Happy New Year :)

Wow, what a year!  One of ups and downs and out and abouts :)  Let's have a look at last year's goals and then we will get on with my 11 for 2011!

So this year I have decided to have 10 Goals for 2010!

-Run a 5k-Check!  I ran the Race for Life this past June :)

-Save 10-15% from my salary starting in January-Somewhat...My hours were ( Read more... )

'Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.'

-Maya Angelou

 Some days I wake up and I just MISS home.  For no reason whatsoever.  I just want to be back in the humidity, breathing in the magnolias and confederate jasmine and eating drop biscuits and drinking ice cold, sweet tea.  Rambling around in flip flops, shorts, and sporting my ever famous 'farmer's tan'.  Squinting into the sun at 7 am and basking ( Read more... )

The obligatory Christmas/New Year's/overall catch up post :)

November and December were kinda rocky months for me...coming to grips with being here (yes, it takes awhile) and realising a few truths about myself that maybe I didn't really want to admit.  We went down to the in-laws for Christmas and I only cried on Christmas day, during the meal.  ( Read more... )

You are right, I miss what I had. My busy life, my students, my teachers, my friends. I miss my days spent texting Jess about food and R about when he was home from the gym. I miss my little apartment that was so stifling and small but quaint and cosy and my home for 3 years. I miss familiarity and green tea and good cheap sushi. I miss buses that ( Read more... )

I don't think I will ever understand the emotions and feelings I go through when someone comes back into my life.  Particularly when they come back and are how I used to want them to be.  Not the way they were when they left. when I left, but how I had always imagined they should be.  I am happy and excited because these are always the ones you ( Read more... )

Some days I wake up and wonder where my Southern perky self has gone...I know it is all part of my 'adjustment' period and yada yada yada but Jesus, does it ever get easier?  I am fine today, was fine yesterday...had a few blips over the weekend.  I remember this time 3 years ago when I was in Japan-God, how I cried and yelled and hated the fact ( Read more... )

Yeah, so much for killing myself to be 'gluten-free'.  I just realised my porridge that I eat EVERY morning has gluten in it....Am I just an idiot?  haha 

"Everything in Africa bites.
The lion bites, the mosquito bites, the tse tse fly bites.
But what bites the most is Africa herself,
and when she bites,
she never lets you go."
     -Unknown

Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make .