Also....

Currently watching TED Talks about sex and love and totally connecting.

WTF?

WTF is wrong with people?

Is this really necessary?

This is what my Friday looks like

Every since I dropped my morning client a month ago for an English language teaching job in Gwinnett county I have had Fridays off. Yes, that is correct. I pick up the occasional companionship case with my company but for the most part my Fridays are free. Which means Thursdays are my Fridays. Last night Cameron joined Renee and I for trivia at North River Tavern and we sucked, but we had fun and drank beer. :) I stayed the night, woke up this morning and did some grocery shopping for the weekend and got some lesson planning done. Then, I went for a four-mile run down to one my favorite Sandy Springs park and encountered this:

Does this or does this not look like a postcard? Who knew there were such pristine places in Atlanta? I spent my entire high school years, college years and beyond hating my hometown. Is it true that being in a relationship you actually like can change your mood that much? I have re-discovered how much I love running again (yay runner's high!) and just how gorgeous this town can be. Can you say shoot me now? Have be come one of THOSE women? One of those women I hated in college and in my twenties? And yet, I find myself leaving again. I always leave at the moment when I start to feel settled. But this time it's for my own good. For my education, for my personal growth.

I can come back in a year and a half if I choose to as well. But for now I think I chose to enjoy the moment. Enjoy the summer, enjoy the boy, enjoy the job, and enjoy the peace. :)

It's my summer

It's officially summer, right? I mean, I am out of school for the semester, and can devote my time to my ESL teaching job. (All 19 hours a week, right?) Truth be told, life is pretty sweet. I have a summer off, someone to pal around with that I actually like, and a fresh start in a few months in a new state. I'm going to forget the fact that I am scared shitless to be starting over again, but I think things will work themselves out. They have a way of doing that.

Two dads

Beautiful Jeanne on her wedding day, with both of the fathers that helped raised her. She couldn't stop from tearing up before she started to walk down the aisle. Such a beautiful ceremony!

Wedding love, early April 2013

This picture was taken at the end of April at my cousin Jeanne's wedding. Jeanne is 27 and an elementary pre-K teacher. Her new husband is a doctor and will completing his residency at Emory soon. The girl far off in the picture is my cousin molly, 13, and really excited to be a jr. Bridesmaid in her half-sister Jeanne's wedding. Molly is the offspring of my mother's sister. We grew up with the crew, and it is very exciting that Jeanne is the first of us cousins to tie the not. Beautiful wedding ceremony in April 2013 near the river in Augusta, GA. So happy for her and Aaron. :)

May, so far, in pictures