My NEW Place!

Posted on October 5, 2011 by jamiegall1930

There’s something refreshing about moving to a new home.  You pack everything up and during the process you donate things or minimize down to the things you’ll really need, or, sometimes, near the end it all ends up in a box and goes with you 😉

But when you get to your new place after the big EXHAUSTING move, the new space becomes your inspiration.  You look around the room and you wonder how you can decorate.  You wonder what things you need to make the space more adaptable and workable for the environment.

You get inspired.  Things, in the past, that you may have taken for granted rejuvenate you now, and you embrace them.  Little annoyances of the old place quickly disappear.  Granted, you will soon find those new annoyances too :0

I don’t know about you but the decorator in me comes out.  I get excited about the new kitchen.  I get excited about the new closet space, or the silliness of extra storage.  I get excited about how to make it your own.

So, when you move to a new place?  What is the one thing you get excited about the most?


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I miss FALL!

Posted on October 4, 2011 by jamiegall1930

This is my first fall away from home, and boy, do I miss it. I keep thinking back to what I would be doing back home right about now.  Visiting those apple orchards, driving up north to look at the fall colors, or sitting down with a delicious piece of pumpkin pie.

There was always this favorite apple orchard and winery I would visit in Stillwater, MN.  I’d get a piece of apple crisp with cinnamon ice cream and just sit back and watch the children around me visit the petting zoo.  It was so beautiful.

I’m not saying things don’t happen out here in LA, I just honestly haven’t found my own way to embrace fall out here.  It’s hard when there are no leaves falling, or change of the colors.  However, I do notice the petting zoo’s going up around town, and the hay bales coming in.

So, I have to ask you fellow Angeleno’s out there.  How to make it feel like fall out here? =)


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2 kinds of people

Posted on October 3, 2011 by jamiegall1930

There are 2 kinds of people in the world.

1) Those that are willing to take a risk

and

2) Those that are too afraid to step outside their comfort zone

It seems that the people that take risks are happier.  Why?  Because they’ve lived.  They dreamed, they tried, they failed, but they were always able to pick themselves back again.  They know themselves better, and they know their passions, and seem to live a more happier life.

As opposed to those that are too afraid to step outside.  Those are the ones that only wish to dream, only wish for a better tomorrow.

but the thing I have learned is this:

If you want to change something in your life.  You have to be the one to do it, and YOU MAY have to step outside your comfort zone to do it.  It might not be easy, but do not let fear, or anything else stop you.  If it is something you truly want, nothing will get in your way of achieving it.


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