makeshift resident.

"all's fair in love and war. and uno."

this is for you, a. rose…

i dont know if you got both of my replies…but what i said was, i love that you are looking at me for the run! one of my favorite memories was watching you cross the finish line at mallory’s invisible children run….for some reason your determination warmed my heart :) i so wish i could run with you, my cousin’s wedding is that day so i will be out of town, but i will be running with you in your heart! we’ll try for the next 10k…

i miss you!

“in every needy person, Christ is present.” [padre pio]

“in every needy person, Christ is present.”
[padre pio]

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rain rain, you dont have to go away. i like you. you can stay.

the biggest heartaches in my life have all been because i wanted people to love me more than they were willing or able to. people are not perfect. they will sometimes take your love and give nothing back or, worse yet, use it against you. but even still, loving one another is our only reason for being.

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i’d like to live here. have chickens and a big garden. some horses. maybe a llama for entertainment. who’s with me?

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i’d like to live here. have chickens and a big garden. some horses. maybe a llama for entertainment. who’s with me?

tom and jerry.

i feel like i’m chasing something these days…some sort of sick tom and jerry episode where i’m always chasing the same evasive little thing and more times than not i’m left with a goose egg on my head or the fur ripped off my tail. i’m not sure why i have this feeling, it’s sort of a desperate flailing of mental arms of sorts….possibly a quarter-life crisis where i cant seem to make out even the next step in the stairwell because the light is off. i’m wondering who turned the freakin light off and i’m groping for a railing or something familiar to guide me. this is so dramatic but for lack of a prettier, more glorious explanation, there you have it. what am i chasing? i cant seem to figure it out.

the good thing is i dont think i’m supposed to yet. somewhere in this dangling space between my college-life identity and who i’m supposed to be for the rest of my life, i’m finding a peace in the chaos. i’m married to an amazing man who keeps me grounded and likes to do the dishes. i have parents who risk everything to follow their creator and i know the power in their prayers. two amazing sisters and great friends. a roof over my head. food on the table. yes, there is much to be thankful for.

i’m not sure what i’m running after. but i have no doubt it will be revealed to me. at least i know that the goose egg will go away and the hair will grow back on my tail before the next scene.

‘but you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for God always.’ hosea 12:6

snow day texts with little sis.

Angela: Did you guys get hit with snowmaggedon?

Me: Getting hit now! Lochsnowmonster! Snowzilla! Flying purple snowmoeater! Lindsey Snowhan! You?

Angela: Holy snowly. Snowbo baggins. Snow way jose. Re snow man. But yeah it is snowing here. Are you gonna get stuck at work?

Me: Snow. They’re letting us go at snoown.  Snow snowbody gets stuck. Snow nice of them.

Angela: Snowtally. Well i’m snow relieved. How ice of them.

Me: Well you snow i work for snooooowtally ice people. Snows my mind. This place is a snowasis. Gonna make them some snowtmeal cookies.

Angela: Snow yeah. You should snow to the snowper market and get some ice crispies too. All of my old snow workers snowtally love them. 

Me: You’re such a snowcial butterfly! I’ll snowtally get some. But I was snowping to eat some chicken fried ice and fried snowkra. I like fried stuff you snow?

Angela: Yummy. I was feeling like italian. A little spaghettisnows and a snowsagna or fetticini snowlfredo. Maybe some italian ice. I don’t really snow yet.

Me: Snowbody snows what you’ll have. It’ll be snow good though.

this was taken the day before i got engaged. i love this picture because i had no idea what was going to happen the next morning at sunrise. i feel giddy when i look at it, as if i hold a secret that the version of myself in that photo will never know. she is pre-engagement/marriage/husband/life-i-now-live. i wonder what pictures i’ll look back on in the future and proceed to smirk knowingly at the version of myself that didn’t know. 

this was taken the day before i got engaged. i love this picture because i had no idea what was going to happen the next morning at sunrise. i feel giddy when i look at it, as if i hold a secret that the version of myself in that photo will never know. she is pre-engagement/marriage/husband/life-i-now-live. i wonder what pictures i’ll look back on in the future and proceed to smirk knowingly at the version of myself that didn’t know.