Be Everything You're Supposed to Be

Well.... I know it's been a while, however, I do feel the need to play a little catch up!!  There have been many ups and downs since my last visit, however, the whole picture is just plain BEAUTIFUL!! This year for Valentines day, we didn't really celebrate it... yet we celebrated it beautifully! This year I got one of the best gifts ever. He gave me a gift of a new life together and many new adventures! Brian bought me a house!... so to speak. We decided months ago that we wanted to start looking for a home to call our own. One that we could grow together in and start our lives together... as a family.... the three of us. So we started down one of the most exciting and stressful paths a couple could ever go down. We found a wonderful realtor through a friend of ours who set us up with one of the best loan officers a young couple could ask for. Mary Beth was a true delight and was possibly one of the most patient people we've had the pleasure of encountering. She is ...

res·o·lu·tion ˌrezəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n/ A firm decision to do or not do something. So every year we all make these crazy resolutions to make us "better people" and some make realistic ones while others seem to be reaching for the stars. But this year I am resolving to not make a resolution. Now don't get me wrong, I am still going to strive to be a better person each and every day, but a resolution is setting yourself up for failure. We are not perfect and old habits die hard... why do you think so many people buy those gym memberships in January and then stop going by March? It's because they are expecting themselves to have magically flipped a switch and never mess up. But again.. we are not perfect! We were never intended to be either. So instead of making a crazy resolution to lose weight, work out more, eat better, watch less TV, spend more time with family, blah blah blah blah blah.... I am going to set myself up the right way.  Instead of making m...

Ok, so time escaped me yesterday so today I will let you in on TWO things I am thankful for. Today (and yesterday) I am thankful for my past and my future, but mostly the present.Corny... I know. But hear me out. I am thankful for my past because, while it has been quite a roller coaster of good and bad, it has molded me into the person I am today. I know that I touched on this in detail previously in a post a week or so ago, but It's important to emphasize that without the trials and tribulations of the past, I would not be where I am today. If I hadn't met the poeple I've met through my life, whether they are currently apart of it or not, my life may not have turned out the way it has so far. My parents did their part to mold me into this thoughtful, open minded person and my brothers and sisters, God bless them, helped me develop a tough skin when things aren't always rainbows and sunshine.  My future, while I have no earthly clue what is in store, it is...

So it is Thanksgiving Week and I feel like I Should express some of the things I am most thankful for. So each day this week, I will do my best to post about one thing that I have to be thankful for.... I think it's important that I am, and always will be thankful for the following, so they can be assumed from this point on: My family My daughter My boyfriend My health My education My freedom My rights And so on... These posts are going to be about the little tiny things that we (I) often take advantage of or things that maybe, when they are happening, we are not so thankful for them. So, today I am thankful for my dog. She may be a little crazy and she may get herself in trouble at times, but there is something about the unfaultering love from Man's Best Friend that just lightens your heart. She is ALWAYS happy to see me, even when I am mad or I've had a bad day. She wags her tail anytime she sees me and she gives me kisses all the time.... eve...

an·ar·chy ˈanərkē / - (noun)                    a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.                  "he must ensure public order in a country threatened with anarchy"                 synonyms:  lawlessness,  nihilism,  mobocracy,  revolution,  insurrection,  disorder, chaos,  mayhem,  tumult,   turmoil I have been waiting to weigh in on the current global events, specifically the Paris Massacre and the ISIS situation, until I have had time to better educate myself. Unfortunately, aside from watching CNN as much as possible last saturday, I haven't been able to find credible information in the few spare minutes that I can find to look into the events. I don't know whether or not to fear for our country and our people or be proud of them. Social Media has me m...

Tolerance -                   (n.) The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.  There are now, and always will be, people and rules and laws that we just don't agree with. And sometimes, that really is just bull shit. Other times.... nope, it's still bull shit. At least that's how it feels in our minds. Yes there are those of us who are better at heart (like my beautiful and tolerant friend Becky) who don't think it's bull shit necessarily, but maybe think it's calf shit.... or at least that they are just plain old silly.  Growing up means that you have developed this thing we call a 'filter' that allows us to keep the thought of "that's bull shit" as just a thought. It doesn't pass through the filter to the mouth and come out in an audible fashion. Because that would be inappropriate in the least and politically...

thank·ful: adjective         expressing gratitude and relief. "an earnest and thankful prayer" I spent much of my work day yesterday listening to music on my radio and doing my mass emailing to old clients. Not exactly the most fun day, but nothing extraordinarily bad that I would consider it a "bad day". Just another day in the life of me.  But do you ever listen to the radio and that one throwback comes on and pulls you from reality to a reality from long ago that seems more like a dream anymore? That one song that just sort of pulls at the strings in your mind and makes you remember something that you had unintentionally pushed to the back of your mind as other memories had come and taken up that space where they once lived? Or maybe it's many memories. Or maybe it's a chain reaction. Maybe it started with the one memory but that memory snowballed into ten, twenty, a hundred others. That was my day yesterday. On occasion,...