Saturday, January 15, 2011

the good and the bad.



Twenty-ten has come and gone; Crazy how time flies.  After reading this on a friends blog, I decided to reminisce on the past year and think about the good and the bad.
My 2010 :

January 
            
        ● Road tripped up to Idaho with my BFF, Kim Turley
        ● Had a crazy roommate, but learned the virtue of patience
        ● Loneliness
        ● 9:00 church, again
        ● Introduced to Hastings by Cass & Stephie
        ● Met some great people and finally had some friends
        ● Started working out
        ● American Foundations = worst class ever
       
February

        ● Night Class from 7-10 on Tuesday 
        ● Sleeping 13-15 hours a day
        ● Valentines Day with Kimmy & Annie in Logan
        ● Inheriting a new roommate
        ● Freshman 30
        ● Ticing too much
        ● Boys who speak their mind
        ● Snowball fight with the sluts upstairs
        ● Crazy roommate has had 2 boyfriends
       
March

        ● First date ever 
        ● Chocolate Matzo making 
        ● Crazy roommate gets "engaged"
        ● Mario Party with Kimmy
        ● Broulim's $5 pizza
        ● BRC's Custard
        ● Lots of skyping with Kenzie
        ● New roommate moves out
        ● 5 year old crazy Brian
        ● Bye bye scale
      
April

        ● D+ in Econ
        ● Home sweet home
        ● "dieting"
        ● 1 time babysitting gig turns into Summer job 
        ● Applying & Rejection from Anthropolgie
        ● Single's ward
        ● Good food & overeating
        ● Sister turns 1 year older      
        ● Spring Break 2010 with Stephie
        ● Venice Beach
   
May

        ● Annie comes home
        ● Cute  boys in the ward
        ● Ben Folds Concert
        ● Confusion
        ● More babysitting
        ● Money, money, & more money
        ● Still large
        ● First boy from the group leaves on his mission
        ● Boycotting shopping because I can't fit in any clothes
        ● Parents 20th Wedding Anniversary

June

        ● Friends come home from college
        ● Accepted as a volunteer for Tourette's camp
        ● Purchased a plane ticket to Georgia
        ● Other sister celebrates her 17th birthday
        ● Still driving her everywhere she desires
        ● Tanning
        ● Excitement
        ● XXL shorts
        ● Board a plane to Georgia & start the best week ever

July

        ● Humidity & warm rain
        ● Camp Twitch and Shout 2010
        ● 9 11 year old boys + 3 girls
        ● Lots of ticing
        ● White balloons
        ● Tears -- lots of them
        ● Losing 10 pounds in 1 week
        ● Gluten & dairy free from now on
        ● Lake Powell with the Turley's 

August

        ● Cousin gets married
        ● -20 pounds
        ● Reading for hours
        ● Hawaii
        ● Getting tan
        ● First time zip-lining
        ● Cutting off 12 inches of my hair
        ● Goodbye California
        ● Loving life

September

        ● Roadtrippin with Kenzie
        ● New apartment, new roomies, new ward
        ● Hello Rexburger
        ● New Ollie
        ● My own room
        ● Upper level classes
        ● Not-so-little
        ● Hipsters
        ● Activities Committee member
        ● Getting involved
        ● Utard for Annie's birthday

October
  
        ● Skype dates
        ● -38 pounds
        ● First A on a test in college
        ● Gluten free pizza
        ● New Ben Folds album
        ● Aunt Christel & Grandma Joan visit
        ● Birthdays & more birthdays
        ● Another teletubbie Halloweener, this time with a partner

November

        ● Straight hair
        ● Changing meds
        ● Happiest i've been in a long time
        ● Ali turns 19 and celebrates with Annie 
        ● Cupcakes, bumblebees, & packages from home
        ● -50 pounds = best birthday present ever
        ● Thanksgiving break
        ● First gluten & dairy free Thanksgiving
        ● Family is forever
        ● Writing Missionaries
        
December

        ● Finals & drama
        ● So high-school
        ● 3 different Josh's
        ● Learning to live with what you are
        ● Snow driving and almost not dying
        ● Christmas break in the rain
        ● Shopping & more shopping
        ● Little party with people I love
        ● Realizations
        ● New Years with people I'm obsessed with

I like relating experiences to specific songs.  This year can be summed up with one line from one song : "You got to learn to live with what you are"

Fat girl Ali left the world on June 29, 2010 and now, on January 15, 2011, has emerged a new girl - the [skinny] girl she always knew she was.  She may still have tourette's and talk too much, but she is a different girl, in more ways than one.

1 comment:

  1. ummmm i really love this post and I think I'm going to copy it. but not now because its the middle of the night and my baby will wake up in 4 hours and I dont even know why im still on here

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