Out to Lunch

It’s been a bit, we haven’t abandoned you all.

Life has been busy for both of us but we will be updating very soon i’m sure. Your probably all off and on to your summer plans.

Possibly a video post in the works, maybe?

The Wedding Guest

I was invited to attend the wedding of two good friends this weekend. I had such a good time. I’m so happy for them and I know their future together is going to be continued with plenty of love, respect, and success for both of them. It seems like yesterday having girl talk in their bedroom about weddings and secretly knowing he had planned to propose. I remember her “I’m engaged” text. I couldn’t think of two people so deserving. I’m honored to be a friend to both of them. Congratulations and all my love!

I don’t think its proper etiquette to post photos of the bridal party till they actually post first and I think things like that are personal so I won’t be posting images of them in a public forum. In exchange, you get a photo of me in my wedding guest outfit. I had originally bought the dress and it had fit too perfectly. I was surprised it actually fit a bit big on me 3 weeks later.

Back from M & J's Wedding

I came home on Saturday and I felt a renewed faith in love and life. I’m so excited for what’s coming soon and I can’t be more blessed to have the people I have around me. Everything will fall into place in the right time and if I continue to work hard and keep myself on track I can get back to where I was and be where I plan to be very soon. The world is so vast and I have to make opportunities for myself happen. Sometimes you have to bury dreams deep down into the earth to protect them and I just found them again and plan to dig them up. I misplaced my passion and had become someone I thought I wanted to be. It’s all beginning to flood back and I’ve made so many new friends already and I am so excited to enjoy my life. This weekend gets to kick off the official beginning of summer, I hope the weather is promising.

Comings and Goings

The past two weeks have respectfully been really crazy. Crazy in the things have been moving so fast you’re a bit confused.  I’ve been discussing adventures lately and like a ride sometimes things take a turn unexpectedly.

K is off on an amazing adventure of his own (for a bit) and we’ll leave that right there (I want to respect his privacy). I’m a bit jealous that my occupation isn’t as pack up and go as his is. I guess the downside is your never in a place long enough to really make any tracks and there is no one to really share it with as you go.

I got to celebrate my BFF’s birthday this weekend, as usual it was a two-day marathon of girl talk, eating, and laughing. Through everything that’s been going on the past couple years. I’m very grateful to have someone I’ve known so long have my back like she does. We had a chance to have dinner at SABOR. I hope to make it my new it spot. It is a bit on the pricey side but everything was amazing. I’m glad I had the chance to celebrate with her.

For the first time in a long time, I don’t have a plan right now. It’s a bit unnerving for someone like me who by nature is very much a ruler of strict planning and strategic measurements for what my life is going to be like. I’m kind of throwing everything up in the air and seeing where it lands. There is a difference between letting life lead and reckless abandon. Letting everything fall apart and having someone else do the work for me isn’t how life works. I absolutely don’t plan to do that, it would be more of an upgrade to my current situation. K had mentioned something to me that keeps filling my brain.

“Did you learn your lesson?”

I answered so quickly, I think I missed the concept of what he had been trying to tell me. Did I learn my lesson? I hadn’t till just now. I don’t want to be in a relationship because that’s what I’m supposed to do and I think taking time to get to know someone is so much more important. I jumped into a relationship in my past and I want to make sure I really know the person who is going to be serious enough to stick around in my life. I’m a firm believer sometimes people come in to your lives for a moment to unknowingly on their part guide you to the next phase of your life. To push you to your next check point of where your life is supposed to be. We don’t always know why but in the end we are better for it.

Lesson Learned.

Choose your Adventure

I used to read those choose your adventure novels as a child, of course I would read the first 3 pages of the section and seek out the 3 choices at the bottom of the page. Patience wasn’t my thing.

I’m in the beginning of my own adventure book, and unlike those books you can’t riffle through a couple of pages and see what your choices are. The next sentence appears as soon as you get through each individual sentence, each individual real life moment. So you wait at the end of the moment waiting for that next line of your life to make an appearance. So, you wait.

I’ve had the most incredible past couple of days, I keep thinking if my life this whole time was shadowing someone elses. Those failed attempts at goals I’ve wanted to accomplish this person I’ve been spending my time with has accomplished. Schools I was interested in going to he’s attended. Careers I’ve dabbled in, he’s now involved in full force. Places I’ve wanted to go back to he is from. A silent ghost mimicking someone’s life and when you finally meet its like 2 objects crashing together. This time you don’t cringe at the aftermath and damage because well there isn’t any. There isn’t any residual damages, no scratches, no life threatening injuries. There is just two objects together, like magnets. This all sounds so crazy and it is.

What do you do when everything you’ve dreamed about your entire life, every fantasy someone has bashed and said never existed, and everything you’ve never mentioned to another human being is manifested and sitting next to you?

