I am 25 today. The same age my mother was when I was born. Despite the fact that I have an almost two year old myself it's a little trippy. Thinking about where she was right now (at Georgia Baptist in labor to be exact) but more so where she was in her life. I'm not sure how much more different our lives could be.

I'm at this huge crossroads in my ( Read more... )

was there no post secret today or did I just miss it somehow? 

Maybe I'm crazy but this story made me really sad for these childrenand a little angry at the parents.

As a parent how could you possibly let your child stop celebrating their birthday so they could focus instead on death? That just doesn't make sense to me. no one is saying the attacks on 9-11 weren't terrible, but for a child to stop celebrating ( Read more... )

Every year around this time I post a wish list. So in keeping with tradition I'm doing it again. Here's a list of things I  would really l like if anyone was so inclined:

1. Someone to pay for Lyra lessons for me. One lesson or a month or whatever. I really do not want to stop but things have changed and as it stands it looks like I've had my last ( Read more... )

never mind all of what I just typed. not something to say to the world.

i can say that i wish i would have updated before now. i would have been able to write all about my new job that i loved and this really sweet guy that  was seeing who seemed to really like me. For the first time in a year I was finally feeling like life was making progress. ( Read more... )

Remember my blurry phone photo of me doing a sit up on the Lyra about a month ago?

Well this one was two weeks ago:


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I really want to paint but I hav no supplies ( Read more... )

I love to tell this story about when I was in high school and climbed up stone mountain as part of a fundraiser. How I didn't think I could do it and my friend walked up with me subtly encouraging me and when we got to the top he told me "I knew you could do it."

Well this a few months back I was walking with that same friend and telling him about ( Read more... )

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