hopeful happenings
Nice alliteration, I know. First let me say, I don't think I will be switching to wordpress anytime soon. Kylee informed me that she gets spam on wordpress, too, so I'd just soon avoid the hassle of switching right now. Second, I love it when I'm in a store and see a teenager shopping while listening to his/her iPod. I was that kid, too. And I would still totally do it if I didn't think I looked like I was trying to be cool and young by shopping AND listening to my iPod. Ohh, the throes of being 25. Kidding. I've only been 25 for 3 days. And today is little Miss Shelby's birthday. 1 whole year old. Having a 1 year old niece does make me feel kind of old. My brother better not start having kids any time soon. I will smack him.
Birthday Recap: It was perfect. I hung out with Kara all day. She got me an Everest book AND A FLANNEL SHIRT THAT I LOVE LOVE LOVE. THANK YOU, KARA, THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU AREN'T READING THIS, EITHER. But anyway, we went to Frankenmuth and putzed around at all the cute little Bavarian shops and heard many Germans speaking German there. I always wonder what they think when they get there. Are they impressed? Are they thinking, "like seriously? We came all the way from Deutschland for this?" Are they freezing to death because it's approximately 13 degrees out? Next time I'm there, I'll bust out my German and ask them what they think. We also went to TGIFridays and Barnes and Noble and NY&Co. My brosive got me a B&N gift card which I quickly spent on the new Donald Miller book (the guy who wrote Blue Like Jazz) called...something...but it's totally good thus far. I love how he writes. He kind of rambles, yet it's an interesting ramble. Then, we went back to Kara's house, had a glass of Sangria (yummmm), and watched the first episode of LOST Season 5. I think we are watching more tonight as well...
Ok, so on to the point of this post: Hopeful Happenings. Things that I hope to do this coming year, hopefully to make age 25 one for the ages. Hopefully to make it so good that I'll in fact be inspired to write a memoir on how fantastic of a year I had when I was 25 and everyone will be jealous of me because I had an amazing year and Hollywood will pay me tons of money to make a movie out of my life at age 25. So, here are some thoughts....
-run a 1/2 marathon: Kara and I are looking at the rock-n-roll marathon in Seattle in June which I would love to run and also wear a Nirvana shirt while running, and I think if I do run some type of marathon this year, I want to wear runners shorts (because I really do think they'd be way less annoying than, say, soccer shorts)
-read more novels: movies are my novels, yes, but I want to read more...reading just takes your mind to other places and I want to open my mind to those places. It's therapeautic.
-move away from home: Northern Michigan would be fantastic, I think...but who knows when or if this will happen or if it will even be possible (I wouldn't mind staying in the banking industry), the only place in Southern MI that I think I would love right now is Ann Arbor and that barely makes it on my list
-buy a bike: I really want a road bike...I saw one at a mom-to-mom sale with my sister that was a 10 speed and $20...I wanted it so bad, but at the time I had about 50 cents to my name. Now I have about 50 dollars. I am totally moving up in this world.
-start a piggy bank: I have already started this one...in fact, in 'Muth the other day, I bought a piggy bank can full of tootsie rolls for a dollar, ate them all, and now plan on putting all my change in it...how excited I am about that thing is most likely inconceivable to you
-get a dog: which will most likely only happen if I move out of home this year (please please please, God)
-find a church that I fricken' love: my attitude towards church has changed in the last few months (for the better), and this will most likely only happen if I move out of home this year
-documentary: usually I am all talk when it comes to making a film, but I really want to make a documentary related to my grandfather whom I never met and a lot of my cousins have never met either, so maybe make a doc. about who he was and what he did because it sounds like he did really awesome things that none of us even know about because he's been gone since flippin' 1971 or so....
-become a cook: there is a new show premiering or that already did premiere (I'll have to check my Direct TV) called Worst Chefs. I have yet to see what it offers, but it just screams my name out. I think it will boost my cooking confidence.
