On the Move!

Hello again friends! Well life has been busy for me, as I'm sure it has been for you these past few weeks. The leaves have all started to change colors and there is certainly a nip in the air as we work our way through the month of October. In other exciting news though, I have my new blog up and running!

What does that mean? It means that I will no longer be posting here on this page. Instead, you can find my updates on life and my adventures on www.myownsweetreality.wordpress.com. I would love to have you come and read up on the adventures I continue to have, so please join me in the move. See you there!

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Somedays I feel as though I have cheated the world into thinking that I am more than I actually am.

Actually if I'm honest with you, most days I feel that way. However most days, I really don't have a problem feeling as though I have gotten away with something. Now I don't feel this way because I am fake or pretending to be something I am not. Believe me, my life is just as hectic, crazy and ready to fall apart as the next persons'. I believe evidence of this is the fact that I only have a few short and random posts every few weeks, as opposed to a more regular schedule. :) As I said earlier though, most days I'm okay with it though. As a kid whenever people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up or later on when I was in high school and everyone asked me what I was going to go to college for, I couldn't help but think of one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite people. Once upon a time someone was interviewing Cary Grant on being Cary Grant. Because lets be honest folks, he is pretty amazing. Cary Grant told this to his interviewer

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point. 

I think that kind of sums up how it goes in our life when we have our image of who we are. We know inside who we really are. Our friends, family, and acquaintances all know different facets of that person. We all know who we have been, but we just don't know who we are going to be. I think we are all using Cary Grant's philosophy in some form or another. We want to be a better version of ourselves and so we act as though we already are that version and hope that someday its no longer an act. Sometimes people take drastic steps to help that game of pretend. Whether they be outward (such as surgery, dieting, exercise, fashion change, a certain job title) or inward (e.g. self-help books, changing philosophy, religion, or beliefs), we are all in some way trying to become that "better version".

This post, is a chance for me to tell you that I'm not very good at it. Some days I feel miles ahead in maturity and experience, and some days I feel miles behind. Sometimes I think how thankful I am that I will never have to learn that lesson again, and then two weeks later I'm relearning something my parents have told me since I was four years old. This is also a post to say that if you're realizing that you're not changing maybe as fast as you would like, its okay! Please don't add stress and pressure to yourself because you feel like you aren't where you should be. That is a terrible feeling that no person deserves. With prayer and patience, you will begin to notice a change. God hasn't given up on you, so please don't give up on yourself. One of my favorite sayings that a very good friend of mine told me once is that "God is more patient with us than we are with ourselves". I love the truth in that statement. I know I'm not perfect... yet! God knows I'm far from perfect, but He views me as perfect because He views me through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. How amazing is that? Here is one of my favorite Bible verses that I would like to leave you with:

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians 1:6

Isn't that just great? He will perfect US :)


Oh and what was it that inspired all of this? :) Well today at work, me, myself and I, the trained chef and professional baker, used a boxed Betty Crocker cake mix because I didn't like the recipe we had for our vanilla cake because I thought it was just too dry. :)

An Unexpected Visit

 Earlier this year, before I made my trip to England with mom, I got an awesome surprise! Handsome bought me a plane ticket to come and visit him in Wisconsin. He was going to be there for a week as a groomsman in a friend's wedding and decided that since he had some time off from his job, that I should come and visit him! :) I was of course more than okay with that :) Truly the majority of our days were filled up with spending a lot of time with the wedding party, which was great! I loved the chance to get to know some of his friends and even better the chance to meet his grandparents. While we were there, we both stayed with his Grammy and Grandpa John which was awesome. They were both so sweet and it was great to get to see the places and faces that Handsome has been talking about this whole time :)

It was great to get to spend all of that time with Handsome. Especially after a month of not being together. It had already seemed like a very long summer so I was ready for the chance to spend a couple days with him. :) We had such a fun time together just hanging out and laughing and talking and catching up. He even took me out for a great dinner by the pier, and I'll be honest it is very difficult for me to believe that "Lake" Michigan, is a lake... I'm sorry but any body of water that is big enough to alter weather patterns is too big to be considered a lake..

The wedding was great, and put together so well. I think honestly one of my favorite parts of the whole thing was the building that the reception was in. It was this really great art deco building that was put together in the 1930's. The one major drawback though... no AC! I'm sorry, I don't really care what you say, but a stone building, more or less completely sealed (did I mention there were windows only on 1 side?), with over 100 people crammed inside, with dancing... all of that adds up to one very HOT room. Not to mention this poor Colorado girl was about to drown in all of that Wisconsin humidity. :)

Handsome, myself, and the happy couple Jeremy and Elise :)