"Tragedy, sadness, loneliness, and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing..."

[happilyfreckled]

My interview at Bertucci’s went really well today. It was all thanks to Dan and to yoga.

Lately I cannot fathom a life without yoga. I only get the chance to go two times a week. I always attend the 12:15 - 1:15 “hour of power” class. Those days are the best two days of the week. Those are the days I feel stronger. I feel straighter. Its a physical

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[happilyfreckled]

It makes me happy to hear that you find my writing easy to follow and "hear." I love writing what I am thinking, but its hard for me to write papers for school because I tend to come up with the same words over and over and... its just not fun. Don't ever think that I am wiser than you! That is so not true! Everyone has their own kind of wise which makes it impossible to compare. You have this amazing emotional intelligence that I can't even dream of. People think I am dumb because when I talk to them I can't tell what they are thinking or feeling. They don't communicate themselves to me in a straight-forward way, they expect me to catch the emotional hints, and when I can't (which is almost always unless my stress levels are at ZERO), I am completely lost. Its a big problem in my life.

If you want to move out of state, it IS possible. I have been trying to figure out how people do this for the past few months because I want to move to CA in September... From talking to my mom and reading articles and stuff, I have learned that the way to do it is to open up a savings account and find a way to automatically transfer money into it. The account will grow without worrying about saving and I will be able to get by on a few less dollars a day because it will be like the money wasn't there in the first place.

That said, I have yet to actually do it. ha... But this morning I got an email from my mom about this cool thing and I am actually gonna! I just decided. I'll paste the email here so you can hear about it too:

"If you want, you could each open up a Savings account at Bank of America (in addition to your Checking account) and then sign up for their "Keep the Change" program. It works like this... Each time you use your DEBIT card to make a purchase, they round the amount up and put the "extra" into your Savings account automatically. Then, for the first 3 months, they match that extra amount in your Savings. After that, they match 5% of it. Free money :)
So, for example, you spend $3.43 at a store with your DEBIT card, they round that up to $4 and take $4 out of your checking. They pay the store the $3.43 and put the "additional" 0.57 that they took out of your checking account into your savings account. ($3.43 + $0.57 = $4.00). Then, during the first 3 months, they give you a matching amount (in this case, $0.57 for this one purchase), and then 5% of it after that. That's the free money part... They don't give it to you until a year after you opened the account and you still have to have the accounts open and still be on the program -- and the maximum you can get of "free money" each year is $250. Still, any amount of free money is nice, right?
Wanna do it?
mom"

LOVE,

~Regina

(PS - I made a comment on your Dec 17 post. I hate how LJ doesn't tell you when you get a new comment...)