January
- New Year's Eve is kind of weird when you can't watch the ball drop in Times Square because it hasn't happened yet. (I'm living in the future!) In other news, Brazilians are serious about their fireworks! Don't think I'll be getting too much sleep tonight. Happy New Year!
- Oh, Brazil. I already miss you... pretending it was summer, spending time with family, sleeping, reading, and eating lots of yummy food. It was good times. Not looking forward to being back in the real world and winter. But I'm not going to miss how your streets made me feel like I was riding a broken wooden roller coaster. That wasn't good times.
- Hypothetically, if I had been awake for 35 hours (due to traveling or something) and then slept for 14 hours straight, would I be caught up on sleep? You know, hypothetically. :-)
- I need to pick a short quote for a project in my uncial calligraphy class. Any suggestions? Bonus points if the quote really goes well with the uncial style.
- Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say: I joined a guild! I'm officially one of the newest members of Idaho Inkspots. :-)
- Happy half-birthday to me!
- Thoughts about upstairs neighbors playing mariachi music at 11:25 on a work night? For the record, I'm not a fan.
March
- First car ride with the sun roof open for the year. Love this weather!
- Just did a class at Cutting Edge Pilates. Using the proformer machine was awesome, but my muscles have never shaken that much during a workout before! (Hopefully I'll be able to walk tomorrow.) Awesome workout! I highly recommend it.
- I may have taken a while to join the Y, and I still have to convince myself to go more often than I'd like (let's been honest, I'd rather be reading). But I'm so glad I joined. Everyone is so friendly, it supports great things in the community, and they have fantastic equipment, facilities and classes. I tried the Pound Fit class tonight and loved it. Because if you're going to do bodyweight exercises, you might as well pretend you're a rockstar drummer while doing it, right? :-)
- A lot of times, I feel like I'm hitting my head against a wall at work. Trying to help people change their lives isn't easy. But then there are some days that make it all worth it. Where some change happens, big or small, and you're able to see that you were able to help make a difference. When you just happened to be at the right place at the right time to listen to and validate someone's story. That's why I do what I do. And that's why I'm grateful for days like today.
- Boise friends... I have a dress that I love that's been sitting in my closet for several months. I haven't worn yet because the sleeves and part of the back are unlined. Any recommendations of who I could take it to and get in lined so I can wear it and look gorgeous? (If it matters, I don't even have matching fabric, so people that are good at finding matching fabric and then altering it perfectly would be great.)
- So grateful for getting what I need, even (especially?) when I didn't realize it was what I needed. Like running into a co-worker at the temple and proceeding to go out for ice cream together after and ending up talking for three and a half hours. My soul needed that. Now let's hope my body doesn't regret the lack of sleep tomorrow. J
- Anybody have a pressure washer I can borrow? If I don't clean my parking spot myself by Monday, my property management company will charge me $35. I tried to contest it, but they say they're going to charge me, because according to them, it was my car that caused the mess.
- Note to self: before you leave to head back home after a weekend away, make sure you double check that you have your wallet. The dreaded five and a half hour drive is even worse when it become a seven hour and fifteen minute drive. But thanks to Julie for meeting me part way so it didn't become closer to nine hours.
- Just ran 6.5 miles with my running group, thus proving to myself that I will not die during my 10K next month. Hooray!
- Guys! Once (the musical) is coming to Boise on January 20-21. Presale tickets are available now, starting at $37.50. Who wants to go with me?
- Debating how crazy I want to make my November. NaNoWriMo again (even though I have no ideas for a plot)? Triathlon in a month challenge at the Y? Or just teaching re-watching all the episodes of Gilmore Girls so I'm ready for November 25? Decisions, decisions...
- Already behind on NaNoWriMo due to my calligraphy class cutting in to what would normally be my prime writing time. I'll have to write double tomorrow. And I'm getting up early to go to my first ever cycling class so I can start hacking away at the 112 miles biking required for the Ironman in a month challenge. What have I gotten myself into? Wish me luck!
- Alright... names of decent property management companies in the Boise/Meridian area. Go!
- To all my running friends: I've been considering buying a GPS watch for a while, but all the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals are making think it's finally time to bite the bullet and get one. I want something that will do adjustable intervals (not just :30/:30s), has good accuracy and display, will sync with a tracker app (I currently use Runkeeper, but I'm open to changing apps), and has a good battery life. Bonus if it has coaching for running form and can also work for swimming. Any suggestions are appreciated.
