Special Occasion

I've been ruining this blog trying to get everyone else to like it and make it interesting for others, but I forgot what I started it for, for me, to tell my story. So things are changing around here and I hope you like it, but if not, this blog is for me to express myself, so I don't really care that much what others think. 

I absolutely adore the quote above!! All the time I say, "I don't have to dress nice or do my hair today, nothing special is going to happen" but I'm completely wrong! Everyday is a special occasion!! I can't keep putting off my best outfits for another day, everyday can be important.

This also relates to happiness. I tend to put happiness into the future. I tell myself "I'm too busy with school and work to be happy today" but I've never been so stupid in my life! My elementary education teacher keeps telling us, "Don't wait to be happy" and I nodded along and said "Yeah, that's a good way to look at things" but I didn't live it. Well things are changing. I am choosing to be happy now. I am choosing to take every opportunity and make it something special and important.

I love my crazy life! I love my husband more than anything in the world! I love my job. While I hate to admit it, I really do love school, no matter how hard it is sometimes. I am so blessed with the greatest family and the greatest in-laws in the entire world! I have been given so many wonderful opportunities and blessing in the past two years since meeting my husband and I've been taking it all for granted!

I am so blessed. And it's time I start acting like it. Everyday you're alive is a special occasion. Don't wait to be happy, be happy now.

Motivational Monday:

This week is stressful for me with lots of big assignments due but I love this quote and I'm letting it guide my thinking with my essays. I have the power to make my essay beautiful and good and "A" worthy. We always have much more power than we think we do. Use that power this week. :) 

Motivation Monday: 30 Seconds

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote this last night so I could just get on in the morning and post this. However, the power kept going off today because of rain and the internet was down all day, so I'm sorry that it's like 4:00pm and I'm finally posting this. Not my fault! 

Happy Labor Day everyone! Isn't it nice to have this day to take a break from school and work and just complete all your homework for the week? Just me? Okay. 

I put the above quote for this reason: I think more people should take the time to reach out to their friends, old or new. Honestly, I never get any texts. Ever. About twice a week I get one from my sister. My husband texts me when he's not around. But do any friends text me? Never. And I try not to let it bother me, but sometimes it's just hard. Because it makes me feel like they don't care about me. Getting texts from my sister and husband are nice, but I already know that they love me and care for me. It would be nice to hear from a friend sometime. 

Anyways, I didn't mean to be totally depressing there! It's Motivation Monday! The real point is, I challenge you to send a short message (text, Facebook, tweet, even call) to someone you haven't talked to in a while. I promise you it will make their day, and you'll feel good about it too. 

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful Monday! 

Motivation Monday: Back to School

So I just have a few quick things to say before I "motivate" you today. 

In about an hour, I start college classes again after taking a year off. While I told everyone I was taking it off to make more money, which was true, I had other reasons as well. I've really been struggling with college. I've failed multiple classes, I've dealt with drama and depression, I felt lonely and friend-less, I had a professor tell me my writing was awful, and it scarred me into not writing again.

I'm married now and living with the kindest, friendliest man alive. He works so hard to keep my happy and does a fantastic job at it! We both have a new "spirit" about us and both want to work hard to do well in school this year. While I'm still debating what my major should be, I am much more confident about this school year.

I had my professor tell me my writing was awful, and for a long time after that I didn't write. This coming from the girl who started writing stories and poems daily since third grade. I was mortified to write after what my professor had said, after failing me. I didn't want to write anymore because I didn't want to fail.

If you haven't already noticed, I've written over 300 posts on this blog in the last year, and I'm not slowing down now. I started this blog in the attempt to start writing again, and to forget what my professor had said, and it worked. I know some of these posts aren't the best, but I write this blog for me, and I write this blog to write. Since starting this blog I've been more confident in my writing and have started working on my book again. I have a new confidence in my writing, and I owe it to this blog and all my readers.

So thank you for reading my blog! You've helped me build up my confidence and you've helped me to get over a struggling time in my life. THANK YOU!!! 

Since I'm going back to school today, this week I really do need the motivation!! So here are some great quotes to help us all through our week! Good luck on your first days of school!! LET'S ALL MAKE THIS THE BEST SCHOOL YEAR EVER!!! 

Motivation Monday:

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend like I did! I was crazy busy helping out with my best friend's wedding, but it was all worth it. Her reception was absolutely beautiful! Without a doubt the prettiest wedding I've been too. She looked gorgeous and so happy! They are so meant to be together and I love them both very much, and as I was reminded by them this weekend, it's all because of me that they got together. I'm a pretty great friend, just saying. ;)

In honor of them, this week's motivational quote is about love.

