To the Mature and Beautiful 28 Year Old

Happy birthday to me!

Yes, I have accepted the fact that I am getting older and I love it! I think my looks are improving and I am certainly more wise.

What else can a girl ask for?

So Excellent

I finally finished this book today and I'm kind of sad about it. I don't want to write a review or anything but, I do recommend it to one and all. I now want to sell everything and move away to three fabulous locations for one year. Especially Italy, but I envy her experience in India most of all. Bali sounds beautiful and romantic, I guess I would love to visit all three. There were a few experiences that she had that really opened my eyes and made me think, one of which I wrote about in an earlier post. So, if you haven't read it, read it. Even if you're a man, I think you should read it.
But you don't have to take my word for it..................

Thoughts (Part Deux)

I came upon a section in Eat Pray Love that was meant for me to read. Do you ever do that? Read something and know it was written especially for you to read at the exact time you needed it?

I used to pride myself on the fact that people would tell me how positive I was, so fun-loving, what a great outlook on life I had, that nothing could get me down. Well, that was a long time ago. I am not that person anymore............and I HATE it. I remember how I felt, I remember how I thought, but, what I don't remember is how I lost it or how to get it back. What happened that changed me? It has been such a slow process that I wouldn't even be able to put my finger on it. This might sound really egotistical and big-headed, but I was one of the coolest girls I knew. If I wasn't me, I would want to be my friend. I loved everything and everyone. I loved to be included and I liked to include others. It made for really fun times with a lot of really fun people.

That being said, I am on a quest. A quest to find me again. A quest to get all of the negative crap out of my head. A quest to re-discover that life is great, yet it's only as great as I let it be. A quest to become the best person I can be and as the years go by, keep on getting better.

WARNING: This is a beyond-long post. You can stop now if you like. Although you are certainly welcome to continue.

........... an excerpt of what I read.
(This is Elizabeth Gilbert writing about her own self discovery)

"You may not come here anymore with your hard and abusive thoughts, with your plague ship of thoughts, with your slave ships of thoughts, with your warships of thoughts--all these will be turned away. Likewise, any thoughts that are filled with angry or starving exiles, with malcontents and pamphleteers, mutineers and violent assassins, desperate prostitutes, pimps and seditious stowaways--you may not come here anymore, either. Cannibalistic thoughts, for obvious reasons, will no longer be received. Even missionaries will be screened carefully, for sincerity. This is a peaceful harbor, the entryway to a fine and proud island that is only now beginning to cultivate tranquility. If you can abide by these new laws, my dear thoughts, then you are welcome in my mind--otherwise, I shall turn you all back toward the sea from whence you came.
That is my mission, and it will never end."

Her mission has become mine. Unless I want to continue on the path I have been treading (which I don't) I need to take action. Now. My brain needs a permanent respite.

One Of My Favorites

Here is one of my favorite pictures that Erica took.

Once again, you did an awesome job!


Ok, maybe one more.