What adventure do you choose?

Ohh, K

Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain

I wanted this summer to be filled with adventure and it had already been spring and all of my friends are embarking on new relationships, some in the beginning stages and some to an altar very soon. I wanted to leave myself open this summer to whatever life might drop on my doorstep.

I had an opportunity to meet this amazing person, lets call him K. We’d discussed this briefly and I don’t think its fair for me to involve him in a public forum like this. I might leave out details pertaining to his public persona/private life but I do it in good faith. I know what it’s like to have a lot of your personal life documented online.

Everything is so new and I’m really glad to be able to have him in my life in any form. I’m sure like many people at the beginning of 2010 they made a pact to start their lives a new. Usually I am not a very good resolution keeper, but I had decided that the only people making into 2010 would be people of substance and value. People who would be able to genuinely cheer me on because they genuinely feel that for me. People who want me succeed because they want to succeed with me. An equal playing ground of positivity. I now have my core group of people who care about me and with the same passion I care for them.

I’m very happy with the direction my life is now taking. I get a bit of a break soon and plan to catch up on all the little projects I’ve been wanting to accomplish so that when june rolls around I can start the summer without a hitch.

New Chapter

Well, it’s official… Rhett and I have moved into our new home! We have a new mortgage and have entered the next chapter in our lives. We couldn’t be happier. It’s an incredible feeling that I can’t describe with words. We have so many plans for this house and everything we want to do with it. From painting to decorating to building a future that we can be proud of. We are very excited for everything that we have in store!

Aside from the fact that the move took us almost five days to complete, the only other negative we encountered was moving through the two days of storms that went through Arkansas. We seemed to always be driving directly into the storm cells. While we were driving to Benton, the sirens were going off and the National Weather Service was announcing that there was a tornado warning for the exact area of Benton we were driving into. The same was true when we were heading to Pulaski County and while we were leaving Hot Springs Village. Thank God we managed to get everything done and stay safe at the same time.

School has been a bit of a struggle recently. With the move and my frustrating lack of math skills, I am fighting to keep my ‘A’. But I am staying positive and I’m sure I’ll make it work.

Rhett and I continue to grow as a couple. Every day offers something different. Whether it’s learning something new about each other or finding new ways to laugh, we always seem to realize that we fall more in love every day. Next month will officially make it a year for us! It’s a wonderful milestone that we are happy to share with buying our first house.

My father has been in and out of the hospital with kidney problems. It started with kidney stones that quickly escalated to possible kidney failure. Currently, his doctors are monitoring his kidney function after removing the stones. He is sounding much better and seems to be in good spirits. I can’t even explain how frustrating and scary it is to be so far away from him while he has fallen ill. Anyone who knows me knows that my father means the world to me. I have never been in the situation I find myself in. Anytime my father has been sick or upset or … whatever… I have always been a short drive away. I know he will be fine. I know that I need to stay positive. I just can’t shake the feeling that if God forbid something were to happen, the feeling of regret and loss would be more than I know I could handle. All I can do is pray to God to keep him safe and healthy and regain his health as quickly as possible.

That’s all that as been happening recently. I want to try to post more often, and I will definitely be making efforts in the right direction lol.

Food for thought

It’s been a bit but I’ve been catching up with friends and making some new ones. I got to go to Outback twice this weekend, which gave my friend and I some girl time to catch up on the new things that have been going on.  We had such a good time, we decided to go back. We were discussing how getting back into the world after a relationship gets harder the older you get. Meeting new people and making new friends becomes more difficult and I find this true. It’s not as easily as it was in kindergarten where you sat down next to someone and you were instant best friends. All sorts of relationships start to affect how you approach and deal with people new to your life. Luckily, I’m moving forward and I’m not allowing past experiences to effect me now. I’m open to anything that life brings. I got a chance to get back in touch with an old friend, and I made a new one. I think my lack of male friendships, is over. I think a balance of the two are beneficial, sometimes you need a male perspective to things.

 Than last night I got to celebrate a pre-birthday dinner with some of my family at this small boutique-like chinese restaurant. Hands down the best chinese food I’ve had in my life.

Louise the co-owner of this particular restaurant is so funny. Her sister Tina also co-owns it and their mother was having lunch in the restaurant. I had the Seafood Special with Black Bean Sauce and their house rice. I can’t stop raving about it. I’m planning to go back as soon as possible. It amazes me how much time we spend around food. Food seems to be like an extra friend who is constantly around. I for the most part enjoy cooking. I was lucky enough to live with my grandmother, who is the primary chef of the family. No one cooks like her and I remember it being a staple of every family gathering that my grandmother contribute if not most of the food because she is the best. I’ve always thought food is the reflection of the personality of the person cooking. I’ve been very lucky to have been taught by her.

Cheers to good food, good men, & a good life.