So This is Life*

I'm not sure what has put me on this "so thoughtful" phase but it is starting to get to me, I'm Italian & Irish we're stubborn, mean & cranky why the heck do I all of a sudden give a crap as to why things happen, or people are the way they are or what people think?! Pfft. I am not sure but I can tell you one thing I took a nice hot bubble bath last night, read a book & just thought (horrible flaw/quality of mine, double edged sword right there with me). So I got to thinking about what I've done thus far in my life, where I've gone, things I've seen & how I've changed. I mean we all do whether or not we like it, it happens. Think about who you are today compared to who you were in college or high school completely different people in every aspect! I personally have done a number of changes; looks wise, thought process, just a complete 180. And I honestly feel like I like the person I am today more than any other person I've been in my life, except maybe when I was 4 or 5 and was just a spoiled princess!

But thinking back, in high school I was the kid of person who could chat with anyone I wasn't friends with everyone had my own tight little circle but knew everyone & everyone knew me. I wasn't as out-spoken or dependent as I am now, I was more reserved & didn't really stand up for what I believed in as hard-core as I do today. I wasn't as confident in myself at all, was very emotional & could not hide it if my life depended on it! I was a cheerleader of portion of time, played soccer, I pretty much tried it all.
In college I was all over the place, extremely outgoing, outspoken, figuring out who I was. I went to college with a boyfriend & good friend from high school. Being that college kids go to school by seniority myself & my friend (who happened to be a guy, hi ryan!) went to a frat party , got trashed & I got alcohol posioning! Fabulous! A lot of other stories that were hilarious, silly & just college stories LoL But I spoke my mind, had a million questions, knew a bunch of people & even stepped into the role of RA, I was a lot more confident in myself.
Turning 21 was a huge learning process, that's what I'll go with LOL. I drank all the time, drank to forget people, situations, just to hang with the new crowd I hung with & just have a good time, come on I was 21. I had a new job, new friends, new ID that could get me to bigger, badder places. I just did what (I believe) every 21 year old does when they turn 21, just drink! Then I found my beloved* and I am again, completely different.
Now; I am completely out-spoken the only time I really hold my tongue is I feel it's not the place or time for it, believe in love again, even possibilities of me having a family! Something I haven't felt I wanted since . . . I don't even know when. I am more focused on my career, loved ones & just being way more positive than I have been since high school.
The point of todays blog I guess is just to have everyone look at themselves, seriously take a look, how many times have you changed? And have a good core of friends stood by each one of your changes? And if there has been those people (other than family) that stood by you & your changes, do you do it back? I am at a place where I really don't feel the need for drama or to deal with it at all. I know we all say that phrase "I don't want drama" but I really mean it. I work hard, play hard, do a lot of "down activities", hang with my family (which I haven't done in a long time) I still have time for everyone, just not everynight & I am happy, in love & moving forward with my life. Why is it that some people frown & scorn towards that? Hhhm. Well that is my thought of the day today, working my 16 hour weekly day maybe another blog later but I doubt it actually busy this weekend, yay* Valentine's Day for that. LoL I will leave you now fellow bloggers with pictures of the old me & the new me! Still the same lil ol' me just a little different.

The old me.

This would be me with dark hair & at the beginning of my "down phase"
And another, LoL madukes teaching me the luge.

HaHa only played games that involved drinking, Happy 3rd of July.

And the new me!

Hanging at home, with Aidan

(he doesn't always make such goofy faces, he's usually very handsome, just like daddy)

more babies in my life, LoL for someone who hated kids/babies I got em everywhere. Little Miss Rileigh Marie* here

More natural with the hair, makeup & even sporting my glasses more often & of course always sporting the man I love, my beloved*


happy thursday!

No 19 :: Embarrasing.

Okay! So my own little personal goal this week is to make every blog to an entire 7 days (at least) a positive, upbeat, funny blog. And this morning the lovely Lisa & myself were going through the news on the internet & we fell upon a story on whdh.com that began yesterday. A man (yes gentlemen A MAN!) drove his truck into the Charles River! Okay, I understand things happen but 1. I love the fact it was a guy & not a girl "Girl Drivers No Survivers!" ha! and 2. what the hell were you doing that you didn't see the road end, the little downhill & oop! then the river LOL turns out!! the continuing coverage from this story is that the guy sneezed! SERIOUSLY! The quote from whdh.com is "The gentleman said he sneezed, next thing he knew he was in the river," said a witness. HaHa I am sorry, the guy turned out fine, not a scratch on him but seriously, women are the bad drivers here? I have been sick for 2 weeks now; sneezing, coughing, running nose & eyes & (knock on wood) haven't had any incidents where I was heading to a river, especially the Charles River! LoL So today's blog is a funny, embarrassing story of your own! Come on, laugh at yourself life is not that serious. Here's a picture below of that guys' car in the Charles River! LOL He loves that dirty water.

My embarrasing story is a good one! I die laughing, personally, when I tell people. I was about 8 or 9 years old when my parents moved to Plymouth for the longest year (thank God just one year) and I had to take a bus to school! So my first day as an 8 year old I got all dressed up, wore a cute little black skirt, pretty pink & white shirt (yeah I remember all the details!) white bows in my hair & those really think tights girls had when we were little, pretty; shiny black shoes. So my brother & I are waiting for the bus at the end of the driveway all excited for our new school & to see the friends we had made while we visited our grandparents (that live there) every summer, for weeks at a time, we were amped! So the bus pulls up I see one of the girls I remember and sit with her. Ride to school all excited talking about how great it is that we're going to school together making fabulous plans for lunch & recess! We get off the bus and go into school hang up our coats & our bags/lunch boxes into our cubbies (gotta love school when you were younger) and everyone is laughing!? So of course 8 years old you just laugh along having no clue what's going on & the teacher approaches me, 'Jennifer why don't you go see the nurse' okay?! Whatever the teacher says go to the nurse you go. I skip (yes I skipped) all excited for my first day and I am getting into the system, know my class, my teacher & now visiting the nurse who knows why but I was excited. The nurse says 'Jennifer, did you dress yourself today' My eyes light up, 'Yes I did, I picked out these bows & my shirt & my skirt' going to grab my skirt & do a little twirly dance & THERE'S NO SKIRT! I am shocked & run behind her desk, immediately start crying, realizing people were laughing at me! 'WHERE DID MY SKIRT GO? I HAD A SKIRT ON, DID I LOSE IT?' I'm 8 people I have no idea, I was freaked out. So the nurse tries to calm me down, 'it's okay we'll get you something to wear for the rest of the day' crying even more now going through the lost&found items trying to find something that would even half compare to my fabulous skirt I DID HAVE IT ON when I left the house. I finally find a pair of black pants & go into the bathroom to get dressed & start laughing! My skirt went up my shirt & disappeared! I run out of the bathroom & scream 'I FOUND IT!' The nurse laughed and said 'I should be more careful when wearing skirts' I went back to class laughing so hard & explained what happened to my friend & teacher. Of course they got a chuckle & I seriously can not forget that moment. That was absolutely horrible for me, 8 years old at a new school & I lost my skirt? Who loses a skirt? I do! Well that is my embarrassing/funny story. Can't do anything but laugh at them now, they're over & done with & whatever it happened! Happens to everyone. What is you embarrassing/funny story? Please do tell fellow bloggers! Please share with the class.