Woosh!

I know it's been about a week since the "blog" but life has been so so busy. But good busy! I said it before: I feel like all the variables in the formula of life are coming together. I started bike riding AGAIN in my life and trying to get super healthy (shush, all my friends who know what I ate the last two days :)). So many things have happened in the last week that are just super exciting to me.

First: I rode 18 miles yesterday and it felt so freaking good!!! I want to ride all day every day. I am going to try to get in a ride today :) BUT when I was riding it was like addicting, I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to talk or think or focus on anything I just wanted to push my pedals, feel the sun and wind and relax. That's it! Just relax. Weirdly enough, as many calories as I'm burning and as much as my heart is pumping while I'm doing it - it's relaxing! That's when you know exercise meets enjoyment.

Next topic: I saw the movie the Hangover for the first time EVER! HILARIOUS!!!!! I mean freaking HILARIOUS!!! I could watch that movie over and over. Some of my favorite lines:

"I look like a dirty hillbilly"
"I pulled out my own tooth and married a hooker" "She's a nice lady!"

I mean really, there's a bunch of hilarious lines but I can't remember them all.

Next topic: I'm still totally ecstatic about work. I look forward to going, I'm fueled when I'm there and I'm smiling on the way home :) Loving it!!! I wish I would have switched earlier in life. I do believe everything happens for a reason so I totally accept that it happened now.

Next topic: My son is starting pre-school at one of the Spring Branch elementary schools - woohoo!!! He's so excited too! I love him - he's just so damn cute :) I want to eat him up every time he looks at me.

Next topic:

So Ready

Sometimes it's hard for me to accept reality. I am very quick to acknowledge when I am having a hard time with it and I generally know what I need to do and do it. I am human and I waver back and forth over what I know I should do and I want to do. In the end my mind will win over my heart but it just sucks!

Next topic: I just want to find someone - not intimate - just someone who likes to hang out as much as I do and do the same things - is that too much to ask for? I don't know why I have this need lately but I do. I feel like when I want to go hang out on the grass or at the coffee shop and just chillax no one wants to. Why am I right here right now in my life? I don't know - just thinking out loud. In a weird mood today. I am a very social creature and sometimes I need to feed that side of me :(

Next topic: Did have a great evening! I went and rode my bike at Terry Hershey Park - wow! Recently I had only ridden Braes Bayou with my friend Forrest. It's nice and level - but TH Park is a whole new terrain for my unseasoned legs - I mean those little hills were little and my ding dong ass was almost at a standstill trying to get up them on my bike :( Give me a few months :)I will be ready to rock and roll! I'm ready for my legs to be back in shape the way they used to be and I am on my way :) As long as I don't fall out of routine I should be in good shape by the new year :) I am quite proud of myself as far as exercise and eating choices goes - I feel like I am totally in control of what I am eating and my exercise - I'm loving it!!! I love the feeling I have when I am done riding and getting in my car - such accomplishment!

Next Topic: Why is it that when I am happy for something in my life there are people who don't know how to be happy for me? I mean really? Just because people don't agree with me doesn't mean they can't be happy for me - right? It just sucks when I am all loud and proud about my new job and all someone can look at me and say is "oh, do you still have benefits?" Well, I do actually, I have the benefit of doing what makes me happy! That's my benefit - not the mention that half the damn country doesn't have benefits but I'm the retard? Anyhoo - just venting on that note.

Anyhoo! Nite Nite :)

Woohoo!!!

So the Greek Festival weekend is over! Working at the restaurant during this time was AWESOME!!! It was crazy crowded, packed, loud and high energy! Most of my coworkers were exhausted by the end of the night but not yours truly. I was so pumped and fueled by the end of the night.

So, the most motivating part of last night was the music. Although Greek music is probably at the bottom of my list the music was so high energy that I couldn't help but move to the beat as I ran around the place.

There were so many people - it was PACKED! It doesn't help that I am short and everyone towers over me. So I get to push people out of the way, call everyone baby and sweetie, and when they don't budge I get to yell, "please get the fuck out of my way unless you want these drinks all over the back of your shirt" ha! I really didn't yell that at anyone, but the thought crossed my mind. Truly, there were some regulars that were always looking out for me and clearing the path.

When you add loud, great dance music + lots of people + great energy = you get my dream job :) Not that I want that environment every day but for a weekend it was great!

It's all over now :( Back to the real world. Looking forward to get into a regular work schedule.

Anyhoo-let the week begin.

