Everyday Adventures

I am that openly neurotic friend who always needs to make everyone happy. I am coming up to a point in my life to where I have to stop thinking about making others happy with my decisions but making the choices that will lead to happiness in life. My boyfriend plays a huge role in all of this planning....and that is the funny thing, he doesn't really plan. He is wonderfully kind and open to new ideas while at the same time is very focused and brave. He constantly reminds me of the 13 year old boy I had a crush on who would climb to the top of a building just to say that he could. That is Jon almost twenty years later, a dreamer who dares to push the limits. Up to new explorations with a Camera in one hand and his laptop in the other. I micro manage situations down to the point where I am utterly nauseous and don't know what to do besides become anxious and stressed. Where does this need to place everything into a box come from? I am about to embark on a very telling time in my ...

The unemployment rate is up to 12.3% in the State of California alone right now. (California: Department of Development Employment) Those of us who have jobs are thankful to be in and have whatever job it is and others of us who have been laid off, fired, or just plain can't get employed are having a tough time finding a job. Especially if they are looking for a job that: is in their field of interest, pays well, (some form of health insurance), near their residence and has a competent set of people in management...overall it seems pretty impossible. Over a year ago I was watching the Jay Leno show and the guest star of the evening was the Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden. What drove more of America to wake up and pay attention more to the presidential campaigns was that people were more concerned with how they were going to put food on the table due to unemployment and raising a family with no health insurance, no savings, and no way of receiving some sort of relief from the an...

Sitting outside of a coffee shop in Berkeley, Ca I overheard two girls having trying to figure out their latest dilemma."I am trying to not spend money....I have been out to eat I think almost every day this week. I think I will just have dinner tonight at home. What are you going to make for dinner tonight?" My mother would have an entire weeks worth of dinners planned out and go out shopping either midday on Sundays or mid morning Monday to purchase groceries for the rest of the week. She would tote along my sisters and I through the weaving aisles of the over abundance of food, keeping an eagle eye on my younger sister who always seemed to get lost. Each of us climbing over the cart we would suddenly dart of to find some new bright tasty looking box of food we just had to have. My mother on the other hand had different plans most of the time. First stop was always produce and veggies (My mom has always had an insatiable love of most fruits, especially peaches and plums rig...