For Your Reading Pleasure

Getting ready to depart on the road trip.  The last time I was a in a car for more than 24 hours was when I was thirteen on the way to New York.  Now, I am in my twenties and concerned about keeping myself entertained for 24 hours.  That's how long our trip is supposed to take...24 hours (well, with the exception of pit stops, etc.)

I will keep y'all posted as much as possible.  I will try to keep posts to once a day, but I cannot promise anything.  You never now on a vacation.

For now, I think you should go read up on two things:

1. The reason why I will choose to not eat at Chik-Fil-A anymore
2. The tragedy that makes me question gun control in our country

 Prayers go out to those in Aurora, Colorado.

How do you feel about what happened today? What thoughts did it make you have?

The Century 16 Theater where the Aurora, Colorado shooting occurred today

When hope surrenders, life may surprise you

Happy late-night post (again),

BIG NEWS y'all!! My parents invested in Smart phones! I still cannot believe it.  After years of text messaging being the new phone call and updating Twitter being the new Facebook status, my parents have finally caved and joined the modern world.  My mom even got an iPhone! She loves her iPad that she's had for awhile so she thought it was time to update her slider phone and learn to text, Skype, and the whole enchilada.  I have spent most of my evening teaching both her and my dad to do different things on their new devices.  I am not kidding when I say that neither one of my parents have ever sent a text message until today.  I love that this new form of communication with my parents will bring us closer together.  I can already see my mom texting me videos of new outfits for me to critique.

Some not so great news: I missed spinning this morning.  I woke up a tad later than I intended to this morning and made it to the gym with a minute to spare, and of course the Monday morning spin class was full.  I took it as a sign from the universe that I was meant to do the intense ab centered workout instead.  I definitely feel the after effects right about now.  Glad to know I targeted my obliques.
I am confident I will make it to spinning in the morning and sign up for my favorite-- bike number seven in the front row.  If I'm lucky maybe "Call Me Maybe" will also come on at some point.  Wishful thinking.  Oh, and NO I have not gotten over that song for those of you thinking I'm crazy for still fancying it.  Anyone else dance to it like those boys do in the video I linked?

I've been cracking my head about how to become a better blogger.  I love it, I think about blogging all the time.  I look up blogs on my free time and I am considering moving to my own domain or to a different hosting site if I keep up the good work within a couple of months.  I am a big fan of BlogHer, a publishing network that empowers women bloggers and engages them online :) I am very much interested in submitting my blog to them in the future.  We'll see...

It was through BlogHer that I found this great post on why blogging matters.  I suggest you read it, I hope it intrigues you as much as it did me.  "Dear Anonymous, This is Why Blogging Matters"

I was pleasantly surprised this evening, just when I had given up hope.  That'll show you, don't give up hope.  Now it's a matter of how I handle what happens next.  Sorry to be so vague, but vagueness is all I can handle at the moment.

Two last things:
1. I am not a fan of this Raw Meal shake mix my sister-in-law gave me.  Blegh.  I'll stick to my Green Monsters.

The raw cacao makes it better, but it's too grainy.  

 2. Day #2 photo is titled "busy" and you can see it below.  Wasn't feeling too creative there was I?

Busy working for my sister-in-law on some Spanish translations for parenting psychology

Have you ever given up hope or were about to give up hope and been pleasantly surprised in the end?

1, 2, 3...

I hope you read the previous post, it's filled with great information even if it is lengthy.  This one is a shorty, I promise.  I have a couple of songs (1) I'd like to share, an article (2) Leigh Leigh showed me, and a blog (3) I'd like to share.  I will organize it for you in case you want to scroll past the stuff that doesn't interest you.  But hopefully all of it does, but if it doesn't don't tell me. You'll hurt my feelings ;)

(1) Songs

You may have heard this song in the Chevy Sonic commercial or in The Last Song (yes, the one with Miley).  There is something about this song that touches my soul.  The lyrics are powerful.  Enjoy. 

I heard this song today for the first time in a long, long, long time.  It brings back sweet memories for me.  It gives me butterflies in my stomach and I think my heart flutters when I hear it sporadically like I do.  Isn't love great? I can definitely relate to Keith's words in this song.  

The real winner is the song below.  I recently took notice of this song at the wedding I went to last Saturday.  Yes, the wedding mentioned in Entre Pairos y Derivas.  Adele's "One and Only" was the first dance song.  It was beautiful, but I had never really listened to the song before.  Adele's music tends to be kind of "wah-wah-wah no one loves me" and that's not really my style.  Beautiful voice though.  Something about listening to "One and Only" stood out to me and so I went home and looked up the lyrics.  If the lyrics in a song touch my heart chances are that I will like the song 90X better.  I read the lyrics and they described perfectly how I was feeling about said person in the post linked above.  EEEK...

I hope you like it as much as I did. 

(2) Article - here is a little something to regain our faith in humanity :)

(3) Blog Just discovered my friend Lisa Marie's blog Pretty Little Moments.  She's a great writer and has a beautiful layout.  Go visit :) 

Told ya that was short! 

Which was your favorite song? What was your favorite story in the article?