No Excuses

Okay, so I really don't have any excuses as to why I haven't posted... other than the fact that it's the awful awesome part of my personality that tends to be inconsistent with most things that I am not absolutely forced to do. Please bear with me while I find my way and explore the blogging life!

Once again, there is not a whole lot going on over here. I find that most of my weekdays are filled with work while my weeknights filled with class/studying. I am really interested in what I am learning and have A's in all of my classes, so I guess that's a plus! (I am taking the four prerequisite classes for the education specialist program at Cal State Long Beach.) I can honestly say I really enjoy being a good student, especially after just doing "what I needed to do to get by" in my undergrad. I actually do all of the assigned readings and start papers weeks before they're do-- it's such a change and it feels really great! Not procrastinating does WONDERS in helping to deal with my constant anxiety (a post for another day...). It's helping to increase my confidence that I CAN be consistent about things and I'm hoping after a while I can start incorporating it into other areas of my life (working out, blogging, meditating/yoga, etc.) I'm trying to take baby steps and more strongly develop the habit before I work on all of those though, as I have the tendency to try and make all the life changes I want at once, and end up hopelessly failing after a week few days ;)

There were a few family gatherings with Steven's family which were really fun and we went to a Clippers vs. Hawks game in L.A.... which I have no proof of. (Yeah, I need to add "taking photos" to that everlasting, ongoing list of things I want to be consistent about!) 

That being said, here are a few pics of the past month that I DID remember to take...

This is the life. Sunny, hot day at the beach, reading. This is dog beach and you can see Little's ear in the bottom left of the picture.

Birthday Shoes!!! I love them so much!

Tide Pools at Crescent Bay in Laguna Beach--- I love them so much (I really have a thing for shallow, clear water, like ponds and streams, and low tide at the beach. I don't know why this is but I've always been this way.) Little is an adventure dog and it's so funny to see her climb around... She's really brave!

Sea urchins

Steven's best Miley Cyrus face... (Notice the litter in the left hand corner-- it's really sad to see stuff like this. I attribute it to naiveté, as I can't imagine someone who knows better leaving trash behind.)

After the tide pools, Little was exhausted.

Little's best Miley face ;)

P.S. My 25th birthday was on March 11th! I'm not a huge birthday celebrator (is that a word?) and I don't feel any older, though I will say that 5 years ago, this is not what I imagined 25 to be like. (Of course, back then I thought I would be out of college with a career making 60+k a year with a nice apartment and traveling the world in my off-time... bahahahaha oh to be a sophomore in college again!) It leaves me really excited to see where the next five years takes me, as I always say that I can't even begin to imagine how my life will turn out... not even in my wildest dreams.