Sunday, October 20, 2013

What Would I DO?!

 "And it would be super-fantastic if some of you teens and 20-somethings asked yourself, Say, if I KNEW that I wasn't getting married until I was 39+, what interesting things could I do with my life right now?"  - Auntie Seraphic
This hit me so hard that I decided to start a list. It's like a bucket list...and I'm going to come up with some epic name for this "interesting-things-to-do-before-I-get-married-at-39+" list.

Here's to a bright future with a list that will last me the next two decades!*


  1. knit a blanket (A teeny one for my teeny nephew!)
  2. re-learn piano
  3. learn guitar
  4. finish Lord of the Rings 1...and proceed to watch the whole trilogy
  5. go backpacking...for real (20 days living out of a back pack in Portugal, Spain, and France...to read more about it, head over here)
  6. travel to Peoria, IL and visit the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Museum(been there, done that! Summer 2013)
  7. deep-sea diving
  8. mission trip
  9. make something awesome out of duct-tape 
  10. write a song
  11. learn how to change oil in a car
  12. road trip
  13. eat a deep-fried Oreo
  14. eat a brat at the World's Largest Brat Fest
  15. try a S'mores blizzard from Dairy Queen (as per request of my dear friend C...)
  16. Read a gardening book 
  17. Take another on the beautiful foreign-feeling bike ride outside my town

*Summer 2016 Update: I'm slowly running out of things to do on my things to do list! 

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Motivation, Where Have You Gone?!

We're in the middle of October, and I've failed yet again to keep up with this electronic journal of mine.
...Motivation to keep up a blog---> Gone.
I was so determined to spend most of today (the first day of Fall Break) working on my Vatican II Document Research Project.
...Motivation to do work---> Gone.

I'm sure I could go on about all the other things I've lost motivation for, but that's just, unfortunately, sad.

Ironically, now that I typed about my failure to blog, I'm feeling a little more motivated to keep it up...interesting...

I must finish my outline for my research project.
-Until next time!