A Little ♥ and Soul

If I were one of those people who posted personal ads on CraigsList, I would post something like this: I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.  Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument you realize you're wrong. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to take a nap when I was younger.  There is a great need for a sarcasm font. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? Was learning cursive really necessary? MapQuest really needs to start their directions at #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my own neighborhood. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died. I really can't remember the last time I wasn't at least a little tired. *ugh...word* Bad decisions make good stories. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you aren't going to do anything productive for...

So, I went to Seaside, OR today with my roommate, Kim. She's moving back to  Utah this weekend and I'll be leaving the end of July. Life has thrown wrenches into our plans for staying here in Oregon, but honestly, I'm pretty okay with moving. When it looked like I would have to move back home, I wanted to fight it, but I didn't feel like I needed to. It just feels like it needs to happen.  I'm a little sad that I'm leaving Oregon's fair weather summer for Utah's sometimes outrageous hot months. I have a 1 year plan to finish school and move to - maybe - Jacksonville, Florida. I guess we'll see where the year will take me.

Tomorrow is pay day and I've already burned through 3/4 of my paycheck. Of the things that I've budgeted this paycheck for, none of them aren't even remotely fun. There's my student loan, drivers license renewal (which I'm mad about because Utah doesn't do online renewals anymore), electric bill, phone bill, dentist appointment (for which I have to pay all expenses out of pocket), TriMet bus passes for two weeks, and an enrollment fee for a Medical Insurance Billing and Coding program I want to do. All of this leaves me very little to do any grocery shopping. Here in the Beaver State, I probably qualify for some sort of assistance. There's a lot of poor people here. A lot of people who work as hard as they can and yet, can't make ends meet for themselves let alone their families. It makes my head spin. I'm one of those people that hate asking for help for anything. I hate it. If I can do it on my own, I don't ask. Even if it means I go without ...

The past six months have gone by so fast! I've done things that I've sworn I wouldn't do. I've been jobless. I've never been so sick of rain. I thought that I would never in a million years miss snow, but I kind of do. I haven't missed my family this much in a long time either. I often sit on my balcony and think about all this changing I've been doing. Some of it hasn't been so great and I've done a u-turn, so to speak, to become a better person. On a nice day, this is what I get to enjoy. The clouds are usually more orange from the sun shining through them. Then they turn blue and purple and then, more often than not, the change makes me miss home. That's another thing that I thought would never happen in a million years. I miss home. Utah = home. As beautifully green as Oregon is, I miss the desert. How weird. I lived in Utah for over eight years and never in those years did I really consider Utah to be home. I guess it was home in the ...

So, I started this post a couple days ago with the intention of actually finishing it. But I didn't. Instead, I went to bed early because I've been sick. Last week, I was so violently sick, I had to stay in bed for 2 days. Two HORRIBLE days of chills, a fever and nausea. Thankfully I didn't vomit. I hate doing it. Anyway, whatever I had turned into an equally horrible cold. From Thursday through Saturday, I was out for the count. Sunday, I had to go back to work since I had already missed my shift on Friday. Thankfully I had a short shift because the thought of having to work a full shift made me even more tired than I already was. Monday, I went home early when my voice decided to take a hike. After lots of water and Gatorade and rest, I'm happy to report that I am on the mend. To say that I've been resting a lot would be an understatement. I literally have been sleeping and laying in bed as much as I can. Today, I woke up around 10 AM but stayed in bed till abou...

So. I guess I should update this blog once in a while. I haven't really done anything exciting. I did get a new roommate though. That's exciting, right? In honor of May starting, I started a photo a day project. So far so good. I should probably post some of the pictures here. Just thinking about all the copying and pasting though... makes me a little tired. a little not so patient to sit and copy the links from my instagram. I think I've fallen in love with Instagram. It's my new favorite app on my phone. Well, aside from Scramble and Words with Friends. I love my smartphone. uhm.. hm. I guess I need to do something a bit more exciting with my days off.

There is a certain website out there in the land of internet that has caught on like a wildfire. Seriously. If I didn't have to work and/or people just gave me money to sit around all day to play on this website, I probably, maybe would. Okay, maybe not all day. Anyway,  Pinterest  is probably one of the biggest time sucks out there. And I mean that in the kindest of ways. Basically, it's a virtual pin board for anything crafty, holiday ideas, clothes you want to try, recipes that make you salivate just thinking about them. It takes the manual labor out of the equation. No scissors. No glue. No buying poster boards. For OCD people like me, Pinterest keeps it all stored in one spot and arranges any post into the category of my choosing.  Anyhow, the whole point of me sharing this, is that on one of my pin boards, there is a certain pin that has reached epic proportions. I mean for someone who isn't in the business of photography or doing anything creative as a full ti...