wish i was here...

Speaking of Wide Open Spaces...

...or big lights, big city!

I just found out that later this month.. I get to go to Seattle for 2 days and a night to meet my sister, Jessyka! I am so excited! I have been wanting to go on a trip and it will be so fun to hit the town with my sister! I cannot wait! 

"Wide Open Spaces"
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed

She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test

She knows the high stakes

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know

She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes

Check It Out! Giveaway!

My sister, Jessyka from Creative Fibers... is doing a GIVEAWAY! <---Link

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Comment about your favorite color combination...

Then you can win...

THIS. 

AMAZING.

Hand-Made Knit Wig!

Made of your favorite colors.

Enter.. you know you want to.

Fill in the Blank Friday

Play along at The Little Things We Do. 

1.   I am looking forward to  starting my internship. I cannot wait to leave the house everyday and be on a mission. I want to learn as much as I possibly can and try to be the best I can be. I want so badly to get back into being exhausted at the end of the day because I know I did a good job. Also, I cannot wait to dress for a business casual office and make some money at the same time.
 

2.  Something kind of embarrassing that I still love anyway is...well the thing is.. I don't really get embarrassed very often about things I like. I usually just enjoy them and I don't really care about what other people think. But, I think the thing that people think I should be the most embarrassed for is my love for all boy band music. I love N*Sync, BSB, NKOTB, 98 degrees... and Justin Bieber. I know he is not a boy band.. but I love him anyways. 

3.  My favorite car is  well, right now I would have to say my favorite car is my new Ford Escape! It is the most luxurious car I have ever driven and it is a nice feeling knowing that Erik and I bought it together and have to come together to make payments on it each month. But, I do have to say... I have never seen an Audi that I didn't think was beautiful. 

4.  If I could pick one type of weather to live with for the rest of my life it would be I would have to say, beginning of the spring/summer in Oregon. When it is sunny all day and about 70-75 degrees out. Before it gets too hot because I don't like being sweaty or sunburnt, but when it is so nice that you just feel like throwing a Frisbee and drinking an ice cold beer. I would love that.

5.  My favorite thing to do after a bad/stressful day is, go out to dinner with family and/or friends, get an appetizer and some cocktails. I love the whole theatrics of going out to dinner. Everyone meets up and can order whatever kind of food they want, and usually I try to convince myself to dress up a little more and pretend to be a grown up. 

6.  This weekend I would really like to go on a "weekend adventure" no matter how little it is. I would like to go down to the Saturday Farmers Market in Portland and walk around. Hopefully it will be sunny. Then after that... I will have to finish a midterm I am working out and fast for a medical test on Monday. Ew. 

7.  If I were a color, I'd be  Emerald Green or Royal Blue because, I think that they are the two most beautiful colors. They are jewel tones and can really stand their own wherever they may be. Also, because both remind me of very distinct colors of nature, blue being the ocean which I would love to live by someday and green being the color of fir trees which I love to look at through the window in my office everyday.

Life Quotations...

This quote is very interesting to me. It, in a way, tells us that we need to just roll with the punches and let life take its way with us. But does this really make sense? Is this saying that we should not have a life plan? Not try our best at the things that we feel are important because the plan has already been set out for us? I don't know about anyone else, but lately, I have been worried about all of this. I am worried about just letting things happen and just hoping and praying that everything works out. 

For my whole life I have been pretty go with the flow, just having a good time and hoping that everything would work out. But now that I am married, I cannot even imagine just hoping everything will work out... for example, people who believe that you will have kids when you are meant to. Does that mean that you don't have a say in when that is? that you are not supposed to take precautions? I, for one, along with Erik think that that is something that needs to be strategically planned. As does, work, school, and life in general. 

Yeah, some things should be left up to chance, but if you leave everything left up to chance... will you end up with nothing? unless you happen to be lucky? 

I am not trying to be a doubter or pretend to know anything about fate and life plans. But I am scared to think that we are just supposed to surrender completly and just wait for things to happen to us. Maybe I am reading into all of this wrong. But, Hmm.. maybe I do just need to wait and pray on it and hope everything works out. 

Hmm...
We'll see what happens. 

wish i was here wednesday...

play along with Olivia from For Me...