I feel like I only blog whenever I have an issue, or after a long period of time. Granted, it's only been a week and a half since my last post, but that's still a long time! It still amazes me how quickly things change in such a short period of time. I'm just feeling really burnt out from work. I can't wait for Thanksgiving break in 2 weeks! Although I don't want to rush these next two weeks of work, because I should be enjoying it more, and enjoying this season in general. November and December are my two favorite months, and I have such warm feelings about this time of year. I just love the fall, sweater weather, Thanksgiving and Christmas! But I'm also feeling really unsettled because I'm single this year for the holidays, the first time in like 5 years (although I was single for Thanksgiving 2011). But I just guess I feel really unsettled about everything. I wish everything wasn't so transitional this fall. Almost everything in my life has been up in the air since moving to Colorado. And while I've grown a great deal, I still feel like I'm missing that special someone. I definitely am not trying to settle for any girl, but I just wish that I had found someone I could be official with right now. I just guess I'm feeling really lonely recently, at a time when society tells you that you need to spend the holidays with the ones you love and are romantically involved with. It's an unreasonable expectation for me to find someone in such a short period of time, but I feel like I need to!

It's not the worst thing in the world to be single, and I'm so grateful for everything I've been given, and so thankful for this awesome opportunity to live in such a beautiful state. But I can't help but feel so lonely. I hate the feeling of going to bed alone. I just need to keep things in perspective and stop complaining so much about something that's pretty much out of my control.

I went to a workshop yesterday on body-based communication, and it was a really awesome workshop in which the facilitator taught us the importance of show ourselves appreciation rather than criticism. It's so easy to be self-deprecating, but so much more difficult to show ourselves self-love. The key to a good relationship (even one with yourself), is to give 5 compliments to every one criticism. So the facilitator told us every day when we wake up, we need to compliment/ appreciate things we do for ourselves to start our days on a positive and upbeat note and to give us energy and strength. I need to appreciate myself more and keep working on self-care, which I am realizing is so vital and important to my mental well-being