Twue Wuv

Twue Wuv... It can cause contention, especially if you don't have it. Being single at this age and time in my life causes me to sit back and look at people. I have found out many things about singles that I swear had better not happen to me! People (especially girls) get bitter if they aren't with a "special someone, significant other, love of your life, honeybuns, sweetheart, dear" or whatever sappy thing you want to call the opposite gender. It's like going to a AA meeting and instead of saying I'm a recovering alcoholic, it's like saying I'm a single and have no one in my life, so it's meaningless! Really people...

Yes in my religion you should get married and start a family, but not everyone on this earth is married! The Lord knows what he's doing and knows what you NEED AND WANT in life, but not on your agenda... On HIS... So please, stop with the bitterness and hate and panic attacks AND desperation because you think that your life is over just because you're not married or you just don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Take your life off pause and start living it. First, get a job, it's time to start making your own way in life (remember, debt is bad). Then you can do things that you've always wanted to do, get things that you've always wanted to get, start forgetting yourself and do service, stop thinking of yourself and remember there is ALWAYS someone out there who has it worse that you, ALWAYS...

Yes, I would love to find that man on a white horse offering me my glass slipper and riding off into the sunset. Not only to live happily ever after, but the point is to LIVE, and laugh, and love. So please don't wallow in self pity, or sink into the depths of despair. Start living, and living well. Take that road less traveled.
I've been taking those roads. Going on road trips to places I've always wanted to see. I've been hiking to the coolest places. I have a job working with animals I love. I'm going back to school to learn more and get licensed (I'm still 50/50 with that part of life. School... Yuk...) I have guy friends who are so much more normal than some girls I meet. Really girls, the drama must stop. So yeah, maybe, one day your prince will come, on his white horse, or with a glass slipper, a rose, a kiss, he might even be a beast, or he might just say "As You Wish." Either way, don't let him find you and your selfish, bitter attitude on your couch, crying and watching sappy romance movies in your sweats, stuffing your face with ice cream and chocolate waiting for that day, cuz girl, he won't find you! Just listen to good ole' George Strait:

There's a road, a winding road that never ends

Full of curves, lessons learned at every bend

Goin's rough unlike the straight and narrow

It's for those, those who go against the grain

Have no fear, dare to dream of a change

Live to march to the beat of a different drummer

And it all might come together

And it all might unraveled

On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart

For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far

Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark

And it all might come together

And it all come unraveled

On the road less traveled

I've chosen a pathway I may not endure

One thing's for certain nothing's for sure

And it all might come together

And it all might come unraveled

On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart

For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far

Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark

And it all might come together

And it all come unraveled

On the road less traveled

There's a road. A winding road that never ends...

Two Roads

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost

What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?

I was just reading something one of my sister's wrote and had an epiphany. Life isn't that bad... Really... Think of everything you have. I have a job that drives me crazy and stresses me to the MAX, but I honest to goodness love it. I have a roof over my head, food to eat, and a totally awesome family with the coolest parents and craziest sister's, plus a fantabulous brother-in-law, who I all love to death! I have the bestest best friend who goes with me on any crazy road trips I decide to come up with, even if our lives freakishly resemble one another's sometimes. I have my own car, a dog (ok,ok my moms dog), a far out black bear collection and pictures, romance books, elvis movies, old country music, and much more... One of the best things I have is nature! To sit on a rock and listen to the babble of a stream, or the cry of a hawk, or even the wind whistling through the leaves. Now, that's therapy!
But one of the best things I have in my life, is the gospel. With it anything is possible. You can overcome anything if you just have enough faith and love. You don't have to know everything, heck, I don't! My motto with the gospel is by small and simple things because I am small and very simple minded. The one thing that bugs me the most about PEOPLE is: Note to self to all: Pride does kill. It will eat away your life. Don't let past bitterness, jealousy, or offenses get to you. Just BELIEVE in the Lord, He really does know what he's doing! Seriously, just get over it...
So it comes down to this... What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about? "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in, and you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about!" You decide whether you're in or out. You decide whether to shake it off. You decide what life's about. You decide!

Life... Isn't it about time?

Life... Shouldn't there be more than work? Think about it. I spent 50 hours a week these past 2-3 weeks trying to manage and keep up with my clinic doing scheduling, payroll, maintenance, and breaking up fights before they become WW smackdown! And what do I have to show for it? Over-worked, under-paid, and highly stressed. Corporate telling me it's not good enough. Blah, blah, blah... When is it good enough? My ACTUAL JOB is to HELP animals and their owners. Not baby-sit a certain someone and listen to pencil pushers sitting at desks, trying to tell me how to run my clinic and do my job. Corporate America is great isn't it?.....

Well, now that I've vented for my very first blog I'll have you know, Jamie helped me with this. I am computer illiterate, but it makes for funny stories depending what buttons I accidentally push. So hopefully I'll remember how to do this again. Until then, pray that I keep my head and cool this week. I'll need it. And remember when you get over-worked and over-stressed ask yourself. "Life... Isn't it about time?" Time for what I ask? What answers do you get??? =)