I love this quote because I have found in my almost 2 year relationship with my husband, that love is the most important thing in our lives and everything comes back to the solid base of love. Love is magical! It makes you happier than you've ever felt before! It brings you a peace and comfort. It takes away your fears. It means getting to have someone who will protect you and care for you for all your life and more!

If you are not presently in love, here's a quote for you:

I had been waiting to find a love like in the movies and TV shows, and that was wrong. When I stopped looking and I found Chris, it wasn't movie love, it was REAL LOVE. Don't look for the wrong things, look for reality and you'll find your one true love.

Motivation Mondays: Rock Bottom

I didn't think that I would live in Logan for three months and still not have  a job. I'm really frustrated with myself and a lot of things have been going wrong lately, like our car breaking, but I've always felt that we need to take the things that discourage us, push them behind us, and keep moving forward. I love this quote by J.K. Rowling, it sums it all up so beautifully and I hope it helps motivate your week! :) 

The Days of the Week

Ha ha... I'm just laughing at the title of this post...

Anyways, so to motivate myself to write more I'm giving specific blog posts to specific days of the week. Yes, I will still be writing the random stuff that pops into my brain whenever I feel like it, but I will also have these specifics that I will do my very best to write everyday (but I would like everyone to keep in mind that this blog is not my full-time job, I'm a student and a wife and looking for a part-time job, so if I miss a day, forgive me). So here are the categories:

Motivation Mondays

I absolutely love quotes and song lyrics, so every Monday I'm going to put up a motivational quote or song to help us all start off our weeks in a good mood. Monday's can be hard, and hopefully these quotes will help!

Happy Tuesdays

Happy Tuesday was the holiday that my friends and I created in high school. It was the day my best friend and I would always make sure to do something special together. On Tuesdays on this blog I'm just going to share a happy story or something, I'm still not entirely sure. What I do know is that I've always loved Tuesdays, because I made them a holiday, and my goal is to make you love Tuesdays too!

Web Video Wednesday

This is already a thing on my blog! I hope you've been enjoying them. They are simple posts, but I just think they're fun and they let my blog have a greater variety of subjects. (Also, if you have a web video that you would like to be featured on my blog, leave a comment or send me an email!!)

Anything Goes Thursdays

Thursdays will be about whatever I want. Or whatever you want! I'm always open to comments and suggestions and I would love to hear about what you would like to see on this blog! So leave me a comment or send me an email and I'll gladly fill your requests on Thursdays (or maybe another day if I have time). However, I think the main focus I want for Thursdays is date night ideas. But since my husband and I are too poor to do anything fun... we don't... so we'll see how that goes.

Fashion Fridays

I used to do a segment on here called Outfits of the Week. But I really struggled with that and I'm pretty sure it only lasted two weeks. Fashion Fridays will be similar though. I'll be sharing some of the outfits I had worn in the past week, or clothes I've bought or an outfit I saw online that I'm in love with (Fred Rongo, prepare to dominate my Friday posts). Also, I already have a "In My Closet" tab at the top of my blog, this will still exist and show off any shopping trips or new additions to my closet. But these two are very similar. Also, keep in mind that I am not a fashion "guru" or expert in anyway. I'll be just be sharing what I wear and what I like. Please don't take my fashion sense as fashion "law".

Song of the Week Saturdays

I'm pretty much obsessed with music so every Saturday I'll be sharing the song that's been on my mind all week. It might be old, it might be new, it might be a song you've never heard of before in your life, it could be from a Disney movie, it could be anything! But I think I'm most excited for this new segment... it's the least work on my part. :)

Pinterest Sundays

Again, already a thing. But I've come to find that this is one of my favorite type of blog posts (and it's fairly popular) because I really get to share my likes with you and it's just fun! Also, I'm going to try to continue my Sunday Meals posts, but I've really been slacking on that lately and we don't have the money to make the meals that I want (we usually just eat the fish that Chris catches, but it is good so I'll share how he cooks it soon), so they may appear every now and then at random.

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So all of these will be linked up together and there will be a new tab at the top entitled "Days of the Week" (because I think it sounds so silly/lame) where all these blog posts can be found. You can also find them by clicking on the links under "Categories" on the left side, but there are like a billion so sometime it's hard to navigate your way through there (good luck) so I might just stick to clicking on the tab at the top.

Well, I hope you enjoy what coming up with this blog! I suppose this post counts as my "Anything Goes Thursday" post. Yay, done with that!

PS: Don't be hating that Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday things aren't alliterations. I like them the way they are and I'm not going to change it. :)