i am the lion

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 have you every been on a spiritual journey? go ahead, ask what kind of weird things i do in college. well, let me tell you. a spiritual journey is where you meditate and find your other half, your totem, your power animal. the other day when i was at my friends jess and tawn's house we went on the journey to find ours. technically you are supposed to have incense burning and the lights off, but  we didn't have any incense and we didn't want to turn off the lights; however, after much intense meditation we all discovered our power animals. jess was a cougar, tawn was jaguar, and i was the lion. maybe one day, if you're lucky, i'll tell you how i discovered my power animal, but here is everything the lion stands for.

"when you walk, walk like the lion. be proud to be who you are, exactly as you are. hold your head high. look each person in the eye and silently say to yourself: i am the lion.

the lion will fill  you with courage, the courage to be who you are and show it to the world. he will teach you how to roar our with your power, displaying your talents and announcing your presence. he will teach you to have the courage to be yourself, always and in all ways to know the deep truth, that you are exactly  as you should be. after all, you are the lion.

the lion is power, but power contained. he will teach you the strength of quiet command. he will teach you to hold yourself with such presence that merely being around you will fill others with respect and awe.

know and be the quiet strength of complete confidence. speak calmly and with authority. act from a place of personal truth and wisdom, a wisdom that comes from the quiet times you spend just being and feeling your deep connection with all that is.

 walk with grace and strength. hold your head high and once in a while, give out a resounding, magnificent roar. after all, you are the lion."

be inspired

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hi, i'm leena and i have a dirty big secret. i'm addicted to pinterest. i find myself pinning more than i find myself on facebook. but i can't help it. it's just so inspiring to me. sometimes you just need it for a little inspiration, or a lot of inspiration. i can't help but get ideas for my future house, plan my wedding even when i'm not even dating, but mostly i find myself looking up quotes and pictures.

werk it

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i found this picture on pinterest. every time i look at it i bust up laughing as if it were the first time. no joke. i think it is hilarious and everyone should see it. this kid reminds me of a couple different people i know. this bunch looks like a group of home schoolers, being a home schooled child i feel safe in my statement. it just looks like a nest of misfits who find solitude in one another. i also love the ratio of girls to boys. 5 to 10.  love. it. all.

what are your thoughts?

she's only my best friend

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as you probably already know, savanah is my best friend. i haven't seen her in 5 months. it's torture. we try to skype as often as possible, but that is too hard because of the time difference and our busy schedules. the planets are not aligning in our favor. to make up for this we try our hardest to send love notes to each other via facebook. these entail anything from how much we miss each other or notes to reassure us that we will live through whatever woe just happened. we post these as often as about every other day. some of my favorites include these.

can't wait till were reunited.

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

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they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder", but im not entirely sure how i feel about that. sometimes i believe it and sometimes i dont; however, right now i believe it. i miss my family. i miss my best friend savanah. i miss nipomo. i miss cheap food. i miss strawberries. i miss california's beaches. i miss the mustard fields. i miss driving (never thought i would say that). i miss all my friends back home. i miss spending saturday nights with my favorite kids i babysit. i miss my dog fluffly. i miss it all so much right now. i have been in hawaii for 5 months. i am however excited to announce that i will be home in exactly 14 days! i can not remember the last time i was this excited. i have been having a count down for the last 30 days. i cannot wait to be home and be with everything and everyone i love.

only 14 more days.

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I am the best babysitter ever. Why, you may ask? Well because the other day when I was watching lil Abbs and Charlie they couldn't fall asleep. When they came to get me to read more stories to them I agreed. But as hard as Abbs tried I wouldn't read her "awesome shark book!" to her. Oh, no no. Instead the girls listened to me reading the Book of Mormon :) Yup, thats right. Worked like a charm. Girls were out sooner than expected :)

Glitz, Ni-Ni's, and Tantrums

I have probably watched this clip . . . .200 times maybe. It just never gets old :) My absolute favorite part is when both her fingers are up in the air, but only one finger is being waved. Its just so priceless :) Please, enjoy.






Are you thoroughly horrified now? Good. Now that you are you should know that Juana,  the mother, had a mental breakdown in the middle of the pageant because she said "kenzie's been acting up lately and it's just too much for me". That added so much more meaning for me :)

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Goodbye Bucky. You have been good to me. I will never forget you. They way you would break down on the side of the freeway at midnight. The way I fondly placed surfing stickers all over you so it would seem that you were just my "surfing car" and my real car was simply in the shop. The way you smelled moldy for a week after it rained for five minutes. The way your seat belt would never buckle so I was driving illegally for a year. The way your air conditioning was the best air conditioning I have ever known. The way your treated me when I napped between classes. The way you were missing a hubcap. The way you started violently shaking if I went over 65 on the freeway, and why my parents loved you for that. You were an automatic way to ensure my parents that I would not and could not speed. I loved how you were a woody wanna-a-be. How you were 20 years old and still would haul my entire family with all of our bags, including all 10 bags Kirsi always brings. How your heater never worked and dad had to buy me one. How I could never completely get the dog hair out of you. They way you would take me and all my friends on a road trip and save us from having to take a sobriety test from the cops. (thats another post) The way your trunk had to be propped up with a stick to keep it from smacking me in the head. How your gas gauge would lie to me and say half when it was truly empty. Bucky where ever you are in car heaven, know that I will miss you and you will never be able to be replaced. (but when you are it will be with a newer, working, car.) Bucky you have been well loved and will continue to hold a place in our hearts.

R.I.P. Bucky Kentucky

5 Reasons to be a Follower of Savanahs Blog

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Everyone should be a follower of my friend Savanahs blog.

1. She posts more than I do which might be a plus.
2. She's beautiful
3. As a 17 year old still has a GINORMOUS crush on Nick Jonas.
4. Has a hilarious little sister who cries at least twice a day on a schedule. My favorite story ever is when she came running to Megan (other sister) crying. When Megan asked her why she was crying she sobbed "I don't know!".
5. She's friends with me, so she has to be cool.
Word

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As you should know, this is Ryan Seacrest. I found this on the Internet. The caption read. . . .

"Don't Worry. There is still HOPE."