Jane Ty

Merry Christmas!!! Presents unwrapped, memories shared and new ones made. This has been a very emotional holiday for me but I'm thankful for all the wonderful surprises and abundance of love.

This year I've decided that since we got carried away with all the presents (soon I won't be able to see my tree) than might as well and get carried away with baking cookies and trying my hand at pastry. This should be interesting...

I'm thankful that school shopping event happens only once a year.

I think I spent more time away from my home this entire summer than actually being at home. As much as I don't care for where my home is, I think I'm ready to come home and stay home for a while. Oh boy, that's a lot of "home" mentions.

Lately, it feels like there is this huge Global wave of negativity that's affecting everyone. It spreads from forum to forum, facebook to twitter and all the other social media. Dissatisfaction, snarkiness, sarcasm and downright pure hatred or self-pity rule the day. It spreads like a disease from person to person, community to community. Snap out of it people! The only way to break the chain is not to wallow in misery. Happiness is not just going to drop in your lap and it's definitely...

Hi, I keep trying to send you a message but it's not going through for some reason. I didn't want to call you out of the blue

I'm too tired to be interested in doing anything. Watch TV? Too many people talking. Read something? Get real, I've had enough reading just this past week alone. Oh I know! I can start studying for my next test now!!! Wait, that's too many people talking in my head at once about reading more crap I just don't understand. Awesome!

A friend was helping with a title for my essay. I really despise trying to title anything, just one of those annoying little things that never seem perfect. Well, a title the friend had suggested wouldn't convey the message of the essay precisely, close, but not quite there. But it made me think, that one line: "Nothing Changes, Yet Everything Does". When you have dreams, goals, some kind of hopes for the future, it's up to you to make the changes to realize them. Sometimes, though, you re...

I'm waiting for my second wind. Whoever said there was one is a liar. Unless I missed it, in that case I'm exhausted.

Ugh, finals are in just a month. That's 4 weeks. My brain hurts already and by the time I get my therapist license I'm going to need a shrink myself!

Advice from the Ocean:Be shore of yourselfCome out of your shellTake time to coastAvoid pier pressureSea life's beautyDon't get tide downMake WavesIlan Shamir

I don't know if I should get some work done, study, or just go to bed and get sleep.

If your glass is half full, get up and fill it to the brim.

A reminder to self from myself:#9. I believe that everything happens for a reason, even my spontaneous and outrageous adventures and the heartbreaking painful moments have a purpose, a lesson that I must learn. I do look back into the past to remind myself of what I had learned occasionally, but the most part, I am now living forward.

"Gaslighting". No, you're NOT crazy!Confusion and uncertainty become your constant state of mind. You find yourself always on the defensive, either apologizing for something or trying to explain yourself to others. You wonder if your reality is something you’ve made up and everyone else sees it except for you, causing you to doubt your own ability to make a sound judgment even about simple things. Nothing you do is good enough, you’re not good enough, and you can’t seem...