Unforgotten Dreams

Everyone has dreams and plans... listening to high school students tell you what you want to do they have amazing plans and high hopes. Four years later so few of them are still on that path to what they wanted. They got distracted with other things or put off by unforeseen events.

When I was in high school any of my classmates you asked would know that I was going to be a writer. In 2008 I sent out a few letters to publishers of pieces of my work that I now am embarrassed that anyone ever saw... but at the time it was enough of a put off that I stopped writing for a while. Then by the time I was in the mood to write again it seemed like everything else in my world was spinning with so much that I couldn't focus on writing even when I want to.

Now, that everything has changed and spun around me more than I ever could have imagined slowly it starts to settle a bit... at least for a small amount of time. At least for now my job is stable, it looks like we are going to be signing a new lease putting us in one place for at least a year, and both of us are going to be out of school for at least a year. So now that we aren't planning so much for the immediate future because we finally have a few things figured out I can finally focus on those unforgotten dreams... I can finally write again and that is what I'm going to do. I don't believe that anyone should completely forget their dreams and I haven't any intention to.

So to anyone who may read this I encourage you over the next year to do something you've always wanted to do be it big or small. It can be something simple like complete a marathon or big like change careers but whatever you do never forget how short life is and that somewhere deep inside you there is something you can do to become a tiny bit closer to what you always wanted... even if you never get it to every detail.

Diets=Dishes

Tyson and I recently decided that we eat out too much (we've gotten into the bad habit of eating out around twice a week) and we also both drink too much soda... so we decided to start doing weight watchers... a fairly easy to track and cook for diet program. I had hopes to stop eating out so much, stop drinking so much, and maybe lose a few pounds in the process... but one thing I didn't think about was how many more dishes I was going to have to do. Dishes are my least favorite chore... I would rather scrub toilets for an hour than do the dishes! I HATE DISHES! Plus they never feel done... even if you do every dish then it seems like ten minutes later there is another one!

So the two nights a week that we weren't cooking or using plates saved me a lot of dishes... plus it was very rare for me too eat three meals a day, which I do more now because it is strongly encouraged on the diet... but eating more meals also means more dishes! Plus no drinking soda which I usually drank out of a bottle or plastic cup so now I have to drink juice and things which means more glasses. Over all I'm finding that I have at least 30+ additional dishes to do and that isn't counting forks, spoons, and knifes.

I know that it is healthier and I need to do it but I that dishes come along as part of it!

Thank you for listening to my rant.... not really trying to complain just trying to get it out : )

Swimming

Ever since I was a little kid I have LOVED the water! I love rain, I loved sprinklers and swimming pools were a favorite place of mine to be! I remember summers where I spent more days at the pool than not there. When I was really little I thought I was supposed to be a mermaid and that it was a mistake that I ended up on land.

Although I now know it wasn't a mistake that caused me to be on dry land I still am in LOVE with the water. Unfortunately as I'm old I don't have the time I used to and I can't spend such a large portion of my time at the pool. Today however time was made (for the first time in WAY too long) to go swimming.

It was AMAZING!! Swimming just relaxes every part of me and leaves me serene for days. I was just SO smiley the whole time we were there and I still feel super amazing from it!! I have officially decided that I'm going to HAVE to go swimming more! It is a super inexpensive but amazing way to not only relieve stress but also get exercise!

The Cost of Books

All forms of entertainment are expensive, but it blows my mind the way people talk about the price of books! I had a woman come in a few days ago to buy some books for her child. As she comes up to the register she looks at me and says (with a very rude tone of voice). "This is the reason that illiteracy is so high in this country, books are so expensive!" Although I know while working in customer service I should hold my tongue in this case I couldn't resist stating my opinion... I smiled at her and said "Well, in all fairness children watch more TV than ever and a month of cable is more than you just paid for these books!" She rolls her eyes at me and says "Yeah, well with those choices I will happily pay for the cable!" Now all I can think to myself is the fact that our prices aren't the reason for kids not reading, it's women like her who would rather spend money on cable than books for her children.

The other thing that drives me CRAZY that happens all the time is when couples come in who have just been to the theater... the happened especially a lot when "The Blindside" came out. Now, I myself really like this story, but the people coming into my store just blew my mind. They would say to me "We just got done watching this and want to read the book... do you have it?" I would take them to the book and they would see the 15 dollar price tag. "Oh my gosh... that is so expensive!" They would be astonished.... and while I never said anything to these people I just wondered how they had come from sitting for two hours and paid twenty dollars or more for both of them to be there but yet our 15 dollar book they can read over and over again and loan out to more people is expensive...

No... books are not cheap but compared to other forms of entertainment they are very very much so worth it!!

And that is my relieving of work related frustration! : )