2. Learn to cook - This has never really been an interest of mine, but as I'm getting older, I'm realizing that Mommy won't be around to cook me dinner every night and I should probably start to learn to fend for myself sooner rather than later. As I mentioned above, I have found a lot of what sound to be good recipes so I'm going to try to give some of them a try. I attempted my first one today and it worked pretty well, but a smoothie isn't that hard to mess up ;)
3. Learn to do a pull up - In the process of working out, I would like to build the upper body strength to be able to do a pull-up. This is actually a lot harder for me then I thought it would be when I first tried one. Watching Ben do 15 in a row, I thought to myself, "Oh this can't really be that hard" until I tried and didn't move at all. So far this week, each time I've gone to the gym, I've used the assisted pull-up machine and gotten a little bit harder each time, and I'm hoping by the end of the six months at training, I'll be able to do at least two in a row without whining or failing. I figure if I aim for low, I can push further and be happy with my results!
4. Start playing my violin again - I found the poor dusty case sitting in my closet and opened it only to find a broken string and a highly out of tune instrument and realized I actually really miss playing my violin. While driving to Annapolis with Ben last weekend for Chris and Michelle's wedding, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" came on and I remembered sitting in orchestra with Christie Lavoy pretending we knew how to play it and saying one day we wanted to learn, and I am (again) adding this to my list of goals. Maybe come the beginning of the school year (which is just three weeks away) I could go back to Fairmont and see if Mr. Wright (my awesome teacher from high school!) would let me help out in any sort of way, which leads me to the next goal.
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Ok, maybe not that intense, but this is something I have never really done before and I think I would benefit from it greatly. However, it's proving to be sort of a difficult task to find things to do, as stupid as that sounds. I'm trying to find something that is a re-occurring event instead of a one time thing, but I'm not really having much luck with it...it's almost as hard as getting a job it seems like! I've been looking to apply to SICSA (the local pound), but I feel that could be dangerous in that I might find a dog and want to keep it, and if I brought another dog home, my mother might kill me, so I think that might not be the best fit. I've also thought about trying Big Brothers, Big Sisters, but I'm not exactly sure how that works with people who have graduated from college. Does anyone know if there's an age limit to this? I feel I can really benefit from volunteering by figuring out what I like to do. I have all sorts of different little hobbies, but even though I just graduated, I still can't figure out how to put everything I love together to make the "perfect job," but I would really like to try.
6. Find a job - As a recent college graduate, I'm struggling big time, even with living at home and only having to pay off my simple cell phone, car insurance and credit card bills because I know the dreaded student loan payments are knocking on my door. This is tough because I have three part-time jobs, but none of them are paying me enough to be able to pay the small bills that I have and not be living pay check to pay check and it SUCKS. I feel like I sort of wasted four years at UD because I feel that I didn't really get anything out of it except a heap of debt and some great memories. I still don't know what I really want to do with my life, I'm still just as broke as I was before (more actually) and I'm still living at home while being barely able to support myself without having to pay rent. I really would love to find a full time job or even an internship that would give me some sort of experience in my field of interest while still paying so I can support myself without the help of my mom.
8. Religion - This has never really been a top priority to me, but as I sat at my great-grandma's funeral on Tuesday next to my "brother-in-law" who knew absolutely nothing about the ceremony we were in, I realized that I really didn't know too much more. I was baptized Catholic when I was younger, but my mom never wanted to push me into something that I didn't want to do, so she never pushed private Catholic schools or even going to church and in the end, I know nothing about my so called religion. I know a few prayers, but that is from hearing them repeatedly at weddings or trying to learn them in the few masses I have attended in my lifetime. This goal, I know is going to be the most challenging, but if accomplished, could be the most rewarding. I really don't even know where to start or what to do to work on this, so any support or ideas are welcome, but it is something that I would like to explore more in the near future.
9. Continue to blog - self explanatory
So that's it, hopefully I'll be able to accomplish some, if not all of these tasks in the near future. Wish me the best of luck and until next time!
XOXO,
Marci
I thought I was the only person on earth that couldn't do a pull up!!!!!! I'm do glad to know I'm not alone. But you're a step ahead of me in trying to change it.
ReplyDeleteI am not positive, but I don't think there's an age limit on Big Brothers Big Sisters. A guy I graduated high school (in 2003) is a Big Brother. And he's 27. It's definitely worth looking into!
If you want to talk religion, I'm here! I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school from kindergarten to 12th grade. And we had a Catholic ceremony (not Mass) for our wedding (Nick isn't Catholic). But since we for married and I moved, I haven't been going to church. I really want to get a little deeper in my faith and relationship with God. Maybe we can brain storm some ideas or motivate/use each other??? And I'd be happy to answer any questions you had about basic teachings etc of Catholicism.