How old would YOU be if you didn't know how old you are?

 I don't want to be boxed in by your rules for my life!

Lately I've been really concerned about getting older... I don't want to be concerned. I had my life planned out and expected to have achieved certain things by now. You know... the regular stuff like husband, family, awesome career and extreme wealth. lol

I recently celebrated a birthday and here I go again evaluating what I don't have and being kinda sad about it, and I don't want to be sad! I usually take a day or two to wallow in my stuff, then I pull myself out and keep it moving, however sometimes... some things... linger...

One thing I stopped doing was telling people my age or my business. There is such pressure when people know your exact age and I don't like it! I want to do what I want to do, be how I want to be, and act how I want to act, be it childish or mature.

I don't want to be boxed in by your rules for my life!

Ask yourself, how old would YOU be if you didn't know how old you are? How would you be living your life?

I find that people label you and have expectations for YOUR life once they learn your age. As long as they don't KNOW your age and assume you are younger (because you look it) there's no problem. Once they learn the truth all of a sudden you can't act a certain way, dress a certain way, etc. So I find it easier to just not to say.

Society, family and friends get us so bogged down with what we should do be doing by 20's, and 30's.  Succumbing to these expectations get people so messed up.

I don't want to be boxed in by your rules for my life!

I look around and see so many unhappy people because they are living their lives by others expectations of them and I NEVER want that to be me again. I used to be so concerned about what my family thought of me and tried to be so perfect. It's exhausting being perfect! Now, I just want to stay happy and be fly doing me!

I have such hope and expectation for 2012... well ... I have such hope for every year but most of all I'm really just trying to accept God's timing for my life and to be ready when the things I desire happen.

...and I won't be

and to answer the question forever 28!

Just a thought....

On a day like this...
 

I would like to escape to a place like this...

I would like to wear this...

shout out to Anya

Smelling like this...

Maybe sitting on one of the lounge chairs eating this

Ode to key lime pie

Dear key lime pie your creamy tart deliciousness makes me swoon. 

I could eat your yummy chilled goodness every day week,

but I won’t because you will make me fat. I love you. GP

With the holidays basically here I don't know why I'm thinking about Summer vacation! It must be the  gloomy shorter days, or the Pisces in me that's always dreaming of getting away.

I seriously want to go somewhere beautiful for Summer 2012, like an exotic island or wonderful foreign country. A friend of a friend is in Costa Rica right now and I think that's fabulous! I anticipate the day when I can just pick up and fly off to an exotic destination on a whim. Are any of you taking a fabulous trip next year?


 Her makeup is gorg! So I added this as an afterthought.

Tulips

My aunt really likes tulips. I'm so happy they bloom in Spring around her birthday and I always get her a really bright bouquet with yellow, orange, red or purple. Sometimes I even mix the colors...but this year I  just bought yellow.

As soon as I saw the yellow tulips they made me happy...I figured they would make her happy too. They did!

I must go get me my own to brighten up my space...you should too!