Before I go. I wanted to share my new favorite commercial series. If you have not seen this yet, then you don't watch BASEBALL. But, I had to share it. My huge crush on Jim Halpert/Jim Krasinski has magnified now that I see him as a Red Sox Fan. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Exactly One Week Left!
I have one week until I turn 32. I am pretty excited for this upcoming year. In one week I will stop writing at this blog and scoot on over to My Next Journey.
Before I go. I wanted to share my new favorite commercial series. If you have not seen this yet, then you don't watch BASEBALL. But, I had to share it. My huge crush on Jim Halpert/Jim Krasinski has magnified now that I see him as a Red Sox Fan. Enjoy!
Before I go. I wanted to share my new favorite commercial series. If you have not seen this yet, then you don't watch BASEBALL. But, I had to share it. My huge crush on Jim Halpert/Jim Krasinski has magnified now that I see him as a Red Sox Fan. Enjoy!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Almost There (Less then 2 Weeks Left.)
It seems as though so many people are leaving Blogger and it kind of makes me a little sad. It is like starting all over again. But it also reminded me of why I started this blog in the first place. I wanted to learn a little bit more about myself in the past year. On my journey forward. I am going to be 32 in less then two weeks and what have I learned? So very much.
I gained some new friends with this blog. Far away friends. Friends that live in my phone and computer. It would be nice to bridge that gap someday. Maybe Someday.
I learned that I am not angry anymore. I am not broken and I am not alone anymore. This has been one of the best years of my life. In all honesty. For so many different reasons. I feel as though I am a different person. More grown up (in a sense). My passion for things have changed. But my passion is still there. Just "shifted" a little.
I am excited to start my new adventure of training for a marathon from virtually scratch. I have dabbled in running. Here and there. But never completing a set goal. I can't wait to make some changes in that area of my life. To push forward.
The upcoming year is going to hold some new adventures for me. A family, a real home to call my own...a grown up life. I am proud of who I have become. I really am and it took me 32 years to finally figure it out. I am happy. Truly and utterly happy.
Come see me at My Next Journey. I would miss you if you did not come along. :)
I gained some new friends with this blog. Far away friends. Friends that live in my phone and computer. It would be nice to bridge that gap someday. Maybe Someday.
I learned that I am not angry anymore. I am not broken and I am not alone anymore. This has been one of the best years of my life. In all honesty. For so many different reasons. I feel as though I am a different person. More grown up (in a sense). My passion for things have changed. But my passion is still there. Just "shifted" a little.
I am excited to start my new adventure of training for a marathon from virtually scratch. I have dabbled in running. Here and there. But never completing a set goal. I can't wait to make some changes in that area of my life. To push forward.
The upcoming year is going to hold some new adventures for me. A family, a real home to call my own...a grown up life. I am proud of who I have become. I really am and it took me 32 years to finally figure it out. I am happy. Truly and utterly happy.
Come see me at My Next Journey. I would miss you if you did not come along. :)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Thirty and Flirty
I had a very relaxing weekend by the pool, getting some sun. On Saturday my friend turned 30. This is very exciting for me because until this month I was the only member of our social group that was over the age of 29. And I turned 30 two years ago so I have taken alot of shit for it. But finally I now have some company in this decade.
So I am starting a Thirty and Flirty Club. So far there are three members. I am looking for WORLD WIDE DOMINATION! Let's make it happen Thirty-Somethings!!
So I am starting a Thirty and Flirty Club. So far there are three members. I am looking for WORLD WIDE DOMINATION! Let's make it happen Thirty-Somethings!!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Boston
Top 5 Things That I Loved About Boston
1) All of my favorite people live there. I was able to visit with my brother everyday for a week. This is an amazing feeling and I have not spent that much time with him in decades. It was refreshing. He lives in a tiny little apartment in the North End. The best location to live in Boston. He pays alot of money to live in a shoebox, but I left his place feeling jealous. To be living in a city where you can walk everywhere, where you can be surrounded by history and culture, is something that I have never experienced. I also was able to see my two best friends from Florida who one day decided to move to Boston. To be back with them felt so comfortable and natural I left feeling sad at what I have been missing for the past year. Friends like that are hard to come by. I also was able to see my college and high school friends. That in itself is always a trip. We just keep getting older but staying the same. To see babies, and mortgages and steady jobs is so surreal when I think about where we all had come from. I remember holding hair back, broken hearts and nights of endless fun! Now we are all mature. (Well some of us are.)
