dancing heart

happy sunday almost monday night.

this snarky little one who sometimes whines about sundays, and boring classes and too much homework and being sleepy...

is avoiding all signs of snarkiness tonight. hey world.. guess what. Im ready for Monday :)

I had such a wonderful weekend.  SCCAPiness to the max on Friday night and a sleepover in Hayley and Laurens room just cause I can. And then a weekend filled to the brim with RYLA and Interact and Rotary love and ideas and inspiration and amazingness.  And I came home and got into warm cozies and hunkered down in the library for a little bit of frusteration and then a nice feeling of accomplishment when I figured out something not quite in my realm of understanding cause of some serious perserverance, and to top it off tea with my bestie :)

I think all things Rotary are the most amazing thing that ever happened to my life. For reasons that I cannot even begin to put into words.  Rolo, Heather, Natalie and the interactors came this weekend to get ideas to build what we have started into something bigger and better that changes more people's lives and forever grows to empower more kids.  We played yesterday in Santa Cruz and had a total blast laughing and exploring and talking about anything and everything when RYLA blooded people come together and immediately bond. 

It was a blast. And inspiring. In ways that inspiring hasn't quite been defined in my head before.  Watching them want to make this grow, watching them excited and empowered and ready to take this so far was amazing.  Something that started with this crazy adventure I have been so lucky to go on being passed down to other people in my shoes who want to do something big, who are passionate and excited and out of this world. Its amazing and exciting and I feel so lucky to be a part of it, to hear ideas, to give thoughts, to watch it grow and to be even a little bit of help to them. They're going places, and Im lucky to be on the sidelines :)

And to spend the weekend with Rolo and Heather.  Those two are honestly the reason I am where I am today in the RYLA world and in so much bigger aspects of my life. RYLA has become my life, it has changed me and shaped me and lead me to where I am. And the reason I have been able to continue my involvement is because of them. And my heart was some word that I cant even come up with... full and light and dancing... my heart was dancing to spend the weekend with the two of them together, to think of how lucky I am that I have crossed paths with them and created relationships that will last forever and that will lead me to amazing things and that have completely and utterly changed my life. Thank you guys, you truly are absolutely amazing and inspiring people who I am so lucky to call family.

And.. it became real. I got the position as head J.C. next year. And Im ready to shout it to the world. Im ready to make the phone calls saying thanks, and Im so excited to work with you again. Im ready to come out of my shell and feel it with all the people who have helped me get here. I could not be more excited and I am so fortunate to be working with Jess. And more than anything else, I am absolutely blown away that I have been given this perfect opportunity to give back, to work my butt off so more kids, more counselors, more people on the side lines can feel what I feel and experience it and live it and love it and turn it into their life.

It makes me tear up when I think of how this whole journey started and has progressed. Its a mix of timing and luck and universe aligning that has allowed me to go through all these steps and now gets to take it one step further. To work with Jess to make it ours and to build it and to watch it continue to rock people's world but to change and grow little by little at the same time.  To empower people. To be empowered and to continue the forever journey and life filled with the RYLA magic. Thank you universe, you have done me far better than I could have ever asked.

Needless to say all that love and emotion and dancing heart and reminder of how good the Universe is to me sent me a little note saying "hey brat, stop with the "bored" and get in the game!"

Im ready to focus and be motivated and get out of these classes all there is to get out of them. I just needed a little break, and maybe a slight slap in the face :) 

Hmm. so content. Goodnight! happy monday :)