Show us your life: Livingroom!

Lets try something different tonight...Ill join in on my first ever blog hop, thanks to Kelly at Kelly's Korner, and show off our livingroom. Its nothing fancy, just live in an apartment, but it works for us. :)
Ill preface this by saying just about everything in our apartment is from IKEA.

First we have our entertainment center. We dont have cable so we have a LOT of dvd's.

Then we have our wall of photos. (This was before we put pictures in the frames.) We have a crib because my parents used to do infant foster care and my sister has two boys, 1 and 4 yrs old, who we help care for sometimes.

Last we have our couches. Oh and our ceiling fan! Big savior in Arizona. These couches are awesome because the covers can come of and be washed, and if we every choose to change colors we can easily do that too. That comes in very handy when we have a puppy and small children around.

This last picture just shows the true color of our walls. They are much more teal than they look in all of the previous pictures.

emptiness

i feel empty tonight.
like everything has been drained out of me.
im financially drained, emotionally drained, physically drained.
i have invested so much lately into everything around me, and i dont feel like i am getting anything back.
i need to get something back.
selfish as that may sound.
i need to take a minute for me.
to not worry about anything or anyone else but me.
but i feel like i have to play catch up all the time.
i worry that one morning i will wake up and everything will have moved on.
i will still be stuck working at the y, 20 years old, in college, and they will be gone.
off to their marriages or kids or new careers...
i just dont want to be left in the dust.
uuuuuugh.

the winds of change

things change. they are changing around me right now.
i long for change for myself, but it scares the crap out of me.
how do i know this is what i want an not what i think i want because someone tells me i should?
what do i even want?
up until about a year ago, i knew what i wanted.
finish my degree.
get married.
have babies.
be a stay at home mom.
i guess thats what i still really long for, but i had to go and complicate it by wanting it all with a girl.
maybe i shouldnt want that. maybe its not really right. maybe it really is an "abomination" and this is God's way of punishing me. by crumpling up my dreams that ive had since i was little one by one.
i just wish i knew.
i want so badly to force pieces of my life together.
to avoid pain.
but all i think im doing is hurting myself more.
i need to figure me out.
what i want.
who i want.
who i am.
what i want to do with my life.
i cant keep doing things because i think someone else wants me to.
i have to stop seeking approval from everyone in my life and for once live for me.
but what i really want? those dreams ive had since i was a little girl? not so simple.
yet everyone around me seems to be getting just exactly what I want.
it just doesnt seem fair.

i need to step back.
re-evaluate my goals.
i feel like i SHOULD stay at the Y because its related to what im getting my degree in.
the Y is comfortable for me.
its building a foundation for me.
a foundation i sure as hell need when i graduate from college.
but is that where i want to be?
some days, yes.
most days, no.
i love the mission, i love the people, but is that enough to stay in a job for?
i dont think so anymore.
but how do you tell that to a person who has been mentoring you, expecting you to be staying with the company, expecting you to be loyal?
thats the part i dont know.

the winds of change may be coming for me.
i think i might put a foot out there. into unknown territory for me.
we will see what comes of it.

i can relate

i can relate to how she feels in this video.
not a bad thing.
i love that i can have those feelings for someone.
i never thought i would.



I think I was 12
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here i am again

so school started, and so far its not too bad. of course, i havent even had all of my classes yet. haha.
i have high hopes for this semester. it always starts that way. ive even made flash cards!!!
lets see if it keeps up this way.
ive managed to make my brain SHUT UP and stop driving me nuts and i am happy now.
i am comfortable.
i like it.
this year needs to hurry up and end.
this semester i know is going to draaaaag by, but i would be ecstatic if it flew by.
im ready for next year.
i graduate at the end of next year!
thats exciting. and suuuper scary.
that means i have to be a grown up.
pay off loans.
do grown up things.
think about the future.
have a real career.
thats the scary part. i dont know what i want to do.
still working on that.
i am jealous of people that know what they want to do. who have a plan for their lives. hopefully i will get there eventually. hopefully within the next year and a half...

how i feel

this article: http://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-weekend-crush.html
and the article it links to: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/fashion/01Love.html

well thats how i feel.

i would go anywhere, do anything, whatever you ask...

i just hope it doesnt end.

Back to School...

...Back to School, to Prove to Dad that I'm not a Fool.

I am really hating August so far.
I am hoping it gets a little better.