"23"

Today is my 23rd birthday. I woke up at 5:30am with bells on....tried to go back to bed for an hour and then decided that this was my body's birthday present to me. Apparently, I am now a morning person. This will of course take several days to be sure its not just some fluke, but I really think my body is trying to tell me something. Every year on my birthday I write out a list of goals for the year...for me birthdays are more important than New Year's in terms of setting goals and resolutions. My goal for 23 is to do something for someone else everyday. Whether its making my family breakfast in the morning, buying coffee for the person in line behind me, doing my Mom's laundry for once, or buying a nice card for someone who needs a pick me up I want to have a tangible, measurable way of becoming more selfless and less selfish.

Day 1-August 12, 2010

Woke up and made my parents crepes to thank them for "getting it on" 23 years and nine months ago so that I can be in existence today.

List of Goals for "23":

1. Do something selfless for someone else everyday

2. Get in the best shape of my life (i.e. stop eating garbage and get back in the gym).

3. Start dancing again. I did ballet for 14 years. I miss it tremendously.

4. Read every C.S. Lewis book ever written.

5. Get out of all credit card debt.

6. Really get my business off the ground and running.

7. Spend more time with my siblings. I used to take them out on dates regularly. Apparently my youngest brother Max has never been on one of these dates. I must rectify this situation.

8. Figure out what I want to do with my life. Its a rather broad goal I realize but my boyfriend always asks me what I want to do and I feel as though I don't have a concrete answer to that question.

9. Finish second year of Bible School.

10. Travel to someplace I've never been. I've been doing that every summer for the past three summers: London, Paris, Puerto Rico. Who knows maybe next summer will be Australia, Italy, Greece, Ireland....