Feeling Dense

When you spend time out of the country... it takes a while to remember how things work when you get back. When's the last time I bothered with my phone plan? I've just been paying the bill. Oh yea, now I remember... Night and Weekends, Anytime Minutes, Rollover, Text Messages, and Voicemail.

Goal 1: avoid a $50,000 phone bill. It only takes once to never do it again. Well at least for me. I hope.

We all live in a Master Bed-a-room. A Master Bed-a-room. A Master-Bed-a-room

Dude. My family owns a 5 bedroom house and it's being controlled by hippie-amma worshiping maniacs. This has gotta change.

Today

Photo Booth

Finally, I have located the photo booth pics! Enjoy :)

Shumi

I've made my decision

After a few days of absolute, mind-blowing off the charts fun, some fantastic conversations, a couple nervous breakdowns, and a lot of tears the answer has come to me. And suddenly my whole body has released all it's tension and I am calm.

I've made my decision.

I'm going to stay in Portland, road trip the country to North Carolina and then go to India.

I would never be where I am today if it weren't for my sister and my new brother-in-law. Blogs about their wedding to come.

The Climb

I never thought I'd be taking advice from an 11-yr old, but hey Miley Cyrus has some words of wisdom. I don't know what to say, I was just really moved by this song when I heard it on the radio.

The Climb - Miley Cyrus

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
The pain I'm knowing
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on,

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith

Where's Happy?

I've gone from Denmark, "The Happiest Country in the World"...

to San Diego where "Happy Happens"...

I'm still working on happy.