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Earlier today I thought, out loud, to myself “I’m so happy I’m alive for this!” bohemea: Happy 9-02-10 Everybody! (Thanks to kittykittybangbang for the remind & for giving me an excuse to share pictures from my 90210 collection! I couldn’t love you more.)

Earlier today I thought, out loud, to myself “I’m so happy I’m alive for this!”

bohemea:

Happy 9-02-10 Everybody!

(Thanks to kittykittybangbang for the remind & for giving me an excuse to share pictures from my 90210 collection! I couldn’t love you more.)

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My response wouldn’t fit in 350 characters. I’m wordy. Both Ellijay and Asheville are excellent choices. I love the little town feel of Ellijay and Asheville is wonderful in all it’s slightly hippy glory. Biltmore has truly gorgeous grounds and I really enjoyed seeing inside the house (but I’m a big ol’ dork). It depends on how you feel because Asheville can feel like a little bit of a haul from Atlanta. But I get restless in the car after 4 or 5 hours. If you are up for the car trip, go for it. Practically speaking, I think Asheville will be more expensive though. More gas, more expensive inns, entry into Biltmore, etc… allthingsalishan: I wore a hoodie when taking the dog out this morning. That means only one thing. Fall is right around the corner. Like everyone, I love fall. The cool weather. The cute clothes. The excuse to cuddle even closer. But this fall is different. This is the last fall before the bunny. I tend to let fall pass me by because I live in Atlanta and fall just kind of comes and goes. Not this year. This year I want to really ‘do’ fall. I (again) need your help. What is within a driving (less than 5 or 6 hours) distance where we can go enjoy fall? I’m looking for a cute b&b, lots of pretty leaves, a place to pick apples and overall ‘fall-ness’. With all of the current and upcoming changes, we need a weekend to get away and enjoy where we are right this instant. To stop time for just a few days. Got anything for me?

My response wouldn’t fit in 350 characters. I’m wordy. Both Ellijay and Asheville are excellent choices. I love the little town feel of Ellijay and Asheville is wonderful in all it’s slightly hippy glory. Biltmore has truly gorgeous grounds and I really enjoyed seeing inside the house (but I’m a big ol’ dork). It depends on how you feel because Asheville can feel like a little bit of a haul from Atlanta. But I get restless in the car after 4 or 5 hours. If you are up for the car trip, go for it. Practically speaking, I think Asheville will be more expensive though. More gas, more expensive inns, entry into Biltmore, etc…

allthingsalishan:

I wore a hoodie when taking the dog out this morning. That means only one thing.

Fall is right around the corner.

Like everyone, I love fall. The cool weather. The cute clothes. The excuse to cuddle even closer.

But this fall is different. This is the last fall before the bunny.

I tend to let fall pass me by because I live in Atlanta and fall just kind of comes and goes.

Not this year. This year I want to really ‘do’ fall.

I (again) need your help.

What is within a driving (less than 5 or 6 hours) distance where we can go enjoy fall? I’m looking for a cute b&b, lots of pretty leaves, a place to pick apples and overall ‘fall-ness’. With all of the current and upcoming changes, we need a weekend to get away and enjoy where we are right this instant. To stop time for just a few days. Got anything for me?

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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn’t matter… We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips.
“Writing Down the Bones” by Natalie Goldberg (via julie911)

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FY! Hermione Time Turner Prize Draw

I am so NOT ashamed that I want to win this! I am even giddy at the possibility of winning the scarf. I mean, seriously…this is ingenious! 

missedconception:

fuckyeahhermione:

Note: Entering this competition will require the winner to disclose a mailing address to recieve the Time Turner.

Simply reblog or like this post to go into the draw for a Harry Potter Time Turner by Noble Collection! Three runner-up prizes of Gryffindor House scarves will also be drawn. There will be daily reminders to enter the draw.

Usernames will be drawn on September 1st 2010.

If there are any questions, please leave a message in the ask box.

GOOD LUCK!

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There are times when I fall into a deep pit of self pity. Times I feel overwhelmed, when I just want things to work out. For life to just fall into place for me. I have had these low, desperate feelings for years. All throughout my twenties (not so much my teen years. I was, for the most part, carefree in my teens) I have had more than the normal ups and downs. More severe mood swings than the average person. Normal highs but extreme lows. At “best” mild depression or a slight mood disorder. At worst, full blown depression.  In recent history the swings have gotten less frequent. Thank goodness. I want to kick myself in the rear sometimes for having wasted so much time feeling so bad ALL. THE. TIME. about a life that is pretty darn good. I realize I have to look at what I have and not what’s missing. Of course my brain gets that. Of course it does. But we can’t help how we feel sometimes. We can’t help what pops into our minds when we least expect it. It happens more when I’m exhausted now. When I don’t have the energy physically or mentally to push those thoughts away. When I’m too tired to fight for my happiness.   I’m tired right now. I just feel like I’m doing so much and nothing much is happening. All I want is to be happy and it’s such a tall order. It’s such a big thing to have. A big thing to be. I don’t know if people realize that until something huge happens. Something big in life. I do think that happiness is taken for granted. I’m wallowing in the “why me’s”. It might just be a 24-hour thing. A “time of the month” thing. It might be that I made a list of goals for the next 16 months and-simple as they were-they felt monstrously insurmountable seeing them on paper. Whatever it is the end result is the same. I’m feeling worn. I’m feeling uninspired. I’m feeling low and a little bit sad.  There is SO MUCH to be thankful for. SO MUCH to look at and know that I have it good. That not everybody is set up like I am. But I can’t see through the haze. Maybe it’ll get better next week. Or as the temperature cools. But I need to shake this feeling and quick.  Photo via chocolatetherapie: via wearebasiclight: whiskeydream: abbraccispezzati:

There are times when I fall into a deep pit of self pity. Times I feel overwhelmed, when I just want things to work out. For life to just fall into place for me. I have had these low, desperate feelings for years. All throughout my twenties (not so much my teen years. I was, for the most part, carefree in my teens) I have had more than the normal ups and downs. More severe mood swings than the average person. Normal highs but extreme lows. At “best” mild depression or a slight mood disorder. At worst, full blown depression. 

In recent history the swings have gotten less frequent. Thank goodness. I want to kick myself in the rear sometimes for having wasted so much time feeling so bad ALL. THE. TIME. about a life that is pretty darn good. I realize I have to look at what I have and not what’s missing. Of course my brain gets that. Of course it does.

But we can’t help how we feel sometimes. We can’t help what pops into our minds when we least expect it. It happens more when I’m exhausted now. When I don’t have the energy physically or mentally to push those thoughts away. When I’m too tired to fight for my happiness.  

I’m tired right now. I just feel like I’m doing so much and nothing much is happening. All I want is to be happy and it’s such a tall order. It’s such a big thing to have. A big thing to be. I don’t know if people realize that until something huge happens. Something big in life. I do think that happiness is taken for granted.

I’m wallowing in the “why me’s”. It might just be a 24-hour thing. A “time of the month” thing. It might be that I made a list of goals for the next 16 months and-simple as they were-they felt monstrously insurmountable seeing them on paper. Whatever it is the end result is the same. I’m feeling worn. I’m feeling uninspired. I’m feeling low and a little bit sad. 

There is SO MUCH to be thankful for. SO MUCH to look at and know that I have it good. That not everybody is set up like I am. But I can’t see through the haze. Maybe it’ll get better next week. Or as the temperature cools. But I need to shake this feeling and quick. 

Photo via chocolatetherapie: via

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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie (via littlemiss)

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