Tis The Season For New Beginnings

XOXO

I am a true Leo

Faith

Love is such a powerful thing. 

XOXO 

XOXO Honey Bii

Favorite

So feeling the love

xoxo 

This has been the best summer ever!

XOXO Honey Bii

XOXO Happy 30th birthday to me 

They say things come in 3's. Third time in one week.

XOXO

Special delivery

XOXO

I don't ask for much, but I deserve everything. 

Being in love at the right time, with the right person.

XOXO Honey Bii

You, you lift my heart up.
when the rest of me is down.
You, you enchant me, even when you're not around.
If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down.
I'm latching on babe, now I know what I have found.

I feel we're close enough.
I wanna lock in your love.
I think we're close enough.
Could I lock in your love baby?

Now I got you in my space.
I won't let go of you.
Got you shackled in my embrace.
I'm latching onto you.

Now I got you in my space.
I won't let go of you.
Got you shackled in my embrace.
I'm latching onto you.

I'm so encaptured, got me wrapped up in your touch.
Feel so enamored, hold me tight within your clutch.
How do you do it, you got me losing every breath.
What did you give me, to make my heart beat out my chest.

I feel we're close enough.
I wanna lock in your love.
I think we're close enough.
Could I lock in your love baby?

I feel we're close enough.
I wanna lock in your love.
I think we're close enough.
Could I lock in your love baby?

Now I got you in my space.
I won't let go of you.
Got you shackled in my embrace.
I'm latching onto you.

Now I got you in my space.
I won't let go of you.
Got you shackled in my embrace.
I'm latching onto you.

Now I got you in my space.
I'm latching onto you.
(I'm latchin on...)

I'm latching onto you.
(I don't want to let go...)

I won't let go of you.
(I won't let go I won't let go...)
(I won't let go I won't let go...)

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou

Rest her soul. 

So That I Could Feel Special

XOXO Honey Bii 

I really want to be married. 

XOXO Honey Bii

My Night

Falling in deep feelings is my favorite part. 

XOXO Honey Bii. 

6 Things Every Extrovert Secretly Has To Deal With

Over the past few years I’ve noticed a growing number of articles exclaiming, “How To Take Care of An Introvert” or “10 Things Everyone Should Understand About Introverts” and while I have no real problem with introverts and introversion, my issue is with the fact that people of the internet seem to have romanticized introversion in a way that turns any possible social impediments a person might have into desirable quirky traits. Not only this, but extroverts are suddenly the bad guys for not understanding introverts or mistreating introverts, etc, etc.

As a self-proclaimed extrovert, I’m pretty sick and tired of people assuming that introverts are the only people who have got it hard. Really, seriously? Are we really going to play this game? Now you look here, mister. Extroverts may not seem as delicate or may not seem as complex and diverse, but extroverts have a whole different category of BS they have to deal with too. It’s not easy out there for anyone.

1. People will often assume you’re flirting.

Being an extrovert generally means that you enjoy the company of others, you can appear confident and you’re quite comfortable striking up a conversation with almost anyone, regardless of how much (or how little) you actually know them. What an extrovert considers a normal form of communication, others might see as flirtation and a sign of open sexual availability. You can imagine how frustrating and potentially disheartening it can be to have your friendliness misinterpreted as something more, especially when the person you are talking to gets offended that you are not, in fact, hitting on them.

2. You’re not allowed to be sad.

Most extroverts I know are happy-go-lucky people who like to keep the conversation going, make people laugh and have a good time as often as they can. The only downside to this is that when you do something often enough, people expect you to do it all the time. If you’re someone who spends most of their time being the happy, comical figure in the group, when you’re having a bad day, people are shocked, maybe taken aback, possibly even offended.. they simply don’t understand how you can be not happy. Being an extrovert is a full-time social job that requires you to entertain the crowd, so when you suddenly stop doing what you’re supposed to do, you’re gonna get boo’d off stage.

3. You’re expected to keep the conversation going.

When there’s a lull in the conversation, do you know who starts it back up again? The extrovert does. However, being the engine and the fuel for social gatherings can be extremely tiring and feel like a lot of work, so sometimes it would be nice for us extroverts to be allowed a break and have other people take over (though, for some of us, not talking can be quite the challenge).

