the week i decided to start curling my hair again

I apologize that my blog posts are so depressing lately! I really am not wallowing away in self pity. Sure, I have my days, but for the most part I am happy. I have a job, a car, a house, an amazing family, fantastic friends and a craft room. What more could I need?!

I have had to make quite a few decisions lately, some bigger than others, but every one important. However, the best decision I made this morning (dare I say this week) was to curl my hair. Strange, maybe?

You see, I have kind of been lazy lately. Ok, so maybe "kind of" is an understatement. It takes every bit of energy that I have to get out of bed in the morning just to get to work on time. And my hair suffers because of it. Sure, I curl my hair and look good for church on Sunday, but there's just something about the other 6 days that makes me feel less than thrilled to do my hair.

Then I hung out with some friends after FHE a couple of weeks ago and got inspired to try some new things with my hair. There is this girl in my Branch that I just adore, and she always looks so cute and tries new things with her hair. She is going through a vintage phase right now, and she offered to do my hair for me:
Isn't it cute?!

My work is putting on a huge event next week and the theme of the event is "Worth Remembering" with a retro/vintage type feel to it. I was so inspired by my vintage hair style above that I decided to learn about some more hair styles I could do for the event. I love YouTube! So this last weekend I tested my chosen hair style. The picture is extremely grainy and blurry, but you get the idea (please, ignore my gnarly looking hands):

What do you think?? Do you love it? I know I do! In fact, I spent the day wearing high heels and doing housework just to embrace the style even more.

Who knew that one simple hair style would completely transform my week? I curled my hair yesterday for work, and today I looked in the mirror and told myself to stop being lazy.

{best. decision. today.}

transitions

I lack desire to blog...and the only thing I can attribute it to is transitioning. You see, ever since I had my birthday, I have been in a sort of funk. I don't know where I fit in the world anymore. I feel too old to hang out with the youngins, and I feel too young to hang out with the old folks. It's quite the predicament. And one that I have shed many a tear over. I do not write this post hoping for sympathy or pretending like I am absorbed in depression. It's just a trying time of life, but one that I will definitely come out a better person from for having experienced it.

Ever since my roomie moved out I have been doing a lot of pondering. I have had lots of spare time on my hands...and lots of silence (I cancelled my cable...and it pretty much sucks). So many thoughts have ensued, and I have realized that I am pretty much anti-social. Sure, I like to hang out with my best girls...but I am definitely not a go-out-every-night-and-do-something-fun type of person. I like my weekdays to myself, and my weekends with...mostly myself. Yikes! I fear that once I am {kicked} out of the singles branch I will become a recluse. And recluses are terrible! So, I have been trying to change my attitude, and looking for new ways to get into a social scene.

Flash forward to last week. My dear, sweet visiting teacher came over to chit chat a little. Mind you, she is a lot younger than me, but the most adorable girl ever. I know her intentions are righteous, but sometimes someone will never really understand what you are going through until they are in that situation themselves. We were just talking about transitions {a hot topic for me these days} and she mentioned that she would be so sad and upset if she were in my position. Um, thanks? I just smiled. And nodded. Yes, that's exactly how I felt. But then she mentioned her roomie who is not of the young single adult age that is very active in the mid-singles scene. My heart leaped!

To make a long story short, this girl is having a game night tonight with the mid-singles. And you better believe that I am going to go! After all, these are my people! My new friends! And I am excited!

But my favorite part of this all, and something that just happened today is this: the mid-singles girl got my email address to send me invites when the mid-singles have activities. I got an invite today, for a game night, next week. Where is this game night you might ask? Well...it's at a retirement home. Oh brother.

{just keep smiling}