Here is a list of places I want to visit (I may have already been to some of these places, but if they're listed I want to go again).
> Seattle, WA
> New York, NY
> Orlando, FL
> Kansas City, KS
> Washington DC
> Paris, France
> London, England
> Stockholm, Sweden
> Minneapolis, MN
> Berlin, Germany
> Rome, Italy
> Portland, OR
> San Fransisco, CA
> Sacramento, CA
> Phoenix, AZ
> Hawaii
> Denver, CO
> West Yellowstone, MT
> Keystone, SD
> Austin, TX
> New Orleans, LA
> Boston, MA
> Barcelona, Spain
> Ontario, Canada
> Madrid, Spain
> Frankfurt, Germany
> Munich, Germany
> Beijing, China
> Tokyo, Japan
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
That's the list so far! As I go to these places I'm going to post about it. At some point in my lifetime I hope I will visit all of these places. That would be the greatest thing in the world!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Broken
So much for not breaking the chain. All you have to do is throw a cute guy (or my boss... who, for the record, is not a cute guy) in front of me and almost everything goes to pot.
I posted that blog on Tuesday saying how I was taking more steps to help myself not "break the chain", well that very same day I get some terrible news. At 3:00 pm I find out my boss needs me to work a double shift. I had already worked all morning so i was already dead tired, but me being the wonderful reliable person I am say, "Of course, Ray! I'll be there!" I decided I was only going to stay until 8:00pm and then I'll go make an appearance at institute (to see a cute boy of course) and then I'll go to the gym.
Well After I finally got off of work at 8:00pm I immediately head to the institute and, of course, the cute boy I wanted to see was there ;) which made my night. When I got there I started interpreting for the last 15 minutes of the lesson. While I was interpreting my back started to cramp up and caused a lot of pain... along with my shoulder (earlier in the day I had re-injured a previous injury. FYI that means I tore the soft tissue in my shoulder again).
The lesson ended and I stayed and talked to this said cute boy. We had set a date for the next night and I just wanted to iron out some plans. 20 - 30 minutes later we go our separate ways. I get into my car look at the clock it's about 9:30 and I say to myself, "UGH! it's too late to go to the gym and I'm hurting..." blah blah blah blah blah!
SO I DIDN'T GO!!!
Wednesday rolls around. Naturally I'm looking forward to this date with the way awesome/cute/funny/cool guy. I figure it can't go very late because we're starting at 5pm. I figured the latest 8 or 9. I then planned to go to the gym after we were finished hanging out.
That didn't happen! The cute boy kept me entranced until 4:30 Thursday morning. There was no way I was going to get to the gym then especially after not sleeping.
Then I automatically thought, "well I'll go after work." Come to find out that I have to work a double again tonight. I was SO tired I came home and just laid in bed.
NOW after much debate I am not going to the gym tonight, but I will be going tomorrow morning before I have to go to work. So that's the plan. Unless the cute boy calls and says he wants to do breakfast. ;) Which I HIGHLY DOUBT. One can dream though right?
I posted that blog on Tuesday saying how I was taking more steps to help myself not "break the chain", well that very same day I get some terrible news. At 3:00 pm I find out my boss needs me to work a double shift. I had already worked all morning so i was already dead tired, but me being the wonderful reliable person I am say, "Of course, Ray! I'll be there!" I decided I was only going to stay until 8:00pm and then I'll go make an appearance at institute (to see a cute boy of course) and then I'll go to the gym.
Well After I finally got off of work at 8:00pm I immediately head to the institute and, of course, the cute boy I wanted to see was there ;) which made my night. When I got there I started interpreting for the last 15 minutes of the lesson. While I was interpreting my back started to cramp up and caused a lot of pain... along with my shoulder (earlier in the day I had re-injured a previous injury. FYI that means I tore the soft tissue in my shoulder again).
The lesson ended and I stayed and talked to this said cute boy. We had set a date for the next night and I just wanted to iron out some plans. 20 - 30 minutes later we go our separate ways. I get into my car look at the clock it's about 9:30 and I say to myself, "UGH! it's too late to go to the gym and I'm hurting..." blah blah blah blah blah!
