things don't stay the same. it might seem like it for days or weeks or months or even years. but don't believe it. things are always changing. and so are you.

fall makes me miss college. i miss walking everywhere, frequenting the outdoors. i miss familiar brick walkways and the familiar plants alongside. i especially miss the scent of tea olive blossoms adrift in the night air and the glow of the old-fashioned streetlamps along the horseshoe. i miss being day-to-day in a centralized area, no commute ( Read more... )

i am learning that i am more okay than i think i am. i am learning that i am still being provided for as much as i have always been. i am learning that it usually takes some self-perceived near disaster for me to relearn that ( Read more... )

okay, so i actually have been back from vacation for a while.... which is okay once you get used to it ( Read more... )

i am packing for vacation. i love that feeling. packing not just for a weekend, but a full slam week of doing whatever i want to do. which will be mostly laying in the sun reading. i am sooooooo excited! i mean, i love my job and have no complaints about my day to day existence. but i really need this ( Read more... )

i hate it when i'm impatient and not content in the moment. but that's how i am right now. *sigh*

however, i love love love love.

my hair is getting progressively grayer. i'm not a fan.

i must be old. i dearly hope that my oneday wedding happens before i have to start dying my hair regularly. i don't want to have to color my hair.

getting older has its +'s and -'s.

life is so short.

i'm gonna soak up the sun...
i'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up!

love you guys, but i'm rolling out of here after work! looking forward to a quiet weekend of eric, beach, and sunny charleston. :-)

and maybe the storms will clear out of the upstate? it's amazing how much we control the weather.

i am very satisfied with my job.

and yet i could never do enough.

but at least i know i am helping in some degree, from day to day.

and that's all i really want to do in life.