08/16/10        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

So tonight, without realizing it, the idea of my music journey already has me looking at music I currently own in a completely different light. Where I used to just listen to music, I now find myself dissecting it, wanting to learn more about the context and melody that make up a song. I want to keep learning as much as I can.....and this is only the beginning of it all!

Keywords: journeys,music
Lifebooks: New Beginnings

,Life

 08/08/10        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I started a new music project that I may turn into a book idea......and suddenly I feel like I am right back in college with all my music and inspiration. I feel as though I could really pull this project off perfectly if I was diligent about it and stuck to my agenda. I want to write about new music each day for a year. Music that my friends, family, and blog readers suggest that I listen to......and I think that this new project could really open up my musical horizons in ways that I haven't even imagined! I cannot wait to see what the rest of my friends can come up with. I'm sure I'm going to help my own music collection evolve into something even greater than it already is. <3

Keywords: music,projects,choices
Lifebooks: Career

,New Beginnings

 08/04/10        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I have found solace in music lately...... more so than ever before. The way it is able to articulate my very thoughts and feelings in ways that sometimes my words cannot, that's beautiful. Today I felt like listening to My Chemical Romance and it prompted me to listen to the song "Disenchanted." I can remember when I really listened to that song and got its meaning. I was walking to my Travel Channel Academy class and taking in my life. New relationship, letting go of an old one, caught in the crossroads of my own life. It reminded me to not be afraid of what was to come......there were so many unanswered questions and I needed to just find my own answers to all of it. I still feel I will succeed......I just think I will find it in the very things I love more than things I need to do to keep myself financially afloat. Screw it, I need to make writing more than just a hobby.

Keywords: music,life,career
Lifebooks: Career

,New Beginnings

 07/23/10        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I've been living with Matt for almost two years now....and I could not have asked for a better definition to the word "home." For several years, I thought I knew what that word meant and now I'm grateful to know that wherever we go, Matt and I will always be able to turn a house into a home. No wonder everyone around me keeps making the jokes about future children and pestering me about when he's going to pop the question!

Keywords: happiness,home,love,comfort
Lifebooks: New Beginnings

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 11/21/08        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I think every person should learn this: it is not proper timing to bring up the flaws in one's relationship when the person is driving back from Yonkers at 3 in the morning (with work at 9 am), having to drive on the spare tire at 50 mph back to the Jersey Shore, and getting honked at by tractor trailers on the road. If that is proper timing, then I must be an idiot at this relationship stuff.

Keywords: relationships
Lifebooks: Love

 10/30/08        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I'm starting to really feel accomplished with my job. While it is not what I truly want to do with my life, I feel that it has given me an experience that I will never forget. There is a certain joy that I feel in trying to set up people on dates that I have never quite felt before. I'm glad that I can give something back to the notion of love.

Keywords: career,love,happiness
Lifebooks: New Beginnings

,Career

 10/24/08        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I feel that with my photography venture, I may have found a niche. Through all of the negativity I got for pursuing it and all the pictures I've taken this past year, I feel it's finally paying off for me. People think I have a talent for finding that great shot and knowing how to capture a perfect moment. If I can turn this into a small side business......I'm totally set!

Keywords: photography,career,happiness,niche
Lifebooks: Career

 10/20/08        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

Last night was absolutely amazing! I remember him bringing me out onto the dance floor and there we were.....dancing to "Wonderful Tonight" for all to see. All I remember was just looking at him.....and that's all I could see in that moment. I was really moved in a big way last night. I know he's the one. No doubts. No concerns. He's the one I want to wake up to every morning and lay down with every single night. He's the one that I could share my life with. He's my everything.

Keywords: future,love,relationships,dancing,weddings
Lifebooks: Love

 10/18/08        Subscribe to jennmonkey's Lifebooks

I really do believe I am truly blessed. My whole life, I had this HUGE list of things I looked for in a partner. It went on for pages and pages, detailing EXACTLY how I had always imagined my future partner to be. And along the way, I found that no matter what I wrote down on my lists, I couldn't quite fit it all. After all the things I've been through with my ex, I now feel that when I look at Matt, he encompasses everything I have ever needed in my life.....and it scares me. Because I can see him there in the long run. Because I feel that he could truly be that one for me. I just don't want to get hurt again the way that my ex hurt me. I was dumped two months before our wedding over a text message and left to pick up my shattered heart while he found comfort with other women. I'm glad that I understand now that what I have is something truly special.......and he may very well be the one for me.

Keywords: love,new,boyfriend
Lifebooks: Love

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