Life As It Comes

In no particular order:

• Build my faith
• Keep my quiet times
• Cook more
• Play my new guitar
• Tell my friends how important they are to me more often
• Improve my golfing skills
• Improve my racquetball skills
• Swim often with Jade
• Run some more races like the Trail of Lights 5K with Ryan
• Find something like the Bible Study I used to do to volunteer for at church
• Help with Hands on Housing/Habitat for Humanity regularly. It’s fun!
• Exercise in some way every day
• Take time for photography
• Post my résumé on the site
• Apply once (twice if necessary) for grad school at UT
• Keep my apartment clean
• Help somewhere with kids (Sunday School?)
• Continue taking part in Austin’s plethora of cultural activities
• Read
• Keep adding to the list

My Grandma and I wish Texas good luck tonight as they take on Washington State (horn sign is backwards):

Photo credit: Cory Driver

Kimi is done with high school! As of Friday, my little sis’ became a college girl. Congratulations! We’re all proud of you.

I got into O’Hare at 11:15 PM Friday night. I was supposed to arrive at 8:30 or something. Then, I just barely caught the last bus for the night to Merrilville. Finally reached home at 1:30 AM Saturday morning. Then, as promised the night before, we woke up at 8:00 AM to go Christmas shopping. Craziness!

Saturday night we had dinner with our grandparents and aunt and uncle and Kimi’s boyfriend (?) Dave. Then everyone came back to our house for cake and to celebrate more with Kim.

Today (Sunday) included a visit to White Castle, movie watching, and later on a trip to Munster to visit Dave and TJ.

Happy birthday Lauren!

Meg and Lucas and I went to see Honey tonight. Favorite phrase from the movie? “Your flava’s hot!” That’s about it.

I went home for lunch today to drop off my January rent. What did I see? Two girls tanning by the pool … in December! Is it just me, or does something seem inherently wrong about that? I guess that’s just another thing about living in Texas that I’ll have to get used to. It’s currently 30 with a windchill of 21 in Crown Point, and people are tanning outdoors by the pool in Austin. It’s 63 right now. I’d better soak it up, ’cause I head to the frozen north tomorrow.

::wink::