Woo! I would use this post to share my list of resolutions, but I don't make them. Once upon a New Year's Day, I was on PostSecret when I was struck by one particular post card. It read: "Stop making resolutions. Just change." That's basically my outlook on the New Year: continue to live, learn, and grow, just like every year of my wonderful, charmed life. Also, every time I try to make a list of resolutions, it becomes more like a to-do list: lose more weight, do more yoga, run more, read these books, listen to those albums, finish that blanket, so on. Pointless! So, instead of a list of resolutions, I'm going to use this post to share a list of some of the things that I learned in 2010.
In 2010, I learned:
In 2010, I learned:
- That "dachshund" is actually pronounced "dox-und," not "dush-und," and that "doxen" is not a real word.
- That I need to calm down. A lot.
- That yoga is valuable to this pursuit.
- How to make sourdough bread.
- That living with a baby, even somebody else's, sucks.
- How to play the ukulele.
- How important (and simple) it is to maintain a social life.
- That I have the tendency to be sort of a creeper.
- Why family is important.
- How to survive a year of college without consuming a single package of Top Ramen. (The answer is frozen pizza!)
- What it's like to experience a Phoenix concert. (It's awesome, obviously.)
- That dancing like a dork in public can actually be really, really enjoyable.
- How to identify an igneous rock from a sedimentary rock or a metamorphic rock.
- That Geology is a horrible, wretched thing.
- That it's easier to sell things via friendship than via Etsy.
- What it truly means to be addicted to facebook.
- That books aren't all that boring.
- That it's ok if somebody doesn't have the same feelings for me that I have for them. Really. It's ok.
- That my friends are more valuable to me than I could ever truly comprehend.
- That, sometimes, spending time away from a person can be the best thing I could possibly do for my relationship with them.
- That scheduling and prioritizing, much like having a social life, is important and simple.
- That "free time" is an alien concept to a music major who is taking 17 credits.
- That there's no need for me to apologize as much as I used to.
- How patience truly is a virtue.
- That being quiet is ok and not necessarily super awkward.
- A lot of things.
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