2012 Goals

So I was going through all of the posts that I had started but not get published, and I came across this one. We are nearly half-way through the year and I have only completed a fraction of this goals. Maybe my actually putting it out there into the universe, the motivation with hit me harder?

Major Goals:
1. Lose weight Still working on this, but I am down about 18 pounds this year, 50 since last Fall
2. Move into my own place
3. Finish my AA degree
4. Take a vacation I'm planning on going to visit Sam in New Jersey, just need to get the $$ together!
5. Have at least $1000 in my savings account
6. Stop putting bad things into my body
7. Start my sleeve My diamond on my arm was the first step towards this.
8. Make a budget
9. Find an organization to volunteer for
10. Start documenting my daily life
11. Be in a relationship
12. Go to the doctors
13. Attend more events

Monthly goals:
1. Bake once per month
2. Cook something new one per month
3. Arrange plans with friends
4. Send handwritten cards/letters to friends and family
5. Make a new friend

To buy:
1. An iPad
2. A camera
3. A new down comforter
4. A Wii

O Hai There!

So I just realized the last time I posted a blog entry was from January!. Way to be awesome and on top of blogging, Lindsay! Aren't you the one that is always dreaming of starting up blogs as you read others' with envy? You know how they got to be popular/fun/fantastic blogs? BY POSTING REGULARLY!

Whew, sorry for yelling at myself there! Anyway, ONE AGAIN I am going to try to get into the grind of daily/regular blogging. I mean it's not like I don't have plenty of time for it, I just always seem to lack the motivation. I never know what to write about!

So I suppose for now to try to get back into the game, I'll attempt to re-cap 2012 so far, which has for the most part been pretty great for me!

January:
So let's see....I did some pretty awesome nails:

On the 9th my brother left for six months of deployment. He's actually back now and coming to town for a couple weeks, but I won't get to see him. It's kind of a sore subject. :/

I went to the both Gasparilla parades, and I chalked my hair.

February:

I guess is the month that started my habit of going out to Ybor almost every single weekend. I bought these shoes to wear out one night:

...and then this happened:

I did some more awesome nails:

I went to the Florida State Fair where I tried ALL THE FOODS, but why do I not have any pictures?! I think I need a camera. I feel like a camera would be a 16 ounce reminder to document things, versus my phone which I always have on me so I never think to use. That's probably logical, right?

Also notable for February: I got two new tattoos!

That second one is a lyric from a song by the Kinks (Strangers) and I really love it and it has meaning to me, but I would suggest to anyone thinking of getting any sorts of words/phrase tattooed on them to really think about it because people will want to read it and they will often do it out loud in the most flat and monotone way that seems to suck all of the meaning out of it for you. Often times I am left feeling stupid after it it read out loud, and like I need to explain it to them when I should really be like, "fuck you man! I stand behind MY tattoo that I got for ME!"

March:

This was actually a pretty good month for me, and I actually managed to take some pictures! 

On the second I won tickets to go to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City (dear lord that sound country!) which is basically a smaller version of the Florida State Fair, but I was super excited because Demi Lovato was performing! Everyone makes fun of me, but I love that girl. She's a great singer and she's been through some shit, I can respect that. However once we got into the little amphitheater where the concert was being held, there were too many cops and rules and it just wasn't fun. I can't handle going to a show where you aren't allowed to stand and wander. I'm way to ADD for that. So Layla and I (did I mention I brought Layla with me? She's always my plus one in a pinch) wandered around the fairgrounds most of the time, stopping for fried cheese and sweet tea and eventually spending our night hanging out "behind the scenes" with a Carney!

My mom and I went to run errands one day and we ended up having the best time, stopping at a few Tampa culinary institutions, including Bo's Ice Cream and Faedo's for Cuban bread and devil crabs.

The sad spot in March for me was that my guinea pig, Barry Goldstein died. I felt silly being upset about this, but he was like a dog for me, and actually little companion. He was well-known among my friends and had been through a lot with me. 

March did end on a happy note for me though! First there was St. Patrick's Day. I got up early and headed over to Allie's place in Channelside to spend the day doing things with her as my wingman. We rode the trolley downtown to Curtis Hixon Park where they had dyed the river green and there were supposed to be lots of activities going on, but it was kind of lame. We drank some beers, watch dogs played soccer, then wandered around downtown for a bit. The Florida State Thespian competition was going on so there were lots of theater geeks wandering around which both provided entertainment, but also made me nostalgic and  realize how freaking old I am because I was doing that same thing TEN years ago!

