Okay well that’s not all I’ve got… Luckily I am blessed and have a family full of beautiful people I would never want to change, a solid group of girls that I can go to for anything and I hope stay in my life till we’re all frail and graying at the hairs, and of course, a few little shits that I consider my brothers, hands down.

However!

What my “title” was originally referring to… Right now, I’ve come to realize, it’s time for me to be a little more selfish.

Things have been—oh I guess you could say… stressful? lately, and I’ve been a little caught up in terms of my self-assurance, attitude, and overall, happiness. Details overlooked, what I need to learn and keep reminding myself is that I can’t depend on anyone else for my happiness. When it comes down to it, it’s all on me. I’ll never be fully satisfied if I’m not fully satisfied with myself, personally. Thank God I have people in my life who make me happy on a daily basis and bring me up when I’m pathetically sliding in a downward slope… but at the end of the day, I, myself need to be able to be happy all on my own.

I can’t control everything around me, what happens, how other people decide to act—but I can always control myself, my responses to the uncontrollable. 

And shoot, a part of me being happy means that the people I love are happy… so this new spout of selfishness technically will benefit all of you biffys of mine, as well ;)

Feeling good.
Xoxo 

I just saw The Lion King in its 3D version with my boy Kelllzzz, and may I just say, I loved it!

Definitely a great way to get that inner kid up and running! We went to Cristina’s before for some queso and enchiladasss, so we were nice and full at the start—there were so many kids. It was adorable! They were all so young since the older ones are in school right now… I wish I was in Michigan so I could be with all of my little cousins! I miss having toddlers around. Such cuties—well, minus the little angel that was sitting behind me and wanted to keep making his shoes light up by stomping on the back of my seat.
Yeah, that was unnecessary. Every time the shoes went off the light reflected on the inside of my 3D glasses.

But anyways, on a real note…. Guys, if you haven’t seen The Lion King since you were a kid… you’re in for an emotional disturbance. Disney does not play around. The whole Mufassa dying because of Scar and then Scar making it out to be Simba’s fault and having the poor thing run away by making him feel that he is to blame for his own father’s death? Yeah that’s really sad.
I told myself I wouldn’t but, I teared up. Not gonna lie to you.

Oh and when I finally get my own dog, could’ve happened this year if I was still at Tech!…. but yeah when I finally get my own dog… I’m naming it Simba :)

Well today has been off to a good start!
Got out of class extra early… and I mean extra as in class starts at 10… we were out the door at 10:08. Not a joke.
Lunch and the movie with Kelly was great, now I’m about to get a little work out in, hopefully a nap too, pick up my brother from school, and get ready to go to work!

Pray that there’s a lot of money to be made tonight because Lord knows I need it.

Xoxo 

Okay no, I do not want that—but if I did! …I could do it because I have officially renewed my membership with 24 Hour Fitness!!

I don’t think you know how happy this makes me.

It’s been difficult with nothing to do but run in this hot Texas sun and rely on my beloved Nike training app. 

I always loved 24 Hour and am so happy I now have access to all of their machines and weights again! Not to mention Thursday night volleyball and an AC friendly basketball courts available whenever I please. 

And I owe all of this happiness to my wonderful Mother. Without her I would be sticking to my free forms of exercise :) 

I had a really good day today. Not that anything out of the ordinary happened, but there was just something about it that was right. Don’t you love that?

Maybe it’s because it started off with rain, I like rain when it is sparing—or maybe it was my perfect cup of starbucks… or maybe it was getting out of my first class early and getting the extra time to peruse the land of bliss called Target for a couple pick-me-ups (which included two bracelets, the fall In-Style, and a cute little something that I added to Brooke’s package because it was just so fun and I have yet to send it out so I feel the constant need to add to it)… or maybe it was that it’s Wednesday which means improv—I swear that class is the highlight of my week, I always look forward to it… or maybe it was the high level of satisfaction I got from my work-out monitored by, now Marine trained, Curtis…and then the GLORIOUS chicken dinner my Dad had waiting for me at home;)… OR maybe it’s the fact that I finally unpacked all of my clothes from Tech… you know what, maybe it’s not just one of these things but all of them together that made the day feel so right. Nothing big happened, but it was full of the little things that make me happy—huh, who’dathunkit.

Well, it’s time for me to detach myself from Tumblr… I’m currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, loving it, and have another double at work tomorrow.

Goodnight sweet friends!