new kid on the block

bam. it only took 20 tries.

so i rummaged through my picture folders on my laptop to try and post a recent picture of me. lo and behold..i got nothing. even on my phone. most of the pictures i have are of my friends, family, objects, landscape, food... pictures of me are usually with someone else and i feel bad cropping them i out - well actually, i just don't have their permission to plaster their beautiful faces on here - or i have snot coming out of my nose! those latter ones will probably surface here one day..when we're more acquainted, peoples of the interweb.

that picture up there took 20 tries, okay, 17. most of them at weird angles, bad lighting, blurry, my arms were awkward..it wasn't working. so believe it or not, this was the best one people. taken today.  i will save you and your weekend from that reel of photos by only posting this one. 

you're welcome ;)  

i'm always impressed by the pictures i see on blogland. a lot of you guys claim you're not photographers but your pictures, very pinterest worthy people! teach me your tricks of the trade.

on another note, remember how i was [anxiously] waiting for the results of my board exams .. 

it went well :) board certified nurse. 

i'll be working all weekend but definitely catching up on season 4 of modern family and grabbing some pumpkin spice latte in between.

happy friday! 

cheers, s

red lights

[from here]

stoplights. not the district ones. well...there's probably red stoplights at the district but i digress.

i went for a drive the other day and i literally got the red light, every. single. time.

it was fine because i wasn't in a rush but seriously...

it was thanksgiving weekend here in Canada last weekend and it got me thinking about all the red lights in my life. how grateful i am for them. i forget how necessary they are.

i sometimes have a bad habit of thinking ten steps ahead before i've finished step one. i'm in that part of my life right now where i'm older (don't let the pic fool ya!) but not completely settled into who i am yet. the pretend adult. more often than not, as a quasi adult i feel like i'm supposed have a more concrete idea of who i am by now. but then again i've also been told that adult is a relative term. 

so those are the thoughts that have been occupying my mind lately.

but i leave you with something one of my best friends told me once. "civilization forces us to mortgage the present for our future." and she is right. i forget i'm not supposed to have it all figured out right now. heck, who really does?

red light. she is a very treasured one. 

anyhow, thanks for reading and happy friday!

cheers, s