SHM: Shower, Hair, Makeup!

Lights, camera, action! Every girl has a different routine when it comes to the all-too-familiar process of “getting ready.” Whether it’s for school photos, a hot date (oh la la), hanging around the house, or even a girls’ night out—we all have our own SHM routine.
I told some of you that I would do a blog on my everyday SHM routine. Some people like to re-phrase it as "SMH" because they do their makeup before hair, but I generally take my showers in the morning  so while I'm doing makeup, I can allow my hair to dry a little, to prevent excessive hair damage, of course. :)
First, when I wake up, I usually feel the urge to either brush my teeth or go to the bathroom. I'm not sure why, lol. But after I do that I get in the shower and put two types of shampoos +conditioner in my hair and let it sit while I shave my legs and wash my body. After that, I rinse off and get out and put on moisurizer and lotion, then put on either pajamas or a bathrobe while I do my makeup, then I blow-dry my hair. After that, I get dressed, then go on with my day!


Here are some general tips for anybody who is interested, as gathered by comments and other people:

1. Do your makeup before your hair so you can let your it air dry a bit before styling. Fun fact: I hear it’s best to blow dry your hair when it’s about 30% dry. Another common tip is wrapping your hair in a towel while you do your makeup, which helps to absorb water faster.
2. If you use a facial moisturizer, give it time to soak in before covering it up with makeup.
3. While you’re doing your hair and makeup, go though a mental inventory of your closet and decide what you are going to wear. This will make the getting dressed part much easier!
4. If you are not a morning person, shower at night to save time in the morning.

Hello Everybody!

I didn't want to title this blog "randomness" or "a quick update" or "random stuff" or "update on my life" because then you would get the idea that this is one of my annoying, boring blogs so you wouldn't even bother to read it. But, congratulations, you have already started reading this, so you might as well finish it.
So next week is spring break, and I do have several plans for it. I will first talk about Haspin Acres. For years now, I have wanted to make my goal to go down the Devils Backbone on my dirt bike. But every time I start to consider it, I look down the hill and it scares me. If you don't know what it is, it's mainly a giant hill with rocks and things going all the way down. One time we were there at midnight watching some people go down on some quads, and they would just try to go down, and they were already flipping out. So, I don't know if I could get down there easily if a quad couldn't. Here are some pictures:

Sorry these aren't the greatest pictures, but really I'm so excited to be able to try to go down it. I honestly don't really mind going down hills, but I absolutely hate going up. So if I were to go down, then I would want somebody to run down there beside me so they could ride back up, lol. So yeah, I'm kind of scared at the same time because there are trucks and quads and even dirt bikes that have recked really badly going up and down. But it's not like I haven't wrecked enough or anything, I mean, what's another wreck?

Another plan I have for spring break is I want to go on a 5-mile bike ride around my town. But I would need somebody  to go with me. I'm thinking about going with my neighbor, but he always seems to be busy, and my sister doesn't want to, but my dad might want to. It's worth a try to ask. But the bummer is it's supposed to be really cold at the beginning of the week. So I hope I would be able to have an opportunity to do something like that on a really pretty day.

My last plan is I want to finish my room up. Today I cleaned everything up off of my floor and today I'm going to start plastering the walls, then I'm going to prime the walls. I hate painting so much, but I'm excited about getting my room done, then doing a room tour. I love room tours so much. They're probably one of my favorite videos to watch on Youtube! I get inspired and it makes me motivated to get my room done the way I want it. So yeah that's all I have to say today! See you all later, and you all have a great day! :)

Hannah

Quick Questions!