2) The Weather. It was a breezy 62 degrees with an overcast. Now I know that the folks that live there were sick of this type of weather, but I can say that when I returned home, it was 101 degrees. 'Nuff Said!
3) The Beer. Now I am a beer girl. I always have been. I like a variety and I love to try out new things. My brother is a connoisseur of beer. I take his advice often and this time was the best. He sent me and my friends to Harpoon Brewery for a free tasting. His favorite beer is Harpoon IPA. It is really yummy, but it was just the beginning. At the brewery, they had several different varieties on Tap and I was able to sample them all FOR FREE. Harpoon has these beers called UFO. They stand for Unfiltered Offerings. My favorite was the UFO Raspberry. It tasted like a mixture of Cider and Beer and it tasted absolutely amazing. I suggest you try it if ever you get the chance. Actually I think that Harpoon in general is my new favorite brewery. ( Shhh...Don't tell Magic Hat.) The day after we went to the tasting, Harpoon had a Festival with live music and beer. I spent alot of that day (THE RAPTURE) at the festival, drinking and rockin' out to local bands and such. It was a blast.
4) The Sports. It is no mystery how much I love my sports. I love the Red Sox and The Patriots. Being so far away from MA makes me have a radar for people who share my New England and Boston loves. So being up there is like an overload of sports for me. I went to Fenway just to walk around and take it in. I was not able to go to a game but I really wish that I had. It didn't matter though... being there was satisfying enough. I got the cutest girly Sox t-shirt. But I do have to say, I am a TB Lightning Fan and to have the Lightning play the Bruins in the playoffs was awesome. I wore my Bolts Gear and went out on the town. I love Boston Fans. They heckled us all night on the T (subway) and in the bars. But we had a great time. Saturday was alot more fun then Monday though. All of a sudden people who could care less...came out of the woodwork just to give me shit about the loss.
5) The History. It is just a really beautiful city. One day I took Tony around on a sightseeing tour. We went to some old churches, Paul Revere's home and some of the oldest streets in the city. Cobblestone roads, Old brick pubs and beautiful architecture. To know that these are the same streets as some of the first Americans walked on is really amazing. I love how the city was built around the culture and the history. To walk down the street and see skyscrapers on one side and then a small little brick building on the other is amazing to me. The feel of the city is the feel of a town. Little neighborhoods that fit together on windey roads.
This has been said before but Boston is my favorite city. In part because all of my friends are there, but mostly because it is just awesome. The vacation was just what I needed and I am glad that it worked out the way it did. Although I was supposed to be there for a wedding that did not happen, and I do feel for the couple who is hurting right now... I enjoyed the free time and the time that was spent with those who I love.
1) All of my favorite people live there. I was able to visit with my brother everyday for a week. This is an amazing feeling and I have not spent that much time with him in decades. It was refreshing. He lives in a tiny little apartment in the North End. The best location to live in Boston. He pays alot of money to live in a shoebox, but I left his place feeling jealous. To be living in a city where you can walk everywhere, where you can be surrounded by history and culture, is something that I have never experienced. I also was able to see my two best friends from Florida who one day decided to move to Boston. To be back with them felt so comfortable and natural I left feeling sad at what I have been missing for the past year. Friends like that are hard to come by. I also was able to see my college and high school friends. That in itself is always a trip. We just keep getting older but staying the same. To see babies, and mortgages and steady jobs is so surreal when I think about where we all had come from. I remember holding hair back, broken hearts and nights of endless fun! Now we are all mature. (Well some of us are.)
2) The Weather. It was a breezy 62 degrees with an overcast. Now I know that the folks that live there were sick of this type of weather, but I can say that when I returned home, it was 101 degrees. 'Nuff Said!
