10 Things... from 2009 and hopefully in 2010!

Oh, 2009... what a year...
1. I visited DC, Dallas, Charleston, and Europe.
2. I turned 25.
3. I went on a 3-week long euro-trip alllll around Italy and to Paris, France.
4. I graduated from College with a Bachelor degree.
5. I picked a city and moved to Dallas :)
6. Two friends got engaged, some close friends got married.
7. I saw Carrie twice this year!
8. I went "home for Christmas"
9. I've had the flu AND strep this year. Lovely!
10. I got to see Kaskade :)

And what to look forward to in 2010...
1. Starting a new job/career.
2. Lots of travel?
3. New Year's resolutions... money, weight, the usual!
4. Love, perhaps?
5. Carrie's visit in June-ish

I'm sure there are more things, my mind is just a little preoccupied at the moment.

Heartbreak Warfare

Dear John,

My, my, my... you have done it again. I thought I lost you for so many years while you were away on this "Trio" shit. I never liked that side of you. Alas, you have returned to me and are starting to write meaningful lyric yet again.

You brought me through many days of circumstance back in my 'early 20's'. You made boys fall in love with my skin singing Your Body Is A Wonderland. You made me cry every time I heard Split Screen Sadness, and you sure as hell wrote every word for me. This, I know.

Your name was plastered on my myspace with quotes like "I can't really wait to figure out what's wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be" and "I can tell you this much I will marry just once and if it doesn't work out, give her half of my stuff. It's fine with me... we said eternity. And I will go to my grave with the life that I gave, not just some melody line on a radio wave... It dissipates and soon evaporates... but home life doesn't change"

But, no, the VERY first time I heard that sultry voice of yours, you related me to my high school years - no doubt while I was still in them - when I found out there was No Such Thing as the real world...

You brought it home when you talked about "driving up 85", because I was always driving up 85 when I needed some time to think, time to sort things out. Four more exits to my apartment changed each time I moved apartments, but it was always 85.

I can spot your voice from a mile away, and could probably relate every relationship I've had to one of your songs. And, this new one, Heartbreak Warfare, is oh-so-touching and exactly what I needed.

I heard your voice on the radio today and I knew it was you. You're back. I always knew you'd come back.

Love,
Me

The books on my shelf all have pink covers...

I have noticed that I love to make lists. I searched high and low for some "list keepers" and haven't been able to find any cute ones with the correctly labeled fields to fit my information in.

I would love to have a book with all the books I've read - with just enough room for me to write what I want about it. Or, a book of the wines I've had and such.

I dunno, maybe I'm a dork. Heh. ;)

I have been thinking about this for the past few days as well - there's not really a "girl's guide" to this city... or any city at that. I should put together a website or book or something with places to go, things to do, where the boutiques are, what places offer good classes (step, cooking, scrapbooking, etc.) and other things like that. I think it would be kind of a more permanent daily candy. I dunno. Just an idea - but a huge feat overall.

I watched Julie and Julia tonight and it was a really cute movie! My roommate is out of town on business this week... and then he leaves for two weeks to go home for the holidays. Three whole weeks sans roommate?! What ever will I do?! Anyway - I'm going home next week. Can't wait to see everyone! Hooray! (Oh, and Happy Holidays!)

10 Things I look forward to when I'm married one day.

I've been trying to figure out what kind of Christmas cards to send out this year. I'm single. I have a lovely Saffie kitty. And that's about it. Nothing "picture postcard" worthy, in my book. Which got me to thinking. There are a LOT of things I look forward to being able to do when I get married. (well, besides the whole being married part)

1. Picture Christmas cards :)
2. Buying a house
3. Decorating a house
4. Having a "Plus 1"
5. Social Functions... happy hours, etc. with friends
6. Traveling
7. Getting a mailing address stamp (corny, I know, but I love it!)
8. Being able to buy initialed items because I'll know what my initials will be!
9. Kiddos.
10. Making desert. All the time.

I know, I'm a bit of a romantic, but I look forward to these things. Now I just need to find someone to marry... ;) haha!

10 Things going on at the moment...

A lot of eventful stuff has happened this week.

1. I quit at the restaurant yesterday. I just couldn't do it anymore. Today was my "One Year" with the company, and it made me sick to my stomach. Last year around this time, I knew it would only be to get me through school. School ended in July. I'm done with this bs. :) I don't make hardly any money there (because of the shifts I have) and I hate it. So I quit. Saturday night is my last shift. Hooray!
2. I got a cocktail job at this SUPER busy bar downtown. The guy is supposed to call me back tomorrow and let me know what day I start training. He wants to train me before I go to Atlanta for a week so I can come back and 'hit the ground running'... I'm all for that. Hooray for money!!
3. I've started to gain some weight and I am NOT happy about it. I think it's the crazy lifestyle of having to starve for 9 hours per shift and then gorge on food when I can finally eat. Thank God that's done!
4. I am going to go to a church this weekend. I think I might try this HUGE one down here that's like the one I went to in Atlanta. I have some reservations about it, but we'll see. It also depends on what time I'm done on Saturday night closing the bar, too.
5. I have another networking meeting next week. Should be interesting. This lady is a consultant and has her own consulting company. One of her clients is a place I'm looking to get in to. We'll see what happens with that.
6. I met a really good contact last week and he has a position open at his company. He says it's part time (for now) that will turn into a full time position. I'm SUPER excited about it because it's EXACTLY what I want to do and he'll pay what I'm looking for as well. He wants me to meet the rest of his department - and go from there. I'm thinking this is all going to happen very quickly once I get in the door!
7. Christmas is FAST-approaching. My trip to Atlanta is going to be here before I know it. I have some shopping done, but not everything. We have Christmas AND 3 family Birthdays. My bank account suffers every year because of it!
8. I can't wait to be in Atlanta for a week. It's somewhat stressful because I'll have to rent a car (for whatever reason my family isn't that family where you can just 'borrow the car' for an afternoon, but whatever) and that's EXPENSIVE. Plane ticket, plus play money while i'm there... oy! Stressful!
9. Hopefully all this job stuff will work out and I can have some money in the bank, pay everything off, ya know - all that GOOD stuff I've been waiting for. Speaking of banks, Michael hooked me up with a friend of a friend who has an Assistant Branch Manager position open at a bank. Not sure what I feel about that - I don't know that I want to get into the banking business...
10. I think I'm going to do a huge painting for the wall in the living room. I need to get a canvas and get some cool fabric. Then, I can paint the fabric (on a larger scale) onto the canvas. Sounds cool... not sure if it'll actually happen!