Painting with a Twist!

My friend Sarah invited me to this place called Painting with a Twist! Its a super cute little paint shop off 281 and bitters. Basically you pay $35, they provide a canvas, paint, brushes, and you provide the wine! Its sooo much fun. They have a calender of different kinds of paintings you can do. You pick one, and reserve it online. Then you go in and they teach you how to paint it! I absolutley loved it!! =) I can't wait to go again! I saw a painting on the wall of a brown puppy in a bath tub.. it looked like Sadie! So cute!

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Secrets of Your Mind! =)

So I watched Secrets of Your Mind on ABC last night. GREAT SHOW. Last night's show was talking about Love and Lust. Did you know that there is 3 different parts of your brain that show love? They show Romantic Love, Attachment Love, and Sexual Love. The show starts off with a story of a couple who decides to get their brain scanned before and after a long and torturous road trip together through 16 different countries (8.5 months). So the study was to see if they are in love and how long they stay in love. The couple decide not to look at the results of the first scan til they reach the end of their journey. Of course the journey had its ups and downs, but at the end they said they still felt madly in love. When the opened the results from the first scan it said they were in love and predicted a happy marriage! So then they took a second scan and it was kind of surprising. The second scan said the husbands Romantic Love went down?! The wife was very upset. But the husband said he still felt a romantic connection with her. The decided to do a third scan, and it was just like the first. The husbands Romantic Love was back up! They were both beyond thrilled. But what if it had stayed down? Do you think she would've been able to stay with him knowing his brain read different than what he felt? And should everyone get brain scans to see if their loved one is compatible?


I was very intrigued by this study. After all, how well do you know your partner at first? Is it possible to trick your brain? I don't think I would do the study but I do think its amazing what the mind tells us. But what about the heart?!?!?


kay so this leads me to the next story/study. A couple was madly in love and right about their 1 yr anniversary the husband gets in a car accident. He's in critical condition and might not make it. His wife stays by his side and cares for him. The husband wakes up and lost all his memory! He can't remember growing up let alone his marriage. His wife still cares for him and helps him recover knowing he has no idea who she is. Needless to say he never regained his memory. Most people would give up and move on. She still cared for him and showed him pictures of the past and never gave up on him. He loved her so much for this. Even though he still didn't remember her, he stayed with her. Obviously his brain had no love for her but could his heart over pass his brain? The couple ended up staying together and even had children together. How amazing is that? They fell in love all over again.

Either way, I believe everything happens for a reason.

Of course I have to quote Eat Love Pray "You must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart instead. "

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Kalos kai agathos

So I've been reading, "Eat Love Pray". This book is amazing and every chapter I get more and more inspired. In one chapter she's depressed and trying to figure out her life. She uses this quote and it really got to me. It pretty much explains the way I've been feeling lately. Not that I'm depressed but I've been trying to find that balance in my life. Well here it goes.....

“I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence– the dual glories of a human life. I wanted what the Greeks call kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I’d been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I’d been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. as for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion… well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”

The singular balance of the good and the beautiful. How beautiful is that?! The best of both worlds is the way I think us Americans say it. How do you find that balance of good and beautiful with soooo many stresses. I work soooo much and I want to enjoy my life but have so many responsibilities. I do love my job, and so thankful for everything that has happened for me this year. But I still feel as though I'm missing something. That balance that completes me.

I think I'm going to start with a Happy and healthy me. Working out always makes me feel good. Its a small start but I'm excited about finding that balance and feeling good about myself. Hopefully I can actually keep it up. One step closer to finding that balance =)