outpouring of quotes...

i have so many i need to share...i hope one is what you are needing in your life right now:

-"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

-"When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and i told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

"Sitting next to you doing absolutely nothing means absolutely everything to me." - Anonymous

"Everday is an opportunity to be creative.
The cavas is your mind,
The brushes & colours are you thoughts and feelings,
The panorama is your story,
The complete pictures is a work of art called 'My Life',
Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today,
IT MATTERS" - Anonymous

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule" - Buddha

"To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"To be nobody but yourself in a world thats doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Appenheim

that is all for this evening! i hope you all had a Merry Christmas. someday i will get time to post pictures. i am so excited to share with you what i got!

p.s. it is a freakin blizzard outside.. time to curl in a ball, cry, and guage my eyes out... that doesn't sound depressing at all.

life these days...

most people know i am not a fan of winter. but sometime last week i woke up to a winter wonderland. snow can be a very beautiful thing. this particular morning it was. it was that really fluffly snow that sticks to the trees. snow covering trees = beauty. snow cover streets = panic attacks. as you can see from the pictures below it was a snow that covered the trees but left the streets in good condition, i had to snap some pics on my way to work, it was to hard to resist:

this last week we had Mia while my brother and the rest of his family went to Hawaii (not fair). i totally tried talking my little nephew into taking his place but he wouldn't go for it. crazy huh? someday i will go.. someday i will go... (i just have to keep telling my self that).

she was so precious. i miss coming home from work and having the little girl come running up to me smiling, welcoming me home.

(me & mia enjoying some Tigger Movie...she totally has my bottom lip ;))

i apologize for my lack of blogging. i could go on and on with excuse but don't we all not have enough time this time of year?

instead i will update you on life which is pretty much the same thing:

work is busy. busy, busy, busy. there have been some changes which give me a lot more work to do. it does make the days go by faster. yay!

i have had christmas parties galor. i have a nature to plan things so i usually end up being the planner for most of them. i had a friend, work, and church one to plan this year. they are all over and were a succesful hit. phew!

i have also come to the conclusion that i am a hoarder. maybe just like 1/4 hoarder. don't think i am crazy. at least i admit unlike all you unadmiters out there. i have recently moved into a new living space and i have so much crap. i hoard. but i am improving and throwing a lot of unnecessaries away. thank you!

i will post pictures of the new space shortly. i need to make a trip to Ikea asap to get some additional furniture and it will not be complete until that is done. i am excited to show ya!

i hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and do not forget the reason we celebrate this time of year: the birth of our Lord & Savior.

oh, and just in case: Happy New Year!

i am absolutely loving Joshua Radin's new album. i can't get enough of it. you gotta check it out!

my near death experience...

ok not really...

but we can pretend.

so Saturday evening about 8ish i am sitting home alone in my room watching Hawaii 5.0. (new favorite show)

all of a sudden i hear all thes loud banging noises

freaked out

i paused my show and just sat there. i literally had nothing in me to move my body. i couldn't yell or move an inch. i thnk i may have blinked a few times but that was it

after about sitting there for 3 minutes in totally silence i got the nerve to get up

i had some scissors sitting on my floor from Christmas wrapping. i grab them and held on for dear life

as soon as i reached the doorway to leave my room i heard the garage door go up

i booked it up the stairs and saw as the door was going up my dad pulling in

for a moment i thought it was him doing something outside and a waive a relief washed over me

and than it hit me that he was just barely pulling in, it happened over 3 minutes ago

as soon as he got out i asked him if he did anything outside and he said he just barely got there

great, i thought....

now i have to search the house

oh of course my dad wouldn't come do it so i held on to those scissor, went downstairs, and started searching

at last i came to my mom's old salon and found this:

now can you realize why i was so freaked out?

three doors falling over makes A LOT of noise.

do you get the music chills?

i sure do! all the time. some music just hits the spot and gives me a skin orgasm as this article says... eek, who knew?? (never thought i would write something like that on my blog)
you gotta read this article:
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/10/5619731-messiah-give-you-chills-thats-a-clue-to-your-personality?gt1=43001
i tend to get them on my scalp more than anywhere else.
i am curious if you all do too... let me know!

oh the joys of Christmas!

owls

i am having a tiny obsession with owls these days. they are super cute.

i found this blog called My Owl Barn where you can choose from a variety of cute original owl pictures to make your own 2011 calender. i did it and now have the cutest calender for my desk for this upcoming year! yay!

here is the link once more. enjoy!

slacker... but i am making up for it.

i am a slacker...

this what winter does to me. i am to cold to do anything! and blogging tends to fall at the bottom of the list to do. this week has been a crazy work week. i have had two early days (one extremely early) and it has thrown me all off. my body likes a set schedule M-F and than a not set schedule Sat/Sun. its just how i roll.

but i have been keeping up with my blogs and wanted to share one. you a fan of freebies like me? check out Benign Objects. they are having 25 days of freebies and giveaways. so far i have gotten me quite the collection of free printable gift tags. now i just need a printer to print them...hmm.

today has been a good day, which i am determined means it will be a great weekend. hopefully that means i can get all my Christmas shopping done. hope yours is wonderful!