Friday's Letters

Dear Boyfriend... Thank you for always being there for me! Thank you for making me feel like such a great person. 

Dear Weekend... Thank you for being here and for giving me two full days to spend with my love. 

Dear Target... Stop making such cute clothes! Don't you know, I can't afford them right now!

Dear Mother Nature... Get it together! It's Spring... not Summer or Winter! Seriously, 88 one day and 48 the next?! 

Dear Finch's Beer.... Thank you for making my favorite beer right now, Fascist Pig.

Dear Bloggy Friends... Thank you for always supporting me. 

Happy Weekend Friends!!! 

New blog URL

I am going to be changing my blog URL to lindsaynicoleirvin.blogspot.com. If you were following me and would like to continue following, please follow along here! 

Thanks!

Happy weekend!!!

This guy...

This guy came along just when I needed him most. 

This guy has shown me how to truly be happy. 

This guy has taught me to believe in myself. 

This guy has taught me that I don't have "issues", that I have a past. 

This guy has shown me what a best friend is. 

This guy has been there for me when a lot of people walked away. 

This guy has made me laugh harder than I've ever laughed before. 

This guy has let me cry on his shoulder and assured me everything would be fine. 

This guy gets me like no one has before. 

This guy is AMAZING! 

He is my perfect, my soul mate, my one-of-a-kind love, my very best friend.

I thank God every day for putting this very special man in my life.

Monday Blues

It's a cold, dreary day here in Chicago. Right now, I'm really missing the warmer California weather. I was so excited to live in a place that snowed again, but I'm so over it! I'm ready for spring; warmer weather, sundresses, sandals and sunglasses. 

The combination of the cold weather, the seemingly never ending job search, the major life changes and still getting used to living in a new city has been getting me down lately. I did have an interview last week and I have another interview this week that I'm really excited about, so hopefully I will get a job soon. Please keep your fingers crossed for me and send good vibes my way! 

I'm really trying to stay positive and upbeat, but sometimes it's really hard. Lately, I've been looking up a lot of inspirational quotes and thought I would share some things that cheer me up. 

Apparently Google Reader is going away, so if you want to continue following me please follow me on Bloglovin here.

And.... I figured it was time to make a new blog button, so if you had my button and would like to updated please grab the code from the right-hand side of my blog. Thanks!!!! 

Happy Monday!!! 

P.S. 10 days until my birthday!!! Woohoo!!!!

It's my birthday.... MONTH!!!

Does anyone else get super excited for their birthday month? My birthday isn't until the 28th, but March 1 comes along and WOOHOO, let's get the party started!!! I LOVE birthdays! I spent my 30th birthday in Vegas. I'm not sure how 31 can top that, but I have a feeling this is going to be one of the best birthdays ever! New year, new age, new, city, new beginnings! Bring it 31!

I sure have missed this little blog world and am promising myself that I'm going to start blogging more regularly again. It was about this time last year that I started blogging more and really started to find my place here. I've made some great friends over the past year and am looking forward to watching those friendships continue to grow and also to making new friends. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive during all these changes I'm going through. I love my blog sisters!

 I'm packing up to head to St. Louis to celebrate a friends birthday. I LOVE being back in the Midwest and being much closer to my family and friends!!!

Happy weekend!!!

Here goes...

So... almost a month ago, I talked about some changes that were going on in my life. I feel like it's finally time to share these changes. 

Talking about things and opening up to people has never been easy for me, but I'm going to try. 

Jeremy and I are getting a divorce. I feel like this has been a long time coming. For the past couple of years, I have been telling Jeremy that I didn't think we were right for each other. We are just different people. I feel like we grew apart. To me, we were just best friends. I think it was easy to just stay together out of comfort. I tried and tried to tell myself that I was happy, but a little voice inside of me kept telling me I really wasn't. I kept telling myself that I made a promise when I said my vows and that I shouldn't break that promise. I finally decided that I had to start living for myself and do what would make me happy instead of trying to please other people. I took a HUGE step and told Jeremy that I didn't want to be with him anymore... 

When Jeremy and I met, I had a habit of dating assholes. Jeremy seemed like a very nice guy and I thought that's what I needed. Turns out, what you need isn't always what you want. And if what you think you needed isn't what you really wanted then it's probably not really what you needed. 

It has been a crazy month... I flew to Chicago on January 11, spent a week here, drove to Missouri to see my family for a week, came back to Chicago for a week and then flew back to California to pack my things and have them shipped back here. I've been back in Chicago for about two weeks now. I'm getting used to living in a new place and I'm searching for jobs.

I go through phases of being sad and missing the life I had, but I know that I made the right choice and that both of us will be happier in the long run. For the first time in a long time, I'm actually looking forward to the future. 

Oh, you might be wondering why I chose to move to Chicago. Well, I just really needed a change! I didn't want to just move back to Missouri, but I also didn't want to stay in California. I knew I wanted to be close enough that I could drive home, but far enough that I could make a fresh start. A friend in Chicago suggested I come here, so here I am! 

Thanks for listening...

Also, one of my blog besties, Justyn, at Thoughts by a Petite Brunette is having an awesome giveaway for a C'est La Vie T-shirt. Head on over and check it out here.

Changes

Hello!!! I haven't been home for a little over 2 weeks now and haven't had access to a computer much, so I've really been slacking on blogging. Also, I haven't really known what to say. I have A LOT going on in my life right now. Some of you know what's going on and eventually I will sit down and write a post about everything, but now is not the time. I am going through some BIG changes in my life (no I'm NOT pregnant) and I just ask for your thoughts and prayers as I go through all of this. Thanks! I really miss all my blog friends! 

Hope you have a great week!!!