Sometimes you have to scare yourself

For years now I’ve been talking about my ‘career’ vs. my  ‘job’ because I wanted to do so many other things. I want to study nutrition, I want to write, I want to make jewelry, I want to sew, I want to manage the husband’s art business, and I’ve done none of it because I have had jobs that suck the life out of me and I have nothing left at the end of the day to follow through on my creative side or my passions or even take care of myself physically. Every week for the past I don’t know how long, I’ve made a list of things I’m going to do that week, including catching up on my blogs, working on a book, catching up on schoolwork, sewing something, doing other things that could be a decent income, or even making healthy meals for the week, and I do none of it because all I want to do is sleep, watch a movie or read a book or do anything really that will get my mind off my day job. So I quit. September 28 will be my last day. It’s really scary because I have to do something to pay the bills, but maybe forcing myself to do it is the key. There’s no sleeping 12 hours a night and watching old musicals all day when you have to think up ways to get money in the bank. Scary, but exciting at the same time. So Craft Making, Jewelry Designing, Health Coaching, Artist managing and perhaps even Can Collecting Rachel is on to the next phase!

Happy Kids Don't Walk

Every noticed that? They skip, jump, dance, twirl, hop, gallop, etc… but rarely does a child just take one plain old step after the other when they are genuinely happy.  And if there’s a pond, puddle or fountain, they have to go through, in or over. I recently watched a little boy walking with his mom doing this funny little side step/hop thing back and forth with this huge grin on his face. It looked like they were just heading into the grocery store but he gave the impression he was thrilled just to BE. I love that.


C'mon, run through the fountain with me!

I’m going to take my cue from them and add a bit more bounce to my step. Maybe I’ll even skip now and then (once I find a good sports bra). If it’s true what they say, that portraying the emotion you want to feel on the outside can make you actually feel it on the inside, I’m going to plaster happy all over me. So if you see a woman skipping down the streets of Portland with her groceries, with a big goofy grin on her face, it just might be me.