I'm sure everyone has gotten the mass email about people coming into your life for a reason, season, or lifetime; I've been thinking about the many reasons and seasons over my lifetime . . .
While the relationship between females can change from day to day, generally based on hormone levels, I can say that as a general rule, those I've decided to truly trust and open up to are lifers for me. I have become so grateful for the few that continue to shape the person I am, who I want to become, and that share their life and love with me.
You gals that have dealt and stuck with me even throughout all those crazy hormones-- thank you. I cherish our friendship and love each of you deeply.
Sorry for all the cheese lately.... I get super corny when I'm feeling nostalgic.
4.29.2011
4.19.2011
21 never looked so good
This handsome guy had a birthday yesterday . . .
I'm grateful for that day 21 years ago he came into the world, and the day 3 years ago that he came into mine.
To the best person I've ever met :
Happy Birthday
I love you, I am proud of you, and I am honored to be a part of your life.
To the best person I've ever met :
Happy Birthday
I love you, I am proud of you, and I am honored to be a part of your life.
4.13.2011
Everybody's Free
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
-- Mary Schmich
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
-- Mary Schmich
4.12.2011
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Disney (sometimes)
Rapunzel: What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be?
Flynn: It will be.
Rapunzel: And what if it is? What do I do then?
Flynn: Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream.
Flynn: It will be.
Rapunzel: And what if it is? What do I do then?
Flynn: Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream.
I think it's finally time I make some new dreams...
4.11.2011
Connie Poo-Poos
My little brother is pretty much my best friend. Really. He is hilarious and smart and driven and kind and the only real reason I ever go back home. (sorry mom)
He turned 17 yesterday, and on Friday he won for SBO at his high school for next year.... I'm just so jealous of how cool he is.
Doesn't this picture exemplify his awesomeness?
OK, but seriously. I love that boy.
Happy birthday and congratulations to my uber amazing lurp.
He turned 17 yesterday, and on Friday he won for SBO at his high school for next year.... I'm just so jealous of how cool he is.
Doesn't this picture exemplify his awesomeness?
OK, but seriously. I love that boy.
we didn't intentionally match... it just adds to our preciousness.
Happy birthday and congratulations to my uber amazing lurp.
4.07.2011
how sweet it is
just so you know... there is no point to this post.
I'm a reallll big fan of feeling like I've got everything under control, and content with everything going on in life. And that's how things are right now.
Sometimes I get these epiphanies where I look at my life, and realize.... I've got it good. I know this time of our life will be one I always I look back on and miss. That knowledge makes me want to savor these moments and say "thank you, universe."
Today, Jordan came home from work early, took me to breakfast, and napped with me until my next class. We had no worries, no obligations, and nothing better or more fulfilling to do than to spend unadulterated time together in a warm bed in a quiet apartment.
For that, I am grateful.
I'm a reallll big fan of feeling like I've got everything under control, and content with everything going on in life. And that's how things are right now.
Sometimes I get these epiphanies where I look at my life, and realize.... I've got it good. I know this time of our life will be one I always I look back on and miss. That knowledge makes me want to savor these moments and say "thank you, universe."
Today, Jordan came home from work early, took me to breakfast, and napped with me until my next class. We had no worries, no obligations, and nothing better or more fulfilling to do than to spend unadulterated time together in a warm bed in a quiet apartment.
For that, I am grateful.
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