twenty twooooooo!
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i've been tagged...

Life's Simple Pleasures
Instructions: Name 10 of life's simple pleasures that you like the most, then pick 10 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative; try not to use things that someone else has already used.

1. saying something that i think is bizarre and freakish about myself and having a friend say "ME TOO!!" (haha.. no examples.)

2. when i get a caramel frappuccino, before i stick my straw in, using the end of the straw to scoop out and eat just the whipped cream and caramel on top. i eat almost the whole thing before i stop myself. one of the great pleasures of life.

3. hearing the doorbell ring when i've been waiting for takeout

4. having someone call or IM you just as you were thinking of them

5. juice boxes

6. lazy weekends with no plans and no alarms set, staying in bed, reading, and watching an entire season of lost

7. being able to treat a friend or a parent to dinner

8. watching friends episodes that i've seen a thousand times, anticipating every line before it's said, but still being able to chuckle to myself

9. praying for someone with them or vice versa

10. 80s pop

11. texts, calls, IMs, cards, drinks, celebrating with friends, cakes and other baked goods, gift certificates, and extravagantly unnecessary gifts, flowers, chocolate and stuffed animals in the mail for my birthday.. i thought this year was going to be forgettable and low key. thank you guys sooo much! i always feel unnecessarily spoiled and kind of guilty on my birthday but i guess i secretly like it a little

 

i tag joanne, and anybody else who is bored and/or feels like thinking happy thoughts!

this is late, but i don't have pictures of anything else so here's my update for the month/year.
spring break 2006

part I: whistler, canada


 
 
  

  
  
  

 
  
 
  
  
 

 

does anybody want to come to our graduation? lance armstrong's our speaker

DYNASTY MY BUTT

home and have been for a week and a half
enjoying:
- food (quantity and quality)
- memories from new york
- time with friends & family
- my healthy sleeping schedule
- shopping
- bubble tea and mango desserts
- being a pretend non-adult for another couple weeks
not enjoying:
- humidity/rain
- the imminent stress from being a senior, balancing hard classes, finding a job, and making some Serious Decisions

i reeeally dont know what to think about this coming year cuz i'm having a hard time thinking about it. i know im gonna be faced with a lot of challenges, both academically/professionally and personally, but for now the thing about being at home is that i can pretend im a kid and that i don't have to think about these yet. i can pretend like im still in high school without thoughts of rent, bills, managing my time, my career, or applying to jobs. it's probably not healthy, but i'll admit that even though i've always been dying to be independent and for my parents to leave me alone, the thought that i'm gonna be forced into that by this time next year freaks me out a little. so basically i'm letting my mom fuss over me as much as she wants, and i'm not thinking more than 2 days in the future (which is how far in advance i have to book haircuts and such). anyways. regardless of all these suppressed worries i'm excited about this coming year... gonna make the most of it and just trust in what's in store... i remember hearing that worrying makes you a practicing atheist which is i guess true in a sense. there's a fine line though, between being trusting and being complacent. right now i'm erring on the complacent side, but for the foreseeable future i only have these last 2 weeks and i want to enjoy them.

the thing that makes life complicated is that it's made up of choosing your position and compromising on so many different issues - like being on 50 balance beams at once. everything you want comes with a price tag and a corresponding sacrifice and the trick is finding your equilibrium so that you're ensuring the best outcome not only for yourself, but for those you care about. yes you have to make sacrifices, but when is enough enough? i for one am still learning a lot, cuz i tend to be extreme in whatever i do. either i don't care at all about something or i develop an intense obsession, either i love something or i hate it. i'm not good at compromise and i'm not good listening to suggestions [ie. people telling me i'm wrong]. i know that i also have to keep my head on straight and not let my volatility, tendency to freak out, and hyperactive temper/spastic-ness get in the way. anyways, it's stuff like this that makes me realize that after 21 years i still have sooo much to learn and such a long way to grow. hence my unbelief that i'm going to be a senior and am supposed to have figured all of this out. i guess the positive spin is that this means i'm still young and that the best times are yet to come.

anyways... that was a lot more rambling than i intended to get into, and probably made little sense for 100% of the 5-6 people who bothered to finish. bottom line: i'll be back on September 4th, whether i'm ready or not, and i can't wait to get back into the groove and see what happens. i made a schedule last night of Things I Have To Do Every Day In Order To Not Screw Myself Over, and altho i separated out everything into baby steps (things like clean out closet or pay phone bill or email professor), it's still a lot on my plate. just easing back into it i guess. did this summer FLY by for everyone else? i feel like it's been like a month.

21

the fact that for the very first time, i wasnt home for my birthday was made up for by good company and the weekend-long celebration.. including seeing Hairspray on broadway, riding bikes in central park, having a lovely dinner in the west village, and then... a big blur of a night that ended up in vomit on the sidewalk. haha never again. hence my actual birthday was spent in bed, but thats ok.

thanks to everyone for the wonderful & unexpected gifts, drinks, cards, emails, text messages (from hongkong!), e-cards, and most of all for coming out and/or remembering
now there are no more ages to look forward to. like my sister said, "when you're 21 you're expected to be mature. haha good luck."

ps. 2 months in new york and i finally had my first celebrity sighting -- i saw jason giambi today!