Earlier this week we were discussing a quite frustrating situation that's only grown since we moved in, and is exacerbated by our distance from our friends and family in Provo. We had a nice rant about it, and then I joked that I had written about a precipitating event in this calamity in my journal last year. Well, out comes the journal and it has been exactly a year to the day that this infamous first event went down.
After we had a good hearty laugh/cry about that one, I started thinking. Not much had progressed on that front in a year, but what had I done differently? In some ways I think I've moved forward, but in others I've moved back. I've traded in college-student drama for middle-schoolers' drama. I've given up my comfortable circles of friends and associates for men at church we've taken to labeling with "Creepy" before their name (e.g. Creepy Mustache, Creepy Rob, etc.). Granted, I now have an adult job, but even that feels like it's not real, like I'm only an adult for 4 hours every other morning.
I don't know what I'm waiting for, but I can't avoid this feeling of stagnancy. After our hilarious/horrific realization on the one year anniversary of this significant incident, Megan and I decided we needed to do something different. We brainstormed a nice list of possible new things that would get us out and about. (Please note, because this is technically a "brainstorm," all things that were suggested were written down, in order to preserve the flow and creativity of the process.)
Either this blog or "It Stinks" will provide an update on our adventures. :) Wish us luck as we do something about our new, stinky* lives!
*seriously, things don't stink that bad in perspective. just the turkey farm.
2 comments:
hahaha! those stinky turkeys ;) i think it's really awesome that you're doing something about a situation in your life that you aren't thrilled about. it's so easy to just put off taking action until you realize that another year (or however long) has gone by and you still haven't done anything! as a new stay at home mom i am discovering how quickly time passes and that if you don't consciously do something to make that time count you will end up with lots of time that has passed with not so much to show for it! hopefully clean laundry counts as something to show for passed time because i have lots of that on my record these days ;) good luck on your new adventure! i can tell you're going to love it :)
p.s. can't wait for the new blog!
p.p.s. i was in a bowling league at byu - i met a really nice old man who told me he'd been bowling longer than i'd been alive. i subsequently beat him in the bowling match haha.
I'm all thrilled that our brainstorm is forever preserved here. Also kind of bummed that I still feel a lot of these same things five years later...
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