Rambling Rose

Love this!

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"Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"What's praised as good today may be condemned as bad tomorrow, and vice versa; it's not necessarily that we were wrong then and right now. It's just that our knowledge is constantly growing, and along the way we sometimes have to unlearn what we thought was true." ~The South Beach Diet book and cookbook (LOL)

"'I should head home, actually,' I said. I'm kinda tired." ~The Fault In Our Stars, John Green

I think I like the first one better, but the second one is definitely more accurate, ha.

Thanks for the game, Tigi. I yanked this fun little ditty from Another Motown Throwdown. Visit her and play along! What's your 2012 sex life forecast? Ha!

And this is strangely fitting too...

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Because that's about it.

This better be the case

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Because it's been a very rough couple of weeks so far...

Well, I did it...

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...I'm a full time student again, and I kinda love it. Doesn't mean I'll be making a significant amount of money anytime soon, but it does mean I will be finished with my Speech Pathology and Communication Disorders pre-reqs and ready for the program. This semester, I am taking:

1. Intro to Language Disorders
2. Voice and Articulation
3. American Sign Language II
4. Anatomy and Physiology for Communication and Speech

So I will learn how to talk good and learn how to make people talk good. LOL.

I suppose I need to take more of this into consideration every day:

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17 days into the new year and I'm still so amazed we're in 2012 already.
11 days into my 30th year and I just don't know how I should feel.

I suppose I shouldn't feel anything. I suppose I should feel exactly how I feel. Which is kinda burnt out, kinda tired, excited about classes but that's about it. Work is work and I suppose I should be happy I have a job, but maybe life will pick up.

I suppose that's all any of us are doing, just trying to get by.

What do you do?

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...when the traditional sources of your emotional support have been tapped out?

Love it

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Good bye old, hello new!

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What will the New Year bring you?

What will you let go of from 2011?

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I typically do a very long winded post every December 31st about what I liked from the previous year and what I will do differently in the coming year.

I'm not going to do that this year, for several reasons.

1. I don't have any resolutions.
2. Last year wasn't all that bad to me. I did get to visit a whole new country, and culture, after all!
3. I want to concentrate on making small changes to accomplish not-so grand things, and don't want to put the pressure on myself to make grand changes.
4. Blogs are places to celebrate, so enjoy my pictures.

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I'll probably have something up sometime soon about smaller changes, but I'm hiding out in Gainesville, Florida (no, I don't know how to spell that) and helping the grandparents move into a retirement community. Currently I'm not drinking, not partying, and not living it up. I am in Starbucks, downloading podcasts so that I can listen to people talking to me that aren't my relatives before I fall asleep. Do I sound old yet?

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But seriously, I couldn't think of any better way to spend a New Year, could you? I'm being half serious too. :)

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope that this year brings you many rewards.

I really like this poster. I need it for my wall.

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Somehow, I relate

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Don't ask me for an explanation, but I check postsecret at least once a week and I can strangely relate to this one. Sadly.

Ain't that the truth

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My zen moment of the day...

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Hahahahaha!

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I just donated to the Heart Walk

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And when I was finished entering my info, I was directed to this video. For some reason, I find it pretty funny. Although I know heart attacks are serious as well, a heart attack. LOLs.

And these are some words to live by:

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Also, I just wanted to note that it is November, and I am wearing short sleeves and sandals, something I could never do when I was living in Minnesota. Which is another reason to stay in Atlanta. As much as it sucks.

Work update

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Well, the new job that I thought I had will be a few more months in the future. It was a research project sponsored by the federal government, and as with any federal government project, things move slowly. They had all of us classroom observers ready to start work in November, and then the project manager pulled the plug and said there were a few more "kinks" to work out in the study. They said we would start in December, but now they're saying it will look more like January or February. I was kind of counting on that income to boost my savings account now that I'm living at home and looking to move out, but now I'm not counting on anything. So there's that. I don't want to look for another job, because this is a really exciting opportunity to be apart of early education research, but I think I will keep putting resumes out there and just see what comes my way. It's part of the luxury of living at home I suppose, and I'm really glad I wasn't dependent on that income. I guess we are all struggling in this economy and we just have to be thankful for what we DO have.

Wow, I could have written this secret from post secret!

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Me too, me too.

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Even though I adore a good LOL.

Love it. Live it. Learn it. Share it.

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Beautiful!

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Idle time...

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It seems so rare to have a weekend where I'm not working these days, that I don't know what to do with myself on the free ends of the weeks. I do love my job, but it is emotionally exhausting and I am finding more and more that I have trouble "unwinding" when I'm not at work. Like, I am always fearing that phone call that I did something wrong, or made a wrong decision, or didn't write something down, heaven forbid. I just feel that I can never quite relax. If I'm not thinking about work, then it's school, and what the next big step is. That's the problem with transitions. They take twice as much effort as the period before the transition. I just hope the effort is worth it. Lately I've been in quite the rut. What have you done to bust out of your ruts? How do you deal with stress at work?

Big Bang Theory rules!

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Pinterest IS my crack

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I love it!

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It's OK

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...to eat popcorn for lunch, right?

Linked from this blog.

YOGA (and life)!

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I have been practicing yoga faithfully for the last six months, and not the hot sweaty torture yoga but the calm gentle breathing and stretching yoga that heals the mind and body. I found this while blog surfing here today and thought I'd share.