We ended up heading back to Channelside where some of her friends met up with us and hanging out there for a few hours. Then we took the trolley to Ybor for the St. Pat's parade, which was probably the best parade I had been to in years due to it not being as crazy and crowded as Gasparilla and we were actually about to stand along the gate and get so many beads that they caused my neck to hurt!

We met up with some more of her friends and went to Reservoir Bar, Gaspar's Grotto, and finally ended up at Game Time around 2 am. It ended up being about a six hour day of partying, but it was so much fun!

We round out the month with the most exciting new of all: I moved!! I found these amazing, brand new apartments downtown that I fell in love with. I originally applied for them in February and kept my fingers crossed that I would get accepted (I don't have the best credit) and I am now living in a 2 bed/2 bath apartment ON MY OWN! This is the first time I have ever living completely alone (no roommates) and although it took some getting used to, I am in love with everything about it now!

I haven't really taken many pictures of it yet because even though I had most of the furniture I needed, decorating in a sloooow process and I don't want to really show off something that's half-assed and looks like a college dorm! However I do have a picture of the cemetery (!!!!) that my place over looks (Oaklawn Cemetery, the oldest one in Tampa with lots of history) and the super sweet, light-up entertainment center/wall unit that came with my place:

And to finish this off, the rest of March's nails:

April:

We're back to slackin' on the pictures for this month again. I spent a lot of time setting up my department and being social. We started going to play trivia every Thursday night in Channelside. I slowly explored downtown on foot from my place. 

On the 13th I got my first Friday the 13th tattoo! Most tattoo shops offer a deal for $13 tattoos on Friday the 13th. I intend on getting a new tattoo on everyone from now on! Layla and I got matching ones, not really on purpose, but because it was the one we both like the most from the sheet of flash that we got to choose from.

I guess there's not much else to report on for April. I've been using my Facebook timeline to help me remember everything once again. (People can bitch about timeline, but I seriously love it!) Like I said I was pretty social, it looks like I went out nearly every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night night. I ate lots of Taco Bus. I saw The Hunger Games. I apparently didn't do my nails (or just didn't take any pictures of them.)

May:

Yay! We made it! Let's see if I can remember to update daily/weekly from here on!

Are you a lady that's never really seen the Star Wars movies? Me too! I decided it would be a fun idea to host a Star Wars Ladies' Night at my place so all of us girls could finally watch the movies and understand guys! It was held on the 4th, Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you) and I think there was about 8 of us. As I figured, we ended up hardly watching the movie at all, instead spending the whole time drinking and socializing, and then taking a cab to Ybor to meet up with the guys. We first went to The Bricks which was hosting a Star Wars party and spent most of the night out there, and then bar-hopped a bit from there. As I never know when to call it a night, Allie, Gabi, Jeff and I went to the casino (besides the strip clubs, it's the only place to go after 3am!) where we did nothing but order $10 chicken fingers, then take a cab back home. It was a pretty amazing night. 

The next night was Cinco de Mayo and due to the previous night's shenanigans, I was planning on it being and easy night, but it ended up with me being drunk at 3 am in Ybor eating pizza and only wearing one shoe. I went with Allie, Gabi and Gregg to a cantina in Channelside where I FINALLY got the fish tacos I have been craving for like 8 months! We ended up going to Ybor to meet some friends where I may have had a little too much to drink...and you know what happened from here. (About the shoe thing, it BROKE in such a fashion that I had no choice to take it off and put it in my purse! Thankfully I was wearing a maxi dress and was hopefully able to disguise my shoe-less foot.)

Oh! I also dyed the tips of my hair yellow at some point. They has since pretty much faded to blonde, but I still get some comments. :)

On Mother's Day I went with my mom and step-dad to Hula Bay where we sat out by the water and I drank margaritas and ate a massive burger.

Last Thursday, the 17th, James (Lay's boyfriend) took us a Rays game. I love doing stuff with him because he always takes care of us, even doing things like buying us each a disposable flask, a bottle of vodka, and then sodas in giant souvenir cups once we were at the game so we could drink for free! I hope I find a boyfriend that enables my drinking soon.... We had a great night, went back to my place afterwards and ate at Taco Bus then went to the Hub for a night cap. I need more fun nights during the week like that.

