Thursday Things.

This Thursday is going to be a little different, only because I feel it relevant to do a post pertaining to my boys birthday yesterday.

So here it is:

Things I've learned from my boy.

-To always finish a race stronger than when you begin it. He always encourages me in a run to push myself especially within that last stretch when I'm feeling like I’ve been hit by a truck. With him by side, I'm encouraged to run faster, stronger, and longer. Not only in a race but also in life. 

-To find a source of motivation, whatever it may be. Find the motivation for whatever you want to do and go after it. Don't look back. 


-Don’t worry about what other people think. Bottom line. Their opinion should not affect your actions, no one should be standing in your way.

-In a relationship, you need to be a team. If your in it together, it will work.  Just be a team. 

-No sense in crying over spilled milk. If something happens, crying, worrying, or stressing will not fix it. So let it be, because it's already been done. 

-Open your mind. You can't live life freely, if your constantly closing everything off. You have to open your mind, widen horizons to really be able to see. 

-Honesty is the best policy. Especially with the person you love. If you can be open with them, then things are easier all around. 

He's pretty special, and I am unbelievably blessed. 

Happy Birthday

to this handsome man of mine, and my best friend. This man who has taught me show much, and loved me through all my faults, and truly makes me smile. 

Cheers to the big 2-0! 

Happy Birthday T. 

Love you with all my heart. 

Happy Hump Day, I'll be back tomorrow with some things boyfran has taught me, but 

for now I am going to spending the day celebrating him! 

Summertime come quick.

I think I've mentioned this before, but Texas really loves to skip right over spring. In fact the only true differences I can pinpoint between spring and summer are:

1.The bluebonnets, they only lasts about a few weeks because it gets way too hot for them to stand.
2. Instead of everyday being 90-105 degrees, it's only about 80-85.
3. It rains a lot, bringing out all the stops with tornadoes, hail, and flooding of roads.


Regardless, by the end of April, summer will be here in full force. Even though I am pretty positive the calendar places the first day of summer in mid June.  In other words, I am about done with school, and it's beginning to feel like summertime is within reach. I only have 4 weeks exactly left from tomorrow. To make it better that includes finals week. So 3 more weeks of class, 1 of which is only spent reviewing. We can go ahead and cancel out dead week and finals week. So thats 2 more weeks of class, 1 week of review, and 1 week of no class and just tests. In other words, spring 2012 is coming to a close faster than I'm prepared for. To add a cherry on top, I only have 3 finals ( 1 online, 1 like any normal test in that class, and 1 real final). I finish all my major due dates on April 26 and I am strongly trying to hold out until then before I shut down. Life is moving quickly, but I am excited for the things to come.


This summer is holding some exciting things in store, and I find out more fun stuff with each coming week, so I'm more ready than ever.

4 more mondays, lets go, lets go.

Easter measter.

I don't know what that means but I liked the rhyming sound of it, so I went with it.

How was your weekend? Mine was truly perfection.

I found myself wanting to spend endless amounts of time with my mom. We got pedicures, saw the hunger games (finally, I know), worked a little bit, shopped, went on a walk ( I ran, she walked), and ate lots of yummy meals that included fro-yo for dessert. Maybe it's the fact I know she is leaving for New York in a week, but either way I was craving some mamma me time, and I got the best of time in return. It was a great weekend. Then yesterday, I spent the morning at church, ate a tiny lunch with my fam, and another tiny lunch with T's fam. He has 3 younger siblings, and since my niece and nephews are far away, it was fun to be able to watch some young ones go for an Easter egg hunt. I just feel like it's not Easter without it. Still getting over the fact that I am not little anymore, which means no egg/candy/money hunting for me. It was a perfect day and I pretended like I was out of school until my 6 am alarm clock went off this morning.

I had quite the monday morning drive back to school this morning. Just imagine a lot of fog, some sprinkles of rain, and too much traffic. It was real exciting, and I've yet to finish a cup of coffee so I'm to bury myself in my books and hopefully get some coffee in the system.


Happy Monday!

