Oh, Look at all the Lovely People...

Women are such fascinating creatures! Women who fight for everything they have, giving birth, nurturing their children, fight breast cancer--and yet, we are so distorted by the media--being displayed in magazines, commercial ads that have been airbrushed to death. Pressured to wear certain clothing, makeup, plastic surgery, the list goes on! Why can't we just feel free to show our true selves? What's so wrong with that?

What's so wrong with having a female President?

And what's with the whole gender role thing in a relationship? Why does it matter? As long as you make it work, that is what counts!

Here are just a few women who give me butterflies for being the great people they are:

Zooey Deschanel! Not only is she gorgeous, but she is quirky, funny, down to earth and is in the awesome band She&Him. I've been watching her new television series every Tuesday New Girl. It's pretty good!

I just love her when she wears those glasses! Adorable! 

 Kat Dennings knows what's what! This is a girl who isn't afraid to speak her mind and tell it like it is! Love it!

 And of course, no one can forget the amazing Ellen Degeneres! I never miss her show, either. She is the most genuine, authentic person I know of in the media.You can also see the amazing love she has for Portia. She's got my vote for female President, that's for sure!

Cutest couple ever!

 Not only does Adele have an amazing voice and lyrics, but she doesn't care about the media at all. She just loves to sing. Which is how it should be. She says, "My life is full of drama and I won’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. I don’t like going to the gym. I don’t make music for eyes, I make music for ears."


Now that I think about it, looking at her picture above she reminds me a lot of {R}, a friend of mine that I've had a crush on for a while.

 Ellen Page: just too damn cute! 'Nuff said!

Also, there are women I'd like to make note of that aren't celebrities. They're just awesome like that. I won't mention names, but....

{R}- She has the most contagious laugh that never fails me! Her eyes are crazy beautiful and when I hug her I never want to let go...She's one of the few allies I have, who even though I've told her how I feel about her, she has still stuck around.

{J}-This girl is amazing! I've never seen someone so confident and that is incredibly...well, sexy!

Unfathomable

I am a big day dreamer. Always have been. It's a huge part of who I am. I used to spend hours on end as a little girl just imagining things, creating creatures from the unknown--creatures others considered unfathomable.

Growing older, I've realized I am unfathomable. I've always been different from those around me. And I always thought it was because something was wrong with me. I grew up hating myself.

Now; 26 years of age, I'm still different. Quite different. But guess what? There is nothing wrong with me.

All throughout my life, I had been trained to go by what everyone else did. Follow, follow, follow. After a chaotic yet interesting divorce, I, for the first time in my life explored.


Discovered.

And I realized there is a whole world out there waiting for me.

I could live. 

I could love.

I had control.




I've always let labels define me. And that's played a big part of why I hated who I was. I'm a writer. Words stick in my head. I spell them out in my mind continually. Words like, "good" or "bad," "evil" and "wrong." I think that's why the verbal abuse has hit me so much harder than the physical.

But, I've turned the tables. You push me, guess what? I've learned I can push back. And that's how I discovered I can love myself and love others at the same time.