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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2011!!
I really cannot believe it's already 2011. It feels like yesterday I was graduating high school and feeling like 2010 was so far off...and now it's over. I have graduated. I have made great strides. I have had such an amazing year, with plenty of ups and plenty of downs.
In this year, I moved on from my first major relationship (finally), learned to trust myself more and allow myself to be more emotional, experienced a significant lack of self-confidence (yet persevered) through my first job search, learned what it's like to work a 9-5+ job, figured out I hate the business world, further solidified and explored my fundamental/political/ideological beliefs, read ALL OF DON QUIJOTE in Spanish (!!!!), led a retreat (who knew I had it in me????), volunteered at an organization because I wanted to (short-term, but still put myself out there), took a Feminism class (and learned I need to begin to speak up and not be apathetic), learned a lot about vocation as a result of Capstone w/ John McDargh, and I'm sure I had a share of meltdowns somewhere in there. Oh. And I graduated!!!! WOW! haha. Apparently I now have a BA in Int'l Relations and Spanish Language & Literature. Hilarious! haha.
I'm not going to make any resolutions. I have goals for myself, but I don't want to call them resolutions. I still want to stay healthy. I've started more consciously buying (healthier/more environmentally friendly) and I've started cooking more things...I made rice AND corn AND brussel sprouts tonight! Crazy stuff. Now I just need to continue along this path. I want to keep reflecting about God and life and keep that part an active and conscious part of my life. I also want to keep growing in my decisiveness and in my ability to be assertive. Woot woot!
Now on the more minute updates...
Dating is going as it goes. Nothing major has come over the past few months. I've met a bunch of guys, had some fun and some flings, some things that flirted on serious, but nothing big has come of it. Things with Danny took an awkward turn for the worse. I kinda feel bad about it but I also feel like there wasn't much I could've done. We hung out in Copley near xmas and had a really good time, then he came over the next day and watched a movie with me and was texting the whole time and sat on the other couch...it was all very weird. So I asked him the next day what we were doing and he said he was really looking to just be friends. That normally wouldn't have changed anything. But the other day I had an informational interview with Josh Eagle at the Brookline Mental Health Center, and I was supposed to go to Revere afterward. I called Danny to see if I should come over then (it was about 5:10) or if I should go home and leave later. But when he picked up the phone I got the feeling he was annoyed. He just was giving me all kinds of attitude when I was going to go out of my way to visit him. I just really felt....unappreciated, not sure if that's the right word. But he wanted to know if I could hang out the next day, which I wasn't sure I could do, then he wanted to hang out on his birthday (the 31st) and I wasn't sure I could do that either b/c of New Years stuff. And all of a sudden after saying that he said "Well I'm going to go...bye". To just cut me off like that and not hear me out seemed really childish and not something I want out of a friend who I've only known for a month and a half. Not cool. So I wrote on his fb wall on his birthday and he commented on my post about how I didn't call or text him. I don't know, that just seemed really ridiculous to me. I don't know what he expected of me, but I can tell you I'm not sure this is a friendship that would ultimately be beneficial for me. So...yeah.
Also, crazy how short winter break is now! I had about a week off and have to go to work tomorrow! Scary haha. Let's hope for a more positive outlook for 2011!
I really cannot believe it's already 2011. It feels like yesterday I was graduating high school and feeling like 2010 was so far off...and now it's over. I have graduated. I have made great strides. I have had such an amazing year, with plenty of ups and plenty of downs.
In this year, I moved on from my first major relationship (finally), learned to trust myself more and allow myself to be more emotional, experienced a significant lack of self-confidence (yet persevered) through my first job search, learned what it's like to work a 9-5+ job, figured out I hate the business world, further solidified and explored my fundamental/political/ideological beliefs, read ALL OF DON QUIJOTE in Spanish (!!!!), led a retreat (who knew I had it in me????), volunteered at an organization because I wanted to (short-term, but still put myself out there), took a Feminism class (and learned I need to begin to speak up and not be apathetic), learned a lot about vocation as a result of Capstone w/ John McDargh, and I'm sure I had a share of meltdowns somewhere in there. Oh. And I graduated!!!! WOW! haha. Apparently I now have a BA in Int'l Relations and Spanish Language & Literature. Hilarious! haha.
I'm not going to make any resolutions. I have goals for myself, but I don't want to call them resolutions. I still want to stay healthy. I've started more consciously buying (healthier/more environmentally friendly) and I've started cooking more things...I made rice AND corn AND brussel sprouts tonight! Crazy stuff. Now I just need to continue along this path. I want to keep reflecting about God and life and keep that part an active and conscious part of my life. I also want to keep growing in my decisiveness and in my ability to be assertive. Woot woot!
Now on the more minute updates...
Dating is going as it goes. Nothing major has come over the past few months. I've met a bunch of guys, had some fun and some flings, some things that flirted on serious, but nothing big has come of it. Things with Danny took an awkward turn for the worse. I kinda feel bad about it but I also feel like there wasn't much I could've done. We hung out in Copley near xmas and had a really good time, then he came over the next day and watched a movie with me and was texting the whole time and sat on the other couch...it was all very weird. So I asked him the next day what we were doing and he said he was really looking to just be friends. That normally wouldn't have changed anything. But the other day I had an informational interview with Josh Eagle at the Brookline Mental Health Center, and I was supposed to go to Revere afterward. I called Danny to see if I should come over then (it was about 5:10) or if I should go home and leave later. But when he picked up the phone I got the feeling he was annoyed. He just was giving me all kinds of attitude when I was going to go out of my way to visit him. I just really felt....unappreciated, not sure if that's the right word. But he wanted to know if I could hang out the next day, which I wasn't sure I could do, then he wanted to hang out on his birthday (the 31st) and I wasn't sure I could do that either b/c of New Years stuff. And all of a sudden after saying that he said "Well I'm going to go...bye". To just cut me off like that and not hear me out seemed really childish and not something I want out of a friend who I've only known for a month and a half. Not cool. So I wrote on his fb wall on his birthday and he commented on my post about how I didn't call or text him. I don't know, that just seemed really ridiculous to me. I don't know what he expected of me, but I can tell you I'm not sure this is a friendship that would ultimately be beneficial for me. So...yeah.
Also, crazy how short winter break is now! I had about a week off and have to go to work tomorrow! Scary haha. Let's hope for a more positive outlook for 2011!