Navigating the World as a People Pleaser

Hello Lovely People!

How is everyone doing today?

I am feeling Blah today.  Just plain....Blah.  The wedding pictures came and I was so excited to upload them and show them to my family, but especially my Mom.  They just came home from Europe and I was so excited to hear what she thought of them.

She didn't like them.  She said that some of them were beautiful but she was very disappointed that some shots that she thought would be given to us weren't.  I felt horrible.  I picked the photographer and she didn't like them.  I liked them and she didn't.

After that debacle I was feeling sad so I decided to make a nice dinner for Mer and I.  She called and I told her I was making Pad Thai from scratch with huge excitement in my voice.  She said she didn't want it, could I really make it and make it taste good?  She was hungry.

After both of those things I started to get mad.  Then I got upset. 

I am a people pleaser.  I want everyone to be happy and to get along.  It could be I am the youngest child or I am sensitive, or a variety of things, but I hate conflict.  I especially hate conflict when I am feeling sensitive and sad.  It makes me feel like I can't do anything right.

The two most important people in the world to me didn't like my wedding pictures and think that I can't cook.

Typing those generalizations sound ridiculous but that is how I feel.

Wanting to please people sucks sometimes.  I feel like I can always empathize with people.  Feel how they would feel in their situation or why they are feeling that way even if they don't agree with me.  A lot of the time I don't get that back.

Unless you want to please people all the time you can't understand what it is like to want people to be happy and sometimes people don't really give a you know what if you are happy or not too.

Anyways, I think I am tired and I am going to drink a glass of wine and relax with my cats.

Does anyone else try to please people and get hurt in the process?  Or feel hurt when your pleasing doesn't go over well?

I am going to leave you with a gorgeous photograph that I saw on Pinterest.  I LOVE elephants!

Image found of Crescent Moon Tumblr.  Original photographer unknown

Until Tomorrow,

Love,

Jess

Georgetown Cupcakes, The Knotty Bride Blog, and Artist Friday!

Hello!

This is going to be a long one people so get ready!

I have to tell you first, that Meridyth and I celebrated Valentine's Day 4 days early and I took her to Georgetown Cupcakes in Bethesda for a treat.

For a background, my girl LOVES cupcakes.  She loves cupcakes so much I actually proposed to her using cupcakes and writing Will You Marry Me on them!

I now understand why Georgetown Cupcakes have a line down the block.  THEY ARE A PIECE OF HEAVEN ON EARTH!  Georgetown Cupcakes is not paying me for this, I swear!  They are literally ahmazing.

I ate the  Chocolate Birthday cupcake (not pictured).  It tasted like birthday cake and a chocolate milkshake with crunchy sprinkles.  Can I rave anymore?  These ladies who run this deserve all the success that they have had!

Now, onto the topic of the blog The Knotty Bride.  

I love this blog!  Alison who runs the blog is hilarious and does a post called The Bachelor Recap every week.  I do not watch the Bachelor, but every week I go to her blog to read her recap of the show which includes pictures and hilarious commentary.  I couldn't sleep last night and I laughed out loud when I read her recap.  Definitely something funny to read each week!

Now, for the artist.

This week I am featuring Jacek Yerka.

In an article on Visual News it say's:  "Along with some magnificent dreams, Jacek Yerka Find inspiration for his masterful paintings from his childhood memories:  the places, remembered feelings and smells of 1950's Poland".

I hope you find his work as interesting as I do!

The last image is my favorite.  The textures of the fabric make me want to crawl into that bed and never come out!

I can see some Salvador Dali influences in his work.  Very intricate and I feel like each painting takes you to another world.  A scary and beautiful dream world.

What do you guys think?

Have a great weekend and don't forget to visit LoveUPaperly if you haven't been in awhile!

Love,

Jess