Not Me Monday.

Here goes my first ever!

(Thanks for the fun Miss Robin, a real pro!!! - www.jenkatherines.blogspot.com)


All the things I did NOT do this week....
(all the things I really did do...)

I did not LOVE giving my dad the best birthday present EVER. Giant's home opener tickets!!! HUM BABY!!!

I did not love the super CUTE little neighbor boys buying the dogs toys at the pet store. Beyond CUTE!!!

I will not love making them paw print sugar cookies and a special thank you card from the pooches. (Dexter would have wanted it this way...)

I did not love spending a wonderful night with my 501!!! FINALLY!!! Gotta love those Halvo family sing alongs!

I did not LOVE dancing down my very first "Soul Train Lane" and with my pops on his birthday no less!

I did not love trying a tasty new drink, the Honeysuckle, at the Shady Lady on a special night out on the town with the fam. Planter's Punch too, yummmmm.

I did not love the super, wonderful, warm weather this week. Sunshine!!!

I did not love getting a start on planning the best birthday weekend bash EVER! :)


Post your not me Mondays.

(It's so much cheaper than therapy.)

Sunrise, sunset.

I always use to fight a deep, dark secret that I thought was totally nerdy and uncool.....

I'm a morning person.

I always wished that I was one of those people that stayed up until 1 or 2 in the morning, just because

- but -

I. just. can't. do . it.

I'm a morning person and I'm fully embracing it...I think you would too if you got to wake up to the beautiful new beginnings that I get to start my day with everyday....

Dexy

This is dexter AKA Brown Dog.

Dex was a lot of things to a lot of people.

He was my friend.

He was my little brother.

He was my 2nd son.

He was one of my boys.

He was Zig's brother.

He was my sisters world.

He was Herc's family.

He was my mom's pile of love.

He was my dad's very best friend.

He was a lot of things to a lot of people.

But above all of these things - he was LOVE.

Love, more love than any one person could handle.

Comforting, compassionate, unstoppable love.

I'll miss you forever and ever Dexy but I'll always remember wrestling with you, your happy feet, your hugs and of course, your love.

Love you brown dog. XOXO.

Bring on the monsters...

It's been too long since my last post and a few things have changed. Yes, I still plan on moving to LA in July. Yes, my plan is still on track (in fact I'm doing better at saving up that I thought I would, yipee!!!). My excitement and desire to move to LA are still as great as they ever were. In the last few months I'VE changed in a much bigger way than I ever thought. I've finally had the chance to really take the time and settle down with my inner "monsters" and figure out just what was stopping me in the past. I've wanted to move to LA for as long as I can remember but I was always so scared that I would be too lonely, or it would be too hard, or I would just fail miserably once I got there. I don't know why I had these fears and doubts in myself but in the last few months I've taken the time to challenge them. I realize now that if I risk nothing out of fear of failure - I will gain nothing. Even if I fail at something I know that I'll walk away a stronger person, have a better sense of myself and have one less fear of failure holding me back. Instead of running from my fears, worries and doubts I feel like I can easily sit down right next to them, feel them, understand them, learn from them and look out at my long life of endless possibilities and know that no matter what happens I can handle it all.

Last week I was thinking about the move and finally starting something I've always dreamed of doing when it hit me; the adventure that I was always so scared to start is already in full swing.