I woke up this morning singing this song…and talk about a great way to start off a day!

I mean honestly, what a great motivating song! It is all about seeing your dreams and seeing that there is no reason anything should be stopping you from obtaining them.

I love this movie. I love this song. It is just so happy and positive. Something we should all remember.

So sing this song to yourself today…and realise that YOUR DREAMS ARE REACHABLE…so go get them 🙂

Somewhere Over The Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can’t I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can’t I?

You never know where life is going to take you.

You may think you have it all figured out and then…BAM! Life throws a curve ball at you that makes you rethink your previous plans.

One day you can be perfectly content with yourself and your current relationship status, then all of a sudden, out of no where, you meet someone…who is absolutely AMAZING!

Then what do you do?

You just gave yourself a giant pep talk about being content with being the single girl and focusing on other things besides finding someone…and then this happens?

OR you go all the way through getting your Masters Degree in a particular field…only to get to the realisation that you might have picked the wrong career choice…even though you thought the first one was “the right one” for you.

Now, it’s back to school you go to achieve yet another MA in a different subject.

It will all be worth it though, once you get the job of your dreams and your life one day begins…after the “I will be a student forever” stage.

Life also has a tendency to blind side you with other aspects of your life. In my case, family drama tops it all.

At least I can say, my family is NEVER boring. All I can say is I love them for the disfunctionalness…and my siblings are the cause of any gray hair that you can’t see thanks to my constant root colouring 😉

What do you do when life decides it is time to change your course…no matter how drastic?

First I recommend screaming into a pillow…or punching something (preferably not another human being or living creature)

Then I suggest pulling yourself together…and going with what has been brought up to you to change. No point wallowing over something. Just go for it.

I personally think the whole issue with life having a mind of its own comes down to one thing..and one thing only…

God has a sick sense of humour. 😉

Feels good to be back in good ole London.

As I run around trying to figure out my current money situation i realise just how much I missed this glorious city whilst I was away.

The expensive living. The public transportation. The hussel and bussel of all those around me.

It feels good to be home again.

Don’t get me wrong, I had a fantastic vacation.

Seeing all my family and friends was something I needed… but not for more than a few weeks.

After being away I realised just how much I have made a new family, full of wonderful, crazy people, from all over the world.

I love my London Family.

Seeing some of them last night made my so incredibly happy.

Oh, how I had missed them.

As we sat there and laughed, chatting over a drink in Harrow, it felt like we had never left London. Like we had not been separated for a month.

Nothing had changed.

There is just something about this city that makes me feel more at home than I do in Florida, my real home of residence.

Home is where the heart is.

One of my favourite sayings and its truly has so much truth behind its meaning.

Home really IS where your heart makes it to be.

For me, my heart is in London.

London is my home.

Yesterday afternoon I got a new tattoo. One I have been wanting for a while.

The last year has literally been chaos.

With my parents divorcing, having to switch churches, brother moving to Japan and getting married, me moving to London for grad school…it all is just so exhausting.

Always playing the peace keeper between family members can really put weight on your shoulders…and everyone has different ways of releasing that pressure.

Music has been my escape.

I am one of those people. When I like a song…I listen to it on repeat till I can’t listen to it anymore.

One song, that has really touched me and helped me through the last year is a song by my ever so favourite artist, Brandon Heath. The song? Love Never Fails.

Now, we all know that the verse about love never failing is from 1 Corinthians 13.

However, Brandon did a great job of taking that verse and making it into a song that I will forever remember, and tear up to.

The tattoo I got has some of the lyrics to Brandon’s song…these words outline a cross.

It says in a beautiful, cursive font

“Love will protect. Love always hopes. Love still believes when you don’t. Love is the arms that are holding you. Love never fails you…” 

Those words have run through my head multiple times when I thought everything was just going to crash down around me.

Those words helped me to stay strong…

for my mom…my brothers…my sister…my friends.

Whatever the case may be. I knew that with Love on my side..everything would be alright, and I would make it through.

That is why this tattoo means to much to me…and why this song means so much to me.

So, here is the song, I hope you can see why I fell in love with it.