Hello all...all two of you who read this lol
November came and went in a blur!
I can't believe it's already December! My birthday is on Saturday and I feel like I just had one! It will be a pretty low key day, get my nails done, go to lunch with Chip ( and maybe my parents), and then Chip has plans for the night. All I know is to dress nice haha I'm excited and will have to post about what we ended up doing.
21 has been a good year, weird and confusing, but good.
As I have mentioned before its been a year of trying to figure out who I am and what I want with my life. I started back to school in January of 2013 and with that I think I feel more purpose, when anyone is actively pursuing to enhance their life, or improve upon oneself I don't feel that time is wasted. This sentence is something I have been looking for for the past year. Once I finally decided on that my soul could rest easy that I wasn't wasting my time getting a Bachelor's (even if I will never use it, which I may or may not, this is still undetermined), but deciding that one item "when anyone is actively pursuing to enhance their life, or improve upon oneself I don't feel that time is wasted", is a big accomplishment for me. I am slowly feeling better about the directions I am heading in, making decisions about things I want to do and believe, and am feeling more and more myself every day. Maybe my barrier to advancing in life was that I didn't want to admit that I was at times "lost in my 20's". Anyways I feel good about finishing school and I (and Chip) will graduate with a Bachelors in December 2014. I am very excited for this date!!
In November Chip and I signed up for a Half Marathon! We will run it in January in Las Cruces! I am growing in ways that I never knew were possible! I can run 6 miles no big deal now! What?! Friday I will run 7! I am actually looking forward to my long runs, which is new different and exciting. I think one big thing I needed was to get off the treadmill and get outside, and make a big goal to get me going. I haven't lost any more weight but I am stronger, have lost inches and gained muscle and my body is changing and I really like this new person I am becoming through running. I'm not sure if I will keep doing big races after my first half, but what an awesome thing to start my 22nd year of life with!
Chip's next eye appointment is next week. He says the spot is getting smaller and color is returning to it, but his vision has to adjust to this and so he sometimes has double vision and has to cover his eye to read things. He gets pretty creative with eye patches haha
Finals are next week and I am surprisingly feeling really cool calm collected and on top of things. I decided to give up regular social media ( FB, Instagram, Pinterest etc.) because I was getting super distracted from school and all other facets of life. I just hit this wall of frustration where I felt it was a competition. Who has the best husband, who's kid does the cutest things, who went to the gym three times today, look how good I look etc etc etc
I will admit to sometimes feeling the social media pressure, and probably caving here and there to some of the annoyances I just listed. Maybe that makes me petty and lame, but I felt myself getting sucked in and needed a breath of fresh real life. I am loving it! I feel a little disconnected at times...who's pregnant, who's getting married blah blah blah but I don't miss game requests, the same statuses from A MILLION POEPLE (Happy Thanksgiving x 1,000,000) and so on. Maybe I will go longer than the two weeks I had originally intended! Maybe I will only get on every two weeks or so...again, who is this person I am becoming?! This rocks!
P.S. I don't really consider this social media because it's really just an internet journal device.
We had to cancel our plans to go to Utah to see Chip's sister for Christmas, so we will head up to ABQ for a day or two for a wedding, then come back and do Christmas with my brother, his little family, and my parents. It will be nice and low key. I am really excited about all the fun stuff I got Chip and I can't wait to see his face when he opens it!
For Thanksgiving we had a really nice time at Chip's sister Stacey's house in Thatcher. We had some freaking delicious venison wrapped in bacon and then I made green bean casserole, and rolls, and we had lots of Cheesecake and potatoes and watched movies and did a little Black Friday madness. It was a really fun weekend. Her kids are super cute!! That Friday night we went on a double date with our friends Randy and Jared to the hot springs and that was SO nice! It was cold out and the water felt great! We will definitely be going again! It was fun to catch up with them!
We also watched the new Hunger Games movie Catching Fire with our friends Jessica and Leon. It was AMAZEBALLS! We all drove to Cruces to watch the movie and had dinner and we all had a really good time! I love that we have so many great friends here!
Other than that life is going really well! Just school till next Wednesday, Chip's eye, Winter Break and then Christmas! Should be a fun couple of week!
-Em
