being awesome

Willy P came down this weekend to Boston. It was alright. We mostly just hung out in my bedroom and watched movies and ate healthy food and made out a lot. I've been sick for the past month and Will decided enough was enough and made me eat kale by the bowlful and sweet potato and grapefruit and basically just made me sleep ridiculous hours and guess what? I think it actually worked! I feel so much better. Thank God. 


Anyyyway. 


I've got a pal who had a wee babe six months ago. The fact that she had a baby has nothing to do with what I'm about to write about, I just like the kid a whole lot. Anyway, she was recently talking about how she wants to live more in the right now and how it's easy to become caught up in what we dream of and wish for without looking at and appreciating how awesome the present is (well, hopefully how awesome it is). This is a pretty easy cycle to get caught up in...constantly looking forward to what's next instead of what we have right in front of us. It's definitely something I thought a lot about this past year living in Boston. Turns out I'm not even a teeny tiny bit a city girl. I wanted to discover this for myself, of course, but you probably knew that if you know me. I love love love visiting, but living in one is an entirely different thing. So yeah, this past year I was constantly looking forward to getting the heck out of here. It would have been so much better if we had just focused on the process instead of the eventual. So a few weeks ago, I decided that I was going to make a list of things I wanted to do this year, to focus on what makes me happy and what I want to do. I know that it might seem that making such a list would cause me to look forward more to the future instead of the present, but nope! instead I've been totally motivated to just start enjoying every single day because life is so freaking awesome!! 

All of this from this teeny tiny little silly crafty project I decided to make one day and put on my wall. Huh. 


And no, this is not from Pinterest. Haha :)


-->the photos are kinda bad and i'm not finished with it all because i'm constantly thinking of something new. but there you go christinus! put it on your wall in a place you can see and then every day you'll be reminded to get yo bum out there and live a whole a$$ life. xo!