A year and some odd Birthdays ago...

Faint sounds are heard in the distant. Whispers tug on my glued eyelids. 

"wake up."

"Karli, Karli Marie sweetie wake up it's your Birthday."

My eyes came to the surface as they peeked open. with huge grin spread across her face she spoke. "Do you know what today is? today is your birthday!"

My eyes grew wide and a sleeping smile creeped it's way  across my face. Today is going to be a good day! 

She pulled me out of my safe nested covers. I didn't mind as I got tossed upon her back. 

Today was a good day. Today was my 6 birthday.

First gift of the day a new birthday outfit special just for today. Blue and yellow and soft like a towel accented with a tiny sky blue dog. 

Plans were exchanged for the rest of my day. Celebrations at school and after ones too. Favorite foods listed in the certain order.

Tiny twinkling lights and presents under the tree that were just for me to open. 

Every year we celebrate together mom and me cause today is my birthday...

The 16th of December, I wake to faint sounds. I hear Sweet soft whispers saying "Karli, Karli Marie sweetie it's time to wake up. Today is going to be a good day!"

"Wake up"

I keep my eyes closed this time. I see the huge grin. And with a gentle whisper she says "do you know today is? It's your Birthday my sweet Karli Marie."

A sleepy smile spreads across my face. I curl into my covers.I squeeze my eyes shut as I whisper, "it is my birthday. Thanks for my life. I love you and I miss you."

My eyes softly flutter open. And with a simple smile. I say "today is going to be a good day! Today is my 21 birthday."

I'm a very Thankful!

Hi there! 

I just wanted to let you know that I am very thankful for my life,my family and my friends! 

Most importantly I am very thankful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

I am very happy to say that I belong to the  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Click here --> I am a Mormon!

I love my religion and I know it is true! I am volunteering to serve an 18 month mission. This requires a lot of me, but we can cover that on another blog post. 

Over the holiday most of my family was lucky enough to get together and we made some guesses on where that will be! 

Please see below...

If you would like to guess, make a comment below! 

I am excited about this upcoming chapter in my life. Thank you for letting me share it with you. 

Love love, 

Karli Marie 

I say date yourself.

I have recently been out on some dates.

YIKES

look at me getting all personal with you on my personal blog.Ya I really said dates and stuff?! life's an adventure I not some shut in....or maybe i am. Whatever. 

After the dates of dates were over. I found that 
1.WOW I really made through that???
2. if there isn't a second date I wasn't going to stress over it. 

This is what I have learned by these "outings" I am a little bit of a lone wolf.

I really do just like hanging with this girl right here (me) I really do.

SHE SAID WHAT? 

I don't do the whole

"omg like he if he doesn't ask me out again I am going to literally die alone and never ever procreate."

 (Ah! I just used the word procreate on my blog) 

But seriously! I mean if he doesn't ask me out again it is likely it is just not meant to be...ya I believe in that stuff.  And if I never find love or procreate I am going to be fine. 

BOOM 

So many statements being said in this here blog post of mine.Ya it's true if I never get married I will be fine. I WILL BE FINE.

Why? Because I am a strong confident daughter of God. And because I learned how to date myself. 

Don't get me wrong I have my "America" moments everyone does. (That reference is from a teen fiction book about princess and a fancy dress. You should look it up it is a great read.) 
Really we are all like "America" the girl in the book we over think things and at times it is very annoying but it also can be fun. I do have feelings! 

In conclusion

 I say DATE YOURSELF

You are forever stuck with yourself you might as well get to know you and be comfortable with who you are. You might even find out that you love yourself. And from where I sit that is not a bad thing at all. 

I love myself. I am not ashamed of who I am/what my story is. As for the dating scene right now, I am in a very committed relationship. Not to brag or anything but we go on some pretty awesome dates. I have a lot to learn from myself. I think we all do....

Yours Truly, 

Karli Marie 

p.s.  Look up cheesy princess book here

p.s.s. I also found out that the Author of this book has a Pintrest board about this book. You bet your bottom dollar I clicked the follow button real fast. 

More posts you say

Dear followers, 

I added old drafts. These little gems were just sitting waiting to be found. Go find them it will be like an Easter egg hunt. Hahah!!

 You may find them odd and weird but I am who I am so enjoy or don't read them. The choice is yours!

Love always, 

Karli 

Home is where the heart is...❤️

Hello there followers! 

I know that greeting will be read by mostly my closest friends and family. So I just wanted to say, I love you and thanks for supporting me as a person. 

Okay mushy stuff over well maybe. 

Let's jump into life...okay more specifically my life. And to specifi what aspect of my life I will just hurry and say my home. 

