Convince Me

So I am sitting here on my amazing corduroy-ish couch completely energyless, and absolutely unmotivated to go to the gym watching mindless TV until I can spot enough skinny girls to get my tush motivate enough to go run.

As I was flipping through the channels, I happened across Hoarders on AE.

Now this is not my first time watching this show, but as I sat there watching the tons of useless junk that these people have piled up, I couldn't help but think about how unbelievable powerful and intimidating the human mind can be.  

It it unbelievably crazy that our brains can convince us of such powerful things. 

It can make us feel so uncomfortable with throwing things away that it can actually convince us to keep them incase we need them later. 

I'm not going to lie, I am sure everyone has experienced some maladaptive symptoms. 

I have kept a shirt in the closet that I have only worn once thinking well what if i really want to wear it another time. 

I have triple checked to make sure my hair straightener was off, or the my door was locked. 

Everyone has a few of these tendencies, but for those who are not so lucky, they can become full blown slaves to these symptoms and I find it one of the most interesting things ever. 

Maybe it's because I work in a hospital.

A human mind can convince a person to check over and over things or make people so uncomfortable that they have to count and turn things on and off until it feels right. It can convince people that germs are so grotesque that they have to wash their hands in routine abandoning their other responsibilities like their children. 

It can convince people to experience symptoms of pregnancy and actually just appear to be pregnant all because their minds think they are. 

Our minds can cause us to hear and see things that are not there. 

It just astonishes me. 

With that being said: Cue my Mother-In-Law-To-Be.

You all may know the MIL despises me. Like totally avoids my texts, and is not even coming to our wedding hates me. 

Now Cue her House.

She is the epitome of Hoarder. 

Like junk pilled up the walls can only walk through a path to get to where ever you are going. Now I have only been in her house like twice, so I don't think she is to the point where she is keeping garbage, but she is hardly able to pay her mortgage because she wastes so much money buying useless things that no one needs. 

Watching her do this hurts so much inside because I see so clearly that she needs help.
It's only a matter of time until she does get to the garbage phase, but I don't know what to do.
She won't even talk to me so I can't help her & my fiances twin is so brainwashed by her that he really doesn't see it & has become so much like her that he is miserable and bitter all the time. 

I guess mostly I just need to vent.

But if anyone has ANY idea on how to deal with a hoarding mother in law who won't even talk to you I would LOVE to hear it!!

xoxo. 

Monster-In-Law

Remember the movie starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda?

Well my relationship with my soon to be mother-in-law can kind of equate to that. 

Well not entirely.

My soon to be mother-in-law is no way crazy, or a monster.

But, she is not very fond over the fact that her son and I are getting married.

Well i don't really know whats she mad about.
I think it may be due to the fact that we live together before we are married, 

and that she is somewhat 'hyper-religious' 

Either way, the relationship between us is chaotic to say the least.

More like non existent.

So finally, I have become fed up. 

I can't handle my life being as dramatic as a fiction movie.

I can't handle not being able to share my excitement with her and ask her for her advice.

So.., I am writing her a letter.

A 5 paged letter to be exact.

Well, maybe not, my first draft was 5 pages, but there was a whole lot of emotion in that.

Once I calm down, I will probably be able to make it more mature and appropriate. 

But right now nope.

I kind feel like I am the only one who has difficult relationships with their in-laws.

I know this isn't true. 

But at the moment I feel like it. 

{I just wrote the letter, hence this emotion}

On the bright side.

I had  a terrible bout of insomnia last night, which is no good, but it helped me finish a book that I had been reading for quite sometime.
House of Night: Marked

 

Here is the excerpt from the House of Night site:

"After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is mis-using her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny— with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them)."

 So I started reading these series after a recommendation from a fellow blogger. It kind of ish similar to Twilight, but not really. Same time of genre. 
I though the book was fabulous. I look good bath books or beach books. Books that I don't have to put too much thought into, but that are not so simple it bores me. 
I am beginning to read the second book in this series: Untamed.
Hopefully it will be as good as the first.
I love crossing books off my book list.

♥

Tomorrow looks like another beautiful sunny day, and thankfully I only have to work one shift,
meaning I get to go for a nice long run. 
I am hoping to do about 5 miles but we'll see where the day takes me!!
xoxo.