Day 14: Grow Up

Day 14: What did you want to be when you grew up?  What are you now?

Growing up, I had ambitions to be many things.

Of those, some were more entertaining than others.

[First] I wanted to be a boy.  I idolized my big brother and was a rough-and-tumble, always messy and dirty, little chub-a-lub.  I remember repeatedly asking my Daddio and Bubba, "Why can't I be a skin?"

[Second] After I started realizing I just wasn't going to be a boy.  I shared Sar's yearning for being Ariel from The Little Mermaid.  However, I didn't get all cute and dressed up like Ariel.  My longing to be a beautiful red-headed mermaid went as far as singing "Part of Your World" in the bathtub, and I would push myself up on the side (like Ariel did on the rock).  Then I would ask Mom why I couldn't sing as good as Ariel.

Dreams crushed.

[Third] I got over being a Disney Princess quickly and moved onto wanting to be a comedian.  I've mentioned before that my "jokes" were so bad, that my parents bought me a joke book.  I'm not sure if that was successful in helping that bad-joke-telling.  I wouldn't be surprised if I still thought I was funny, despite the bad jokes.  It is still my dream to appear on SNL. 

Today, I lead a super exciting life as a Logistician.

Most of the time when I say, "Logistician."  People respond with, "A what?"

I'm basically a logistics specialist.

But it is not special.

I deal primarily in configuration data management.  I won't go into the boring details of what we manage the configuration of, but I work for the US Navy and support our fleet everyday.

Did I ever think or dream that this would be my job/career?

Hell no.

Will it do for now?

Absolutely.

I'm still holding onto my SNL dream.

Take Luck,

LP

Dear Monday

I just can't resist another link up opportunity.  This time, with Megan at Happy Day.

Dear Monday, Not going to lie you kinda sorta sucked.  The mood at work was pretty somber, and I thought I was going to go a little coo-coo if I sat at my desk any longer.

Dear God, You are frustrating me.

Dear Brock & Sonny, Your jumping and tail wagging picks me up and out of any funk.

Dear Platelet Count, I am seriously hoping you will be cooperative tomorrow.

Dear Writers of Grey's Anatomy, I hate to say that I feel our relationship may be fizzling.  Deep down I know you will always have my heart, but let's just say that I need some affirmation that this is a give-and-take understanding.

Dear Hubby, I just love you completely.

Take Luck,

LP 

Day 13: Fifteen

Day 13: If you could go back and tell your fifteen year old self something, what would you say?

After I calmed myself down and explained that, "Yes, this is what you look like at 25" (I'm sorry!) and after I assured myself that, "Yes, this is real..." I would tell myself a few things.

[1] Don't sweat the small stuff.  What matters to you today will not (I repeat, will not!) matter to you later.

[2] Cherish being an adolescent and not having true responsibility.

[3] Love your family with all that you have.  Appreciate them.

[4] You should wear your retainers.  You will appreciate your diligence later.

[5] Push yourself harder each day to be a better student, better athlete, and better person.

[6] You will meet the man of your dreams at 22.

and [7] The rest will take care of itself.

Take Luck,

LP

Day 12: Day in Bullets

Day 12: Bullet your whole day.

 -Woke up at 8am (slept in - woohoo!)

-Put $1 in the bucket

-Ate breakfast

-Got a delicious Soy Vanilla Latte

-Felt bad about not going to church

-Dropped Mustang off for oil change
-Grocery shopped at WalMart

-Put groceries away

-Wondered why bad things happen to good people

-Cleaned the house (I'll spare those bullets)

-Did laundry

-Talked to my brother, sister-in-law and nephew in Hawaii

-Ate lunch

-Made Ryan put his clothes away
-Started a Goodwill pile

-Gave Brock and Sonny baths

-Took Ryan's suit pants to be hemmed

-Continued to wonder why bad things happen to good people

-Watched Grey's Anatomy episodes from Thursday night

-Did STATs homework
-Made dinner
-Talked to my little sister

-Ate dinner
-Cleaned poop out of Brock's paw (awesome)

-Typed out this bulleted blog

Next up:

-Shower

-Crawl. Into. Bed.

Take Luck,

LP

Day 11: Dirty Dancing

Day 11: What is your favorite movie and why?

Hands down. 

Dirty Dancing.

This is my favorite movie because it doesn't matter how many times I have watched it (a lot) I still get emotional and get sucked in.  Also, I will always watch it when its being aired on TV.  And I get excited about it.

The music is great.  The dancing is smokin'.

It's all about love and loving who you love.

My favorite part (although it is hard to choose) is when Johnny (Patrick Swayze) is saying goodbye to Baby (Jennifer Gray) and he says, "I'll never be sorry."  And she says, "Neither will I."

Tear jerker.  Heart wrencher.  Everytime.

Take Luck,

LP