Friday, June 15, 2007

An Update about Me!

Never thought I would be a blogger! So, here it goes!

I moved to Aspen after I graduated Chico State nearly three years ago. Ended with a combo of biology and sociology which will hopefully, one day, lead to a doctorate in medicinal sociology (emphasis in diseases in third world/underdeveloped countries). Not too sure when that will happen because there are so many things to do! While in Aspen I worked for Ralph Lauren, many stories, and was getting ready to move to NYC when I decided to take a detour and ended up in Portland, OR...I love being unpredictable!

Now I work for Novartis Pharmaceuticals as a drug representative and I absolutely love my job. It certainly isn't as glamourous as some assume but it is a job with many, many blessings. I live in a gorgeous home with three other girls, one of which being my sister. Life has become beautifully perfect and I am now quite alright with staying in on a Friday night and just relaxing...I do believe that doesn't make me sound old but rather that it is a great depiction of contentment.

I am at this time single (which is always a question) and I absolutely love it. Until I meet someone that I know I can't live without, I will continue to enjoy the beyond fabulous life I lead. Full of: travelling, writing, reading, great friends, an amazing career, and zealous dreaming.

Would love to know what everyone else is up to and what life has given them.

Preface: Heart Murmurs: Moral Relativity

Just a little something that I have been working on in my spare time...this subject has always held my heart and I really hope that it tugs at your heart strings as well.

Heart Murmurs: Moral Relativity

This book is about you, me and finding the medicine for a heart that murmurs.

Preface:

On a recent business trip, I was lucky enough to be placed in Orlando, Florida for three weeks. Anyone who knows me is well aware that my heart and mind are often influenced by anything Disney. For instance, when I was a volleyball coach at the ripe age of 19, I received a Disney Princess poster, a Disney Prince Ken doll, and a Disney Princess picture frame for my gifts at the end of the season. See…not too heard to figure out my aforementioned excitement by this business destination.

One evening on this trip, one of my girlfriends and I stayed to watch the amazing fireworks display that occurs consistently at 9pm in the Magic Kingdom. When the first song plays, “Once Upon a Dream,” you can look around and see faint sparkles in the eyes of any girl who ever dreamed of being rescued by her Prince Charming, myself included. Within two seconds, my eyes had welled up and I had a flash of myself as a little girl where I was the princess and my prince had rescued me from the travails of the world. My heart had been released from the pulls, tears and pressure of the world and my Prince Charming was to be accredited for this release.

In a quick check back to reality, I wondered where this little dreamer had gone inside of me. She, me at the younger years, would accept no man who wasn’t kind-hearted, full of strength, passionate, and loving. And here is a thought that I am sure most will agree with: There wasn’t even an instance of this princess ever being rescued by anything less than a Prince Charming. That is what I needed and that is what I was to get. It wasn’t selfishness. It was simple mathematics. One plus one equals two. Nothing less.

Where, my question begins, does this little girl full of dreams, ambitions, and true heart-felt desires, disappear to? What in this world makes us settle for the peddler on the street who doesn’t happen to have any sense of saving us from the travails of this world? Where is the man who would stand up to the intruders in the face of sorrow and defend our hearts? When do we let go of being “the princess?”