I know, I know. It’s been forever. But between work and school, and dogs my life has been crazy busy.

But I’m trying this again. Call it a New Year’s Resolution if you will. At least once a week I need to post a picture and at least once a week I need to post a meaningful blog. I have a new camera, so I have no excuse to not take/post pictures. And I think typing a meaningful blog would be helpful to organize and put down on words what I’m thinking. It will at least help me from going crazy I hope…

So now a picture of Karlie! Since I have a bunch =)

Karlie is ridiculously cute!

There, one picture. I’ll be adding more I’m sure.

Since it’s after  Christmas, I’ll do a bit about that. Lots of Harry Potter stuff, gift cards, clothes, just general awesomeness. But then there was this ring. And I know the giver didn’t intend for it to be so profound of a gift, but it was. It’s a rater simple silver ring (and if you truly know me, you know I don’t go for simple lol) but the inside is inscribed. Now I’m also not the type for motivational mumbo jumbo, but this really spoke to me.

“Life is about the journey, not the destination.”

I’ve been SO worried about the destination lately. What I want to accomplish, where I want to be in 10 years, the type of person I want to be… I’ve forgotten that I have to get there first. I have to finish this year to get to the next, I have to finish next semester to start the next movie project, I have to graduate college before I can start working on my own, I have to write my ideas and thoughts down and form something like a novel before I can get published. There is so much I have to do before I can think about being anything, or being anywhere in 10 years. Those 10 years have to pass. William Ernest Henley had it right:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

I know now that I have to play more of the role in my own life, however I cannot change the past and should not dwell so much on it. Mistakes have been made, and yes, the memories are bittersweet, but I think I am better for the those mistakes. I have grown, I am not the person I was a year ago, or even 6 months ago. I’ve changed, and I think, for the better. What ever happens, happens. I must accept this, and try to enjoy everything and learn from everything that happens.

I leave you with another picture, this one is little miss Ella Bella!

And, as a final note, Norbert passed a few weeks ago. We think he jumped off his rock ledge and paralyzed himself, but we’re not too sure. So rest in peace my little lizard, chase cricket’s to your hearts content!

Norbert