Challenge was to journal about an unexpected turn.

Picture is my department at work a few years ago (I'm not actually in the picture, I think I was on business travel that day). Since I never planned to be in a job like that, I thought it fit well with the theme of the layout.

Journaling:
It's easy to pick out regrets in your life. It's much harder to recognize the blessings. Most of us question "What if" in a negative way - how much better life would have been if we'd only stuck to the plan. Why couldn't I stick to the plan? Why didn't I live in a dorm and graduate from UF? Why didn't I become a veterinarian, move back north, not fall in love? What was so bad about the plan? I mean, yes, I would not have had the opportunity to bond with Tabatha; we would not have the really cool relationship that we have today. And no, I wouldn't have been married for the last eight years to the love of my life. And certainly, there would have been no Benno or Kite - nowhere in the plan was there a provision for Rottweilers, neither bought nor rescued. Many of my closest friends, I probably would have never met. I'm sure there were plenty of wonderful experiences awaiting me on the path of The Plan, but I can't imagine any of them are worth losing what I have, what I've had. If I had to go back, if I could change anything about the decisions that brought me to this point, I wouldn't. Because it's not about wondering what would have happened if I'd only done this or that. It's about wondering which of the wonderful pieces of my life I would have missed.

Supplies:
template, buttons, flower, rick rack - "Sketch Plate 9" by Anita Stergiou
paper - "The Next Great Adventure" by Michelle Bradley
bracket - "Extra Credit" ACOT Collaboration kit (recolored)
fonts - Century Schoolbook, Chaucer