Greekiness

FINALLY!! Finally, I made it back to the Greek Festival to eat the oh so freaking yummy souvlaki. My tradition is souvlaki, loukumades and a bottle of wine. This year I didn't do the wine, but the souvlaki is really the goal. SCORE! I ate two of them. I don't know what it is about the damn things but crap they are gooooood! The last two years I was out of town and couldn't make it. Really, it might have been several years since I've been, hmmm...I don't really remeember the last time I went. :(

What I do remember is: when Tay lived in Austin and her car was in the shop or something so I drove all the way up, picked her up, came back to Houston, went to the festival and drove her all the way back. Oh, to be crazy again - ha! Just kidding, I would do that again today. We all know I would do anything for my TayTay.

Tay and I met in drama class the first day of 6th grade because of our common ethnicity: Greek. She anchored my heart and never left :) Truly, the sister I never had, but worth of second of the relationship. I would do ANYTHING for Tay and she knows it. Not out of cockiness, but out of trust. She knows (or at least I hope) that I all I need to hear is "Eleni, I need..." and that's it - I'm there. And, in all honesty, she would do the same.

Our friendship goes back 26 years!!! We have seen each other through MADNESS!! But sooooo much GOODNESS! Laughed, cried, sang, sat quietly, shared, gosh, and so much more. We have shared every bit of life together. Weddings, funerals, babies, divorces, school, boys, parental craziness, etc, etc. Really, just think about 26 years of life and everything that goes into it and that's us.

This post was suppose to be about Greek stuff, but Tay is a much better topic :) Anyhoo - we haven't lived in the same city or even the same state for...oh, I don't know, mabye eight years. But for us, it's just the same :) The only sad part is not getting to see her son grow up :(

So, through the years our families have become close as well. Somewhere along the long I intruded myself into hers a little more thouroughly - ha! That's okay, she has an awesome, dysfunctional, great family! I love them all!!!

Anyhoo - a little history their for ya :)

So Happy Right Now

You know, I am totally not perfect. There are and have been things in my life that have made me a little sad recently but I really try to focus on the positive. I know that I ALWAYS make these crazy life threatning jokes about the most random things in life but I truly know when something is not in my control and I don't try to control it. Examples: 1) I got this painfully nasty staple injury on my thumb the other week and the words out of my mouth were "oh my God, is my thumb going to fall off?" and when I'm driving and I pull out into traffic I usually say something like "oh my God, we're gonna die!" ha! I don't know why I say these things, it's funny to me. I know they are not going to happen. The reason I'm saying these things is because I feel like all my blogs are so happy and energetic and I am mostly in that frame of mind (90%) BUT I do get sad, even depressed at times, I am by no means perfect nor will I ever be. I just don't want people reading my blog thinking "what the hell? she's so aggravatingly happy :)" I am a very happy, energetic, optimistic, dreamy, goal oriented individual and to some, okay many, I can be very aggravating :) but I am very very sensitive and as fast as I go I am very quick to stop and smell the flowers, really I am. You have to truly know me to know that I do this :) Like the other day my friend, Amanda, and I were walking Terry Hershey and we were totally in our groove walking fast and pushing my son in his stroller. But when my eye caught the most peaceful bird sitting on a sign and I had to stop and look for a minute. My faithful Libra in me - always trying to balance. :)

Anyway, I am very happy right now. Yesterday was a beautiful day outside - not only did I get to be outside during daylight hours but even when I go to work I get to be out in the weather because most of our business is outside. Do you know how happy that makes me?

I get to work night hours and I am such a night person. I get to spend more daylight hours with my son. I love that when I'm driving home from work and it's late I can blast the radio and roll down the windows - I do that during the day too but I love the night too. I love serving food to people, I mean I LOVE food, why not? I love getting to make the hookah's :), yes, that' one of my fav's to do all night :) I love the challenge of when it's busy and trying to keep it all together. I just love it all. I love the love part of my job so much that it's makes me love the dirty parts too :) Like cleaning the hookah's - ha! This gig is just so full of instant gratification - all over the damn place.

I just feel like all of the variables in this formula of life are in alignment, you know?

Stand in One Spot

It is what it is
It's the way that I am
The look in my eyes
The way that I stand

I won't change for many
In fact, only myself
I dream and I live
With my heart on the shelf

I think big and abstract
And I follow the path
To find the zest of life
I can handle the wrath

I'm not scared of change
Or drastic and extreme
I love the challenge of life
And all that it brings

My roots are in life
Not an address or place
To experience it all
As much as it takes

One day I will stop
And stand in one spot
When my last breath is breathed
And I'm six feet in my lot