SO I DIDN'T GO!!!
Wednesday rolls around. Naturally I'm looking forward to this date with the way awesome/cute/funny/cool guy. I figure it can't go very late because we're starting at 5pm. I figured the latest 8 or 9. I then planned to go to the gym after we were finished hanging out.
That didn't happen! The cute boy kept me entranced until 4:30 Thursday morning. There was no way I was going to get to the gym then especially after not sleeping.
Then I automatically thought, "well I'll go after work." Come to find out that I have to work a double again tonight. I was SO tired I came home and just laid in bed.
NOW after much debate I am not going to the gym tonight, but I will be going tomorrow morning before I have to go to work. So that's the plan. Unless the cute boy calls and says he wants to do breakfast. ;) Which I HIGHLY DOUBT. One can dream though right?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Color Purple
I was on a forum the other day and one of the topics was about the color purple (not the book the actual color). One of the questions presented by this forum was some thing along the lines of "what does the color purple remind you of?"
Well for me the color purple reminds me of fat/obese people. Don't ask me why it just does. Maybe because I saw some really really huge person wearing purple sometime or whatever the reason.
I was thinking last night about some of the goals I am making for myself (One of them to be to go to the gym everyday except Sunday). So I decided to go to the grocery store at 11:30 last night and pick up a composition notebook to track my progress. I get to the store and they have 2 colors to choose from. Purple and red. My first instinct was to immediately grab the red notebook. As I was reaching for it I said to myself purple wouldn't be good to motivate myself to go to the gym. I quickly stopped and said a purple notebook would motivate me MORE than anything else!
So I grabbed the purple notebook and went to check out. I printed off some calendars and pasted them in the first few pages of the book with some "motivational quotes."
It is now right next to me on the floor and I feel like going to the gym RIGHT NOW!
The color purple is good for something!
Don't get me wrong purple isn't all that bad... I mean Darkwing Duck (only the coolest crime fighter ever) wore purple.
I don't like the color purple partially because it reminds me of fate people. Also because throughout my growing up years my favorite color was pink because of the pink Power Ranger, and then my mom got it into her head and everyone else's that my favorite color was purple. Crazy family!
Well for me the color purple reminds me of fat/obese people. Don't ask me why it just does. Maybe because I saw some really really huge person wearing purple sometime or whatever the reason.
I was thinking last night about some of the goals I am making for myself (One of them to be to go to the gym everyday except Sunday). So I decided to go to the grocery store at 11:30 last night and pick up a composition notebook to track my progress. I get to the store and they have 2 colors to choose from. Purple and red. My first instinct was to immediately grab the red notebook. As I was reaching for it I said to myself purple wouldn't be good to motivate myself to go to the gym. I quickly stopped and said a purple notebook would motivate me MORE than anything else!
So I grabbed the purple notebook and went to check out. I printed off some calendars and pasted them in the first few pages of the book with some "motivational quotes."
It is now right next to me on the floor and I feel like going to the gym RIGHT NOW!
The color purple is good for something!
Don't get me wrong purple isn't all that bad... I mean Darkwing Duck (only the coolest crime fighter ever) wore purple.
I don't like the color purple partially because it reminds me of fate people. Also because throughout my growing up years my favorite color was pink because of the pink Power Ranger, and then my mom got it into her head and everyone else's that my favorite color was purple. Crazy family!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Don't break the Chain!
Thanks to my friend Traci and her blog post about her goal to not breaking the chain I'm changing my outlook on how I make goals. My goals usually are oh I want to do this, but taking no action and no positive reinforcement to make them happen. BUT when I mentally started a chain I could see that I'm actually working toward something and that I'm building on something and making it bigger and stronger everyday. Positive reinforcement helped me immensely! Now it's just time to make it official into something I can physically see.
SO STEP ONE, I'm going to print off some calendars.
STEP TWO is to not break the chain.
One of my goals is to go to the gym everyday (except Sunday). So far I've done really well except Friday when I was surprised by the fact that I had to work all day and Saturday when I was in bed most of the day with a migraine type headache.
I encourage everyone to read The "don't break the chain" article. It may just be the motivation you need to get off your patooty! Just like it was mine!
