my last day of twenty-five.

Didn't I just wake up to the song "Sixteen Candles" blaring from the stereo [thanks dad] the morning of my sixteenth birthday? It feels like it. Now – it's ten years later. I can hardly believe that I can start a sentence with the phrase "I remember twenty years ago when...". Twenty years ago!? Yes, it is true, tomorrow I will cross over into my late 20s. As weird as it seems to already be close to 30 years old, I couldn't be happier. It drives me bananas when people get all emotional about getting older and don't even want to leave their house on the day they should be celebrating. What ever happened to just being happy you are still on this earth and living the life you have? Growing older is part of it. Grow up, people. :)

I am excited for my birthday, for once. I can't remember the last birthday I really enjoyed. Last year it fell eight days after a horrible accident that took away someone special, the year before that I had to be the DD, and the year before that I almost got dumped. Yes, really. This year will be different. To start out, I am lucky enough to have a boss that, out of the kindness of his heart, told me I didn't have to work on my birthday. How awesome is that!? So tomorrow I have a full day planned for my own personal enjoyment. I am going to sleep in a tish.. 7? 8? Then be up to St. Paul to get my hair done, have a romantic (?) birthday lunch with the greatest thing to ever happen to me (core), and do a little shopping before returning home to pack for a weekend trip home-home. And, if I  have time, will watch P.S. I love you. By this time, Cory will be back from work and we will get ready to head up to our favorite sushi joint to enjoy another birthday meal before attending the Jason Mraz concert! Sounds like a perfect birthday to me!

For fun... After 25 years on this earth...

Best Advice

"Always help your fellow man. Kindness & generosity go a long way. And love with a capital 'L'."

(from my Grandma Klegstad)

Favorite Quotes to live by:

"If you want to be happy, be."

-Leo Tolstoy

"The world is a book and those who do not travel ready only a page."

-St. Augustine

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

-Leo Buscaglia

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed in the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"Happiness is never having to stop and think if you are."

I've Learned:

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain."

-George Eiot

"Relationships are difficult, time-consuming, baffling, and sometimes heartbreaking. They're also what make life worth living."

-Martha Beck

My Biggest Downfalls:

1. I somehow am always late.

2. I am forgetful.

Absolute Favorites:

(people not included)

1. Lucy, my vizsla.

2. Coldplay.

3. Scarves.

4. Dresses.

5. Photography+Design.

Happy Birthday to me tomorrow!! :)