Yay! Let's hope my next blog post isn't another re-cap. I know I've brought that up enough in this post, so maybe that hammered being a good blogger into my brain!

Weekend Update!

I had high hopes for my first weekend post. I mean, I know my life is usually pretty boring during the week, but I try to make up for it on the weekends. But because I have eliminated so many people from my life, invites are slim. And I try to not feel upset when I try to make plans with close friends and they turn me down for some reason or another, but then I see their updates on Facebook or Twitter and it's like, why is everyone having fun without me? But I know that I am at a place where I need to meet some new friends. And that won't happen until I put myself out there. I feel like as I get older I am becoming more neurotic and socially awkward. Which I think is odd for someone that is loud, outgoing, and loves being the center of attention. So I need to work on my social skills for sure if I ever want to have any fun.

Saturday I was completely lazy all day. I was "elevated" for most of the day, simply because I could get away with it. In the evening I forced myself to clean my room/do some chores and then I debated going out, but ended up staying home. It's so rare that I am actually able to get a good sleep in, so sometimes the thought of being able to guzzle Nyquil and pop sleeping aids without worrying how I'll feel in the morning is more appealing than going out and drinking.

Today my mom and I went to brunch way out in the 'burbs with Margot, her husband, and some of their friends. I ended up just drinking Bloody Marys because the brunch was $23 and I didn't want my mom spending that much on me because I did not want to put myself in the position of feeling obligated to eat $23 worth of food because I am really trying to watch what I eat. And in fact I ended up not eating anything at all until almost 8 PM!

After brunch we headed to the Tampa Bay Downs horse track. I had never been to watch horse races before, only dogs, so I didn't know what to expect. It was okay, but I think it would have been much more fun with my own group of friends. I like Margot, but her friends are all kind of old people-ish, leaving me feeling like a kid who needs to keep quiet because she had nothing to speak about with the adults.

Our view from our box at the track.

After we left I realized I was starving and hadn't eaten  all day, so we stopped my Qdoba for a quesadilla (which I waited like 3 hours before eating, I'm a weirdo.) I cleaned up a bit and just chilled the rest of the evening. I have this weird thing where I always need to be home on Sunday evenings. I don't like going out and doing things, unless maybe my room is already clean and I have my outfit picked out for work for the next day. I just feel like if I don't start my week off on the right foot everything will be bad. Jorge really wanted me to come over last night, but I didn't want to because of my Sunday night thing, but also because he lives far away and it seems silly for me to drive so far out on a Sunday night just to sit and watch TV at his house. This is a whole 'nother deal here that I don't want to get into at the moment, but at this point in my life guys that potentially want to date me need to take me out on actual dates. If I am going to be hanging around a guy's house doing nothing, they will most likely be just a friend or maybe someone that I am already dating. But as of right now, I just don't have the time and patience to hang around a guy that has so ambition to try to pursue me and just invites me over in the hopes that I may finally break down and sleep with them.

Wow, what a random tangent! Since my posts seem to always been so text heavy, a couple pictures, yay!

My new laptop skin I had made with my favorite Peter Max painting.

I can't ever seem to take a decent looking picture for the life of me, but I am so excited about how long my hair is getting!

Getting into the Swing of Things

My goal is to write these daily entries at the end of each day while everything is still fresh in my mind, but it seems much more appealing to wait until the next morning and do them at work. I need to make myself figure out some sort of blogging routine. And I'm also toying with the idea of certain types of posts for each day, each week. We shall see.

Anyway, yesterday was a pretty good day at work. I was proud of myself for hardly eating anything, just a V8 and half of this pureed strawberry thingy, but I damaged that by the end of the night! I really need to set up some guidelines for dieting. My main goal is to eat the majority of my daily food allowance in the middle of the day and just a tiny bit around dinner time, if I am hungry.

Lately I have been feeling weird about taking lunches for multiple reasons. One being it has been too dang cold to want to leave the building, two being that I'm afraid that by going to lunch I will want to eat, and three for some reason I feel like I'm skipping out on work for some reason, even though I am allowed an hour for lunch. Yesterday I decided to go to the park and and eat, I just wanted to get out of the office for a bit. While I was at the park, I saw a man playing the guitar while riding a unicycle! What the heck?!

