First Things First

Ha it's so awesome to have a whole website dedicated to talking about myself. If "You've Got Mail" was done in modern times, Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly could have had an incredibly deep relationship by reading each others blog spots. You can really get to know a persons thoughts through blogs, which is why I'm writing one now- to get to know my own thoughts a little bit. Last semester, it was crazy, and I need to be careful this time around, with my thoughts and ideas, with my impulsiveness, with my passionate and apparently highly volatile nature. It's a fire in there- and it needs to be reined in once in a while.

So, maybe I'll start with my New Years Resolutions for 2009 (They're lighthearted on the whole but some are pretty serious which I think is a good reflection of my personality):
1. Run a Marathon
2. Do most of the reading for my classes
3. Go to Italy
4. Hike some 14ers
5. Talk to everybody (ppl on the bus, at school, ppl I'm scared to talk to, etc.)
6. Suck it up!
7. Spend more $ on friends
8. Work less often but for longer periods of time
9. Public worship- share the love with everybody!! More piano, singing and guitar
10. Eat like more of a normal person (worry about cals less)
11. Pray for Surender (World Vision Child) more often and send him more letters
12. Encourage others!
13. Get invited to the Obama's Thanksgiving dinner
14. Show older friends that I sill and always will value them a lot
15. TRUST (God and friends and people who don't necessarily warrant it)
16. Compliment
17. Take a little bit of time everyday to relax and reflect and pray (in the middle of the day's business- not just at the end of the day)
18. LOVE.

Obviously this year is going to be great. I told Sarah Meyers how I'm definitely starting '09 out on the right foot and she says, "Well, that's all you can do!!" Ha that still makes me laugh. She's not often very sarcastic so when she is it makes me laugh for ever.

I have a few friends living aboard right now- not super close friends, but people I think about none the less- and I wonder what life is like for them. I truly marvel at the fact that we have the option to pack up our bags and just go live in another country. That's so cool. The only thing is that I don't WANT to leave for months and months right now. Ideally, yes, I'd be living with Linz, Analisa and Em in Seattle and going out to Pikes Place with them every saturday morning for coffee, produce and fresh flowers. But otherwise I love things here and now and I wouldn't really want to be away for such a long time. But maybe I'm missing out on something. Maybe they know something I don't. I'm sure I'll learn that soon enough though.

"Soon enough," ha. that could seriously be my life motto right now. I'm not throwing everything on the back burner or anything, but I just finally understand that my planning, my timing and my ideas are not necessarily where God's at. And I'm sick of asking Him to cater Himself to me... finally the tables have turned. That's definitely starting 2009 out on the right foot :)