Saying Thanks..

In just a few short hours Thanksgiving will be among us. I have not celebrated the traditional Thanksgiving in at least 5 years, three of which I spent in Canada where Thanksgiving is in October. This year things are going to be celebrated differently. I live across the country, far away from all my friends and family. It all makes me really think and realize what I am thankful for, I should really be more great full for what I have. It is the start to new traditions and time shared together.

I am thankful for the wonderful family that has supported me my entire life. Especially over the last few years when it was getting hard for me. You have always been by my side keeping me standing tall.

I am thankful for all of my friends back east. You all have a special place in my heart and in some way or another, helped me out. You have been there for me when times got hard. I miss you all so much, I just hope you know I miss you too.

Thankful for the life God has given me. He has given me so many great opportunities in my life and has given me the chance to travel around and meet so many people. He has been the ultimate decider when it came to making difficult decisions and directing me what path to go down. Because of him (and the help of my family), I think I have turned out to be a firm believer and know how to make the right decisions.

Thankful to live in such a beautiful place and have a nice house that is furnished.

I am thankful that I have a job. When it gets rough I'll be sure to think about how luck I am to even be employed.

For all my blog readers. It takes time to read through all these blogs, and sometimes you just don't have enough time in the day. Thanks for taking some time to see what I have to say, and leaving your comments behind. I love them all.

Of course I am thankful for Frankie. He is my best friend in the whole world, and the most amazing boyfriend ever. I am so thankful for his job and the opportunities he gets to have because of it. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be living out here in L.A. The life we now share is amazing and I couldn't be happier to be with him. I am thankful for all he gives me and how well he has been taking care of me. I am thankful for the last three years we have spent together and can't wait for the life time we have yet to share.

Photo Credit - Naz  

Check out other animation drawings she has there.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Facebook

Not really. I know I talk about this a lot.. but it really bugs me and I can feel my heart breaking.

Hardly any of my friends talk to me. I have tried really hard over the last 3 years to keep friendships from high school.. and being three thousand miles away I seem to be trying even harder. I feel closer to some people that I did even in high school and I feel they are the ones worth taking the time to keep in touch with now. Others, not at all. I try, I comment on status' and write on their wall.. they only seem to comment or reply to something after someone else writes something to them, and completely ignores what I even said. I can see what's going on, and it is a slap to my face. We had "friends and family" weekend for The Gap two weekends ago and I had this book full of coupons to give away, including 25 that could be sent to an email so they could use a coupon too. One friend got all excited and told me she really wanted a coupon, and started chatting it up with me all week leading up to the weekend. Since the sale has ended she has not said "boo" to me. Was I just used for a coupon?! Maybe this is all about one girl, but in the last few years she has disapointed me so much as a friend. I know we don't have to have the word "best" infront of our relationship, but you didn't have to just disregaurd our friendship either.

To continue with the Facebook rant. The only notifications I ever receive are from things I "like" or comment on. Very few seem to come my way in the form of people ACTUALLY talking to me. I get more comments here on my blog world from complete strangers than from people I know! (btw.. I love when any one of you readers comment! It really makes me so happy, I think I prefer strangers reading this thing than people I know.. you all just seem to get it) I'll come to check the FB when I wake up and see 10 notifications.. SO EXCITING! but to see that they are all people commenting after me or on something that I "liked" ugh.

Being so far away, I really find I need friends. I have very few here, and they all work with Frank. I need the friends I have back home and sometimes I just really need to talk to some to feel better.

Clothing Etiquette

When looking for a shirt in a size that happens to be at the bottom of a pile.. what do you do? Neatly search throught the pile until you find your size and carefully take it out. Or just tear through the pile leaving clothes everywhere?

I find that working at a clothing store these days, people have no consideration to the amount of work that us employees put into during a shift. As I have always been a shopper, I always took the time to look neatly and try not to mess up piles too much. Put my clothes back onto the hangers when I try them on, common curtisy. But I'm in the dressing rooms sorting through all the clothes people don't want, and I come to a room with about twenty or so shirts just stroon all over the small dressing room. I'm not sure how people remove items of clothing, but if they take their clothes off at home the same way they take them off when they try something on, they must have one hell of a laundry issue. The good employee I am, I smile and help the customer with what ever they need. Sort the clothes and get them back onto the sales floor as quickly as possible. I love it.

I got these Sexy Boot jeans for work (seeing that I work at The Gap) I love them. They have this "already been worn" feel, they are so soft. Surprisingly they are long enough that I have to roll them up when I wear flats, but the perfect length if I were to wear them with heals.. they drape the heal perfectly. I'm over 5'8" so finding jeans that do this is a difficult task.













Photo Cred - www.gap.com

My Cross Country Road Trip...

 Windmills in Iowa

A first nights sunset in Nebraska

The long straight road's through Nebraska.