Good luck!
SO STEP ONE, I'm going to print off some calendars.
STEP TWO is to not break the chain.
One of my goals is to go to the gym everyday (except Sunday). So far I've done really well except Friday when I was surprised by the fact that I had to work all day and Saturday when I was in bed most of the day with a migraine type headache.
I encourage everyone to read The "don't break the chain" article. It may just be the motivation you need to get off your patooty! Just like it was mine!
Good luck!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Experience
I was talking to a friend the other night about experiences I believe people should have in college.
He was talking about how he was planning on taking 19+ units/credits a semester so he could get his BA in 3 semesters (Mind you this is not where my complaint lies I'm all for finishing school as fast as possible). I asked him if he was planning on working part time, since he has to pay for his education, living expenses, etc. He said no he's just going to focus on school.
My response to that was "Good Luck. I could never do it." Which is the HONEST TO ZEUS TRUTH!! I could never just go to school, I have to have a sense of freedom. He started to ask why I felt that way. I proceeded to tell my friend that in order to do things you have to have money. If a group of people are going out bowling, out to a movie, dinner, etc. you need money.
(Now we're getting to the part that i didn't agree with)
His response to this was, "why would I want to do that?"
What are you a recluse?! Seriously why wouldn't you want to do that?! At any rate I told him that making friends is a part of normal college life and it's an important part to being a well rounded person.
Of course he didn't see it exactly as I did. He starts going off about how he has all of the friends he needs and how he has made his close group of friends out of the people he wants to associate with so he wouldn't have to make any more friends.
Finally after going back and forth just a little bit more I decided there was no winning him over. So I did something I rarely ever do... I conceded.
Now it's my chance to tell ALL OF YOU how I don't agree! YAY!!!
I mean if you aren't going to be making new friends what is the point of doing anything?! What's the point of going to that expensive college in another state just because they have a decent or good program? What's the point of going to church activities or classes? Without socializing and making new friends College wouldn't even exist!
I know not everyone has the same goals and dreams as everyone else but I thought that was a general want and desire to be accepted by people and be friends with people to gain a support group. It was just beyond me! Why would anyone want to go to college and NOT want to socialize?! This is the one chance you have in your life to do certain things.
So the moral of the story is: Carpe Diem! Seize the Day! Don't let life's few fleeting moments/opportunities pass you by!
;)
He was talking about how he was planning on taking 19+ units/credits a semester so he could get his BA in 3 semesters (Mind you this is not where my complaint lies I'm all for finishing school as fast as possible). I asked him if he was planning on working part time, since he has to pay for his education, living expenses, etc. He said no he's just going to focus on school.
My response to that was "Good Luck. I could never do it." Which is the HONEST TO ZEUS TRUTH!! I could never just go to school, I have to have a sense of freedom. He started to ask why I felt that way. I proceeded to tell my friend that in order to do things you have to have money. If a group of people are going out bowling, out to a movie, dinner, etc. you need money.
(Now we're getting to the part that i didn't agree with)
His response to this was, "why would I want to do that?"
What are you a recluse?! Seriously why wouldn't you want to do that?! At any rate I told him that making friends is a part of normal college life and it's an important part to being a well rounded person.
Of course he didn't see it exactly as I did. He starts going off about how he has all of the friends he needs and how he has made his close group of friends out of the people he wants to associate with so he wouldn't have to make any more friends.
Finally after going back and forth just a little bit more I decided there was no winning him over. So I did something I rarely ever do... I conceded.
Now it's my chance to tell ALL OF YOU how I don't agree! YAY!!!
I mean if you aren't going to be making new friends what is the point of doing anything?! What's the point of going to that expensive college in another state just because they have a decent or good program? What's the point of going to church activities or classes? Without socializing and making new friends College wouldn't even exist!
I know not everyone has the same goals and dreams as everyone else but I thought that was a general want and desire to be accepted by people and be friends with people to gain a support group. It was just beyond me! Why would anyone want to go to college and NOT want to socialize?! This is the one chance you have in your life to do certain things.
So the moral of the story is: Carpe Diem! Seize the Day! Don't let life's few fleeting moments/opportunities pass you by!
;)
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