Natalia Writing Everything That Pops Into Her Head

   Okay, so um last time I did this, I re-typed all of the questions myself, so all of the fonts would match and so forth (so basically just for aesthetic's sake), but I don't have time to do that again, so the questions will be in a different font. That might actually make it better anyway, making it easier to distinguish between questions and answers, so why didn't I think of doing that before. But we are where we are folks. *smiles* let's move on.  1) Do you wear sunglasses indoors to look cool or stylish?  first of all, interesting question. I never wear sunglasses, inside or outside, mostly for the reason that I wear actual glasses, and so it would get annoying to be constantly switching them out. I actually don't even admire sunglasses, so I would never wear them thinking they made me look cool. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people wear them when they're talking to you, so you can't even tell if they're looking at you. Eyes are one of the ma

 I wasn't gonna post this soon again, and I was going to post more question/answer thingys when I did decide to post, but I wanted to do SOMETHING, and pictures seem good.   I got an old new phone not that long ago. And the camera is a HUGE upgrade from my last phone, so naturally, I have been testing it out quite a bit. I'll just put some pictures here. Enjoyyyy First, just a pretty sunset from the evening of the summer solstice (Saturday night, and the day before Father's day). And a story. Mom posted a picture of the sunset on her Instagram story, with something about the summer solstice and whatnot. Mind you, this was at probably 11:30 p.m. She also (kind of jokingly I think) mentioned that someone should come over and enjoy the sunset with us, and she would serve them iced tea and we would talk till midnight. HA. You know what's coming. A couple from our church (very spontaneous people, very fun, and very much into doing things like this) did act

 sorry. It's been a bit, but I have been busy.  Not sure what to write about today. I could do the question thing again, but I did that in my last post. I'll try to do more questions next post.  I could write about my persuasive speech again since we have a thing with that. It's pretty much done. I finished the rough draft, and just need someone to help edit. But yeah, persuasive speeches aren't interesting to write about, so we won't do that.  I could write about incredibly much rain we've been getting. It's so wet here. But the weather isn't interesting to talk about, except maybe for old men and farmers.  I could write about COVID, but we're allllll tired of that, and also I want to avoid controversy as much as possible.  I could write about finishing Pride and Prejudice and starting Emma,  but I kind of just did. That's not a broad enough topic.  I could write about French again... ehhhh non. Je ne veux pas. (I don't want to)

  It's a rainy, muddy, cool-ish, gray-ish, Sunday, but it's nice to be inside.   We had real church for the first time in almost three months, keeping the limit to fifty people of course, and social distancing inside. It was glorious to see my people again.   I'm in the mood to write, but I didn't know what to write about. So I looked up a list of questions and I'll answer them about myself. Just so you guys can know me better, and I can satisfy my need to write for now.   The list has 800 questions, but it would take me an eternity and three days to answer 800 questions. I am not an insanely skilled typist. I don't know how many I'll answer, but I guess we'll get started and see how it goes.   1. What's your full name?      Natalia Brooke Martin. (possibly gonna change that to Natalia Brooke Labelle. if that doesn't make sense, go read the last question on my "Liebster Award" post. Possibly even read the whole post if you wan

 So I found a persuasive speech topic. I will write about the benefits of a healthy diet, and throw in some things about the benefits of being a vegetarian. ( I am not one, but I don't think it would be too terribly difficult for me, since I don't just love meat. Chicken would be the only thing I think I would really really miss. And maybe the occasional hamburger.)  And since I always seem to need to start out talking about something or other related to research papers or speech topics, on that note we will continue.  I remember writing in "to ramble" that audio books, podcasts, and I do not get along. I'm still not sure about podcasts (although I did try "Seriously...", Alivia, and liked it), but I can no longer say I don't like audio books. I started listening to Pride and Prejudice on audio book, and I literally listen to it EVERYWHERE. I'm about halfway through the book in like less than a week, which is much faster than if I was readi

 SO.  My friend Autumn nominated me for the Leibster Award. I won't be able to follow through with this completely, because I know pretty much zero bloggers, and the ones I do know have already been nominated.  SO.  I will answer the questions and do all of the stuff that I can do.  1. First, I'm supposed to thank the person who nominated me. Thank you Autumn!  2. Display the award. there you go   3. Answer questions.   4. Nominate 5 bloggers (an issue, like I mentioned)   5. Ask six more questions. (also kind of an issue, since there's no one to ask the questions to...)   >BUT ANYWAY<   Here are the questions Autumn asked.   1. What would be your perfect day?       Ummm.    I'd say first I would be given enough money to fly my best friends here to stay for the day. Then we would go out to a cute coffee shop or ice cream shop. We would go shopping, and then go home and just talk. Because I don't necessarily get to

   So I finished my research paper. *hip hip, hoorayyyyy*   Today Natalia doesn't know what to write about because today nothing is "Popping Into Her Head." (blog title reference, I hope you got that.)   So she isn't quite sure...   I haven't even given this a title yet. I guess we'll title it when we're done. Or like halfway through when I realize what the topic is or something...   Does anyone else just get a sudden urge at like 12:07 to write a book or learn a language or something? Somehow I always get these random bursts of inspiration right before I go to sleep. I set goals and all that jazz, and get excited for the next morning.    The next morning? I am tired and groggy from staying up until 1:00, thinking of what I was going to do today. And so I barely pull myself out of bed. I drink coffee (it's good, I don't care what you say.), and don't eat breakfast really. And all my plans from the night before? vanished. I w