This week I made a decision. I was going to start keeping a record of things I do an a daily basis. No I may not blog every single day...who wants to read about a boring day spent at home wasting my time on Twitter and YouTube? Some days I may write about my week, or the past few days. The important thing is, I want to keep a record of my day to day life. And my year as a whole! This year is shaping up to be an exciting one, and I want to be able to remember it. Unfortunately, at 32, remembering things is a problem for me. I'm on medication for my spine injury that causes me to suffer short term memory loss. So there are blocks of time from the last few years I don't remember. Faces I've known my whole life I don't recognize. People I don't remember. I am sick of that empty space. I want to be able to combat that blank slate with this record. Thus, this blog was born.
Now, on to the record of the first week of January 2017.
We didn't do anything for New Year's Eve. We just stayed home, watched TV, and uneventfully rang in the New Year. New Year's Day we went to eat and got a call from Ashly (my cousin) that she was engaged. Her boyfriend Matt had romantically popped the question. Her mom, my aunt, was unimpressed. She's not talking about the wedding at all with her daughter. She doesn't want it to happen. That makes me sad. I like Matt and he's a great guy. I hope my aunt gets over her stubbornness toward him. She's dug her heels in and has decided she doesn't like him. I hate that. We didn't eat the traditional black eyed pea dinner this year. I'm glad, as I am not a fan. Supposedly they bring you luck but they definitely didn't help 2016 at all. We'll see how we do having skipped the superstitious tradition.
Other things that happened this week:
- Ashly asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. We are both only children and the closest thing to a sibling so I wasn't surprised, but I was honored.
- I started "meal planning" to assist in my goal to get into shape before my big trips I have planned this year. Both planning meals and trying to get in shape are a pain in the butt.
- I started experimenting with the new camera. January 7 we went to Lake Norrell and photographed the runoff creek. Beautiful photos for the first time experimenting with slow shutter speeds and long exposures.
- I got signed up for all the photography classes I'm interested in so far. I'm wanting to start taking photography seriously as a hobby now that I have a good camera and a lot of time on my hands.
- I finished booking my flights and accommodations for my trip to Australia. I also got my travel insurance and electronic travel visa. It's happening!
My trip to Nashville is right around the corner. I can't believe how fast it's getting here! I'm going to meet Carol Burnett in 66 days! The woman who entertained the world every Saturday night with her iconic show. One of my parents favorite entertainers. One of everyone's favorite entertainers. She wants to meet me and I've been dying to meet her since I was a little girl. I can't believe this is happening.
Today I'm meal planning for the upcoming week. It's so difficult getting the shopping list organized and planning meals using things I already have. I'll get used to it but right now it's hard to do! That's all I can remember about the first week of January. It was a relatively uneventful week and I am not upset about that. Uneventful is good these days!