After work I had made plans with Allie to go to Rock the Park downtown. I went once before in October or November and I really enjoyed it, so I decided to go again. Layla and I bundled up and packed blankets and I brought myself a thermos of wine and we headed to Curtis Hixon where we met up with Allie and a bunch of her friends. I'd like to get some of my friends to start going, I think that'd make it more fun. I love Allie, but most of friends are a little too "adult"/technological for me. They talk about things like babies and spreadsheets and, I don't know, 401ks. They are nice people, just not people I'd want to actually hangout with on purpose.

Our view at Rock the Park

Layla and I only stayed until about 8:30 even though the music was good, we were getting bored. On our way home I was star4ving and decided to completely undo my diet by stopping at Krystal. Damn you Chili Cheese Pups!

Oh and I really want to try to start taking outfit pics. The main reasons I don't is because I am super self conscious of my body right now, and I don't have a decent way of taking the photos! I know I have style and I'd like to start documenting it! So here's a horrible snap of my, taking in the reflection of the elevator doors at work yesterday. I'm wearing target all on my top half, Old Navy jeggings, and Kelsi Dagger booties.

Steady As She Goes

Not too much excitement yesterday, which I'm assuming is the way most of my daily posts during the week are going to go. The weather here is currently 50 degrees, but yesterday it was colder and that is just no bueno for me. Cold weather makes me so crabby and miserable. Anything colder than 70 is reason to stay in bed all day!

I got the word that I am FINALLY going to be hired on full time by Aspire, which means benefits and (hopefully) a raise! If the raise actually comes through and is the amount that I am hoping for, my dreams of getting my own place will be so much closer to becoming a reality! I have been casually looking for a place for about 6 months, but it's hard to look realistically when I'm not 100% sure on what my budget is going to be and when I am going to be moving. But I am hoping by the end of January I will have my raise as well as my tax refund (please let it be big!) and I will be able to start looking for real. Ideally I'd like to move in the beginning of March, but this is a big deal and I know I shouldn't rush myself if I want things to be perfect.

Things at home have been rough lately and that has definitely lit a fire beneath me to get out as soon as possible. I don't want to dive into it all too much, but there have been issues between my mom and stepfather and I'm afraid things might get to a point where I am forced to move out. It's upsetting because I have been trying so hard to get my life on the right track, but I just need to prepare myself as much as possible and hopefully everything else will happen they way I want it to.

On a happier note, I am excited about all the upcoming events in the next few months. One of my goals for the new year is to get out more and be more social and the next few months will provide a lot of opportunities for that. Gasparilla, the Florida State Fair, the Renaissance Festival, Magic Kingdom being open for 24 hours on February 29th, possibly going to visit Mandy in Mississippi, possibly going to NYC with Allie to participate in the Holi celebration....so many fun things!

I just need to focus on the positive and work on tackling the negative and hopefully my life will be on an upward track.

2012, so far

So it took my long enough to finish my 2011 post, but now that I have I really have a goal to blog every day, even if nothing happen and all I have to post is a picture of my lunch. What, you don't take pictures of your food?

1/1/12
Yay! Happy New Year! Now what the heck did I do this day?!

Oh yeah, because I stayed up until about 4 am the night before (playing on the computer and watching tv, don't let me fool you!) I slept so late, until about 11am! This is ridiculous for me as I usually panic if I sleep past 8:30 on a day off. I have this irrational fear that I am going to miss out on my day and waste it if I sleep in.

At some point in the day I invited Layla to "run to target with me." Ha! I never just run to Target! I originally wanted to go to finally buy the newest True Blood/Sookie stackhouse book, but they didn't have it in stock. :( I ended up stocking up on some beauty essentials, I got a cute dress and some tops on sale, and I found these magical Harajuku Lovers mermaids hair clips in the little girls section!

That night I went to Jorge's to hang out. We drank wine and watched Office Space (which I don't remember!) and Rocko's Modern Life. Fun fun. :)

The 2nd:
Nothing exciting at all happened on Monday. It was an extra day off from work and I treated it as such. I laid around and watched downloaded episodes of The Rachel Zoe Project for most of the day. In the late afternoon I got a sudden wind of inspiration to clean the heck out of my room and do all of my laundry. It feels good to start of your week clean and fresh, so starting off the year life that is definitely a good idea!

The 3rd:
Yesterday was my first day back to work for the new year. I spent it being totally crabbity. I wore my new dress from Target, but someone decided it would be a good idea to make the temperature like 40 degrees, so I was freezing all day yesterday! I spent the majority of the day in a fog, feeling sleepy and cold.

