mayke up yor mynd!

shooottt.

i dont like this one.


im moving.

http://charisjordan.wordpress.com/

minneapolis...

was amazing.

changes.

I graduated school.

i have a boyfriend.

and im flying to Minneapolis.

what have you done lately?

:)

The end. almost.

I am sitting in a really really uncomfortable chair in Caribou.

... ive been to Caribou (vs. Starbucks) more in the past week than i have in my entire life.

who knew they were open til 12am on weekdays??

even if the chairs are slightly less comfortable.. and you dont see any of your close friends sitting on the porch.. like Starbucks.

but sometimes.. you dont want what youre used to. :)

im sitting here trying to collect my thoughts.

organize my memories.

write down the past.

and.. clean out my iphoto. :)

Tomorrow is my "Last Friday" at the Aveda Institute. :) 

your 'last friday' is a bigger deal than your actual graduation day...

because when you graduate.. you just peace out when the timer hits 1500 hours.

usually people dont even notice youre gone.

oh well.

im not one to draw attention to myself..

...usually :)

ha

so anyways.. on your last friday you get up on stage in front of the entire school and say a speech ... thank your instructors... talk about inside jokes you have with you class... and occassionally people cry.. and talk about what a tough year it was... and how everyone there became your family.

i dont think ill cry.

i did all my crying months ago.

when i thought i hated it there.

now school is like.. a weird family member youve just gotten used to spending time with.

to be honest.. this wasnt the 'worst' year of my life.

or the best. a lot of amazing things happened.. and a lot of things.. didnt happen.

but im comfortable with my year.

i know its september and its not the new year.. but.. technically this is the start.

actually im probably going to write downs some resolutions.

maybe.

its weird to think im 19 and im about to be a grown up.

i hate that all i can think about some days.. is if im gonnna get good enough insurance!

that is so lame.

but seriously.. i cant believe its september 4th.

a lot of times... typically when something triggers my memory ... or when i write the date in my journal.. i always try and remember what i was doing 1 year ago.

i love reading old journal entry's... or looking at pictures from what i did..

its fun.

and scary:time flys

one year ago though... i was here in charlotte.

and even though nothing is remotely close to how it was 1 year ago.. the fact im in the same place.. freaks me out!

ha.

i dont know why... i think because... well i really dont know why.

lets see... 1 year ago.

i lived here... was looking for a job... looking for a church... looking for friends...

1 year later..

i live here... im looking for a job... i church hop... and im always looking for more friends :)

1 year from now.. who knows what the heck ill be doing.

i dont.

i dont even know what ill be doing 1 month from now.

and i like that.

i love a mystery.

the way of the future!

back to the future and Zenon the girl of the 21st century... i never thought i'd actually see the day.. sighh..

i hope you like cats.

watch this.

staralfur

I just spent 23 minutes writing a letter that will never be delivered.  Because i am fearful of truth?  Or because honesty isn't what is always necessary?

Lesson #1457 of Beauty School:

When anyone over the age of 60

 mentions in passing that they have "plans" for the night.

Don't bring it up again.

99.8% of the time.. their plans revolve around someone's death.

concrete.

sometimes i mix belief with hope.

and dreams with reality.

and fiction with non fiction.

my expectations go high.

my outcomes usually disapoint.

But the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it:

for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17

Stories

So ive started reading Stephenie Meyer's series... it became a huge fad at school...

people were reading it as they walked around... folding towels... finishing it in 2 sittings.

talking about edward as if he was coming by later to take them to lunch.

I typically tend to shy away from bandwagon type things...

its just part of my personality... i dont like to follow.

but i was curious.. just a tiny.

so i started reading it.

and i stayed up really late reading.. and set my alarm so i could wake up early to read!

crazy.

i just now took a 'Coffee and biscuit' break and ill be getting back to it momentarily.

i put the picture of redeeming love up here as well.. because this is my ulitimate favorite book.

and it is one of those that makes you daydream.. and wish you were apart of it.

"If i had not existed, someone else would have written me...."- William Faulkner

have a good week.

love

what i meant was.

i like josh hartnett.

trench coats.

and long hair.

picture stories..

job

i just tried to apply as a stylist on board a cruise ship.

free room/board

health insurance

free food

travel 

constant change of clientele.

wake up somewhere new every day.

really really good pay.

but.. you have to have "extensive experience"

i read that last.

by the time i get extensive experience why would i want to work on a cruise ship?

philly this weekend.?

sure.

today

8.8.08

Aveda Congress '08

Aveda Congress: In a (sustainably-harvested Brazillian) nutshell, it is an "educational event" held every two years for Aveda-ites since the mid '80s.

guess who is working backstage at the event?

lets just say.....

i almost fainted :)

a rush of blood to the head.

Just when you think you know what God has in store for you.

Just when you think... 'this is his plan.. i see it so clearly...'

...its not.

his mystery is what keeps me seeking.

his power keeps me humble.

Amazing things happen.

Amazing people happen.

connections and opportunity's come...

and sometimes they go.

sometimes they are here for a season.

here for a connection.

places can be a platform.

a step up to where youre meant to be.

there are dreams and desires that never get uprooted from your past.

you cant let one door that opened be the one that closes all the rest.

He gives us choices.

lets us make decisions.

and though he will be with us in it all...

i have to remember my past.

and my hope for the future.

im okay with change.

and im okay with the unknown.

i just have to convince everyone else.

shut your eyes.

forget what you know.

this life is for living.

do not be distracted.

well, Sometimes things come your way.. unexpectedly.

sometimes good.

sometimes not so good.

sometimes you just cant figure them 

out.

and all the roads we have to walk are winding...

and all the lights that lead the way are blinding..

all that im saying... is that i dont ever really know what im saying.

honestly.

please dont think im trying to say something.

because im not.

i write that kind of stuff on real paper.

here are some photographs.

new winds.

this is what summer is all about.

riding the lightrail.

playing apples to apples.

staying up til 2am.

hanging with your besties!

<3

Mountains and City.

 

This was a very very ideal weekend.

met my family in the mountains..

spent time relaxing on back porches in hammock swings, reading books, playing games.

Horseback riding through rivers and valleys.

then a good evening with the best. Conversations over dinner and coffee. And some pictures to suit.

Next weekend shall be just as pleasant.  We will celebrate the birth of the second born.  And delight ourselves with cupcakes perhaps. :)  

xoxo