3) The Beer. Now I am a beer girl. I always have been. I like a variety and I love to try out new things. My brother is a connoisseur of beer. I take his advice often and this time was the best. He sent me and my friends to Harpoon Brewery for a free tasting. His favorite beer is Harpoon IPA. It is really yummy, but it was just the beginning. At the brewery, they had several different varieties on Tap and I was able to sample them all FOR FREE. Harpoon has these beers called UFO. They stand for Unfiltered Offerings. My favorite was the UFO Raspberry. It tasted like a mixture of Cider and Beer and it tasted absolutely amazing. I suggest you try it if ever you get the chance. Actually I think that Harpoon in general is my new favorite brewery. ( Shhh...Don't tell Magic Hat.) The day after we went to the tasting, Harpoon had a Festival with live music and beer. I spent alot of that day (THE RAPTURE) at the festival, drinking and rockin' out to local bands and such. It was a blast.
4) The Sports. It is no mystery how much I love my sports. I love the Red Sox and The Patriots. Being so far away from MA makes me have a radar for people who share my New England and Boston loves. So being up there is like an overload of sports for me. I went to Fenway just to walk around and take it in. I was not able to go to a game but I really wish that I had. It didn't matter though... being there was satisfying enough. I got the cutest girly Sox t-shirt. But I do have to say, I am a TB Lightning Fan and to have the Lightning play the Bruins in the playoffs was awesome. I wore my Bolts Gear and went out on the town. I love Boston Fans. They heckled us all night on the T (subway) and in the bars. But we had a great time. Saturday was alot more fun then Monday though. All of a sudden people who could care less...came out of the woodwork just to give me shit about the loss.
5) The History. It is just a really beautiful city. One day I took Tony around on a sightseeing tour. We went to some old churches, Paul Revere's home and some of the oldest streets in the city. Cobblestone roads, Old brick pubs and beautiful architecture. To know that these are the same streets as some of the first Americans walked on is really amazing. I love how the city was built around the culture and the history. To walk down the street and see skyscrapers on one side and then a small little brick building on the other is amazing to me. The feel of the city is the feel of a town. Little neighborhoods that fit together on windey roads.
This has been said before but Boston is my favorite city. In part because all of my friends are there, but mostly because it is just awesome. The vacation was just what I needed and I am glad that it worked out the way it did. Although I was supposed to be there for a wedding that did not happen, and I do feel for the couple who is hurting right now... I enjoyed the free time and the time that was spent with those who I love.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
A New Journey
I know that I have not posted anything in what seems like weeks. I have been so busy lately. But that is really not an excuse. Nothing new has happened and I have not been feeling particularly motivated to write. Work has consumed me. But it is so refreshing. I feel like I am helping again. I haven't felt that way in a really long time.
Tomorrow I leave on a trip to Boston. I was supposed to be in a wedding on Saturday. I bought a plane ticket, a hotel room new shoes, and a really expensive (ugly) dress. But ... change of plans. The happy couple was really not that happy I guess. I am actually glad that they made that decision rather then going through with the wedding for the wedding's sake and then getting a divorce in a few years. So now I am just going to take The Boy to my favorite places and introduce him to Boston. We will go to Fenway, eat pizza in the North End at Regina's and tour Sam Adams. It will be great.
When I get back I am going to be 2 weeks away from 32. I have made the decision to end this blog at 32. The journey will be done. Well, at least that journey will be done. My next journey will take much more self discipline and hard work. The Journey to 26.2 Although it will be alot about training and progress, it will still be focused around MUSIC and ROCKING OUT! Because, what can I say ... that is what I am all about. Come join me there and find out what it is all about.
Tomorrow I leave on a trip to Boston. I was supposed to be in a wedding on Saturday. I bought a plane ticket, a hotel room new shoes, and a really expensive (ugly) dress. But ... change of plans. The happy couple was really not that happy I guess. I am actually glad that they made that decision rather then going through with the wedding for the wedding's sake and then getting a divorce in a few years. So now I am just going to take The Boy to my favorite places and introduce him to Boston. We will go to Fenway, eat pizza in the North End at Regina's and tour Sam Adams. It will be great.
When I get back I am going to be 2 weeks away from 32. I have made the decision to end this blog at 32. The journey will be done. Well, at least that journey will be done. My next journey will take much more self discipline and hard work. The Journey to 26.2 Although it will be alot about training and progress, it will still be focused around MUSIC and ROCKING OUT! Because, what can I say ... that is what I am all about. Come join me there and find out what it is all about.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Storm
I have had Writer's Block for the past few days. I have nothing interesting that I want to project out into the world. This has happened in every capacity of my life. This feeling has gradually increased over the past few months. I have just felt kind of "blah" lately. I am not really sure where it is all coming from. If you have kept up with my posts at all in the past few weeks, you would notice that I am starting to miss the person that I never became. It hurts. Alot.