- November...
You've been fun, but also made me a bit crazy. I guess completing both
NaNoWriMo and Ironman in a Month will do that to you. Especially if that's in
addition to normal (and not-so-normal) stuff at work, spending quite a bit of
time with family and friends, and just dealing with life stuff. December,
please slow down a bit so I can feel sane entering into 2017. Thank you.
- Can we talk for a minute about how I supposedly live in the "banana belt," but it's 13 degrees outside and I was legitimately a bit scared for my life driving into work yesterday with the snow dumping down and cars swerving all over the place? This is going to be a long winter...
- My Skype account has been hacked. I apologize for any messages you got from me. Please ignore/delete them.
- Got
on a paddleboard for the first time ever today, and immediately started trying
yoga. (The YMCA has the coolest classes.) I wasn't able to do a ton, but I
didn't fall in the pool, so I consider that a success. Another first for the
day... getting my car stuck in snow. Not fun. Luckily, my friend was able to
get me out without too much trouble on her part (and with minimal tears on my
part). But if I don't visit any of you that live away from main streets until
spring because Boise doesn't believe in clearing roads that aren't main
thoroughfares... just know that it's nothing personal.
This was fun to read!! I remember most all of the posts, but to read them at once was fun. I didn't like April and September as much. I really liked reading your fun comments about Brazil (the being "serious about their fireworks" part was proven true once again last night -- and the funny comment about your experience with their roads. Makes it hard to read in the car, huh??). Last year was so much fun having you here. This year was "lonelier" (although with over 160 missionaries, we are NEVER lonely!!). Sure love you. Thanks for sharing your great (and productive)
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I just wrote a long comment about how much I admire your fortitude and it was deleted... And though I know that you didn't get to read that, I have a hard time writing the same thing twice without feeling silly, so here's a different - hopefully even more wonderful :) - take on my thoughts.
ReplyDeleteBasically...well, I just admire all the the things you are trying. I love seeing that you're taking calligraphy classes, exercising, inviting people over, and other things that take work and initiative to do. Sometimes it's just easier to stay home and read or something, but I appreciate seeing the example of you going out and doing something and not just waiting for something to happen to you to make your life rich and interesting. I have sometimes found myself stuck in just doing the essentials and not extending myself to grow and ultimately feel like I have more going on in my life than kids and dinner. I want to work on that and it helps to see you do it too. Thanks.
Also, we experienced the Boise no plowing first hand and I totally don't blame you for not wanting to go anywhere! Yikes!
Hopefully I'll get to see you the next time we're in the same town. And if you ever move down here, move close to me so we can be swimming buddies.
Much love,
Jill
ps. I'm copying this one in case it deletes it again,hah
I'm totally the same way with comments. I admire your fortitude in still writing another comment. ;-)
DeleteThank you so much for your sweet words. It's interesting for me to read over these statuses and know that I left out so much, especially all the trials and struggles I had. I think we tend to over-glamorize and show only the positive things on Facebook. But it is nice to remind myself of the things I have tried and how I have grown, even if it was a tough year overall.
And I'm sorry to have missed you this last trip. I ended up leaving early due to the snow that you got to experience. Haha. Hopefully next time. Or, I know my parents are rooting for me to move to Utah. So I'll keep you updated. :-)
Very true. It's hard to know what to share because I don't want to be one of those people who shares every mistake, misstep, or failure. That's not good for anybody, and it's awkward. But then also, I don't want to be one who inspires envy with only posting glamorous or funny things when I have a normal life like everyone else...I just don't have pictures of me getting frustrated or whatever. It's hard to give a fair portrayal of a happy but imperfect life, even to ourselves sometimes.
DeleteI think that's why journal writing is so important to me. I read an journal article once about how our current feelings color all of our past experiences. If we feel good about something now, we will feel more positively about it in the past, and the same for feeling bad about something. I thought that had some truth to it. I'm always grateful to read about great days when I'm not having one, because what is written didn't change. (And if I'm feeling good I just don't look back :) ) I'm sorry it was a hard year. I know we're planning on coming out for the Temple open house so maybe we can meet up again then - whenever it is. Here's to a fresh start. :)