A happy HAPPY life + 2 GOALS

Look at me.

It's the middle of the day. I have my laptop open. I'm actually writing a post!

Since I'm working (aka freelance design) less these days (plus the addition of Emerson, my now 4 month old), I find myself rarely using my laptop. Most things I can do on my phone, but not being on my laptop majorly cuts back on any motivation to blog, design, and the such. As a side note, I also don't see a lot of Facebook messages and other notifications type of things. I need to seriously dedicate some laptop time to those things.

So to get into WHY I'm wanting to post right now.

I am been feeling so incredibly happy lately. And I feel the need to document that.

Over the past few months, I have found myself on multiple occasions just stopping for a second and thinking, "Man, I'm loving life right now."

And I feel so incredibly blessed.

I'm thrilled to be at a place in life where I am content and satisfied with who I am, what I have accomplished in life, what I'm doing on a day-to-day basis, my relationships (hello hubby!), my adorable baby boy, my work life (which right now is fitness and 1-2 professional projects a month), my friends, living in beautiful Pensacola, planning for the future (and welcoming the military unknown), and everything in between.

In April I turned 30 and of course that had me thinking a lot about the past and what I want to accomplish in the future. I definitely thought about tons of stuff and need to sit and write and plan some new goals. Because, yes, I am the kind of person that won't do anything until I have a plan and have thought things out as much as I can.

As I'm writing this, I'm deciding to do a little gratitude post series because right now I can't focus on one thing and I feel so happy and blessed about so many things. Jake and I just had our two-year anniversary. Emerson is seriously the best baby ever. I know everyone says that, but I can't imagine anyone having a better baby. I feel so lucky to not have experienced (at least yet) any sort of postpartum depression/anxiety and the such. (And I have to say, I thought I would. And Jake was sure I would.) I feel like I have the perfect schedule of fitness classes. So much good in life right now. I know life won't always be like this, so I definitely want to focus on the positive and make the most of my current situation right now.

Last week I sat Jake down telling him I wanted to talk. Basically I wanted to just tell him how happy I've been feeling and sharing some of my profound little "loving life" moments the past few months. He is obviously a huge part in all of this and is my best friend and the best partner for me and I wanted to say thanks and share the goodness.

With all this in mind, I started thinking about what I'm NOT doing that I wish I were doing. Two things came to mind.

Writing and designing.

So I've decided that I'm going to make some personal goals to write more (aka blog) and start doing more personal design projects. (Typically I just design commissioned professional projects that tend to be more technical and I'm hoping to do some more fun type of things.)

And if those things stress or detract from my current happiness and love of life, I may cut back on them once again. But I AM looking forward to pushing myself a little more and working on some small personal goals.

You heard it here first. :P