Love the Words

I am adding another blog to my repertoire. I am starting this blog, Love the Words, to share my love of books with others. I want to be able to share reviews about the books I read, and receive suggestions from my followers! I love reading and I can't wait to get started with this addition.I hope everyone that reads this blog will check it out! I am hoping to get a few posts about the Hunger Games series that I recently finished up this weekend. So look for that!

Need Degrees of Life Blog writers!!!

Listen I have this other blog with a bunch of great girls....

The Collab Blog: Degrees of Life

We are down at least one girl for the blog to work as we intended it to. So we are looking for applicants to fill that spot...this could become more than one spot. So....
What to do to join: Send us an e-mail at: degrees.of.life.blog@gmail.com Give us your name, blog address (if you have one) and a sample post (it doesn't have to be long at all) of this week's theme(s): Passion or Virginity or both.

If you don't have the time to join us you can still help out by being a follower and posting comments. You can even do a guest blog posting and e-mail it to us and we will feature you.

We are really passionate about this blog seeing at we are writers at heart. We look for all that would like to join. You don't have to be a writer. You don't have to be anything. Just be interested in being a part of this blog.

Again, thank you for everything. And we love all of you!
We hope to hear from you guys!

xoxo
Stephanie (http://edenkayeblog.blogspot.com/) & Tracey


Also, check out Stephanie's post. She includes a vlog about this very posting.

I had this awful moment last night.

I had worked until closing at my waitressing job. I got home and watched the Emmy Awards with my sister. Then it had happened.

I got my second wind.

I knew it at that point I was going to be up for another few hours, and I was going to get hungry.

Do you know that moment I am talking about? That moment when you realize, "I should have gone to sleep a long time ago because you had become hungry as if it was breakfast time already?"

It is a slippery slope. You can fight against the adrenaline you have when you get home, just go to sleep despite the desire to sit up and watch television or read or whatever until you get "sleepy." But it seems every single time I choose to do the opposite, ending in ... an undesirable hunger.

At that point, I never know what to do.  Should I go downstairs... brave the dark and get some food to subside  the empty stomach syndrome?  Or should I just ignore it and go to sleep? Well the latter never works and I don't have any sleeping pills on hand.

This is how the argument in my head always ends. Might as well go downstairs and get some food then.

Good News

The days of boredom and a million tweets during a single day are gone. I finally obtained a job. It is a part-time job at a local Italian pizza restaurant. But I find myself incredibly happy. I love the people I work with and the atmosphere around the restaurant. I don't want to get too comfortable. But, I also want to always find something to be happy about. My life is definitely not bad. I have nothing to be upset about right now. That is what I want to hang on to. My closest friends are fabulous. My family is amazing, no matter what happens in our household.  I could not ask for anything more. I find myself laughing a lot. This may not be a recent thing, but I did just get over a tiny little funk. So this is a little jump-start back into my optimistic attitude.

I am working on saving my money to be able to go to California to do a communications internship for a few months. I would like to be able to write and work with a creative, passionate, and motivated group of people. The people that work at Global Footprints Network seem to be just that. 

I feel as though there is so much more to my attitude today. I am not trying to have a serious tone right now. I have more of a gleeful and content attitude. 

What I really want to do is let go of my fears. Those fears that the people closest to me are going to suddenly get mad at me... Or that their love for me will just eventually fade and they will get tired of the mood swings I may have. 

What my best friend made me realize recently is that the people that love me may get annoyed by little things but that is part of why they love me. She told me not to think of our relationship like the other relationships I have had in the past... that she will always be there for me. She has told me this several times before. That is a big reason why I love her. She will get annoyed, but that still won't stop her from making sure she is always there for you.

Not to mention she has been going through a shit ton of stuff that no one should have to go through. She has been incredibly strong and through it reminded me of the girl she met all those years ago.

This is why I want to concentrate on what is really going on every single day. Is there anything to make me sad or really all that mad or scared? If not, then I want to be the person I have always been... the happy girl that just wants to laugh and enjoy the day.

