Gratitude on the go! 9-9-13

Today I am grateful for:
-these quotes:
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
"Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into mindfulness."

-getting to hang out with Jen and Oscar today.

I mean, come on!
So adorable!

-getting to hang out with Hannah today. 

-daring greatly and talking about boys

-finding out that Emperor's New Groove is on Instant Netflix. I mean, I might be over exaggerating by saying my life is now complete, but honestly, my life is now complete. I cannot even express how many times I've wanted (needed) to watch this late at night and have been unable to because it's no where to be found online. No longer my friends. Noo longer. 

-group. It was pretty great today. It was just Maggie and me. I talked more about boys and she talked about dating as well. We struggle with shame and people pleasing so we were able to talk about that. We had to tell each other what we liked about the other person. We both suck at taking compliments so that was our homework for the week. To just take the complement and don't try to say anything else. We both chatted after group about how we really enjoyed tonight's session. We've both made some mad progress over the last few months and that's something to hold space with. 

-Jaime. It's her birthday today. I still remember meeting her for the first time on her birthday back in 2005. 8 years ago. My goodness. I remember thinking right away she was pretty great. Then realizing her dry humor was right up my ally and we had a ton of things in common. I remember watching Desparate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy every Sunday night in the TV room, her helping me out when I just broke up with my ex, discovering that we both cried out by the fountain because it drowned out the noise, and of course sharing a love for scary movies. Not to mention being one amazing third of the amazing trio. There are too many memories to share here. The moral is I am so lucky and grateful to have such a kick ass friend like Jaime in my life. Happy birthday, Jaime. Here's to many, many more. :)

Prepping for a 90's dance party.
Circa 2005

-the basics

-laughter. Particularly when Oscar basically dive bombed his toy. I couldn't stop laughing I thought it was so funny. He looked up at me to see what was going on because he didn't understand why I was making those noises. It was so adorable and hilarious. 

-as always, my friends.