i've been gone.

sometimes i am a very bad blogger... oops!

i've been very busy lately...

flying places!

and not flying places...

and learning to be betty crocker.

and going to dodger games

and of course, spending time with these little guys!

so things have been good! but, i HAVE missed my blogging world.

hopefully i'm back! :)

disney world!

so my family had some RCI points (time-share type thing) that were going to expire, which meant it was time to book a vacation! so my parents and i decided to do a last minute trip to orlando! it was a lot of fun. i definitely missed the rest of the family, especially those two little boys i love who were constantly missed. it would have been fun to experience everything through their eyes. but just the same, it was a great trip!

we went to disneyworld, the kennedy space center, and just spent some days relaxing. it was a nice break from the busyness of life.

here's my mom and i at the magic kingdom.

i am so thankful that God has blessed us with the opportunity to enjoy vacations. it's something i take for granted a lot. and i am even more thankful that He has blessed me with a life i love, and am excited to go home to.

:)

packing up.

well i'm in the process of packing up my pasadena studio apartment. i'm going to be moving in with some girls over in redondo beach. i will be both closer to work, and saving money. so it's a good thing. but i'm not gonna lie, i'm sad to leave.

i have loved living here. i have loved having my own little place in the world. all mine. not to mention how freaking cute it ended up being!

i felt so much pride whenever i would have a new guest over and they were so impressed with what i had done with the place. my place.

i've only lived here a little over a year, but so much has happened. my first time living alone. finding a job i love. so many guests and friends and memories. i feel like i've grown up more in this little apartment, on my own for the first time, more than i ever had before.

and while i am excited to see what God has in store for me next... i'm really gonna miss this.

comfort food.

comfort food: food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking.

i wonder what it is about comfort food that makes it so... comforting.

for example, sometimes when i'm stressed, i just "need" a big greasy bacon cheeseburger and fries.

even just looking at it makes my mouth water a little bit. i could care less how many carbs, or calories, and fat is in it. i just LOVE it.

i wonder what your comfort food is...

circus love!

now some of you may know this about me, but when i was little i was obsessed with the circus. i kid you not. in my mind, if i could somehow convince my family to join a traveling circus and spend the rest of my life traveling and performing, i would have been the happiest kid in the world!

my favorite tv show as a child was "dumbo's circus". for a flashback, go here.

i incessantly searched for a kids circus camp i could attend, to no success.

i dreamed of the circus convoy unexpectedly rolling into town and setting up their tents for a show full of animals, entertainers, "freaks", acrobats, and girls in sequins standing on elephants and waving at me. 

but alas, my circus dreams never quite came to be.

HOWEVER... today i discovered hollywood aerial arts!!! i can take trapeze classes! i think i'm gonna get a group together and set up a class for one saturday next month.

maybe my circus dreams haven't died after all... :)