Oh the comedies of the female life...

You know that feeling where you have no idea why you are sad? Why in the world do I want to cry about everything in the world? Why does everything piss me off for no reason? It's not like I am bleeding or anything. I was fine yesterday.

And then that moment of realization. Oh wait. I know what's happening.

You guessed it. That week before the monthly cycle that us women get. Yep, P.M.S.

My sister, our friend, and I were discussing this wonderment of our lives yesterday. We were talking about how even when you are on the pill and know when your period will be coming. Somehow we all forget when that actually will be coming.

So there is this mystery at the beginning of the PMS week. Everything is completely normal until that day when it starts. You are irrationally emotional about anything that comes in contact with you. I mean anything.

The dishes are lying out on the kitchen counter and you would like to chuck them at the walls because everyone left them for you to do. You take one little comment and turn it into an attack and immediately jump on the defensive of something that wasn't even be argued.

Haha it is so very funny in retrospect. But in the moment,  you are thinking... what the hell is wrong with me? Am I going nuts?

It takes you a while to remember and look at your pill packet to realize... oh yes, IT is coming. This is completely normal.

I can sort of understand why we drive men insane. I mean, I myself think I am insane at least one day every month depending on how long it takes me to figure out what is actually occurring.

Feel free to laugh at yourself when this happens to you. I mean, who minds getting a little bit of endorphins at the expense of thinking you're a little nutso for an hour or so.

Joke, Joke, Joke

Life sure is funny. You can be given a situation that you view as terrible, and then there it is... that silver lining. It is a blessing in disguise, in cliche speak.

Recently, I have gained a wonderful friend. This is not something I would expect to come out of a break-up with a shared ex-boyfriend. I didn't know her before I met him. I spoke to her a few times before I had moved out of his house. But after the break-up I decided to reach out to her in need of someone that understood to talk with. From that we discovered many shared interests. One of those things was our passion for writing and reading. Nothing could have been more of a blessing than that.

I delved back into writing on this here blog of mine. We began talking more and more, and during those talks we decided to start a group blog with five other girls from across the country. Through creating this blog, we just got closer and began talking a lot more. We have recently decided to combine our dreams for becoming authors and are collaborating on a novel. This past Wednesday, August 17th we were able to meet up downtown Chicago and hang out. It was a wonderful day, and it solidified what both of us have since said. We feel as though we are going to be lifelong besties.

Now we have MUCH more than just an ex-boyfriend in common. She  has been there for me and I hope I have been there for her.

So when I say, it is funny. It really is quite funny how you can meet some people. You've got to love the humor in life!

p.s.  I am so excited to begin writing this book!

I love feeling every muscle in my back... and arms... and legs... and chest... and abs work as I move.

(not me :P)

There is something amazing about the feeling you get when you are consistently working out your body. It doesn't really matter what work out it is, honestly. As you may know, I do an accelerated yoga workout combined with a 40 minute power walk with my dogs every day. But, it could very well just be having short walks every day or lifting a few weights for this matter.

I was simply walking up the stairs to my bedroom, and I could feel the muscles in my chest, back, and arms moving around as I did. It's funny how the act of taking care of your body can make you notice the intricacies of your body as a whole.

The way I noticed the muscles doing their beautiful dance about their places on my body was sort of poetic as it was happening. It was like the analogy of the blind person that can finally see. I for some reason was awakened to what my body does as it moves. It was a quite simple, yet beautiful thing.

I find it ironic that just as someone's simple day-to-day generous actions can go unnoticed or unacknowledged, just as easily the tiny things that our body does to move around or simply sit go pretty unnoticed to us most of the time.

Ah the simple beauties of life. The feeling I have in my body of having such strength is definitely corresponding to my feeling today of feeling strength within myself. I feel like I have grown so much with my inner strength lately. To any who understand: I feel  my lady balls expanding.