The rest of the day I was a little more alert, but then work was over and all I wanted to do was drive home, put on 5 layers of clothes, and crawl up in bed. Which I pretty much did. Sweats+pigs in a blanket+ like 4 hours of the Big Bang Theory concluded my evening.

And now we are all caught up to today! I really do hope to be a more efficient blogger. I just need to remember to take more pictures and make my life more exciting so I have things to write about!

2011 Part 2

July:
July started off amazing as Sam and I had put a lot of work into planning a 4th of July camping/rafting trip. We had about 15 people join us for camping in the Withlacoochie State Park, arriving late Saturday morning and realizing after setting up that we had nothing to do that day but drink! And drink we did. It was so bad that I hardly have any pictures from the trip. I know that I ended that first night by playing wine pong by myself and going off with some boys that I had just met and exploring the woods with beers but no flashlights. Priorities.

Sam and I with the Pattie mask.

Summer, me, Sammy

About to go play some Wine Pong!

The next morning we all drove over to the Rainbow River to go rafting. Sam and I were pretty genius, we tied our rafts together and then also brought and extra inflatable boat with us which we filled up with food and drinks and pretty much everyone was envious of us because it was a four hour float and you can get hungry! But it was so much fun, the water is crystal clear and we saw otters swimming. I floated for about 2 hours and swam for about two hours.

A view down the river.

 By the time we were done and made it back to our camp everyone was beat! We grilled burgers and hot dogs for dinner and once it got dark we all sat around our friends laptop and watched the Shining. watching The Shining in the woods at night is a whole different experience!

The only other major occurance in July was the first annual National Water Gun Fight Day! I'm still not sure if this was a real event of if my friends Allie and Gregg made it up and bought a website for it, but we had BIG plans for it. Sam and I decided to be on the red team and we made shirts and hair bows and bought guns and went all out.

Sam and I fueling up for the fight with original, pre-recalled Four Loko!

Guns on the table at our post-battle dinner at Hooters.

Our fight took place in Channelside and it seemed like there was a lot of buzz for the event, but there ended up only being about 10 of us and we ALL were the red team, so we ended up having a couple battles and dividing ourselves into teams differently each time. Even though it was a small group we ended up having a blast and I hope we do it again soon!

Everyone that participated in the fight.

Despite those two fun events, July was a pretty rough month for me, leading into August which wasn't much better.

August:
August started out with me getting laid off from Misener Marine. We found out that they were doing a bunch of lay offs, but I felt like I was safe since my salary was a tiny fraction of their budget and my position was pretty necessary. But sure enough, I got word that the 5th was going to be my last day. It was sad because I was losing a job that I really needed, but also because I wasn't going to be working with Sam anymore, who had become such a fixture in my daily life.

I made sure to go out in shoes that everyone would remember me by!

But that weekend things looked up for me, we got a new puppy, a Piebald Daschund name Schnitzel Von Snap! It's amazing how you don't realize that something is missing from your life until you have it! She was the perfect addition to our family.

I spent most of August looking for jobs, but also enjoying being unemployed. I laid in bed watching the shows I normally didn't get to watch because I was at work, like Saved by the Bell and Regis and Kelly. I also tried to cook more.

I also did my nails a lot.

And I went to the beach with Layla quite a bit.

September:

On the first I accepted a temporary job at this very boring and conservative tax attorney's office downtown. I wasn't happy with it, but the girl that was training me was nice enough (even though she was only 19!) and I figured I could try to get used to it. Well, during my lunch break I got a call from Office Team saying that another company really wanted me and was willing to pay me more and guaranteed that I will eventually be hired on as a permanent employee, so I was poached and it felt great! So on the 2nd I started my new job at Aspire.

I attended another Rays baseball game with my family.

I also house/dog sat for Margot one weekend. She has a pool at her house and I was hoping to hang in the pool all day and drink and get tan, but it was a rainy weekend so I spent it eating way too much junk food, drinking wine, and watching movies. Oh and playing with Dante, the cutest dog outside my family!

On the 17th Sam and I had a girls' night at the casino. Unfortunately I don't have pics from that night, but we both got dressed up and wandered and drank and played slots, and Sam won $300 which she split with me! I  honestly feel like that was the most generous thing that anyone has ever done for me and it was then that I realized what I good friend and person she really is.

October:
October started out with my making some delicious crockpot French onion soup!

