the flossy, flossy

Do you ever have those days where you're feeling slightly less excited than usual? Not boredom - because that denotes a lack of busyness - but possibly less stimulated? I've arrived at this Wednesday a little less buzzy than usual, approaching my to do list with a lesser than multiple evils attitude.

What's the deal? I don't think I'm alone either. It seems everyone is busy with a side of blahs. I *think* it has to do with all of the anticipation for next weeeek - we're just so excited for the Four Day Fourth week ahead that we're forgetting to enjoy this lovely end of June.

And so. On this June 27 day, I shall live like it is my birthday. (And you should too!)

When I lived with Hannah, we liked to pretend it was our birthdays all the time, which included keeping both of our Happy Birthday banners hung all the time (see here), drinking champagne even when we weren't celebrating (unless you count the Bachelor as a celebration), and pretending calories don't count with random midweek cupcakes.

I'm fairly certain these actions will put the pep right into my step today.

I'll let you know it goes!

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it's here!

 
Last night at yoga, in honor of the solstice, we participated in the biannual tradition of 180 sun salutations. The entire thing takes 3 hours, and we only had about 100 minutes, but we did what we could during that time.

When we started the class and he told us what we'd be doing, I was kind of annoyed. Really craving a hard workout, I was frustrated that we were just going to repeat salutations A, B and C, considering they're normally a warmup.

I stand corrected.

It was so incredibly hard; there was a point when I wasn't sure I would make it through. My entire body is rocked with soreness today. I left the class feeling exhausted, detoxed and centered.

When I got home, I talked to my favorite yogi and friend forever, Katie, who told me she'd recently been in a class and the instructor closed by saying: You're living your dreams - don't miss it!

And I thought it was just a lovely way to start this Friday and first full summer weekend ahead.

I hope your weekend is dreamy!
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life as we know it

Everywhere I turn (i.e. here and here), someone is talking about life in the 20s. Because, the fact is, it's kind of hard.

It's fun and amazing and exciting. Heck yes.

But it's hard, too.

It's filled with confusion and comparison and change. And also, it's not like college where there was a clear formula for success (make good grades + make good friends + be productive + have fun = degree). Instead, it's a whole array of wild options - get a job, get a graduate degree, get married, have a baby, buy a house, travel the world, follow the straight&narrow, follow you heart...

Whew.

There are so many options, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out (1) what you're supposed to do (2) what you want to do (3) if one and two match.

And I had a little bit of a hard time with it there for a minute, and sometimes still do have my moments of panic (sorry, friends, who have to sit through these moments), but for the most part, I kind of love it.

Sure, it can be a little tricky when I see people younger than me, who seem to be advancing more quickly down a path that I think I'm ready for. Or, even sometimes, are doing something totally different than me. My friends and I were recently joking that sometimes we see someone doing something, and we think: Dangit! Why am I not traveling Europe right now? Even though, had you asked us an hour ago, we didn't even want to travel Europe.

It's just tricky!

And I can't give you any sort of formula to make it less tricky. All we can do is embrace this time right now and realize that it's OK that we don't have the answers. We don't have to know where it is, exactly, that we want to go. We just have to keep making positive life decisions to make us slightly better people, hopefully making the world a slightly better place. And before we know it, we might stumble upon just what it is we're looking for. Or better yet, we might realize we had it all along.

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