Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~Albert Einstein

One of the activities in my life that brings me most joy is riding my bike!!! My husband bought me this adorable Yellow 1970's Vintage  Schwinn Bicycle. To this day some of my favorite memories are of something as simple as riding around on my bike! If it's been a while since you have been on a bike I recommend you get out there and ride, it will put an instant smile on your face! I mean what a great invention nothing says it better than this ~ "The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine"~JH

 Sean Connery on a bike

 Ava Gardner on a bike

 Roy Rogers on a bike

 Rita Hayworth on a bike 1940

 Sidney Poitier rides a bike. Sydney Pollack directs

 Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy and Luella Gear ride bikes. 1938

 Marlene Dietrich rides a bike. 1942

 Shirley Temple rides a bike. 1936

 Bing Crosby on a bike. 

 Betty Grable rides a bike. 1935

 Elvis Presley rides a bike. And signs autographs on a kid's head. 1959

 Susan Peters rides a bike. And gazes out to sea. 1942

 Alfred Hitchcock rides a bike. And signals. 1972

 Carole Lombard and Fritz ride a bike.

Elizabeth Taylor rides a bike

Grace Bradley rides a bike

 Ingrid Bergman rides a bike.

 Frank Sinatra rides a bike. 1963

 Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon ride bikes.

 Geneviève Bujold rides a bike

Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart ride a bike

Charles Boyer and Katharine Hepburn ride bikes.

 Twiggy on a bike.

 Sophia Loren on a bike. 

 Audrey Hepburn on a bike

 Audrey on a bike

 wearing a dress and heals on a bike classy

 Albert Einstein on a bike

 Best friends on a bike. 

 Grace Kelly on a bike.

 Humphrey Bogart on a bike. 

Marilyn Monroe on a bike 

Ginger Rogers on a bike

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An Indian Summer

Are any of the rest of you fans of Indian Summers. The Indian summer is the time in the fall where there is unusually warmer weather right before winter. I have to say that this is probably my favorite time of year. In the past I would have said that I love summertime the best, but with the growing crowds that seem to charge into San Diego during the summer I think the Indian Summer is now my favorite. It's the time of year where you get to enjoy all the perks of fall such as delicious pumpkin treats, and celebrating halloween and other fall festivities, but the weather is still so warm that you can wear dresses and sandals into the evening! If you surf the water is still warm enough you don't have to full suit it and you can still lay out on the beach and get a tan without fighting the summer crowds. Plus good waves come in swell after swell during the fall which is loads of fun!! I'm spending the month up in the Bay Area right now as I'm finishing up school, and I am especially enjoying the leaves that are turning golden colors (we don't really get that in San Diego) while continuing to enjoy the nice warm weather.

I know my love for the warm weather isn't shared by all, I hear people say all the time say I wish it was colder so we can wear our cute fall clothes. So what's your opinion are you loving the warm weather or are you ready for the cold? 

Accomplishments to Celebrate

Go ahead and feel like you are on top of the world!

Do you ever feel like you tend to focus on your flaws and failures rather than your successes. Sometimes I catch myself looking in the mirror and criticizing myself I look at my small but growing wrinkles, the tired worn out look in my eyes, my curvy figure and I think tons of negative thoughts about myself, like "girlfriend you have seen better days" or "looking a little old". I know none of you ever do that! but my question today is why do we see ourself in such critical light. I'm now 27 years old which to some is very young to others very old but to me just feels like where did the time go wasn't it just yesterday that I was 22.

The average life expectancy in the United States is 78.2 so assuming that I will live an average life length I am 1/3 of my way through life. How weird to think of that I've lived 1/3 of life. I can't help but wonder did I make the most of it? Did I make some small impact in the world, did I accomplish anything.

You may sit there and do the same exact thing to yourself, but I'm challenging you today to start thinking of your successes instead of your failures.

I have friends who are very close to me that I discuss life with all the time some of those friends are single some are married with children some own a home some rent apartments some live with parents or family and some graduated from graduate school while others went as far as high school. In the discussions I have had with friends I have noticed a theme we all see the grass greener on the other side. Some of these friends feel unaccomplished because they never got a degree, even though these same friends have accomplished so much, such as finding a husband that loves them, giving birth to a beautiful child, buying their first house. To these friends I say look around you at the people you love your family and know that you are brilliant, loved and accomplished.