I also drank some champagne and read a good book.

The night of the 8th, my mom and I went to a murder mystery at my friend Margot's house. It was rock star themed and I was assigned the role of a publicist. I was kind of bummed about it because I really wanted to dress up crazy. I wracked my brain trying to figure out how to dress up like a publicist. I finally gave up and just wore something I might wear to work!

Me, Margot, my mom

Facebook is being a jerk right now, so I am going to have to update this from memory!

Earlier in the month Sam and I purchased tickets to go on a haunted hay ride where we would also supposed to be able to shoot zombies with paintball guns. Sounds like heaven, right?! We headed out there with her boyfriend, Kyle, but ended up not getting to do it because the wait was over two hours long and I do not have the patience to wait!

Even though it is my favorite holiday, I wasn't planning on doing anything for Halloween. I couldn't think of a clever costume and I didn't know what anyone else is doing. But at the last minute Allie convinced me that I HAD to go to the Freaker's Ball at Skipper's Smokehouse and we came up with the best last-minute costume, Rosie the Riveter! I am kicking myself because I don't have many pictures of me in my costume and the few that do exist aren't the least bit flattering. But I went to Skipper's and the next night I went to Guavaween and had a blast both nights

November:

I started November out on a fun note by attending Rock the Park for the first time. It's a monthly concert series that takes place downtown at Curtis Hixon Park. Layla and I went and met up with Allie and her friends. We brought blankets and beers so we could spread out and drink. I really want to start going every month, but so far I have only been this once.

Oh and here is a picture of me from November that isn't bad. Yay vanity!

On the 12th Sam and I went to the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot. I have wanted to go for years and soon after I met Sam, I knew that she would finally be the friend willing to go with me and actually enjoy it! We set out with the ambition to buy mouse ears and drink lots, with maybe a few bites of food along the way.

Mission: Ears was achieved right away!

Shrimp tacos in Mexico.

Feijoada in Brazil.

My special nails I did just for the occassion.

Heavenly fondue.

Wine, dumplings, and some chicken nonsense in China.

I love the ridonkulousness of this pic from Norway.

Louise brought my some cheese curds from Wisconsin and I was so excited, I nibbled on them for like 12 straight hours and ended that day by deep frying the ones that were left over.

I also went to the airshow with my mom, but I don't seem to have any actual airshow pictures, just another picture of my vanity, ha!

The only other major event in November was Thanksgiving. My mom, Layla and I cooked the meal. By the time it was actually time to eat everyone was being all weird and involved in other things, so Layla and I ended up eating alone and it was much more enjoyable that it would have been with the family. 

After we ate we decided to go to the beach because the weather was so nice, and we ended up having an impromptu photo shoot.

December:

December brings my birthday! The actualy day, the 2nd, was a bummer because I was at work and no one really did anything for it, but that evening was great! I got my amazing presents, we ordered food, and I just chilled, which was exactly what I wanted to do. Oh! and the main most important thing was that Taylor, my brother, came to visit from Hawaii!

The 3rd was my actual birthday "party", which was a group of friends going to the Hard Rock Casino. Everyone came over to pre-game first, then we took a cab to the casino where we mostly wandered around and drank. I seriously only gambled like $4! By the end of the night were were trashed. We ate pizza and Chinese food in the food court and then piled ourselves into a cab. It was such a fun night!

My fun, casino-themed dice nails!

In December I taught myself how to French braid and ordered a new skin for my phone:

Christmas came and went way too fast, but I was proud of myself for actually being able to get everyone nice presents and getting them all on time! I don't seem to have any pictures from Christmas (notice a pattern here?) but it was a great day.

The next weekend was New Years and I knew that I wasn't planning on doing anything exciting. I didn't want to party and go crazy. I wanted to start the year off on a calm and focused note because I have so many goals and plans for 2012. On New Year's Eve my mom and I went to Village Inn for lunch, then wandered around the mall a bit, then went to see Young Adult. I loved the movie, but it hit a little too close to home for me. 

I'm so proud of myself, I successfully re-capped the year! Hopefully I can stick to this blog because I think it is so important to be able to look back on your life and see your progression but also be able to see that not everything was as bad as you thought it was. I started out with this blog post thinking that 2011 was a pretty crappy year, but not that I have gone through it it really had a lot of good times. I am looking forward to pushing myself to enjoy life even more in 2012!