I know I've done several of these but they're almost addicting! LOL


what's your name? Hannah Renee Buis
what would you want to be called if you had a choice? Hannah is good enough, but if I had a choice I'd really like something like Hayley, Victoria, Isabella, Julia or Grace.
how tall are you? 5'7 1/2
how much do you weigh? Umm, a long time since I weighed, but I think right around 130, I believe. 
hair color and hairstyle? Brunette and if I do something with my hair it's usually curled 
eye color? Brown
shoe size? 9
Do you have any piercings / tattoos? Only ears pierced 3x
Right or left handed: Right-handed!
Is there anything you absolutely do not eat: Black olives, prunes, or cottage cheese. Yucky :P
Are you allergic to anything? I'm hypersensitive to things with a lot of fur, but I'm highly allergic to dust and mold.
Favorite Blog: http://www.blairfowler.blogspot.com 
Fish or badkruka: I like to swim but is probably more to the "badkruka" side anyway
How many pillows do you sleep with: 2
Favorite Weather: TAN, jk, lol, like, 75 degrees
If you play something Instrument: Learning myself at home playing guitar and piano. Sings of which also count as instruments
Morning or night person: Night girl
Saver or spender: Well, it really just depends
Believe in life on other planets: Yes, why would it just be us? believe there are other planets where they also wonder if they are more life in the universe.
Are you ticklish: More than you think
Do you snore? Of course not
Zodiac? No?
Afraid of bugs? Yes, is terrified of waking up with a spider in bed, especially when I'm abroad, then I always check so there is no creep in bed before I go to bed and then I roll myself up in the blanket so it does not be able to achieve some insects under the covers haha.
Worst bug: Spiders, but think that most insects are unpleasant.
Best book? DEAR JOHN. I've read it through 4 times
What would you like to work as " Something in the music or working with kids
Do you write diary? Sometimes
Messy or tidy? (Your room, house, apartment, etc.) Haha, I have often very messy in my room, does not matter if I clean up on Monday and it's still messy in a few days.
Would we ever get you to bungee-jump? You couldn't pay me. but skydiving is another story
Which hand, hold the fork in? Right
Do you smoke? Cigeretts are too much money these days...
Coffee, tea or not ? I love tea, or coffee can be good sometimes if you have a lot of sugar

Quick Update Blog

So I really don't have very much time now, but I feel like blogging because I'm in a super great mood. It's mainly going to be a quick update blog on kind of what is going on in my life right now.


So I've had several people ask me about the Throughout the Years blogs. I'm planning on putting 5th and 6th grades together in the same blog, but It's going to be a video blog. But I've been working on a good place and lighting for it. My bedroom isn't finished, so it's kind of hard to find a nice, quiet place to do it. But I've been working on it a lot. So just show a little patience for that, lol.


So we all understand that springtime is pretty much here! The sun has been shining outside for several days in a row now, and that means several things. One of those is a new spring dress. Most of you know that it's been really hard for me to find a new dress for this year, because the trends and styles are getting worse and worse these days. I wish there was a special little store that had little things and dresses that are cheap and pretty. But there just doesn't seem to be any. So I've decided to sew my own dresses and skirts. That way, I can pick out my own fabric and desired length. 
I've also been cooking like crazy. I'm not sure why, but every now and then I'll go through a phase where I just can't stop cooking. It's actually kind of unhealthy, but I can't help it. I love being in the kitchen.  A couple friends like my cooking, so I like to cook for them as well. 
I have a certain friend right now that has really been beating down on me with words. I would like to ask for prayer in that area :)


Thanks everybody,
Hannah

Listen to this playlist: Some of my favorite songs

I Need You Now

My friend, I need you now-
Please take me by the hand.
Stand by me in my hour of need,
Take time to understand.


Take my hand, dear friend,
And lead me from this place.
Chase away my doubts and fears,
Wipe the tears from off my face.


Friend, I cannot stand alone.
I need your hand to hold,
The warmth of your gentle touch
In my world that's grown so cold.


Please be a friend to me
And hold me day by day.
Because, with your loving hand in mine,
I know we'll find a way. 

