Recklessly Thirty

The best advice I can ever give is from the major lessons I've learned in my 28, almost 29, years! I don't know everything about life, but I do know that the 10 things listed below have helped shape me into who I am today, and hopefully that means a better person. If you ever listen to a word I say, let it be this: 1.) Your parents, siblings, or any family for that matter... their problems, their pasts, their debts are not your own. Move forward with the freedom of not worrying about what holds them back. Don't let it hold you back. You are great. You just have to allow yourself to be. 2.) Go out. My God, just go out and have some fun will you? Go out, have a few drinks, or don't. Go out and dance like an idiot, sing terribly at karaoke, try something new, laugh at all of the extremely silly things you said between your friends. Hell, laugh at all the stupid things other people said to you and your friends. Stay up late and don't regret a second of it...

When did things change so drastically in the dating world? Why did they change? What's the matter with men and women today? We're dooming ourselves to living lives alone...  I can't say that women aren't to blame for much of this issue, but I can assure you that with my experience in the dating world, men are overflowing the cup of blame. I've talked to a few single friends lately, male and female, as well as taken friends. What I have come to know on my own baffles me. What may be worse is that I'm not that girl with horrible dating luck like I thought. My friends have it just as bad if not worse at times! I wear my heart on my sleeve. A major flaw, I understand, but I'm a hopeless romantic. I believe in love and I am that freak that loves love. I won't be saying it to just anyone but I think it's a beautiful thing that 2 people share. I can't be the only person out there with this personality type. Rejection has sadly become someth...

The first time I vacationed with a friend I was a freshman in college. I went to Florida with one of my closest, college friends, Jessica. We had a blast. We didn't stay at the beach or a resort, but there was sunshine and a pool and we were thrilled to be away from Ohio! We took so many pictures and acted like fools. I will never forget that trip! A few years later my friend, Barbie, was going through a breakup. Coincidentally, I was too. The trip was only a weekend getaway to Niagra Falls, Canada but it was a healing one. She and I needed each others friendship and that weekend we laughed, we cried, we danced our butts off, and I believe we tried the calamari everywhere we ate! Best weekend getaway! My third trip was the following summer when I went with my friend Nicole to visit my friend Jen in Florida. Jen lived near the beach so every morning we'd take her to work and then sit at the beach until it was time to pick her up. That trip was so much fun! We m...

It's cold . It's very quiet . I close my eyes and wonder how in the hell I got where I am at that exact moment. The moments of all of my hard work. The moments of my complete failure. Every moment in between... Watching it all like a movie behind closed eyelids. As a kid, you fall down and when you do, you're told to get up, dust yourself off and keep going. As an adult when you fall down, you might be lucky enough to have those same people in your life to tell you to get up, dust yourself off, and to keep going. Or you might not be so lucky. For me, my luck hasn't run completely dry yet. I am no stranger to making mistakes in my 20's, that's a definite. What's undefined is where my recent ones will take me, besides the obvious. When I say it's cold, I'm referring to the weather in the north. That's right. Where I'm originally from... Ohio. When I say it's quiet, I'm referencing the outdoors. Where I take my dog, numerous ...

If you haven't already gotten the hint that I'm somewhat of an out there kind of gal, then you clearly have not read my other "Sometimes I..." posts. Lately, when I find myself doing something obnoxious, I've taken note that I did it, jot it down in the notepad in my head and tuck it away for one more of these fun little posts! Sometimes I ... Eat raw garlic... Cloves of it. Gross right? WRONG! When I was younger, my dad always cooked with fresh garlic and while cutting it up he'd eat some of it. Naturally as I got older... well, like father like daughter! I love cooking with garlic! Yum! Sometimes I ... Catch myself in a daze. One of those ones where someone is snapping their fingers in front of your face to get you out of the day dream you've fallen so deeply into. I do it more often than I probably should. It's usually when I'm sleepy or I have a lot on my mind that I stare off into the distance and ignore every sound and action that takes ...

This is Dolly's world... I'm just livin' in it! For the last, oh I don't know... Let's say, 4 or 5 years I have had it in not just my head, but in my heart, that I wanted to get a dog of my own. I didn't have one growing up, but all of my friends did. Then as I've become an adult, more and more people and friends I know have a dog. I've always been an animal person, but now... Now, I get to really embrace doggy motherhood.  I knew for years that I wanted a Pomeranian. They're little. They're adorable. They're just little balls of fluff that I absolutely cannot resist!! I also knew from the start that I wanted a little female pup. Why, you may ask? Well because I knew exactly what I wanted to name the little fluffy puppy! Dolly Parton I have always liked Dolly's music and been a fan. Her life story, her adventure of getting to the place she is now at the beautiful age of 69, is so intriguing to me. She is classy, in my opi...

"Stop trying to control everything and just let go" - Tyler Durden, Fight Club  Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club Let's face it, this is the hottest picture of Brad Pitt... Ever!  As for the quote, this is something I need to remember on a daily basis. I am someone who likes to have a plan and be in control of everything I possibly can be. Sometimes, you just have to remember that you just have to let go and let fate take it's course!