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I don't have a lot of free time. I work a full time job during the week and serve on the weekends. I have learned to be particular about the people I spend the precious little time with. I have some solid, wonderful friends who are more than happy with having a workout and dinner as how we hang out. Or who are willing to give up sleeping in on a Saturday morning so we can go have brunch somewhere. That being said there is merit in making time for the people who are important in your life. This weekend, one of my few close friends got married. She had deemed me worthy of being her maid of honor. Barring a scheduling error, I made the time to be available for everything she's needed of me in the process of having a successful and happy wedding day. One of the first hard lessons I learned about having and being friends is that I was not obligated to my friends. I did not owe them my time, especially if they did not respect it. Saying no meant making someone upset. Sayin...

With a rare Saturday off, I spent the morning at one of the farmer's markets here in St. Louis. More to come on the beautiful day that I spent there!

You can't imagine the amount of draft posts that I have saved here... (or maybe you can?) I try and write something weekly, and save it in the hopes and efforts of coming back to it. My birthday was last week, and I turned (a whopping) 25. Can we call it a quarter life crisis if I've been complaining about trying to "find time" since 2011? I had something click into place the other week about my health. The whole thing with eating healthy and calorie deficits and blah blah blah - something I've known for years and years just dawned on me. The knowldge had been there all along! I was telling someone about it and they said, "well, yeah... but you knew that." And I did! I swear I did! The other week it just made sense . Made sense and had this right-ness that it never had before. I knew what I had to do, I knew how to approach it in the way to make me more successful without the same struggle I had been having. So last night there was the ...