juliaipsa {the blog}

Someone made a poignant statement recently that really stuck with me.

Something about staying in mildly abusive situations.

And that struck a chord with me because I do that, too.  I've done it all my life.  People take advantage of me.  I stay passive.  I get angry.  And then my patience (if you can call it that) wears thin and I walk away.  But I don't do anything about it before then.  And I seem to unknowingly attract others with the same awful painful habit into my circle.  We just click naturally.

I know there are other more eloquent ways to express this sentiment, but, erm,

That's messed up.

So I'm trying to work on breaking this habit.  Baby steps, of course.  Self-awareness is the first step, they say.  I've been aware of it for some time now.  Now I've got to actually act on it.  That's the hard part, you know.

Today, when I woke up and made my way to the girls' room, I came across a pair of Soeur's shoes.  This is nothing new, her shoes.  She has a bajillion hundred forty thousand trillion and eight pairs.  But these were quite striking.  She must have tried these on in front of the mirror on her way out the door at the ass crack of dawn (that girl's commute is painful) and decided last minute that they were too sexy for work.  I must say that they brighten up our floor quite a bit!  We should leave them out just for show.