 

Driving through the Rocky Mountains

Rainbow after a storm

Sun setting over the mesa's in Utah

Myself at Natural Bridges National Park, UT

Valley of the God's.. Beautiful

The road to get down this 1000ft cliff.. not so beautiful

Somehow the little trailor full of my stuff made it down safely

Watch "Forrest Gump" this is where he decided to stop running and go home

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

Standing on the edge. 4mi across in its widest spot and 1mi deep.

The Hoover Dam. Impressively huge.

After this we spent the night in Vegas (I was too tired to even walk around much, but I did get to see the fountains at the Belagio) and headed out to Los Angeles bright and early the next morning. I arrived in L.A on September 22, 2009. One day I will do that road trip again, but this time with Frank and spend more time driving and stopping along the way (except between Denver & Detroit.. Flat and quite boring, no offense) That wasn't even all the pictures I took, there are over 200. Hope you all enjoy.

Honest Scrap Award

I am so flattered that I have recieved the "Honest Scrap Award" from Jill at Life After College. Thank you SO much Jill. Sorry about the delayed response to it. Go check out what Jill has to say.

The Rules of the Award
1) Thank the person who gave the award and list their blog and link it.
2) Share "10 Honest Things" about yourself.
3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
4) Tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.

My 10 Honest Things about Myself

1. I just moved to California from the Midwest with my talented boyfriend Frank .
2. I'm almost in my mid 20's and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. Guess you could say I'm in a quarter life crisis.
3. Despite how tall I am, I still rock 5" heals.
4. I am quiet and timid at first when you meet me, but once you get to know me (or put a few drinks in me) I open up and say the blunt things that usually come out of my mouth.
5. I'm artistic with styling and color. People are always asking me what looks good.
6. I own a Little Mermaid drawing by the animator who created her.
7. I try to do two to six sudoku's a day to keep my brain in tip top shape. 
8. I love big sunglasses.
9. I grew up in Michigan my whole life and just got my American citizenship back in June. Yes I was born in Canada.
10. My first trip to Florida was when I was 18, and that was only to get on a cruise ship.


The 7 People/Blogs I Present This Award To

1. Mae at I am the Walrus

2. Miss Moose at Moose Tea Party

3. Karie at Wife of a Wounded Marine
4. Jill at Jillie Side Up

5. Russy at The Song From Yesterday

6. Sean at Sean Zelda's Blogalicious Blogcake

7. Kelvin at Moments in Time

I am so pissed off right now.

I am so sick of the people I call friends. Obviously the friendship relationships are one way and I am the only one trying.

I just care too much. My heart is too big to let people go.





I wish you could all try harder too

Halloween Out of the Ordinary

My Halloween was spent differently this year.

No clubs, no dressing up, hardly any candy.

Wouldn't be right if I didn't blow bubbles on the beach.

Laguna Beach, California

The sun over the Pacific Ocean

We usually hang around Arch Cove

Waves splashing on the rocks.

But it was one of the best Halloweens by far.

I Never Know the Right Things to Say...

Day after day I always have something I want to write.. but then I come, sit down at my computer, and can't seem to remember what I wanted to say. Maybe that's why I installed the "Blogger on the go" to my phone. I seem to always snap pictures when I'm out and about and send them to Facebook, so why not to my quaint little blog?

Well in recent news..

I finally landed a job! It's nothing to special, but the job is at The Gap. I am only hired to work the holidays, but if I do a good job, then I may have a job past the holidays. It's sad though, because I probably will not be making it back east for Christmas. I've never been away for this holiday yet, I'm sure it will be weird. Hopefully Frank will stay back with me. Guess we'll wait and see when that time actually comes.

Painting.. In The Digital Sense

So for the last few weeks I have been kind of bored while Frank is at work. So the other night he suggest I start painting again. Well all of my paint and brushes are still back east.. what was i to do?! Never fear, the Wacom tablet was there! I found an image that looked doable, as I had never painted digitally before. This is what came from my experience.

I have always though I was some what of a loner in my book. I never was popular. The friends I had, always seemed to change. I just never really fit in anywhere. Not on any sports teams, wasn't involved in theater, never went near band. Just go to school, get it over with and come home. Weekends consisted of football games and hanging at friends houses. That was my regime for 12 years of my life. I had one boyfriend for a year and a half out of my four years of high school. No one asked me to my Senior prom and I asked a boy to go with me to Senior homecoming.

I talked to all sorts of the "groups" in high school. Had a group of girls to sit with at lunch. Boys didn't seem to like me much, still don't know why. I was tall and quite skinny; skinny enough for people to openly ask me if were anorexic. What boy would have wanted to date a girl whose clothes didn't fit her anyways?

Things seemed to have changed when I went away for college. I found some of my best friends, that are still around today. An amazing man who I want to marry. But why was it that when I was at home, didn't people seem to like me?