a random assortment

many things inspired me to write today... so here goes...

first of all... i have been such a couch potato since i have been at home sick so i have been watching a variety of tv shows. today around dinner time i just happened to be watching extreme makeover: home edition, which is an inspiration in itself. i missed the beginning of the show where they give the background story of the family that they are going to help, but luckily they touched upon it again later in the show. turns out these children lost their father to a car accident and *i'm not sure of the time frame* lost their mother to domestic abuse, so now they were being raised by a god's gift of an aunt. obviously my story telling does not do the story justice, but you can only imagine the emotion behind this episode.

so this got me to thinking... i could never imagine what my life would be without my parents. i don't necessarily take them for granted, but i don't think i give enough credit to them either. my family means more than the world to me. i mean sure we have spats and arguments, but honestly, what family doesnt?! i feel like this is such a tiny little paragraph for something that means so much to me, but words can't describe the love you feel towards the people that mean the most to you. on the same subject, but slightly shifting, over spring break this year i REALLY want to get a tattoo, a tattoo of a symbol (haven't quite decided which symbol yet) but a symbol that means family... annnnd in my head there was much more for me to say about this but clearly my brain is shutting down on me at this point... soooo plan on seeing a blog about a tattoo sometime in the near future...


my next topic of discussion is a rant i could go on forever and ever and ever about, so maybe i'll devote an entire post to it very soon. yes, i'm going to do that instead...let's hope for you readers that procrastination doesn't get the best of me. although, fair warning, it's going to be a complaining, whiny post, but everyone needs one of those every once in a while, am i right?! OH the topic... you want to know the topic? hmmm. let's see if i can narrow this down to a single topic... current college/finishing college/ my future? hmm... broad, but it'll do i suppose.


lastly, my biggest "inspiration" to write this post today was the movie i just watched with my mom Julie and Julia. throughout the movie, the character julie is working on a blog about a year long goal i guess you could say that she has given herself to complete julia child's entire cookbook and write about her findings/adventures in doing so. what got to me in this was how helpful and fun it can be to write a blog... to just get things off of your chest, because there is bound to be at least one person out there that will read it and understand where you are coming from, or who may even just read it out of boredom... in her case it helped her grow as a person (which i hope may happen to me as well)


annnd at this point, clearly my brain is a big, fat, hot mess right now because i can't think of exactly what i want to say in any of what i'm talking about (this time i'm going to blame it on me being sick this week), but thats why i warned all you readers about the randomness of this blog. everything sounds so much more organized and better in my head and the second i go to write it, i feel like a kindergartner!


so i apologize for this mumble jumble of a post i am publishing right now, i hope you can understand. and let's hope, for the sake of all of your poor little brains that my next post is more clear and thought out! goodnight all :)