goodnight America

In an effort to achieve this months focus of Letting it Go, I am officially not stressing about not posting 3 complete blogs this month.

Tomorrow is the 1st, my 2 week vacay is coming to an end, and I simply haven't had the time to blog. I've been too busy eating and drinking and watching my boyfriend complete an Iron Man.

Instead of staying up too late tonight (we have to wake up early to score the best breakfast at our hotel, duh) and suffering from a combination of writers block and beer haze, I'm hitting the sheets after posting this short, non-significant blog about me letting go of the fact that I can't blog 3x this month..

GOOD NIGHT AMERICA*

Stay tuned.. -a.

*and any other countries who are reading this delicious blog ;)

pop culture politics

Disclaimer: I am not a political junkie. I rarely participate in debates about “where our country is going...” Partly because it seems like too big of conversation to ever tackle and partly because I simply don’t know much about the political state of this country. 

I do know political conversations are generally taboo. People are either a DEMOCRAT* or a REPUBLICAN.** I know that by some weird default people tend to hate, argue, disagree, and dispute with whatever the opposing party stands for.

I know I’m a fan of Obama... but, admittedly, it’s more of a pop culture infatuation than it is anything political. 

I know friends who talk about politics, complain about politics, but never take action to evoke change. Occasionally, I am guilty of this. 

I know that maybe I’m rambling and you’re probably wondering what.is.the.point, lady?

And my point, coinciding and contradicting with this months focus to Let It Go, is maybe we let it go to an extreme? We talk and talk and talk about what’s wrong but then let it go...We never do anything about it. (Forgive me for generalizing- when I say “we,” I mean the majority. I recognize some people are out there, doing something.) We have intense, heated conversations with our friends and family and then let it go. Moving on to updating our Facebook, the manipulated cyber images that define us, instead of writing letters to political figures. We go out to the bars instead of protesting. We talk without action. We let it go.

Stay tuned.. -a. 

*Peace, Love, and Rainbows

**”Amurica!”

^Am I stereotyping?

Uptight Hippie

Flower in my hair

This months focus, in order to become a more delightful, happier, person, is to let it go.

(Um, this probably should’ve been my main focus since childhood.............) 

Sometimes some people describe me as a “hippie,” and admittedly, some aspects of my persona are hippie-esk.. Like, I’m a hippie as in I have a heart, peace sign, and flower tattooed on my wrist (love, peace, and a flower in my hair.. for those who don’t know). And I’m a hippie as in I have long hair that I rarely straighten, all natural, baby.* I’m a hippie as in the quotes “drop beats, not bombs,” “make love, not war” and (Marley shout out) “get up, stand up, stand up for your rights...don’t give up the fight” make my insides gurgle with ambition to change the world. 

I am NOT a hippie as in I go with the flow of things. 

If there isn’t a plan... I’m not a fan. 

Bar hopping with friends? Who’s driving? (I hope someone volunteers) Are we cabbing it? (If we do, I hope we run into someone sober who will give us a ride home) Heels or no heels? (HEELS! Heels always win) Dinner out or dinner at home? (dinner at home is cheaper.....) What am I going to have for dinner? What am I going to have for lunch?! What am I going to have for breakfast?!! ...How much money is in my checking account? 

..Don’t think for a second that I haven’t had this exact thought-chain-reaction in my crazy little head!

Every decision in my life, down to what underwear I will wear, is thought out, planned out, figured out. 

I could possibly power a small village with the amount of brain activity I have accumulating from constantly formulating my To Do lists...

Today, driving home from work:

“I have laundry on my bed I have to put away and my bed is still unmade because I was too lazy to both put away my laundry last night, so I slept with it, and to make my bed this morning. I will put my laundry away and then make my bed. Then I will make my lunch for tomorrow before I forget. Then I will shred (Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred. It’s a bitch) but my heel kind of hurts (pervious injury from dance..) so I’ll ice it while I blog (doing it right now!) because it is already the 7th and I haven’t blogged this month...... Then I will shred, or maybe I’ll do yoga? because my foot really hurts... FOCUS on your To Dos... MAKE A PLAN... FIGURE.IT.OUT. ...or you’ll go crazy..”

Or am I crazy because of my To Do list obsession and addiction to planning?

Stay tuned.. -a. 

*Before you start rumors, I do shave my armpits.