com/young_adult/novel/nikki_nightmare/vampryc-moon/chapter/9

Undead Objective:
This story has actually been updated several times of late. Here's the link. http://www.booksie.com/young_adult/novel/nikki_nightmare/undead-objective/chapter/1

You should be able to look at my other work there but my site is really messed up. I'll tell you now that you won't be able to see my profile.

SCHOOL NEWS:
Well I guess the most amazing news I have for school is that I made the bowling team. I was so amazed when I found out, seeing as I bowled completely horrible. Nothing really exciting is happening in school lately. I just got my report card back. 95s in all my computer and business courses and ranging from 84-92 in the rest of my classes.

EVENTS:
So as we all know it is holiday time. My most dreaded time of the year, but that's a story for another time. Devastating to my Grandma but a God send to me is the fact that part of my family will not be joining us in celebration of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know, I know, it's not a very good attitude but, it's going to take a lot to forgive them for how they've treated me and the rest of my family.

In January, I have the Winter Ball, the Inauguration of the new President, and Convention. All things I'm going to need a dress for. =D January is definitely going to be a fun time.

DREAMS:
I'm going to start typing one up now, after I post this, and I'll probably finish typing it when I get home from babysitting tonight. It was a very strange dream for me... everyone was human. :] If you've heard some of my dreams, you would understand that, but since most everyone who will see this hasn't, most of my dreams contain very supernatural creatures, not just humans.

Well I'm going to start typing now.

Bye-bye loves,

♥Nikki♥