Let's get it started, let's get it started, yeah

So, this is my blog.

Introductions, yes? My name is Christina. I'm seventeen years and nine months old. I live in Washington state, and I go to high school in a tiny town. I'm a senior -- yes, college is on my mind. I want to go to either Cornell or Vassar. Preferably Cornell. We'll see if I get in.

This blog idea was given to me by my totally-awesome friend, Olivia. We both want to lose weight, so we're kind of doing this together, I guess you could say. I like this idea, especially after having read "The Diary of a Fat Teenager" which inspired me so much.

I want to be healthy. I also want to be skinny, but I do want to be healthy. I want to feel good about myself. I want to have the confidence in myself and in the way I look to go buy clothes and not feel like crap when I have to look at myself in the mirror. I want to become a powerful woman who's confident and dignified -- not some shameless, vacuous tart. I want to be happy as an adult, as well as content and fulfilled and full of potential. I just want to feel good about myself and who I am and the way I look. I want to not feel two inches tall when I see a totally cute guy and want to talk to him or ask him out but think that he'd rather have the mini-skirt-touting bimbo instead of me because she's thin.

So that explains the third part of this blog's title.

The second, however, is as integral to who I am as the fact that I want to write. I am a feminist. I believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that women are equal to men. Now, this may seem like a stance of the past -- of course women are equal to men -- but it is as relevant today as it was in the seventies and in the twenties. Women are still mistreated, women are still looked down upon, women are still expected to carry the burden of housework, women still make only seventy-seven cents to every dollar that men make, and I despise any form of inequality. And while the seventy-seven cents thing doesn't really affect me right now, it will. I plan on being in the business world, and I do not want to make less money simply because I have a brain and a uterus and I can use them both (whereas there are men who will make more than me just because they have a small brain and a small penis and probably don't know how to use either of them XD Thanks, Greg Proops).

As for the first bit, I want to believe that about myself. I really do. When I walk into a room, I want to feel like the most stunning and most amazing woman, but I don't feel that way. I want to believe that I'm gorgeous, but I don't feel that way. I just feel like a pudgy tub of lard that no one will ever want. I don't feel curvy or gorgeous or luscious or anything.

UGH. Negative thinking is bad. Let's see...

I have really exceptional eyes -- I always get compliments. I have nice breasts, if I do say so myself. I have really tiny hands that I think are kind of cute. I have curly hair that is fun. I'm an extremely intelligent person. I debate really well. I'm very ambitious and determined. I'm a fun, open person. And I love books.

I need to start thinking about the good in me rather than the bad.

So, this blog will be focused around my attempts to become a healthier person and lose weight, but it will also be my personal angry-rant section and my political views and whatever comes into my mind at the time. There will be much posting-of-videos from Youtube, and there will be many suggestions of movies to watch and songs to listen to. There will also be lots of tea-drinking involved. I love tea.

So, I hope you all enjoy this and comment and encourage away!