life.

I'm almost recovered but not eating tacos yet!

This weekend was filled with lots of fall goodies.
-KU football game

-almost making it to CKC convention in Kc....

-A badass pirate hotel room at the chanute avalon

-Cotton Candy Ice cream at my favorite place in Lawrence.

-A nice sunburn on my nose?!

-Some new clogs at a vintage store. So, the clogs not so vintage but new!!!

It's been very rainy Monday & Tuesday.

It only rains when I have to go to work.

I beg mother nature for one weekend, just one; to rain cats & dogs all weekend long.

the way i see it #267

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears--it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more--it can provide access, when when no medication can, to movement to speech, to life. for them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

-- oliver sacks
(from an old starbucks cup!)

other inspiring stuff I found today:

birds&swingsshop

and more stuff:

See this makes me want to learn how to cross stitch so bad!

hammers and strings.

I'm thinking about tackling our craft room which is full scrapbook/sewing supplies/ my boxes from moving back home! I'm horrible at unpacking....but I'm thinking about making it my new room =) I have a lot of work ahead of me! Heading up to Kansas City tonight, going to the KU game tomorrow I think, and stopping by CKC after?! Hope so....and I hope I run into the all time famous Cathy Zielske.

Listen to Jacks Mannequin again, so refreshing.

My jaw is swollen again, I took it a little overboard teaching dance last night. Not cool.

Gotta get busy, make something, eat, leave.

A

Yesterday & Today.

I bought a cute book last week & I can't wait to stitch the lamb=)

Received some cute gifts, PJ's, flowers, embroidery things, I've been reading a little bit, and watching a ton of netflix movies.

Feeling worse today than yesterday.

-A-

Ready for a break.

lovely.


Just my thoughts:
I was driving to work this morning airport road (which is my favorite choice while driving to work), watching the sun rise, windows down, feeling the breeze, jacks mannequin's new cd playing in the background...I felt totally content. Totally confident that change was going to come, soon. When I say soon, SOON as in ready to finish out my job until summer, add some more hours to my school schedule in the spring, and move. I'm trying to weigh everything out and decide whats best: move to Lawrence, or stay here and finish school. Its a big decision. I have a lot of choices to make. I've been trying to think positive because I might have to leave some things behind, some friends, family, and make a new life and that is just plain scary. I love adventures, music, KU, school, people, books, culture. Each time I go to Lawrence it feels like my second home, it just lacks my family and friends. I wish I could say I should have just picked up moved, went away to college when I was 18; like everyone else. I could have have, I didn't want to miss out on teaching dance, family stuff, and I didn't want to live in dorms or have room mates right away.

I don't regret anything. I'm happy with all of the decisions made, all of the memories good and bad. I've grown & now I think I'm ready. Ready to finish, ready to graduate, ready for more fun, more great life experiences. I sound like I'm really old and I've wasted a lot of time;p but I'm only twenty three. ha.

I'm just ready, ready for a break, ready for change. Ready to have more time for stuff like scrap booking. I dream about it, but on the list of things to do, its last.

I'm having some minor surgery tomorrow. I'm now feeling very confident and at ease about it, I won't talk about how unsure I was feeling before. I bought two books yesterday to help pass the time for recovery.

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I'm also a big fan of Halloween. Dressing up is so much fun! I love looking at costumes online, I want to be ummmm...everything?! I've been checking into costumes like Alice in Wonderland, The Queen of hearts, a bunny (just a mask, see below), a pumpkin, a witch, Jack Sparrow (see the cute painted face below too), Frankenstein's Bride, a mad scientist. The list goes on!! I don't really have any plans for going out on halloween like I did last year, I think we're going to go to The Orpheum and catch old halloween flicks...very low keyed, and no costume needed...but hello Halloween is on a friday this year!!!














I will leave you with some uplifting Dr. Seuss quotes that have really inspired me this week!

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
-Dr. Seuss

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
- Dr. Seuss

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
-Dr. Seuss

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-Dr. Seuss

((A))