Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Diana Shaughnessy and I started this blog because I want to share my ideas and opinions on really anything that I’d like to talk about. At the same time I don’t want to repeat myself in fear that I’ll forget to include something. Anyways I also don’t want to talk to someone about my thoughts and possibly bore them. So this is my first post so I just want to inform y’all on some of the behaviors I have when writing. So I typically like to type how I talk. For example I might have some sentences where all it is is “umm” or “I really don’t know what to say right now”. Something that I think you should also know is that I jump from topic to topic in a very hectic manner. And I might jump back to a previous topic. That’s something I tend to do when talking in person. Oh, and just so you know, I might throw in commas that aren’t grammatically correct but like I said twice previously, it’s how I would speak. So a comma would most likely be if I was pausing during a sentence or trying to convey a point more so. Most of the topics in my rantalonies will be positive. No I am not the most positive or happiest person in the world. My mom tells me from time to time how negative I am, but I’m not, I swear. I like to think that I’m realistic with a dash of optimism. So if my thoughts come out to be negative, its not on purpose, its just how I think. And! I think its me being realistic, not negative. Ok so now that I’ve introduced my blog and how it will be presented lets get onto this weeks topic. This will be a happy rant but I’d still advise y’all not to read this entire post since it will be very long. I have a whole bunch to say so it will be very long. My rant will be about parents. So first of all I just think parents are hecka awesome. Yes that might not be the most profound sentence I could say but, it does encompass how I feel. Anyways, I think parents are the greatest gift a child can have, just how the greatest gift an adult can have is a child. And with that being said, I do stand by the previous statement of my parents being the greatest gift given to me, right after them two would be my brother, but maybe I’ll make a rant about siblings later on but I really don’t know. Ok, like previously stated my thoughts always a jump from place to place so if I do so in my writing please bear with me. Alrighty so I’m just going to start with the topic of them loving you unconditionally no matter what. Now this might be a wee bit biased due to the fact that I have had the two best parents in the entire world. And just an FYI, I couldn’t care less if you think your parents are “the best” because there’s no way in world I’ll agree. Anyways, just the thought of all the love my parents have for me is mind blowing. Another thing that is just mind blowing is that I love my parents just as much. It’s kind of a funny concept to think about. I mean yeah, they raised you, but like, you love that person with all of your heart. No matter how angry, upset, frustrated, or any other term to define a negative state of being towards someone else, you’ll love them regardless. I don’t know, it’s just kind of crazy to wrap my mind around. Switching topics, do you ever take the time to think of how much your parents sacrifice just for you and your siblings(if you have any). I mean think about it. If you play a sport(or used to), think of all the time they’ve spent taking you to your practices, games, and all the money they’ve spent for you to participate in that sport. And the same goes for any of the arts. Wether you sing, play an instrument, are in theatre, or an artist. They’ve all taken time out of their already very hectic schedules. And one of the coolest parts about it all, they’re happy to do it. Even if they don’t show it. Even if they seem upset to be taking you 20 or 300 minutes away to where you need to be. They’re happy. And it’s because they see you genuinely happy about the activity you’re taking part in, and that makes them happy. And that’s just with extracurricular activities! Think about everything else they sacrifice for you. I mean once they had y’all, they most likely stopped going to parties, stopped hanging out with their friends every weekend, stopped going on a date night for a while, stopped doing whatever just to give their undivided attention to you. And I think that relates back to their unconditional love for you. Which once again, just absolutely blows my mind on how incredible that is. Switching topics once again because I have trouble staying on one topic for a long period of time. Parents are like your best friends. Yes this could be biased again because they’re are billions of different scenarios and I’m only thinking about my side of the story. Anyways I think that parents are like built in best friends. While you grow up you’re always surrounded by them. And once again this goes back to a previous topic of the unconditional love they have for you, which I guess is my main idea? I don’t know but I keep returning to it. Anyways since you live with your parents you tend to build a relationship that involves a lot of goofing around as if y’all weren’t their child but their friend. And since you spend so much time around them when growing up you tend to pick up some of their personality traits and interests. Yes there are a lot of factors with those two, like genes and the environment you grow up in but, I personally think who you hang around with have an influence, not determine, but have an influence. Agree to disagree but that’s just how I feel. Anyways, since you hang around them you tend to like the same or similar things that they do. When I was a child I was with my dad more than my mom so I feel like I picked up more masculine traits but then after my parents got a divorce I was with my mom more, for the reason that I now lived with only my mom. Ever since then I feel like I picked up more feminine traits which now looking back, I honestly don’t know I lived. Being “girly” is honestly so much fun thing ever, I mean, dressing cute is like a holiday to me, but we can talk more about being girly another time. But that is why I do feel like parents are like your built in best friends since you pick things up from them. Ok now I don’t really know where to go with this anymore since the majority of this was written in one sitting and now that I’m coming back to it I’m not sure where I ended off so I’ll probably make a part 2 later on. This doesn’t showcase all what I’d like to say about parents but at the moment I don’t know where to continue so this is where I’ll end. Since this is my first blog please tell me where I need to improve. If you would like it more if were more organized with the flow of my thoughts and if y’all want me to put them into paragraphs as well, please let me know. If y’all would like it if I included the negative side to the topics or the thoughts people other than myself typically have, let me know. Also if I should include more stories from my life. And also if I should fix my comma placement so it makes sense to y’all since it probably only makes sense to me. Last thing, if y’all want me to include photos that go along with the post let me know. Thank you for reading and have a good day!