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Rock Star
Sunny outside again today..hope this lasts til the end of the year. ;)
'Got an extra hour of sleep since daylight savings kicked in on Sunday morning.

So a little over a month and counting for my big 3-0...yes, 'can't believe
I'll be thirty soon.
Gonna celebrate "rock star style" (as my cousin Gail would say) in the
city of sin - Las Vegas.
So far, I've got a pretty good party crew of friends going with me...about 14 to be exact,
including little Isabelle, one of our friends' 2 yr olds...she's so adorable!
Planning on dancing til dawn for 2 days and just spending time with
my friends.

I'm not much of a drinker...actually, I just have low tolerance, so
i'm pretty much good after 1 drink...although a couple of shots wouldn't hurt ;)
Seriously, though, my friends (esp. girlfriends) and I LOVE to dance, so
as long as there's music and a little bit of space, I'm good to go...for hours!
especially, if it's hip hop or r&b playing.
And, I don't even need a dance partner. Just let me loose and I'm good on my own.

Can't wait! Just gotta build up my stamina til then, so gotta keep workin' out. ;)

Limits, Limits, Limits
There are times when I feel taken for granted and really am.
Sometimes this happens because I give too much of myself
coupled with the person on the receiving end taking too much and not realizing it.
I've come to realize that there are just people in the world
that are so used to receiving (whether it be attention, their way, their own space, etc.)
that they have a limited capacity to think outside of the box about it.

In my case, I've learned that it is ok for me to limit how much I give
of myself to these people..and in general.
...though this was a challenging thing to learn, esp. because these
people are sometimes close
and I would feel lots of guilt.

But, It's ok to set limits for yourself
because in giving...sometimes too much....
it is so easy to lose parts of who you are.

And to be quite honest
I'm SICK of people not learning their stuff...
not considering that the world doesn't revolve around them...
not realizing that relationships are a 2-way street.
Life is way too short for me to waste my time
waiting for these kind of people to change/GROW UP.

And you know, I'm a pretty patient person and believe that everyone has
their own time to develop into better people
BUT...there are times when I just gotta set my limits, you know.
It's all I can ask of myself.