normal.

Watch this

"Normal is safe. Familiar. Warm and comfortable. Normal is the thing you know. It is what is. But normal isn't great. It isn't fantastic. Normal can never be amazing."

I love this ad. I know it's good to think about the 'normal' in my life. I don't want to be normal :) I will be extraordinary. I want to feel like the person floating on the end of the huge clump of balloons. Or just be crazy! Like the dude surfing on the high-side of the mini cooper. or like the man in a horse mask that pulled up next to me at a stoplight tonight. Yep, that really happened.

Basically, I'm really happy with how things are going. I wore a huge smile all day today for a couple of reasons. I got to work at the elementary school and we talked about dreams/goals/future occupations with the 1st/2nd graders and they said what they wanted to be. I told them that I think i want to be a teacher. A little girl said, "But Miss Ashlie, you are already a teacher." It made my day. I love be surrounded by the kids and teaching them things :) then I went to work, which is always a great time. I was thinking about it today--the seniors will be graduating in just a few short months. It's wild to me how attached I've gotten to them since I've started working there. so fun. 

Ah, it's all so mind-boggling to me. I remember (very vividly) a conversation I had with my dad. We were driving up to Weber State for a student gov thing in the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college. I was 19. It was one of many what-are-you-gonna-do-with-your-life-talks. We'd hit that area where it gets super windy, and there's all the 1-84 and S. Weber on and off-ramps, by the hotel and the deck/playground/fence place. (I don't suppose that detail's important, but that's ok.) He was telling some things that he thought I'd be good at. Lawyer, teacher and some other choices. I was unsure about law school, and I did not want to be a teacher. I pretty much yelled at him, "I DO NOT want to be a teacher!!" and that was really the end of the conversation because those talks were so upsetting to me. I'm glad they're behind me :) It seems that a lot of things I originally think I don't want, are what I gravitate toward later in life. Now I can't not take reverse psychology crap that people pull with me seriously! Anyway, I've stopped *really* planning life, which is a total flip-flop of how I used to be. I'm excited to see where life takes me!

xoxox,

ash