I think these are all reachable goals especially if the cards play out right this year. More than anything, though, I just want this year to be really, really unconditionally awesome.
AND, this year is an Olympic year AND A WORLD CUP YEAR!!!!!!!!! WORLD CUP WORLD CUP WORLD CUP WORLD CUP!
Cheers.
Birthday Recap: It was perfect. I hung out with Kara all day. She got me an Everest book AND A FLANNEL SHIRT THAT I LOVE LOVE LOVE. THANK YOU, KARA, THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU AREN'T READING THIS, EITHER. But anyway, we went to Frankenmuth and putzed around at all the cute little Bavarian shops and heard many Germans speaking German there. I always wonder what they think when they get there. Are they impressed? Are they thinking, "like seriously? We came all the way from Deutschland for this?" Are they freezing to death because it's approximately 13 degrees out? Next time I'm there, I'll bust out my German and ask them what they think. We also went to TGIFridays and Barnes and Noble and NY&Co. My brosive got me a B&N gift card which I quickly spent on the new Donald Miller book (the guy who wrote Blue Like Jazz) called...something...but it's totally good thus far. I love how he writes. He kind of rambles, yet it's an interesting ramble. Then, we went back to Kara's house, had a glass of Sangria (yummmm), and watched the first episode of LOST Season 5. I think we are watching more tonight as well...
Ok, so on to the point of this post: Hopeful Happenings. Things that I hope to do this coming year, hopefully to make age 25 one for the ages. Hopefully to make it so good that I'll in fact be inspired to write a memoir on how fantastic of a year I had when I was 25 and everyone will be jealous of me because I had an amazing year and Hollywood will pay me tons of money to make a movie out of my life at age 25. So, here are some thoughts....
-run a 1/2 marathon: Kara and I are looking at the rock-n-roll marathon in Seattle in June which I would love to run and also wear a Nirvana shirt while running, and I think if I do run some type of marathon this year, I want to wear runners shorts (because I really do think they'd be way less annoying than, say, soccer shorts)
-read more novels: movies are my novels, yes, but I want to read more...reading just takes your mind to other places and I want to open my mind to those places. It's therapeautic.
-move away from home: Northern Michigan would be fantastic, I think...but who knows when or if this will happen or if it will even be possible (I wouldn't mind staying in the banking industry), the only place in Southern MI that I think I would love right now is Ann Arbor and that barely makes it on my list
-buy a bike: I really want a road bike...I saw one at a mom-to-mom sale with my sister that was a 10 speed and $20...I wanted it so bad, but at the time I had about 50 cents to my name. Now I have about 50 dollars. I am totally moving up in this world.
-start a piggy bank: I have already started this one...in fact, in 'Muth the other day, I bought a piggy bank can full of tootsie rolls for a dollar, ate them all, and now plan on putting all my change in it...how excited I am about that thing is most likely inconceivable to you
-get a dog: which will most likely only happen if I move out of home this year (please please please, God)
-find a church that I fricken' love: my attitude towards church has changed in the last few months (for the better), and this will most likely only happen if I move out of home this year
-documentary: usually I am all talk when it comes to making a film, but I really want to make a documentary related to my grandfather whom I never met and a lot of my cousins have never met either, so maybe make a doc. about who he was and what he did because it sounds like he did really awesome things that none of us even know about because he's been gone since flippin' 1971 or so....
-become a cook: there is a new show premiering or that already did premiere (I'll have to check my Direct TV) called Worst Chefs. I have yet to see what it offers, but it just screams my name out. I think it will boost my cooking confidence.
I think these are all reachable goals especially if the cards play out right this year. More than anything, though, I just want this year to be really, really unconditionally awesome.
AND, this year is an Olympic year AND A WORLD CUP YEAR!!!!!!!!! WORLD CUP WORLD CUP WORLD CUP WORLD CUP!
Cheers.