Accomplishing Goals

Ready!

Tomorrow is another step towards my dreams coming true, Minnesota State Boards of Cosmetology Exam!! I’ve studied… I’ve heard it’s easy… and I’m ready for it to be over!!!  Helloooooooo futureeeeee :)

WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!

Smiles :)

In life right now I think it can be kind of hard to keep a smile on our faces.  I am not trying to brag, or talk myself up, but I honestly can sit here and tell you all that I cannot remember the last time I’ve had a bad day.  Yes, I have bad moments, but a full day lost to being bad, I haven’t had…  I really do find joy in just about everything in life.  I see the silver lining in every situation, and I try to always be grateful for what I do have instead of dwelling on what I do not. 

I don’t try to keep this happiness to myself, I try to send a smile to everyone around, and this is just a little something that I do for those I go to school with.

I make these “Take A Smile” posters… Each of those bottom smiles rip off, and on the back I put uplifting postive quotes on the back. 

I just hope these little smiles bring a smile to everyone’s face :)

This world is hard, but please never forget that the world is a better place because you are in it!

Eat Pray Love

I just got done watching the movie, Eat Pray Love, and that movie was such an inspiration to me!  It really made me want to take control of my own life, but yet at the exact same time let go of all I know and just let life take over. 

There was one line in that movie that stuck with me the most, “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”  How true is that?!?! 

I am in love with anything that inspires me, and that movie inspired me soo much, I do recommend it.  :)

Love Is A Funny Thing

Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and perfect moments that you find only in movies. You expect her to always say the right thing, and always know exactly how you feel, or exactly how to react to it. You expect her to calm you down when you’re yelling or to chase you when you run away. You expect so much that you feel entirely, and utterly defeated when something doesn’texactly match up with all your plans. But that’s the thing. Love isn’t a plan. It doesn’t havea certain beginning and it certainly has no end or visible finish line to those deeply in it.Love happens; it is so incredibly messy. People around you can’t comprehend why you dothe things you do, or why you fight so hard for something that seems to cause you somuch pain, because simply, they can’t see. They can’t see the invisible ring of insanitythat surrounds you when you’re in love. It’s inconvenient and painful and devastating at times, but we can’t live without it. What you don’t learn is how hard love is. How muchwork it takes. How much of ourselves we have to put into it. How it isn’t worth it until we are complete and utter idiots about it.

Love isn’t her calming you down when you yell. It’s her yelling, just as loud, just as hard, right back at you, right in your face to wake you up and to keep you grounded. It isn’t her/him bringing you roses everyday or cute things that make your relationship appear more presentable.

It’s after a long fight, that drains the life and bones right out of you both, and yet her showing up at your door the next morning anyway. It’s not her saying all the right things or knowing exactly how to handle you. So no, it’s not her caressing your hair and telling you everything is going to be alright. It’s her standing there, admitting she’s just as scared as you are. You have to remember that with love, you’re not the only one involved. You’ve unknowingly put your life, your heart into the palms of another persons hands and said,here. Do what you will. Mash it into mince meat. Or forget I ever handed it to you. Aslong as you have it.

It makes us crazy. It makes reality invisible and it erases all the lines that we shouldn’t cross. Because love isn’t about fencing ourselves in; feeling safe, feeling sure about the future. It’s about scaring the shit out of every nerve in our body, but pushing forward anyway. Because all the fighting and all the tears and all the uncertainty is worth it. And it’s a hell of a lot better, than being 100% happy without someone to show us that there is a world of a difference between feeling ‘happy’ and feeling whole.