When I grow up...

I've decided when I grow up...I want to be Betty Lou.

Who's Betty Lou?

Oh only the most fabulous, wonderful, courageous, beautiful, funny, compassionate, kind, and MANY, many more things that I can't even list it will take this whole website.

I just adore her.

She's the kind of woman you can't help but love.
She's so witty
She's so kind.
And she's got the knees of a forty year old.

Everyone has to meet her

and

if you don't...that's your loss.

When I live my life now...I tap into three (3) people:

My inner Beyonce
My inner Adele
and my inner Kelly Clarkson.

When I grow up...

I'm definitely tapping into my inner Betty Lou. Which means I'm going to live until I'm 120...

Betches!

The job I didn't get

So...I applied to be an "Orientation Leader" at the University this semester.

I didn't get it. :(

I wasn't devastated I didn't get it though.

I'm not sure if that means I really didn't want it, or I've learned how to deal with rejection...

really well.

Hmph!


Perhaps I figured I wasn't going to get it, after the second interview. I think that I got along with the ladies just fine, and the interview went well, but I think the interviewer felt it was going to be difficult for me to juggle SMP as well as being an Orientation leader.

Which I definitely understand.
From an employer's standpoint.

I even started to second-guess myself, and that's when I realized "meh, whatever happens, I'm happy."

So...this summer is dedicated to hanging out with my homies on a regular basis.
Going to the Drive-in.
Throwing dinner parties.
Going to Washington.
Attending lots of Free and expensive events such as:

Concerts
Musicals
Art Galleries
and
Movies.

This summer is dedicated to fun. No School. No Homework. No ambitious remedies to "fix my life".

It's just about me, and my pals and working.

I CAN'T WAIT!

Back to the Grind.

I wrote this with one person in mind, and I actually wrote it in two parts.


It was suppose to be sort of a progressive story, but it became difficult trying to make the two parts fit, cohesively. 


I'm not sure it's even done, but I'm sure it's ready to be read: 


Sypnosis: This is a story about a man I loved. A man I wanted to love. A man who, really, was just an idea. These are all the things I never said, all the things I should have said, and all the things I didn't want to say, but finally had to--in order to move on.

To you 

There was a man, I loved--

once.

A man who told me

life was a dream.

We smiled.

We laughed.

We fought--

endlessly.

It was hypocrisy 

when I left him.

I had to stumble 

right back.

I thought I belonged.

The more I saw--

the more I wanted him

 gone.

So I wept

and I yelled

and I got angry.

Nothing.

There was a man--

I loved 

once.

He left me,

for a man he loved

more.

I'm still standing.

Smiling...

Melancholy.

As the 

Thunder,

and lighting.

Strike.

I wait as the onyx

night sky,

becomes the sun

peaking o'er the morning 

hills.

Milliseconds.

Seconds.

Minutes--pass

and I wait

(wait)

as life goes by.

It ends

I awake,

and I'm alive.

and to you--

all I can say/is

(Goodbye.)

There was a man

I loved--

once.

Kelly Clarkson...I hate her!

I really don't.

Actually, I adore Kelly Clarkson. That's just shout out to Wendy Kimble.

I've been listening to her new album STRONGER...on REPEAT. It plays constantly:

While I'm sitting.
While I'm standing.
While I'm showering.
While I'm sleeping...

ALL. THE. TIME.


I love this album SO much.


One of the best songs off the album is a song called What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger).


Which takes the old adage in a rock-esque perspective. I can't help my rock out when I listen to this song.
It's quite liberating.

So...I thought I would share it with everyone.

ROCK ON!

Yes...another one.

I absolutely ADORE this:



I love it because--

1.) It's completely true.
2.) Maya Angelou said it (She is sowise).
3.) Because not only does it apply to how we see other people, but it also applies to how people see us.

I think that, yes, it is about learning that what people show me/I is the truth, but it also means that we/us consciously have to continue being people that we want others to accept the first time, and not learn the 29th time they don't want to be around us.

Lovely. 

Become Better...

It's interesting the way things come into our lives RIGHT when we need them...

I was watching Oprah the other day...I adore Oprah.

It was her Life Class.

She was talking about Anger. 


Coincidentally I had been dealing with anger at this time.

I always thought Anger (Grrr) was just an emotion everyone had to deal with. Including me, and I had been angry before, and I dealt with it.

This time though. I was furious. FUMING. I was so angry, and I saw that this angry only fueled other "Anger's" in my life, even more.

I'm not really an angry person.

This day... I was.

So, I sat down watched Oprah, and this it what she said to me:




:) I love that..."Not only was she laughing, but she's shopping at Tiffany's"

This has become one of the greatest lessons I think I'll ever learn, and has become one of my daily Mantra's...

Don't become bitter; become better.



So, we must all feel anger. We are human, but we must also allow anger to pass over us like the onyx night sky, and search for the sunlight that peaks over the six o' clock hills. Anger is normal. It is when we allow anger to settle within us it develops into bitterness and resentment, and that is where sadness lives.

This Time

I guess life is suppose to be complicated sometimes.

At least. It should be. If it isn't, why are we here?

I was on Facebook. When a friend posed this question...

What are emotions? 


My Response?

...

That's where I feel something. Then you feel something. Then we feel something together. "Your 


Perfect. Your perfect. So, we're perfect together." Sort of thing. Synergy. Etc.


Yeah. That's a reference to Wicked: The Musical. 


Anyways the point?


Emotions...at least to a point are within us, not to understand and not to complicate, but they are there to connect us. With emotions we relate to one another. It is why we have one another. To love. To hate. To envy. To enjoy. Emotions create synergy. 


I love that. 


S Y N E R G Y. What a beautiful concept. The idea that the whole  is greater than the sum of it's parts. 


Just  an idea. :)