YOU Can Help Change the World

Most of you heard about what happened to Japan. When I heard about it, I felt so broken inside for these people! There are so many floods and earthquakes and hurricanes that keep happening all over the world, and I just keep giving thanks to God for not allowing big catastrophes to happen to Indiana. But I've really been feeling it on my heart that we need to pray for these people who have no hope. We all need to take a step and pray that the people would all have a sense of hope, and that God would touch their hearts. Also, a lot of people may feel angry at God for allowing this type of thing to happen to "perfectly innocent" people. But what we need to understand is that God allowed this to happen for a reason, he allowed it for His good, as well as his people's. So we all need to pray that these people would have hope in God.

Recently I've learned that it's important to reach out to other people.  Like I've said, there are so many people out there that just need some gentle or encouraging words, or someone to show them some that they are loved. Here's a music video: http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/JustinBieber/Pray--221534281

Every time I watch this, it brings tears to my eyes! God has just developed such a passion in my heart for other people, and I feel such the strongest need to take action on that in every way that I can. The other day, I went up to somebody who looked like they had been having a bad day, and I just said, "smile! Jesus loves you!" That brought a smile to this ladies face, and you could tell that it totally made her day. I'm trying to be contious of other people's behaviors so I can be able to tell if they need some love. I'm trying to do whatever Jesus would do. The Bible says that we need to be like Jesus so other people will follow after and want to be in the light.

Last year, I was at a church camp, and I invited a guy on a skateboard to come down and listen to the sermon we were about to hear. At first, he claimed that "religion" wasn't for him. But I sort of "made" him, so he sat down and listened. It turned out that he got saved that night, and hung out with the group the rest of the week. I believe it is little things like that that we need to do to help change the world. 

A lot of people look at the phrase "changing the world" as something big, as if they need to go to the other side of the world and witness to everyone there. But understand that it's important to do the little things, because they can make some of the biggest differences. 

Also, see this video: http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-8829-Helping-Haiti-Everybody-Hurts-2nd-Version

Very, very amazing and inspiring.

I hope and pray that God has laid it on your hearts to help make a change. If you find a twinge in your spirit or find that you just can't reach out, something is wrong, and you need to pray that God will help you get over that, and He will absolutely help you. I garuntee it.

My point of veiw is that if a person doesn't believe in God, he won't believe whats in the Bible, so quoting verses would be pointless. What you should do is convince them that God exists first, and then convict them of their sins, and then tell them to read the word of God on their own( this way if they truly want to change and are truly interested, then thats what they would do on their own). And this is how i would do it.

First, ask them who created this universe, or what do you think made this magnificient planet we live on. Ask him something like, that famous painter or that huge skyscaper, do you believe a painter painted that painting, or do you believe that building has a builder. So dont you think this earth has a creator, and not some bing bang theory, where a explosion out of nothing could create something as intricate and delicate and magnificient as the Earth we live on. and such great planning by God is the only reason we can survive on this Earth. This will get them thinking so u move on to convicting them.

Ask them do you thinkg your a good person?
Most people will say yes.
Then take them through the commandments, asks them have they ever lied, everyone has, so they have admitted themself to be a liar. then go on to stealing, making them a theif. looking at a person with lust, the bible says who ever looks at a person with lust, you have commited adultry with that person in your heart, making them an aduilturer. Hating someone is murder in God's eye's, making them a muderer, so they would have admitted thay were a lying, thiefing, adultreress, murder, by their own admition.

Ask them would they go to heaven or hell because of those sins.

Then tell them what God did for them that paid the price for their sins.
What we deserve is hell, but god paid the price and if we only accept him and repent then we can go to heaven.

Then pray with them and asks if they would read their bible, and grow more into god's word and change spiritually for him.

There is so much more you could say and do but i think ive typed enough and you can figure out the rest for yourself. Good luck everybody, and God bless.

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” – 1 Corinthians 2:14

“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” – Jeremiah 17:7-10

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” – John 1:12-13 

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."  - Romans 1:16