Hello LilyOnTheLam.Com Readers!
If you are a regular reader of "The Lam," you may notice that my posts have not been as frequent as usual. It's not that my adventures have slowed down - as I have been to Houston, NYC, Budapest (twice!), Vienna, Bratislava and San Francisco in the past 2 1/2 months; it's that I have been steering my energy to short term goals.
I started a rainbow striped girlie journal back in May 2013. (The cover of the journal is so ridiculously more suited for a 6th grader than a woman of my "advanced years.") For my mental health and stress level, I do my best when I write every day - it's like an unburdening and a soul lightener. Whether it's a blog post, a heart felt note to a dear friend/loved one or a journal entry - I just do better spiritually and emotionally when I spend time writing.
But since May 2013, I haven't been dedicating much time to journal entries and frankly I was tired to still be writing in the same darn rainbow striped girlie-looking journal for sooooo long. I was determined that I would have the journal completely filled before 2015. I would NOT be welcoming the new year still writing in this darn girlie journal.
So I set a goal for myself to finish writing in all the pages of the "never-ending journal" before 12/31/2014. And then each day I wrote ... and wrote ... and wrote. I will admit that some of the writing occurred while I was binge watching five seasons of "Friday Night Lights." When I watched the first episode I thought "Why was this show so popular? I'm bored. I don't like football. Blah blah." But by the second show I was hooked and then the BINGE began.
And on December 7, after many hours of writing and many episodes of "Friday Night Lights;" I finished that darn journal before my deadline. Mission accomplished!
At the same time I was doing my "Million steps in 100 days challenge" - which I also completed and am very happy to have stay focused on my goal and met the challenge! Another mission accomplished!
One more area that I have been paying more attention to is my lack of reading. I love to read but again it's another area that I have been neglecting. I set a small, achievable goal of reading 12 books in 2014. I have read 16 so far. Bam! Another goal met!
I suspect the year 2015 is going to be a continuation of setting short-term goals for myself, staying focused and achieving everything I set out for myself. It may sound boring, but to me it is pretty exciting! However it means less time working on LilyOnTheLam, so forgive me my lack of blog posts lately. I have photos for about 200 blog posts but not a lot of time nor motivation to write them. Perhaps in 2015?
I have had the great fortune to have spent some time in San Francisco lately for another project I am working on. It is a place near and dear to my heart. I spent a lot of time in Northern California in my early 20's due to having two relationships who lived there. Had the real estate market prices not gone through the roof, I probably would have moved to San Francisco when I turned 25. However instead I chose Los Angeles - because it was significantly cheaper and warmer.
San Francisco has always held this optimistic, lovely, "young love" vibe due to the experiences I have had there in my oh so long ago youth. It's magical to arrive in the city and still feel that sensation after so many many many years. (I am 912 years old now, you know.)
This week has especially been "San Francisco on my mind." I had some extra time while I was in San Francisco, so I leisurely walked around the Haight - taking it all in (and I don't mean taking in the secondhand pot smoke - which was impossible not to inhale).
This store in the Haight always makes me smile when I see it ... for purely egotistical reasons.
I enjoyed remembering the first time I walked around Haight-Ashbury and how "small town Middle America" I felt. I am much more "worldly" now and yet there still is some level of touristy-commercialistic-anachronistic-otherworldly haze around the Haight that I still adore as if I still had wide, bright eyes.
I was also excited to see that one of my favorite NYC store "Kid Robot" has a store in San Francisco as well.
When I returned home to "my other city by the bay," Tampa Bay - I attended a concert featuring two of my favorite San Francisco bands-- Matt Nathanson and Train. It was a nice way to end my San Francisco trip. Mary Lambert and the East Coast Inspirational Singers also performed at the concert. A fantastic concert. I have seen Mary Lambert perform before, but it was my first time seeing East Coast Inspirational Singers - and they were FABULOUS.
All in all it's been a wonderful week. As we approach this holiday season, I wish all the best of peace, joy and happiness to you all!
