Laughter is the best medicine... this is true, very true. Yet, most of the time I completely forget how important it is. I mean I laugh, don't get me wrong. My kids are funny, my hubby is funny, I have funny friends, I do stupid things, but there is just something about a comedian! we saw Christopher Titus at The Improv on Saturday night. He was hilarious! I mean the kind of funny that makes your stomach hurt the next day from laughing so hard. The ind fo funny that keeps you laughing for days. This kind of laughter is needed in a healthy life, I believe.
Ticket prices aren't all that bad, it's a nice venue and I really enjoyed myself and I don't think I can put a price on that at all! So it's time to start looking at the calendar! I'm scheduling some laughter!
Monday, April 18, 2011
#14: Volunteer
I used to do this a lot. Community Service was something I just did. It was expected of me and at some point growing up, its stopped be a requirement and started being something I just enjoyed. It always provided me with a sense of accomplishment. Knowing I had helped, however small the action was. In small towns, community service is at the epicenter of everything. Anything that happens in a small town has a large number of volunteers backing it. Bake sales, festivals, town dances, everything! And I miss it.
I feel it's important that my boys know how important volunteering is. To not expect anything in return for your service. A lot of young people seem endlessly entitled to me and I want my boys to understand how vital community service is. It starts at home right?
I feel it's important that my boys know how important volunteering is. To not expect anything in return for your service. A lot of young people seem endlessly entitled to me and I want my boys to understand how vital community service is. It starts at home right?
#13: Attend more Live Music Events
I thought about specifying concerts but... bands in bars or at The Arboretum work just as well also. I'm not a big music listener. I know, I know this seems weird for anyone from my general generation to read or understand. But I don't turn on music and blast out my ears and dance like a crazy person all over my house. I use music to motivate me while I work out. I listen to country stations in the car and if I must choose something to listen to while traveling it is usually Broadway musicals... they are like listening to more lively books on tape and they keep me awake.
But lately I have found myself drawn to music... consider me a late bloomer. At least I bloomed late in one department! Mostly Pop, which I realize make some of you want to vomit however, I have nothing to judge it against, my ears like what they like. I'm drawn to cheesy movies, plays and TV also so I guess it makes sense. I've always loved 80's rock (thank you Haley and Julie) and still love early 90's anything with the exception of grunge.
Certain songs take me back: Torn by Natalie Imbruglia will come on and I'm instantly 14 again. Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp and I'm 16 riding shotgun in Jessica's Camry doing absolutely nothing productive. Wilson Phillips reminds me of being a little girl and wanting nothing more than to be exactly like my sisters. Pat Green and Charlie Robison remind me of being 18 and wishing for nothing else than to be 21 so I could buy my own beer instead of flirting with some guy to buy it for me. U2 reminds me of Jason, specifically With or Without You.
The point is, my new found "passion" for music should be explored and I choose to do this by attending concerts. Or any music event. I'm too anxious most of the time. I've never been a sit and enjoy the music type of person but I think I'm becoming one. It probably has something to do with my need for calm and peace after my busy never ending mommy days. I find that I can lose myself in the music. So lose myself I will!
But lately I have found myself drawn to music... consider me a late bloomer. At least I bloomed late in one department! Mostly Pop, which I realize make some of you want to vomit however, I have nothing to judge it against, my ears like what they like. I'm drawn to cheesy movies, plays and TV also so I guess it makes sense. I've always loved 80's rock (thank you Haley and Julie) and still love early 90's anything with the exception of grunge.
Certain songs take me back: Torn by Natalie Imbruglia will come on and I'm instantly 14 again. Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp and I'm 16 riding shotgun in Jessica's Camry doing absolutely nothing productive. Wilson Phillips reminds me of being a little girl and wanting nothing more than to be exactly like my sisters. Pat Green and Charlie Robison remind me of being 18 and wishing for nothing else than to be 21 so I could buy my own beer instead of flirting with some guy to buy it for me. U2 reminds me of Jason, specifically With or Without You.
The point is, my new found "passion" for music should be explored and I choose to do this by attending concerts. Or any music event. I'm too anxious most of the time. I've never been a sit and enjoy the music type of person but I think I'm becoming one. It probably has something to do with my need for calm and peace after my busy never ending mommy days. I find that I can lose myself in the music. So lose myself I will!
#12: Play Golf
This seems so simple! I love to play. I always did. And at one point in time I was pretty damn good. But I went to college, I got married, I had babies and now I don't play anymore. I'd just like to play once or twice a month. And it's doesn't even have to be 18 holes! I'll play 9 or just hit some balls at the driving range. Anyway I can get the sticks in my hands again, I'll take it!
Monday, April 11, 2011
#11: Paint My Bedroom
If you've been in my house you know that decorating is one of my hobbies. I just love to do it. I love color and texture and fabric. I love interesting art pieces and love finding how to mix modern accents with my very traditional yet eclectic home. I don't fit in one style, I love too many things!
Most rooms have been designs and re-designed. Paint samples have been poured over and contemplated, fabrics, chosen and re-chosen. Our bedroom furniture was purchased before the house. I adore it! Very traditional, very large four poster bed. The fabrics are less traditional, more eclectic. Purples, golds, oranges, reds and this really pretty oyster shell ivory color. Rich. That is what I was going for. Not like "money=rich" but more "sumptuous=rich". A bedroom, especially a married couples bedroom, should be sexy. Very, very sexy. But not porn store sexy.
So I've bounced around paint colors over and over and over and it's time to pick one and do it!
Most rooms have been designs and re-designed. Paint samples have been poured over and contemplated, fabrics, chosen and re-chosen. Our bedroom furniture was purchased before the house. I adore it! Very traditional, very large four poster bed. The fabrics are less traditional, more eclectic. Purples, golds, oranges, reds and this really pretty oyster shell ivory color. Rich. That is what I was going for. Not like "money=rich" but more "sumptuous=rich". A bedroom, especially a married couples bedroom, should be sexy. Very, very sexy. But not porn store sexy.
So I've bounced around paint colors over and over and over and it's time to pick one and do it!
#9: Run a Half Marathon
This, honestly, seems scarier to me than natural child birth. I'm for cereals here! No Trix! Those people who "run"... I mean really run... the ones whose focus seems like it can eat you alive. Those people are the people that my nightmares are made of. This falls in line with REAL Athletics... which I always shied away from. I was a dancer. A golfer. A fisherman. Sports to me are a little wider in definition than to others. Athletics are a different topic altogether. And running is definitely one of those athletic things. But one thing, this 30 before 30 is all about, is tackling demons. Slaying my inner dragons. Facing my fears and proving that strength and perseverance and pure stubborn will power exist within me. I know I'm a strong person. But I'm also the type of person who can easily move on, put the goals aside, readdress them at a later date. Pretend that I don't have dreams and that I'm okay with mediocre. So... I'm going to run a half marathon. End of discussion.
#8: Learn to Love Running
I believe I can do this. I really, really do. It's an easy workout, it can be done anywhere, it doesn't require specialized equipment. And as I'm learning from my trainer I probably hate it currently because my muscles don't know how to do it right. You think that running should be simple. As a child it seems simple. You just do it, to get somewhere faster than you can while walking. You just ran! Well I lost this uninhibited mode of transportation somewhere (my guess, is that when coaches decided to make it a sport I lost all interest). And since my #9 require that I learn to run and at least halfway enjoy it, learning to love running seemed a perfect fit for my #8.
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