Now home means a lot of things to a lot of different people...look it up if you unfamiliar. But to me home is literally where the heart is. It is where I grew up and where I am currently "crashing". But after loosing that sense of home/a physical place to dwell  I found simply. That my heart is my home. 

My heart is rather large...idk the actual size of my heart. But I love so many people and luckily I have a few who love me back. They came with arms willing to carry boxes and heavy stuff and some even offered a place for me to stay. I can't say it enough but thank you. I am currently not "homeless" and I use that term loosely because I am an advict of poverty. But we can discuss that later. I am not without a home. And I am lucky to have you all in my life. 

Wow! Didn't expect this to be so mushy. 

But really I just wanted to blog to show off my cool PHOTOS! I know what you are thinking, "why doesn't she just Instagram them bad boys" the answer...idk so here are some pics of my home aka me and people and cars and stuff! 

Some say

let it go. 

hold on. 

move on. 

leave it. 

take control. 

hold still. 

just don't. 

be good. 

get mad. 

let it burn. 

forgive forget. 

love again. 

say truths. 

enjoy life. 

take your time. 

endure. 

choose happiness. 

be proactive.

stop wasting time.

make it happen.

be fearless. 

fool me once. 

it takes time. 

never be ashamed. 

enjoy the little things. 

count your blessings. 

I say just be where your feet are, feel what you need to and then trudge forward through life with a smile on your face. And the rest I guess it will fall into place... 

Take that future HACKER! You can't hack into your future. 

What? ya.  

Island love

I pulled my green jungle travel bag from the closet
The connecting flight tags still attached to to handle
As I unzipped my bag the distinct scent swept over me
My thoughts carried me to the warm humid jungle were I lived once

 Two weeks of my life I lived on an island

I was scared out of my mind. I was sick to my stomach. I was ungrateful. I had unclean hand. I showered with spiders. I slept on the floor. I made lists of the "American" food That I missed. I stopped eating.I slept with bugs. I was negative. And I went a little crazy.

As I pulled out my crinkled memories that had been shoved and hidden away. I let it all soak in...I fell in love in Fiji.

How could I forget?  The normal Regrets  of my adventures didn't flood in my mind! How could i not jump off that cliff or find everyone's story. Instead I was overwhelmed with my warm Fiji love story.

Dare I say it? Its been 7 months now I am admitting to the love I found in Fiji.

I had this preconceived notion that when you travel your life struggles with evaporate and you will return new and fresh.

My life struggles or what I call now my story my chemical compound that which is the sole reason for my existence didn't evaporate. (Shocker )It stayed with me and it carried me across the islands.

Oh and I came home stinky and sick.

I went to do a service and yet I was in the of center of their service. The Fijians served me. They gave me everything to survive.

The Group of students I went with they steered me. I found moments with these people that I have never shared nor will ever share with others. (Mostly almost peeing my pants on a bus.)

On this adventure We created forever moments. I will never let them go. Singing Truck rides, naked stories, wharf jumping, crying at mcds, venting at the fact that we choose to be here and because we didn't feel at home, and of course dancing back and forth for hours.

I don't do regrets. I want to believe that I should live each moment in the moment and not regret how I spend my time. But right now I regret that it took me seven months to write this.

I fell in love in Fiji. This culture I was enveloped in the Fijians and My group it stunned me.

They taught me how to love and to receive love.

I wanted to share how a moment can remind you of a way to live a lifetime.

***its almost 4am and I'm on drugs 

A post about a post

I have been so bad at this blog thing....BLAH BLAH I say every post. 

It is my one of my goals to make it better......



It's been exactly one year since I have traveled to Fiji. 

And while I was going home for Christmas break I had re-connection with my Fijian story. 

I am telling you this weird brief suspicious synopsis because I wrote about it.

I wrote a blog post about this experience and I did it while I was on drugs. 

WHAT??? Real I wrote it on drugs at like 4:00am.

Why was I on drugs you ask? I got my Wisdom Teeth removed. 

IT WAS THE WORST! My parents took great care of me and I only over dosed once. 

You know how people are funny when they are on drugs? I am the opposite I am completely emotional. This is real life. My sister took videos of me and they make me want to cry. I am so sad. 


Okay so enough of that. My next post is about Fiji and I am proud to say I wrote it on drugs! WHooo!! 


The End. 

Tender Love and Care

hey call it a lazy day I call it a TLC day not the network or the block of classes we took in the 8th grade. It a tender love and care day. It's a day to take care of me self!

I like to do nothing but eat cake watch episodes of obsessive tv shows! Aka Veronica Mars!! Ps come out march 14 I am counting the days.

I eat chocolate cake for breakfast I learned that from my daddy

I also eat salad....

I got my hair did and dang follows it looks good. My hair dresser is way nice and says things like your hair is amazing!
I love her!!

Take care of yourself! That's all.