Happy Birthday!

Birthday shout out to my awesome friend, James Kulzer. This post is strictly for you, and you only- to celebrate the day you were expelled from your mothers uterus. I can't wait to show you the video I got of your dance moves Saturday night. You had no idea :)

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Words of the wise.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.  –Audrey Hepburn 

Smart girl. 

Relief.

Yesterday I started to feel this serious sense of relief. Right now, a little annoyed. Let me break it down for you. Last Sept. I moved in with a girlfriend of mine. A girlfriend that I differ from 100% but don't get me wrong we've always gotten along well- for the most part. Over time, we've just discovered that co-existing together is not working. I had been thinking about this annoying, frustrating conversation I was going to have to have with her for the last 4(ish) months. Well, that convo. happened Thursday night and yesterday (Friday) we decided she is moving out by this coming Thursday. Thursday I will be able to breathe again. It's unfortunate things happened this way but it did, life is crazy, and things needed to change. And her boyfriend, who is my boyfriend's friend, just walked out of her room and called me classy. If by classy you mean, things aren't working out with your girlfriend, yes, I am veryyy classy. It's okay. I'm not feeding into stupidity. I'm so excited for something different. And to have not one ounce of negativity or pessimism while I'm at my own home. YES!  All the big shit in our apartment is hers- couches, dinning room table and chairs. I find myself thinking, "I'd rather not have those things for a short while than have things be the way they have been the last couple months" Sometimes you just can't make it work even when you try hard to do so. And that's okay. 


I went for an hour long walk the other night with one of my girlfriends who I don't see all too often these days. Someone who used to be my best friend ever. It was so nice and so refreshing to talk and be outside. I have really started appreciating the relationships I still have with people. Especially when those relationships started years and years ago. I have done so much growing and changing and so have other people, that sometimes life goes in the complete opposite way that you expect it to. I find it so comforting when I get together with a girlfriend and I still feel such an awesome connection with them and still have the same appreciative feelings I had for them years ago. That is so important and I feel so lucky to still have them. 

Next week I'm going to feel a crazy amount of weight lifted off my shoulders. I'm going to do some deep cleaning and organizing once all her things are out. And I will have so much room to do activities! 

 

Another happy Friday.

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." -Ruth E. Renkl

Have a fun, safe Memorial weekend, friends!

A lifetime spent chasing the sun.

This is the gift- to have the wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy. 

- Abraham Mostow 

Allow yourself the freedom to grow and expand. Form the habit of saying yes to your own potential. Take time to think of all the reasons why you can and will embrace wondrous new possibilities and adventures. 

- Don Ward

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. 

-Joshua Loth Liebman 

Live simply; love lavishly. 

-Michael Nolan 

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, "You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice."

-Leo Buscagilo 

Go out and make a difference in your community. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch you heart start beating.

- Barbara Sher 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 

-Pablo Picasso 

Happy Sunday. 

I'm back from Cali and so ready to get back to my normal work week.

Happy Monday.

Nicely said. 

Cali recap post coming soon. 

Happy Monday! 

Serious detox starting tomorrow upon my return from San Fran.

I love people.

I wanted to blog so bad at the airport in Mpls on Thursday but I couldn't get my internet to work. I even tried to blog using my phone but for some reason I wasn't able to write once I got to this page. Anyways, my time there was hilarious. I found myself smiling and even laughing out loud frequently.  I first of all wish I didn't get that nervous feeling I always get before I'm about to fly. Or I should say, before I even get to the airport. I was telling Joel about my feelings on the drive there and he suggested that he just go in my place. "It'll be hilarious, I'll show up with all your things, in your clothes... Hey! It's me!" At that point I thought of Rob Schnider in Hot Chick "It's meee, Jessicaa!" Eh, I'm not that nervous. So the nervous feeling I had soon vanished as I got all checked in and was contently waiting by my gate. The laughter did start before then though, as I over heard a lady standing behind me in line asking her children if they left their fireworks at home. I immediately thought of Nick Swardson's skit about bringing roman candles on an airplane. So I'm sitting there, trying to get my internet to work. There's a little boy behind me, I can see him in the reflection on my laptop screen, and I can feel him bouncing up and down and shaking the entire row of seats I'm sitting on. He's growling and making hilarious noises and I'm laughing because his mother has absolutely no control. I'm starting to hear yelling a ways down. I look around and notice there's a lady to my right and a couple sitting right next to her talking about this woman who's on the phone and yelling. This woman is probably two gates down and has her back facing towards me. I am just drawn to this woman and her conversation, as is everyone else around us. Of course there's a guy right to the left of this lady I'm trying to look at, but he's sitting closer to me, in my square of seats. And of course he thinks I keep looking at him. We started doing that thing were every time I would turn to look at this loud lady, we would make eye contact, and whether you want to make eye contact with this person, you do anyways. This gets me laughing again. Great, this guy thinks I want him to approach me. He eventually gets up and moves closer, to the group of seats right next to me. Stop. If only you knew, I was interested in the raging woman on the phone, who's side profile reminded me of Bernie Mac. At this point this woman has been approached by two separate ladies working at the airport, the second woman who's mouth I noticed was saying, "It's okay, I need you to calm down." As the woman is wiping her eyes with a Kleenex. So now I hear the announcement that my plane is boarding. The guy sitting next to me seriously stood up and waited there for a moment. Totally obvious that he wanted to say something to me. I looked in his direction, but didn't make eye contact, gave him the go-ahead-and-go-look, there's no reason to wait for me. So he's about 12 people ahead of me once I actually get in line and he keeps turning around and smiling at me. This is hilarious. I'm laughing of course and at the same time he probably thinks I'm smiling back at him. Stop turning around! Luckily, I was nowhere near him once we got on the plane and I sat next to a lovely older couple who was going to Sonoma for some wine tasting retreat. I finished reading The Happiness Project and busted out my ipod. I told the lady next to me to nudge me if my music was too loud. She didn't, but there is no way she didn't hear my loud Tiesto podcast beats. She was probably just letting me live it up. All in all, it was a good flight. I couldn't get warm for the life of me but hey! situations aren't always perfect. I'm on my way to Cali, I refuse to complain.