If you are a regular reader of "The Lam," you may notice that my posts have not been as frequent as usual. It's not that my adventures have slowed down - as I have been to Houston, NYC, Budapest (twice!), Vienna, Bratislava and San Francisco in the past 2 1/2 months; it's that I have been steering my energy to short term goals.
I started a rainbow striped girlie journal back in May 2013. (The cover of the journal is so ridiculously more suited for a 6th grader than a woman of my "advanced years.") For my mental health and stress level, I do my best when I write every day - it's like an unburdening and a soul lightener. Whether it's a blog post, a heart felt note to a dear friend/loved one or a journal entry - I just do better spiritually and emotionally when I spend time writing.
But since May 2013, I haven't been dedicating much time to journal entries and frankly I was tired to still be writing in the same darn rainbow striped girlie-looking journal for sooooo long. I was determined that I would have the journal completely filled before 2015. I would NOT be welcoming the new year still writing in this darn girlie journal.
So I set a goal for myself to finish writing in all the pages of the "never-ending journal" before 12/31/2014. And then each day I wrote ... and wrote ... and wrote. I will admit that some of the writing occurred while I was binge watching five seasons of "Friday Night Lights." When I watched the first episode I thought "Why was this show so popular? I'm bored. I don't like football. Blah blah." But by the second show I was hooked and then the BINGE began.
And on December 7, after many hours of writing and many episodes of "Friday Night Lights;" I finished that darn journal before my deadline. Mission accomplished!
At the same time I was doing my "Million steps in 100 days challenge" - which I also completed and am very happy to have stay focused on my goal and met the challenge! Another mission accomplished!
One more area that I have been paying more attention to is my lack of reading. I love to read but again it's another area that I have been neglecting. I set a small, achievable goal of reading 12 books in 2014. I have read 16 so far. Bam! Another goal met!
I suspect the year 2015 is going to be a continuation of setting short-term goals for myself, staying focused and achieving everything I set out for myself. It may sound boring, but to me it is pretty exciting! However it means less time working on LilyOnTheLam, so forgive me my lack of blog posts lately. I have photos for about 200 blog posts but not a lot of time nor motivation to write them. Perhaps in 2015?
I have had the great fortune to have spent some time in San Francisco lately for another project I am working on. It is a place near and dear to my heart. I spent a lot of time in Northern California in my early 20's due to having two relationships who lived there. Had the real estate market prices not gone through the roof, I probably would have moved to San Francisco when I turned 25. However instead I chose Los Angeles - because it was significantly cheaper and warmer.
San Francisco has always held this optimistic, lovely, "young love" vibe due to the experiences I have had there in my oh so long ago youth. It's magical to arrive in the city and still feel that sensation after so many many many years. (I am 912 years old now, you know.)
This week has especially been "San Francisco on my mind." I had some extra time while I was in San Francisco, so I leisurely walked around the Haight - taking it all in (and I don't mean taking in the secondhand pot smoke - which was impossible not to inhale).
This store in the Haight always makes me smile when I see it ... for purely egotistical reasons.
I enjoyed remembering the first time I walked around Haight-Ashbury and how "small town Middle America" I felt. I am much more "worldly" now and yet there still is some level of touristy-commercialistic-anachronistic-otherworldly haze around the Haight that I still adore as if I still had wide, bright eyes.
I was also excited to see that one of my favorite NYC store "Kid Robot" has a store in San Francisco as well.
When I returned home to "my other city by the bay," Tampa Bay - I attended a concert featuring two of my favorite San Francisco bands-- Matt Nathanson and Train. It was a nice way to end my San Francisco trip. Mary Lambert and the East Coast Inspirational Singers also performed at the concert. A fantastic concert. I have seen Mary Lambert perform before, but it was my first time seeing East Coast Inspirational Singers - and they were FABULOUS.
All in all it's been a wonderful week. As we approach this holiday season, I wish all the best of peace, joy and happiness to you all!
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