At night I lay in my bed (because lately I am suffering from insomnia) and I think about all of the things that I want to change. The things that I want to do. The things that I want to stop doing. But the next morning, I do NOTHING. At least nothing different. I go about my day, the same as the day before and when I lay down to bed, I start to think all over again. This cycle is starting to make me feel abnormal.
For the past few years I have tried to push down my thoughts and my actions of who I used to be. At times it is almost like I was hiding myself. Growing Up will do this I guess. But when you are not who you thought that you would be...and you are not who you used to be...where does that leave you?
I often feel a battle inside me. A storm that pulls and pushes me back and forth. Like I don't know where I will end up. From each minute to the next, my mood and desires change. It is inconsistent and it could feel very unsettling but it isn't. It is also sporadic and spontaneous.
I remember when I was younger, my father and I would sit in the garage during the Thunderstorms and just watch the sky. He said not to be scared. So I wasn't. There was something calming about it. So now storms make be feel comforted. Maybe this is why the storm inside me continues. Because it is a comfort. It is a calm. It is me.
This is my latest contribution to the writing prompt The Storm from Studio Thirty Plus.
At night I lay in my bed (because lately I am suffering from insomnia) and I think about all of the things that I want to change. The things that I want to do. The things that I want to stop doing. But the next morning, I do NOTHING. At least nothing different. I go about my day, the same as the day before and when I lay down to bed, I start to think all over again. This cycle is starting to make me feel abnormal.
For the past few years I have tried to push down my thoughts and my actions of who I used to be. At times it is almost like I was hiding myself. Growing Up will do this I guess. But when you are not who you thought that you would be...and you are not who you used to be...where does that leave you?
I often feel a battle inside me. A storm that pulls and pushes me back and forth. Like I don't know where I will end up. From each minute to the next, my mood and desires change. It is inconsistent and it could feel very unsettling but it isn't. It is also sporadic and spontaneous.
I remember when I was younger, my father and I would sit in the garage during the Thunderstorms and just watch the sky. He said not to be scared. So I wasn't. There was something calming about it. So now storms make be feel comforted. Maybe this is why the storm inside me continues. Because it is a comfort. It is a calm. It is me.
This is my latest contribution to the writing prompt The Storm from Studio Thirty Plus.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Fork
I was told the other day, that women go through their "Mid-Life Crises" around the age of 30. It is at this time in their lives, they start to think about the paths that they did not take. If they are married with children then they start to think about their career. Furthering schooling, etc. etc. etc. If they have chosen a career over the past decade, they start to "freak out" about wanting children and start to focus on more on dating and starting a family.
When my friend informed me of this pattern...I started to realize that my head spins because I have picked either of these choices and now I am still at the same fork in the road as I was at age 22. I kind of picked the family thing. But I picked it with a man that I knew it would never pan out. I did absolutely nothing to further my career. Nothing.
As time goes on...I worry that neither of these options are happening for me. I wonder if it is too late for either. I fear that I don't know where to go to further my life in either direction. I can stay and wait. See if this leads down a road of family life. If motherhood is in the near future. Or I can go. Looking for my path. Further my plans towards a MSW or even a doctorate.
I never took a leap in any direction, because I was scared. I am scared still. That is the most honest I have been with myself in a very long time.
When my friend informed me of this pattern...I started to realize that my head spins because I have picked either of these choices and now I am still at the same fork in the road as I was at age 22. I kind of picked the family thing. But I picked it with a man that I knew it would never pan out. I did absolutely nothing to further my career. Nothing.
As time goes on...I worry that neither of these options are happening for me. I wonder if it is too late for either. I fear that I don't know where to go to further my life in either direction. I can stay and wait. See if this leads down a road of family life. If motherhood is in the near future. Or I can go. Looking for my path. Further my plans towards a MSW or even a doctorate.
I never took a leap in any direction, because I was scared. I am scared still. That is the most honest I have been with myself in a very long time.
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