We're all the same.

Since my trip to Seattle last night... I've felt really happy! I couldn't fall asleep for an hour and a half after I got in bed because I just felt so happy and motivated and wonderful!

...Of course that happiness kinda died when I woke up at 5:40am realizing I had only gotten about 5 1/2  hours of sleep... But hey, that's what naps are for, right?!

I have so much I want to tell you about how it all went, but I don't want it to become old news for you because I might use part of it in my girls camp devo (because yes, I have been prepping for that since laurels conference a few months ago.... be impressed) BUT IT WAS SO AMAZING. Good feelings all over. Happy smiles. Lots of love to people I didn't even know. Bonding with my fellow priest and laurels, and talking with everybody on the bus coming home about our experiences and everyone growing from what each other learned! Picture it like a testimony meeting, only cooler ...Seriously. Gah. Service. What a cool thing.  Love love love it. 

Biggest lesson learned (which is really just a big fat duh) We're all the same. One lady I talked to who had started to turn her life around and was in school and working, she told me she would still come back to the homeless people because she knows what it's like to be there, and any of us could find ourselves out on the streets someday and she wants them to be there for her, incase that happens, just like how she is there for them right now. The other big thing I realized is that I thought I was doing service to them, but they were the ones doing service for me.

That woman who I had talked to, had begun to leave with her husband, but she made her way to me instead and gave me this wonderful hug as if she'd known me since I was a baby and told me to keep doing what I do. I love her and I hardly know her! Funny how that works!

i hear you sista

OK so you know on Pinterest when you get on and you see that I have pinned like thousands of pictures of cute couples and wedding crap? yea well I get on this mood, you could say, whereI am like "WHY Am I NOT MARRIED NOW!" this happens 2 days a week (recently more often.)
So i can relate to you and one more thing
get you head srewed on straigth girl or I might have to do it for you, you are a freakin' amazing person who WILL get a freakin' amazin' gguy. Don't you worry

As Sarah Franks says:
"It will all be worth it"

SO MORAL OF THE STORY:


It will all be worth it!

Story of my life:

So I'm all like.... over here.... going through one of THOSE weeks (I know, I know, they happen every week and a half) where I just can't stand being my age... And sometimes I feel like I'm more mature than everyone else cause my mind is so far into the future... But really I'M the immature one because I'm so obsessed with the what could be's  instead of enjoying the now....making me immature to the teenage world? Wow. I don't think i've ever said anything that makes so little sense. 

I CAN'T SPIT IT OUT. 

Okay. Maybe that doesn't make sense. But to simplify it.... I feel like I always jump to the worst case scenarios of the what could be's ...for example: I'M going to be the lonely woman who never gets married... Or if I do, it will be to that guy who isn't super attractive and I only marry him because I can't stand being alone... ORRR if I don't get married in this life, then in the next life all of the amazing dudes will be taken! 

It's like, I don't compare myself to others with the typical "oh I wish I had her clothes" or "if only I had her skin" ya know, WHATEVER. But maybe I compare in the way that's like "I'll never be good enough to find the right man"... 

...and that scares me.

*sighhhh*

#hannahproblems

I think I just need to focus on these photos a little bit more:

Sometimes I just forget that God's got my back and won't leave me out in the dust because I'm just as good as anyone else out there with "the perfect guy".

I just gotta remember that.

*exhales*

and this one was for you (:

homing pigeon...

Typing in the Password still makes me feel foolish :)

^that up there is a pigeon^ 

(it looks kinda like...

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
Pat Cash
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
Peter Hall
“Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue”

nuff of them quotes'

now for some love:

jk, not yet

:)

yep

Now Enough of that:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Awesome:

When the person you needed comes along at the perfect moment in your life. how does that happen? 

I don't know, but I do know, we were not my accident. Thank you for coming along and running this run with me. Hannah, I Just Less Than Three You!!

(and that is forrizle)

(totes amazing)

^for you

I will always be there for you
bee tee dubs :)

NOoOOoovember!

Dear Mesa.
We should make a goal for this month to NOT do something, like, braking a bad habit! We could do the traditional "no-shave-november" but that wouldn't be so tough cause:
1.) We don't grow beards ...Well, I don't!
2.) If we applied it to shaving our legs, then that wouldn't be too hard either cause now that it's getting chillier, I apply many layers and my legs nearly never show.
So what "No-no" should we apply to ourselves that we could accomplish this month?


Duuuuude. We made it to 1 year. How cool are we? I love that we are friends. (:

Want to know what else I love?? --Because, it is officially now the month of showing that extra bit of thankful-ness:

• Somehow we both know when to write each other a note and (for me anyway) it always makes the day that much better!
• That we have started to hang out more.
• We don't judge each other for pigging out on food. That's right, I mean the hardcore, stuff-your-face-idge!
• I am thankful when we wear our matching YW medallions. 
• That our drama, isn't actually the usual annoying drama.
• I'm grateful you're doing art with me! And I love your creations you've made thus far! QUOTE TIME: “Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.”
• Your imagination. Like. Hearing about your crazy dreams you have, or made up stories... I quite enjoy them!
• Not gonna lie, I really like Starbucks carmel apple spice... And Seattles Best hot chocolate with extra whipped cream and mint stirred in. OH, and this website! ...That doesn't apply to us, but uh.... I sure am thankful for those! (:
• I really love your "happy sweater".
• I enjoy when you give me a _ _ _ _ _ _ _! (link)
• And last but NOT least, your positive/happy/caring/concerned/wonderful face I see 6-7 days a week!

Well, my break is over... So uh, TAG YOU'RE IT! YOUR TURN TO REPLY! Mwahaha :P

~ <3 ~ Hannah

Dear Rosie.

...i guess your middle name was inspiring there! ;) so. here's the thing i've noticed lately. for one thing, it's been about a year since i started to get to know you more than just your name. it was at the halloween party last year when you dressed up all awesomely... like a dude. come to think of it, i was dressed like a dude too... fate grabbed us :P anyway, since then, i'm pretty sure i've shared just about everything to you... (except my old journals - but you get the gist of those ) basically, you're really cool. and i think you're one of my best friends. :) even though we never hang out. but that's okay, cause we make up for that any other time i see you. so yeah, like kelly clarkson would put it "my life. would suck. withooouuuttt yooouuuu" i just less than three you! <--for realsies. ~Hannah

You have no idea

You Have No Flippen' Idea....

.......How Much I Love You.

Oh Hannah,

It is a fact now, you make me happy. Its not just a occasional thing its a all the time thing. I needed to see a happy face before I brave the hours of homework and somehow you knew that I needed someone to make me happy. You are my hero, its true. And by the way, you are like what now, 16? Oh my goodness, I don't believe that I am friends with a flippen' 16 year old. I feel so cool.

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. "
Pam Brown

 i figured that our friendship is thriving because of this blog. (winkety face)

Can I have this dance?

Together, growing old is what we doin'