Happy Birthday

Today is my birthday and I am 24. Basically I am sick of OpenDiary, so I decided it was time to jump on the bandwagon and start an official blog. Yippee.

It was a pretty good day, all said and done... I spare the details of the birthday blues I seem to come down with every year. 24 seems like a good number.... 24 hours... a full day... and I suppose if I want to get all philosophical, it is like a chapter in life. 24 seems like a year when you are supposed to get your act together. By the time you are 25, I think youre supposed to have some sort of clear direction in life. I have always had several directions... and hopefully I am narrowing them down.


So here is what I want to do with this year of my life.... we will see if it happens


1. Get a job. A real job. A career job. Everyone I know has full time jobs... and while I dont envy them necessarily (I adore my freedom), it would be nice to have a decent salary and not live paycheck to paycheck. Hopefully I will find a teaching job. And about 120 kids to call my own. And make them love biology. mwa ha ha.

Plan B: If number 1 does not happen, I would like to work at the hospital and sub for half a year, take that money, and go to africa and volunteer there for awhile. I have always wanted to go, and it seems like the perfect time given my lack of ball and chain

2. Do something physical. get a gym membership.... or start taking karate. I know I am a small girl.... but it would be awesome to be tiny and able to kick your butt.

3. sing. sing, with your head up, with your eyes closed. not because you love the song, because you love to sing, because you love to sing. ~copeland Singing, paramount in my life, is just not something I spend my time on as much as I want to. I dont know how its going to happen, but I really want it to. Part of me is missing when I am not singing. All the things I think of to describe how I feel when I sing, or how important it is to me sound cheesy... So lets just say that I am a lesser me when I am not doing it.

I think, overall, these are three pretty reasonable big goals for the year.




Here are some smaller goals that I would like to accomplish:

1. win lottery
2. buy sweet cars and houses for myself and everyone I know
3. find husband
4. get married
5. create world peace
6. teach lily to hunt deer instead of voles, mice, birds, and rabbits






And some more random things I would like to do:
1. make new bookshelves for my room. I made one set, which I absolutely adore. I put up shelves in my room also... and then I went more girlie and make some scrapbooks, a comforter for my bed, and most recently a very cute purse.... but I am ready to get my hands dirty again. Bring on the table saw.
2. get rid of like 35% of my junk.
3. go to goodwill, buy awesome hilarious clothes, and go bowling in them with my friends
4. go to marsh creek and watch the sunset
5. go dancing, or just having a wild and crazy 80s dance party with my friends
6. get out of the freakin country. or go west. either. I dont care.
7. play on east wards jungle gym at night with friends
8. watch the stars
9. give lily a bath. mwa ha ha
10. get a facial. I SO want to get one.
11. watch all the star wars movies
12. go to camp! ( I know I will get to do this one!!! )
13. camp out
14. get professional pictures taken... my mom never got graduation pictures from psu... and I look horrible in every picture... so it would be kinda fun if someone took my picture for real
15. go rock climbing


so those are some things I would like to do... we will see I guess what happens. there are 23 more minutes left to my birthday... almost time for bed. I am going to pop into school tomorrow at c ville and say hey to my kids and steal a bunch of science worksheets from my co op... should be a grand ole time.


~Ericka