Tears aren't for sissies!

{Top//Belt: Love Culture, Skirt: F21, Shoes: Charlotte Russe}

Hello Friends! So it would seem that posting on Sundays is becoming a sort of trend for me. It's completely unintentional, but Sunday clothes are just so dang cute! Not to mention that I have a lot of spare time that I don't usually have during the week. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago on a spontaneous shopping trip with one of my best gals I came across this lovely peplum top at a store in City Creek called Love Culture. I had never even heard of the store prior to that shopping trip...but I completely fell in love with it! They have a huge variety of items at pretty amazing prices. I've been dying to go back, but with school starting on Thursday I have to save up every dime I can. After all, tuition and textbook prices these days are whack. The skirt...well, what can I say? Forever 21 is one of my staple places. They carry cute stuff for inexpensive prices for the average broke college student such as myself. Oh and the shoes...I swear I buy shoes from other places besides Charlotte Russe. They just usually have buy one get one 50% off deals so I buy them in pairs, and it just so happens that for the past few outfit posts the shoes I bought there happened to match. Plus, these were borrowed from my sister.

Well, it'll be New Year's Eve tomorrow! I seriously cannot believe the year went by this fast! I know everybody says that about every year but, really this year just flew by. I have to admit this year was a particularly hard one. I feel like for the first 7 months of this year my spiritual/physical/mental growth was at a stand still. I wasn't in the greatest of places. I managed to pull myself together, though, with the help of my amazing family and friends and get back to a place where I'm happy with my health, and spirituality, and with the fact that I'll be heading to school once more. My family has been facing some pretty trying times, but instead of being resentful of the things we're having to face, I'm grateful. Although, the situations we're facing have been difficult and will continue to be difficult they've brought us together in ways I would've never imagined. Although, I must also admit I've never cried so much in my life. The ache of knowing that loved ones might soon pass on, and the ache from missing loved ones that have been, through unlucky circumstances, kept at a distance. I've always thought that crying was a weakness, and I always tried to keep the few tears I shed private. I think mostly because I can count the times I've seen my mom cry on one hand, and she's the strongest woman I know. So I associated strength with not crying. I've only now come to realize that crying doesn't mean I'm weak, and further than that, letting others see my tears doesn't make me weak. It simply means that I'm strong enough and brave enough to share those tears and the raw emotion that they sprung from with others. I have a good feeling about 2013, though, and my intuition is rarely wrong! I really think it'll be my year and that despite the trials things will turn out splendidly! I hope you all had a lovely 2012! Happy Sunday (well, what's left of it anyways)!