4. Being labeled as shallow or unintellectual because you’re not an introvert.

Extroverts are usually stereotyped as being loud, party-going people who are in constant need of social interaction and simply have no time to sit down, relax and maybe read a book or something. On the other hand, there seems to be some romanticizing of introversion (via tumblr and social media) that involves depicting introverts as deep, philosophical, misunderstood, quirky unicorns… or something along those lines. Since when has ‘outgoing’ been a synonym for ‘shallow’? Extroverts are just as capable of complex thought as introverts are of talking to people.

5. Craving the company of others.

Just as introverts feel drained from too much social interaction, extroverts will come down with a case of the blues if they’re left by themselves for too long. Although extroverts enjoy time to themselves every now and again (because really, who doesn’t need alone time?), they thrive in the company of others, so when they’ve spent too much time on their own, they can start to feel restless, have problems focusing, feel really antsy – they desperately need to go out, be around people and do something.

6. People assuming you are always confident.

Being extroverted doesn’t necessarily mean you have an abundance of self-confidence. Sure, an extrovert likes being around people and feels comfortable being around people, but that doesn’t automatically mean that an extrovert is 100% confident in themselves and their actions 24/7. There are many extroverts out there who I’m sure could testify to the fact that they have, on several occasions, felt shy and small and unsure. Extroversion is not synonymous with confidence. 

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Accepting Them All

XOXO Honey Bii 

XOXO Honey Bii

XOXO Honey Bii

My Face Today

When you are happy, nothing can stop it. 

XOXO Honey Bii

In The Middle Of Minnesota

XOXO Honey Bii

#Sacrifice

XOXO Honey Bii

XOXO Honey Bii 

T.D. Jakes Ministries

Often we get so wrapped up in achieving our goals that we miss the opportunity to stop and be thankful for the things we've already achieved. Take time today to be thankful.

XOXO Honey Bii

Goals

2014

XOXO Honey Bii 

Life is a great sunrise!

#Me

XOXO Honey Bii

Reconnecting!

XOXO Honey Bii

10 Habits of Happy Couples

It starts with going to bed at the same time. 

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What does it take to be happy in a relationship? If you’re working to improve your  marriage, here are the 10 habits of happy couples.

1. Go to bed at the same time
Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps. And when their skins touch it still causes each of them to tingle unless one or both are too completely exhausted to feel sexually excited.

2. Cultivate common interests
After the passion settles down, it’s common to realize that you have few interests in common. But don’t minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. If common interests are not present, happy couples develop them. At the same time, be sure to cultivate interests of your own; this will make you more interesting to your mate and prevent you from appearing too dependent.

3. Walk hand in hand or side by side
Rather than one partner lagging or dragging behind the other, happy couples walk comfortably hand in hand or side by side. They know it’s more important to be with their partner than to see the sights along the way.

4. Make trust and  forgiveness your default mode
If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can’t resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.

5. Focus more on what your partner does right than what he or she does wrong
If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive.

6. Hug each other as soon as you see each other after work
Our skin has a  memory of “good touch” (loved), “bad touch” (abused) and “no touch” (neglected). Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the “good touch,” which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world.

7. Say “I love you” and “Have a good day” every morning
This is a great way to buy some patience and tolerance as each partner sets out each day to battle traffic jams, long lines and other annoyances.

8. Say “Good night” every night, regardless of how you feel
This tells your partner that, regardless of how upset you are with him or her, you still want to be in the relationship. It says that what you and your partner have is bigger than any single upsetting incident.

9. Do a “weather” check during the day
Call your partner at home or at work to see how his or her day is going. This is a great way to adjust expectations so that you’re more in sync when you connect after work. For instance, if your partner is having an awful day, it might be unreasonable to expect him or her to be enthusiastic about something good that happened to you.

10. Be proud to be seen with your partner
Happy couples are pleased to be seen together and are often in some kind of affectionate contact — hand on hand or hand on shoulder or knee or back of neck. They are not showing off but rather just saying that they belong with each other.

XOXO Honey Bii

2014 is my year! Dirty 30 here I come.

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I think I'm in love.

XOXO Honey Bii

Happiness

XOXO Honey Bii

Chicago

As I sit here (DOC Wine Bar) alone and content, reflections come. 

How great is it to be alone? 

We are indeed made for one and others, but solace should be embraced.

Tears swell in my eyes. 

I am growing. 

My manifest is before me. 

I am happy. 

XOXO Honey Bii