I wish (again)

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I wish people weren't so scared to live the lives they want.

It makes me sad when people say, 

"Oh I really wish I could do something like that!"

To them I say,

YOU CAN.

Stop thinking of all the reasons you can't...
Think of one reason why you can. And SHOULD.

and then

JUST DO IT. 

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thank you :)

I wish

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"How I wish you could see the potential, 

the potential of you and me. 

It’s like a book elegantly bound. 

But in a language that you can’t read, 

just yet."

Death Cab for Cutie

Just some thoughts

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness, looking for peace. they chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. the irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." 

[ramona l. anderson]

 "Growing up is never easy. you hold onto things that once were. you wonder what's to come. but that night, i think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. other days. new days. days to come. the thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. we just had to forgive ourselves...for growing up."

 [the wonder years]

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. 
They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it?
The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away.
And you may make revelations that cost you dearly
only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."
[Stephen King]

Glad

It's good to be home.

Good News!

So, a lot of good things have been happening lately! 

First of all, my classes this semester are OVER! 

Only 2 finals to go until I can relax and breathe easy again. 

That is, until school starts again in January...

But this semester has been great, 

definitely one of the best so far. 

Here's the good news:

I'm going HERE!

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And for those of you who don't know,

these pictures are of

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

VINA DEL MAR, CHILE

and

MACCU PICCHU, PERU.

I'm doing a little Summer Study Abroad

with a group from my university.

We'll be doing 3 weeks of classes on campus

and 5 weeks of traveling. 

I'll be getting 9 credits for classes I would

normally have to take sitting in a desk.

Other good news, I got a scholarship

to help pay for this 

little adventure!

I'm so excited.

Possible

(from The Notebook Doodles)

How else?

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody you've never even meet?

-David Foster Wallace

Just Because

Oh hey

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"When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better."

- C.S. Lewis 

Thanks.

"To move to a new place

-that's the greatest excitement. 

For a while you believe you carrying nothing with you,

all is canceled from before, or cauterized, 

and you begin again 

and nothing will go wrong this time." 

-Margaret Laurence

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Dear Beautiful City in which I Reside,

Thanks for being just far enough away from home that I can be gone, but close enough that I can visit when I want to. Thanks for my amazing friends and my good job. Thanks for having a great university. And thanks for the crisp Fall air. You were exactly what I needed this year. 

Much Love,

Danielle 

Stress Folks.

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So this week has been complete insanity. It seemed like everyday I had a "To-Do List" a million miles long. Don't you hate those weeks? For me they usually lead to anxiety attacks that my poor parents/roommates have to witness. Thank goodness they're understanding people! 

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But anyways, I've been thinking a lot lately about goals. I'm a goal-setting, list-making, calendar-writing kind of person. If I don't have organization and a clear list of things to do, I forget everything and nothing gets done. Some goals however, seem to always get pushed aside (like blogging more, or reading) no matter how much I try to plan them into my schedule. But I guess until I "find" more time, they'll just keep getting pushed aside.

Just a Little Hope

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?"

Unknown

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

Tertullian

 all pictures via weheartit

A few pictures from Europe

 

Amsterdam

Venice

Mt. Pilatus. Lucerne, Switzerland

Paris

London

Today I Believe

One of my favorite blogs is Laura Marie's A Diary of Little Things and Curiosities. She has the most inspiring posts called Today I Believe. She's doing a giveaway and one way to enter is to write your own Today I Believe list. So here it goes:

 Today I believe

 (photo found here)

 ...that even though I always complain about being cold, there is something exciting about the change from summer heat to crisp, fall air.

...that there's nothing better than getting lost in a good book.

...that calling your mom just to talk is a great stress reliever. 

...that getting behind on homework after only a week of school is very BAD.

...that birth WEEKS should be celebrated. Not just days :)

...that there's something exciting about the chaos of a college campus.

Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

Guess You Learn Something New Everyday

Sooo...I've been gone for awhile. Just jetting around Europe. Lake Powell. Enjoying my summer. Revisiting the past and repeating mistakes. But most of all learning some really important lessons. Someone else always says it better than I do so here's what I now know:

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

 -Mike Murdock 

(P.S. If it's a weakness...that's red flag number 1)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
 -Albert Einstein

You did what you knew how to do and when you knew better, you did better.
 -Maya Angelou


I think we make the same mistakes more than once because we don't like to be wrong. We hope we weren't wrong...so we give it another try. Sometimes it takes falling on your face twice before you learn your lesson. Other times it takes three, or five, or fifteen. But the important thing is that you do eventually learn from them. 


I may be a little embarrassed how long it has taken me to learn certain lessons but I'm happy I've finally reached the point where I can wake up everyday and feel good about where I'm at in life. 


Another semester has just started and I couldn't be more excited. I like beginnings. They're a chance to leave the old behind and start new and fresh again. And I have a feeling this is going to be a good one. :)


P.S. My new apartment has the most worthless internet on earth. Can't get any pictures up now but I'll post some soon of my trip!

Excited

Soooo, when I saw this trailer...I may or may not have squealed like a little girl. Embarrassing! But, I can't help it, I grew up reading these books. I think I've read them all at least 5 times, if not more. These last two movies look so good! Can't wait.

