First of all, I wanted to thank Karrie for her refined opening comments. I think we can all agree that her thoughts, like last nights leftovers, will stay with us for a very long time.
I'm about to annihilate some rules. In order for that to ensue, it would be beneficiary for ME if my audience were both ignorant and confused. Luckily, most of you are holding to that standard quite candidly so this will be a cinch. To weed out those of you that think you fit into some other category (right) I'll berid you by piling buzzwords. The average human being can only retain knowledge from a sentence that has up to 3 acronyms. At 4 acronyms the brain starts flailing like a fish out of water. This way I'll finish the entry post before my victims (you) have decoded the first sentence. (If you find you have some kind of opinion about that statement, please feel free to share. It's just as important and valued as the next persons.)
Some of you may have noticed that certain goals have a tendency to M.T. "manage themselves", if given enough time. What I mean is that you can ignore almost everything you make a goal in life and in the long run it probably won't matter. That's the great thing about the "long run", it's someone else's problem. Either the goal will become moot, or whoever you're letting yourself be accountable to (um. YOURSELF in most cases) will forget what you wanted to do, and someone else will do it. This method of proactive ignoring, also known as "ignorage" is both T&W {tricky and wonderful} simultaneously. I couldn't (won't) tell you how that can be. There IS however, another part to this that I'm going to call "a doozie". And I WILL tell you that THIS matters. I stumbled upon this divine little stratagem over the last several weeks while ad-libbing my bucket lists.
You see, the universe is mostly empty space, and so is your life. That's why you need to claim, as an "accomplishment", every breath, blinking of your eye, trip to town, casual conversation and bodily function you experience. No one loves you as much as you love yourself and there's absolutely NO penalty for bragging. You might even get some kind of reward if you do it right.
So here we go. The epiphany. While designing my list I realized that some of the things ON my list, and that will STAY on my list, I've already CAPPED. Yep. That just happened. I'm actually ahead of ME. This would and probably should come as a shock, but I think we've already discussed my ethnicity.
I wanted to take the time to write down some of those things, here and now before moving on:
ride.an.elephant.
have.dreadlocks.
explore.venice.italy.
kiss.someone.somewhere.weird.
humanitarian.aid.projects.
be.healed.by.a.witch.doctor.
have.a.dream.come.true.
save.a.life.
be.in.a.commercial.
meet.a.celebrity.
witness.a.miracle.
be.in.love.
visit.ground.zero.
ace.a.test.
be.in.the.newspaper.
win.a.race.and.score.a.goal.
be.picked.first.
be.picked last.
receive.a.love.note.
I also realized that quite a few things on my litany are ongoing goals. Things that can't really be checked OFF a list-until I die. Things like:
be.a.change.for.good.
always.be.worthy.of.a.temple.recommend.and.go.as.often.as.possible.
raise.kind.and.honest.children.
make.scripture.study.a.life.long.habit.
work.at.my.weaknesses.until.they.become.strengths.
develop.a.constant.eternal.perspective.
learn.all.I.possibly.can.
have.an.enjoyable.life.
be.a.good.friend.daughter.sibling.spouse.mother.and.citizen.
always.serve.
have.a.successful.marriage.
attain.financial.stability.
stop.and.smell.the.roses.along.the.way.
go.on.one.humanitarian.aid.trip.a.year.
learn.humility.
judge.righteously.
be.repentant.
laugh.and.smile.often.
It's getting a little complicated.
So this is what I decided. I'm going to make a couple drop down lists (not today, because I doubt I'll find the time), because I feel that all of these things are important. One list will be for things I want to accomplish this year that CAN be crossed off a list. One for 2011-the same idea. (both of these lists will probably include Karrie) And then ongoing goals for myself that really can't be evaluated at this point in time, but that are still extremely important to me (see above). I'd just like the reminder for what I'm really going for in life.
So that's my plan.
Unless Karrie can think of something more awesome that I could do? Let me know!
And now on to some more "get to know you" stuff. So here we go, three more fun facts about Che'.
-I don't understand people that cry over books and movies. The first and only time I've ever cried in either of those things was "Mighty Joe Young", the part where the gorilla falls off the ferris wheel. Yeah. I would. Go figure. But I was 9 people. Seriously. I honestly laughed when "Lord of the Rings" ended, giggled in "Titanic", and was completely unaffected (at least my eyes were) by "My Sisters Keeper". I don't understand it. The other day I heard my friend Lexi say that she cried while reading the "Hunger Games". Honestly? WOWZER. We can talk about this more later if it comes up
-I also don't understand fat slurpee straws. What clown came up with THAT idea?
-This one might come as a shock to some of you. I am FOR SURE all about nature, keeping the environment clean, using energy efficiently and effectively, sustainability, lowering your carbon footprint, etc. But I think recycling is for losers. YEP. I don't see the point. Honestly. What a waste of time.
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