Currently drinking: Double short pumpkin spice mocha
Woo! Sitting here at Starbucks about 40 minutes early for work. I thought leaving an hour and a half early would give me enough time to make it through the freak snow storm that is supposedly hitting Bellevue, along with all the traffic, well....there's no snow on the ground right now, just rain, so all my paranoid planning for the worst just ended up being for not...ha. Oh well, this gives me time to post what I wrote last night as I lay in bed, mind refusing to rest. So ladies and gentlemen...here we go!
I'm writing this post the night before I actually put it up (obviously I have to be drinking coffee while writing it hence the delay). As many people now know, I am recently graduated, moved out, and now employed at City University of Seattle. If the snow doesn't make for a snow day (crosses fingers) I start tomorrow. In fact, I should be going to bed early, but seeing as I haven't had much of a schedule lately I'm finding it quite hard to drift off into the beautiful land of la la. I am also finding myself missing blogging quite a bit... maybe it's my need to be in the spotlight or maybe it's just the need to journal my feelings, but whatever the case may be, I plan on posting more consistently now.
I feel that everything about this year is different. I'm in a different place in my life, have different priorities, have to start making new friends, building different communities, and must get accustomed to being a Shaina not defined as "figure skater" or " college student," but as something entirely new altogether. I thought that I had found myself during my trip in Japan, and I most definitely have a better idea of who I am, but this past month has proven to be quite the purgatory. I've lost a little bit of my self definition and it's more than a little frightening. So.... this year I am resolving to try as many new things as possible, to rediscover the Shaina that I love. I want to be a shiny brand new, like a just born baby, screaming and fighting for life, because (dammit) life isn't going to wait for me, or anyone for that matter. I hope my followers, if they decide to stay with me, get to travel (along with myself) along this path of discovery as well. I am now in the process of writing down a list of the new things I want to do this year. I will post a few below, but if you have a few suggestions, please feel free to leave comments...
Get back into dance (hip-hop, contemporary, swing, salsa, blues, etc...)
Learn to climb...everything
Be awesome at snowboarding
Learn to knit
Continue writing my book
Go to at least five frisbee tournaments this year
Run a half-marathon, full marathon, or triathlon
Be in a play/musical
Start up painting/drawing again
Go backpacking as much as possible
Road trips!
Urban exploration
Discover new books
Learn to sail
Oh man... ok I'll come back to the list <3 you lattes!
Always better to be early instead of being late, you know this has to be from Grandma Diane
ReplyDeleteYeah, I drove down to Puyallup and back last night, left at 6pm got back at midnight. The only place with snow was bellingham, and they got a good 6 inches while I was gone.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you pursue life with all that you have this year!(and really every year, everyone should) You have an unknown number of possibilities in front of you as you start this new chapter of your life.
So I say to you three things:
1) Live, Laugh and Love.
2) Do what is right to those around you.
3) Carpe Scrotum (Grab life by the balls)