Also...

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." -Agatha Christie

 (photo via weheartit)

Today

Today I learned that only eating cereal, pizza, a waffle covered in Belgium chocolate, and a root beer popsicle is a good recipe for a bit of a stomach ache.

Inhaling mass amounts of illegal substances doesn't help either.

But going to a FREE Modest Mouse concert with your friends on a beautiful summer night in the city pretty much makes you forget about the stomach ache and lightheaded-ness.

Why can't summer last forever?

Lately

So I'm not sure where the summer has gone...but I'm already leaving for my trip in less than 3 weeks! Ahhh I can't believe it. Life has been so busy lately I haven't had a lot of extra time to write. When I'm not working, one of my best friend's Sarah and I are checking things off our "Summer Bucket List". It's the best. We made a list of all the things we wanted to do this summer and it's been great. Last week alone we went to Eclipse at midnight, went to a rodeo, went on a date, went out to eat, went hiking, layed out by the pool, and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dear John. Have I mentioned that

I love summer ?

I've been going home a lot lately and have had a lot of time to think in the car. It's funny what kinds of things come to you when you're driving. There's been some things in my life the past few weeks that have been driving me crazy because I really have no control over them. I want to be able to fix the situations but really, the only thing I can do is wait and see how it all plays out. I've realized that I might just be the most impatient person, ever. And I don't know how to fix it. How do you become more patient? How do you just relax and wait? I mean, when there really isn't anything you do, I guess you have to be patient no matter what...but it's the relaxing part that's hard. Anyway, if there's anything I've learned in the almost 22 years of my life, it's to expect the unexpected. To know that life can change so fast. To plan for the worst, but hope for the best. It will be interesting to see what happens!

 (Sarah and I at some caves we hiked to last weekend)

Between the Lines

Time to tell me the truth
To burden your mouth for what you say
No pieces of paper in the way
'Cause I can't continue pretending to choose
These opposite sides on which we fall
Loving you laters if at all
No right minds could wrong be, this many times

...You and me, always between the lines

-Sara Bareilles "Between the Lines" 

(photo via weheartit) 

Not much to say

Just been busy busy lately. Busy lovin the World Cup. Busy lovin work. Busy lovin Gillmore Girls after work. Busy loving going home every weekend. Busy loving feeling good when I go home. Busy seeing friends. Busy loving speaking Spanish at work any chance I get. (I need the practice.) You get the idea...

Things are good.

That's about all.
 

Nostalgia.

So I might just secretly wish...
That I were a cowgirl.

This is one of my best friends Kamrie and I about 3 years ago.
Almost every year her family packs up the horses (they have a million) and rides into the Uinta Mountains and camps for a week or so. I've been lucky enough to go with them a couple times and I can honestly say that those were some of the best weeks of my life! Riding horses all day, fishing, sitting around the campfire, and laying under the stars miles and miles away from any lights, cars, houses, or towns. 

Kamrie's getting married in a few weeks and guess I'm feeling a little nostalgic...I just finished a photo album that I'm giving her as a wedding present. We've been friends since we were 11 and have done just about everything together. We played on the same soccer team for 8 years, went to middle school, jr high, and high school together, dated each others cousins (small town), i went on her family vacations, she came on mine, i basically lived at her house for a few years, we were in a car wreck together, and i dragged her halfway across the world to live in another country with me for 3 months. If that's not a best friend, I don't know what is. I'm so happy and excited for her...and maybe just a little jealous that Brad, her husband-to-be, will be the one going on all the campouts and vacations, and not me. :)

Me too!

(found at postsecret)

Haha...

 (image via weheartit)

"Who the hell cares what anybody else thinks!?
Just look into your heart… do whatever the hell makes you happy"

-Dr. Bob Kelso (Scrubs)

Mmhhmm

You fall in love and it doesn’t work out, and you think that it’ll never happen again, but it does. Believe me, it does. In the strangest of places.

 -Dawson's Creek

A hug can turn your day around, it’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you, and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out of your mouth, and you can breathe again.

-Pushing Daisies

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.

-Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) 

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

-Lao Tzu

 All quotes via Quote Book

All photos via We Heart It

Poema 20

"Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido."

-Pablo Neruda

Translation:
"I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

I really like this poem, he's a beautiful writer. You can find it here (in spanish) and here (in english)

My Feet Hurt.

I've worked 63 hours in the last week.

I'm tired. 


I think I need a massage. Or a chiropractor.

I'll probably blog again next year when I wake up from the coma I'm about to go into.

Which reminds me of Dane Cook's exaggerating girlfriend skit. If you haven't heard it, you should look it up. It's hilarious.


Goodnight.

Love these

all images via weheartit

Gone

I threw it all away. Now you're gone for good. 


What a relief.:)

Yep.

This site is the best thing I've found in a long time!

Also...2 finals down, 2 to go...

Weddings :)

One of my best friends, Heather, got married Thursday.

She was beautiful and looked so happy.

Her husband is one lucky lucky man.

It was great to get together with all my friends. 

I don't see them nearly as much as I'd like.

Congrats Holmie, love you!