I'm Claudia. German-American and NC native currently living in Northern NY (pretty much Canada) with my husband Alex, our son, and love pup. Finding happiness and fulfillment by practicing yoga, eating more salad than cake, restoring old furniture, and reading everything I can get my hands on. I write about all that and some of life's random musings.
you’re my river running high
run deep, run wild
I watched Blue is the Warmest Color last weekend and it left quite the impression on me. Not only have I craved spaghetti ever since but this song has also remained in my head.
I feel electric every time I hear it.
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Sugababes - Push The Button
Start your Saturday morning off right!
But let me warn you, you will be unable to stop yourself from dancing.
Just discovered this song, thanks to the movie About Time, and I am in love.
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Five Hundred Miles - Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan & Stark Sands - Inside Llewyn Davis (Original Soundtrack Recording)
It’s Friday! Let’s have a lovely one.
This song is giving me everything I need.
It’s humiliating the degree of which I do not know the lyrics to Ice Ice Baby. The harder I tried to impress my little baby the harder I failed.
Zoey and I are just outside of the neighborhood and then all of a sudden this hot, bright Carolina day began to fall on me. Daytime lightening and black skies scare me and apparently my puppa too. Now it’s so quiet and calm in the house and I am debating with myself if I should continue to lay here and let the rain beat down on the roof while I nap before dinner and a movie or forgo the zzzz’s and press play for my yoga DVD.
Well today is gloomy, rainy, and windy. And I mean windy! Instead of it being a stand still sort of North Carolina day, rather Mother Nature has shaken the trees and all of its beautiful, colorful petals and whirled them around into some magical arrangement all through the sky. It’s snowing flowers. I’m officially out of my funk! Can’t beat this.
The fellow and I have spent the better part of our New Year’s Day watching Game of Thrones, eating cold spaghetti, and snuggling with our love pup. Normally I would beat myself up over this lack of productivity but it’s not everyday that we get the chance to do nothing. So we relished the time and just this once will consider such behavior as time well spent.
I didn’t take the time to write down any reflections on 2012 but there were some very good moments: Alex proposed, I said yes, he deployed but came home safely, I graduated college, we traveled to some great places, I met my initial fitness goals, we have built upon some wonderful friendships, and began the groundwork for our life together.
Some of the not so great: I got injured doing CF, Alex got injured, and we both have had some career let downs.
With that said, there are no resolutions this year, just goals: (1)Become stronger and healthier, (2) get on the ladder towards finding my dream job (I think this is probably one of the hardest things for many military spouses to do), (3) have an incredible and memorable wedding, (4) take the several upcoming moves in stride, (5) kick ass on the GRE, (6) speak and write more in German, and (7) read 25+ books.
Seven days of 2017 are in the book.
Lots of snow days. So many cuddles and kisses. Only one meltdown. A few mini adventures. Mild case of cabin fever. A Christmas tree gone too soon. Blocks and legos everywhere. Dance parties. Cleaning and organizing parties. Two seasons of Outlander. One baby free day date. Three cups of black coffee. Seven days of Whole 30. Four trips to the grocery store. Long telephone calls. Belated Christmas cards. New dutch oven. Multiple breakfast for dinner feasts. Long walks through the cemetery. Two novels read. Two handsome men to love and adore.
I’m an eternal optimist and the newness of a year really gets me excited. I love setting goals and just giving my perspective a good scrubbing.
Maybe I’m a little naive when it comes to my approach because I’m always taken aback when I see people yelling at cashiers, throwing cigarette butts out of their car windows, or cutting people off on the highway on a January 2nd morning. What? I thought we were all trying to spread love and better ourselves?! I’m guilty of getting tripped up and weighed down by other people’s attitudes and actions. This year I want to do my best to pick up the slack when someone is having a bad day and let it not cloud my desires to grow into a woman I really like. There is no room to get bogged down by pettiness.
This past year and the latter part of 2015 was spent developing myself as a mother and a nurturer. It took me by surprise by how much I loved nearly every moment of being a parent. That said, I didn’t think being a mom would be so hard and engrossing. I thought balance would be easier to come by. Another naive thought I suppose. While my heart grew immensely, my creative muscles atrophied and my social calendar remained intentionally sparse.
Now it’s time for me to marry the deep rooted parts of my self with my newfound abilities. I feel mentally and physically ready a year of further growth. To get to that place I had to forgive myself and let go of certain notions. Recently I admitted to myself that having a career at this stage in my life is not where my heart presently lies. At all. For months and months I searched for that desire and felt deep guilt and pressure to find it, but I never could. My peace for now is at home and I feel so fortunate to have such a choice. So in my home, in my time, in this new year, I’m dissecting my focus and aiming to be more active, more present, more artistic, more sociable, more gracious, and less in want.
It feels nice to write again and to say it in this space.
Wishing you all a beautiful year.
