I Used to be Cool...

There was a time that I was cool and didn't know it.  Do you ever know how awesome you are in the moment?  It only seems like looking back does the trick and until you have a moment where you are sitting on the couch at 5:00 in the morning, holding your eyes open with toothpicks and drinking the strongest espresso you can find that you look at yourself and think, "I used to be cool."  Every morning you wake up and convince yourself that work will fly by, it will be better than yesterday and you might even have fun only, the convincing doesn't work and you sit in your car for an hour trying to get to the office on time only to get behind some freak going negative miles per hour and so alas, you are late.  Again.  Where is all the good stuff?

Then you get into the swing of the day and you power through another pointless conference call and drink more coffee and sit in your office chair until your ass falls off and then it hits you.  You go through this crazy routine because of all the good stuff.  Because you have a husband that you love more than you could ever describe.  Because you want to make your parents proud.  Because you want to make improvements to your new house that you are so lucky to have.  Because you want to live and be happy and because the good stuff is everywhere!  It's time to focus solely on the things that make your life worth living because everything else will come and go.  And so will the things that mean everything to you and you don't want to look back and think, "I missed all the good stuff..."

So that's what this blog is about...MY good stuff (which could be totally different than your good stuff).  I love sarcasm and hilarious, awkward moments.  I love fantasy football more than I should.  I love food with so many calories it should be illegal to eat it.  I love animals to the point that I will cry if one even looks at me with a slightly sad face.  I love old stuff and old people.  I love blogging, although you wouldn't know it by my absence in the blog world.  If you want to know more about me, check out my old, broke-down, abandoned blog, According to Ashley.  But don't be surprised if I've changed a little since then, hopefully for the better.