Unexpected Change

It seems we all go through times of change in our lives, and occasionally it feels as though we are watching ourselves from the outside shape into a person. It's like I can feel myself growing into myself, into who I'm really supposed to be and the person on the outside is who I currently am. It's like a file on a computer, I would be the file labeled as pending, or in progress. As days progress, I try to hold onto everything, capture every memory, and feel the sunshine against my face. But I find myself in another place, getting so lost in the ability to take everything in that I lose the moment as a whole. Then there is these pockets of time I remember so distinctively, every tiny detail, and their the moments I wasn't even paying attention to at the time. Moments where someone pushed me out of my comfort zone to complete. Like this one time at night before my boyfriend was heading off to a different state, we climbed over a fence, and found ourselves in the middle of an empty soccer field under a blanket of stars, gripping each others hand, but breathing out laughter into the empty sky. Or this other time I found myself on the balcony of a back porch smoking my first cigar, that was grape. I don't even like grape flavored things, I hate them. But why do I remember the moments that I don't even mean to capture.  Well, I sat down to read a book tonight, a book I've been long anticipating to get into my hands. A story of someone's story, that all started with her wanting to write her own story because she read an inspiring one herself. It was all about finding beauty in the unexpected. I cozied up into the bathtub with candles, hot tea, and some good music. I automatically felt content, but as I read about how one's life can change in a matter of seconds, I realized people change in a matter of time because of those unexpected circumstances that occur. A concept, I've hated to grasp. That the people in my life who mean so much to me, who I've known one way for so long can all the sudden become something else, someone else. Hopefully, always for the better whether I am able to see that or not. But regardless, were in all the process of change. I suppose continuously. As we grow, we are exposed more and more to the world around us every day. To the heat against our face as sweat drips into our eyes and down the back of our necks, to the simple friendly encounters we have with strangers, or the the familiar smells we find that quickly take us right back. We become vulnerable, and I think thats when we truly are able to capture those moments of time. When were in a state with no walls and we feel it all, no restraints, no constrictions. We feel every bit of the moment, and we become more and more ourselves. Each of those vulnerable moments is shaping us into who were supposed to be. I guess, the unexpected is where true beauty lies. 

Motivation Wednesday

I am feeling the brunt of the middle of the week. Mostly because I skipped on back home yesterday afternoon and got on a weekend high until 6am  this morning it came to my realization that I had to go back to school for 2 more days of hard work. I am furiously working hard to get ahead in anticipation for some more middle of the week events happening. I usually let everything pile up until the weekday where I just sit and conquer my huge to do list. But lately, I've been spending the weekends working on some stuff to free up my week days for studying. Really I am ready for summer, which is crazy to say because I am going to be busy beyond belief if everything goes according to plan. I am planning to take a 2 week may minimester course for English, will be painfully quick. Can you believe they are capable of shoving 1 semester into 2 weeks (4 hours, 10 school days). I am nervous. However, It will be nice to be free of school before the end of May. I am also going to be nannying/babysitting, either one for a close family about 40 hours a week. So, to say I am excited is strange, but I am so ready to settle into a routine at home. Ready to get a day mapped out with consistent plans including work, school, workout.

In the meantime, here is your wednesday motivation to get you through, you can do it!

Happy Hump Day! 

New Hobby?

Maybe it's the fact I don't have an oven of school, which means I am incapable of cooking any amount of sweet and gooy goodness. Which in turns requires me to take all that restricted cooking energy and put it into full force come the weekend at home. Whatever it is, I have had major urges to bake over the weekend. I usually only get around to one thing that we have the ingredients for, but it always makes for relaxing afternoon spent baking. I used to be a terrible baker and cook, always forgetting an ingredient or substituting what I thought would work (and is never even close). But ever since pinterest came about, I find lots of easy, straightforward recipes, and I am on my way to becoming quite the little baker. Watch out world, just kidding, but really.  So I woke up friday morning, cleaned up the kitchen, did the dishes, and of course decided to bake after everything was clean. Couldn't find all the ingredients for 2 things I was wanting to make, so went ahead and stood in the pantry for a good 10 minutes, before I saw a box of yellow cake mix screaming out to me. I decided to make some cake batter cookies with chocolate chips, which let me tell you smells like a mix between an ice cream and cupcake shop.

Happy Monday!