Then on the other hand I have friends who feel like failures because of failed relationships (where they still remain single), renting apartments or living with family members, struggling to make ends meet. To these women I say you are brilliant brave and accomplished, because while these women may not have the american dream yet they have accomplished so much, a lot of them have a degree bachelors/masters, some of them have traveled and seen so many places, some were brave and moved away from home when all of their friends stayed behind. Every person I know has something in their life that they have accomplished and it's time to stop looking at the failures and start celebrating the successes because even if you think it's small there is someone else who thinks it's great and probably envy's what you have done.

So friends and family next time you look in the mirror say thank you to God and yourself for the life you have lived, look at those wrinkles and say thank you for giving me a reason to smile and laugh, look at those worn out eyes and say thank you for the wisdom you have, look at those curves and say thank you for keeping me healthy! Look at yourself to your innermost part and say job well done!

The emotions wrapped into going for the Gold!

So who wasn't hooked to the TV the last couple weeks watching the epic moments of the 2012 Summer Olympics. I decided that from now on when people ask what my favorite sport to watch on TV is I'm going to have to say the summer olympics. Seems strange not to me, lets face it i'm not a sports fan though I try I get so easily distracted when sports are on, I just can't sit still. However for some reason when the olympics are on I'm glued to the TV and I feel like so is the rest of the world even the non-sports fans. So what did you think did you enjoy these emotional moments!!

I've got the JOY JOY JOY!!!!

Been thinking about the word JOY lately!! So what does it mean to have joy? Sometimes people miss the fact that joy is different than happy, joy is different from happiness in that the word "happy" comes from the same root word as "happen": "hap." "Hap" means chance or fate. the feeling of happiness comes from what happens to a person by chance, but joy is a source of delight. it is what lies underneath all emotions, no matter what happens to a person.

Is there anyone in your life that has joy that is infectious and is seen in the way they live their lives. I have been blessed with many people like that my family is always joyful especially my mother and husband. I picture joy like sunshine just shining out of a person!

I'm going to make it my goal to live a more joyful life! what about you what brings you joy!

All In A Day's Work!!

Well I made it back to San Diego, somehow miraculously God provided a way for Tim and I to close a chapter of our lives, and say good bye to the beautiful big city of San Francisco! Although there are many people and things I will miss up in that beautiful crazy tragic city, I am completely relieved and filled with joy to be back in my beloved San Diego. So to catch you up on things with me, well the summer has been a bit of a whirlwind with summer school and a big move down south, but as the dust settles I find myself so overjoyed to finally have a place I can call home. Tim and I found a great deal on an adorable apartment in Point Loma and it must have been meant to be because within a few days of applying the keys were handed over to us, easiest apartment hunting I've ever been through! So after my class ended and Tim's surf camps were over we found ourselves in our new place overwhelmed with all the boxes of stuff we have acquired over the years (beginning to think Tim and I may be on the road to hoarding eeek let's not let that happen). No the truth is we had all kinds of wedding gifts we had been storing at my parents house and now we finally get to open them up and play with them (I mean use them!). So the first week we are in our new place Tim decided it was time to host some guests for dinner I was thrilled I love being the hostess, plus one of my favorite things in the world is to cook for people! But let's be honest I was a bit ambitious thinking I could have the house ready in just one day to host people for dinner what kind of crazy mind is living in this head of mine!!! Happily we pulled it off and had the best time catching up with our good friends and their adorable little boy, wish I would have taken pics he was so hilarious running around the house exploring everything! So here are a few shots of the day luckily I don't have a job yet so I was able to work on the house the full day. 

morning photo here is the chaos before 

aww I can breath with this! after

  here is another angle. after

 before

going to hang these paintings soon! after

 Tim's priceless reaction when he came home from work!!

Didn't get pics of the other rooms but wish I would have, especially our bedroom it was a disaster turned to perfection!!

Feeling great about our new place this welcome mat says it all!!