Anticipation

5.20.08 Hey blog,
Life has been unfolding, as it often does. This coming weekend is Memorial Day already and I'm heading home for a couple of days graced by the company of my dear friend Shelly. I'm very excited because Shelly's never been to where I'm from and I absolutely relish in introducing someone I care about to the wonderous world of my history, lol. I had a fabulous time stepping into Shelly's past when we visited her family last year over Labor Day and seeing all that played a part in shaping who she is and now she'll get to see mine. It's going to be a busy trip but filled with fun I'm anticipating. Here are the plans:

Friday - Drive to West Chester and show her where I went to high school and college and my old house and all the fun Dub C landmarks and definately introducing her to Wawa. Possibly visiting my friend Jen and meeting her newest daughter Charlie and then celebrating Jen's birthday at the West Chester bars with my friend Kelly and hopefully running into others who are in town.

Saturday - Driving up to Lake Mohawk, NJ to spend the day with my brother. It's supposed to be nice weather so taking his boat out on the lake and catching up sans the rest of the family (they'll still be in Brazil)

Sunday - Heading back to West Chester for Janine's bridal shower in the afternoon. Going to Wildwood, NJ that evening to hang out with Kara and her friend at the boardwalk, stay at their hotel.

Monday - Spend Memorial Day at the beach! Drive back to my parent's place and hang out with them in the evening, go out to dinner.

Tuesday - Hang out with my parents at their place in NJ and then leave for the airport in the afternoon to come back to sunshine state fun.

'Don't forget your roots' -H2O

Eskimo Kisses

Exercise 61 Identifying Your Purpose. Completely clear your mind of any kind of practical thinking. Answer each question using the carefree, little-girl, creative "I can do anything I want" part of your brain.

1. What games did you play when you were little? My friends and I played house a lot, we also played Amish people and we'd wear bonnets and skirts and pretend to work outside. We'd play hotel sometimes and pretend to check people in. We played Surfer Girls a lot too, we'd dress up and be the girl version of the Beach Boys. We'd sing and dance on my deck and make my mom video tape us. We'd play dress up a lot and model and take pictures of ourselves.

2. When you were a small child and a teenager, what types of things did you just love to do? I loved dance and playing soccer, I loved ice skating, singing and writing. I liked to pretend I was a cheerleader and that I had a twin sister who was my best friend and we were very cool like Elizabeth and Jessica from Sweet Valley High books. I liked to make clubs with my friends, we'd have officers and memberships. We liked giving each other makeovers and pretending we had cute boyfriends. When I was a teenager, my friends and I liked to share notebooks that we would pass back and forth throughout the school day and we liked to have sleepovers and watch movies or pull pranks on whoever fell asleep.

3. What kind of events or activities have you looked forward to throughout your life and never wanted to end? Vacations - especially trips to the beach, Summers - warm weather, girl's get togethers, family traditions - playing board games, writing in pretty journals, cooking food with loved ones.

4. When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be an actress since I was in 3rd grade and saw the movie Shipwrecked. I also wanted to work with and train dolphins so I thought about being a Marine Biologist. I wanted to be the lead singer of a band like No Doubt when I was in middle and high school. I wanted to be a figure skater when I was in elementary school and I wanted to be a writer since being in college.

5. If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? In other words, what is your absolute pie-in-the-sky dream job? I would pretty much have Gwen Stefani's life. She is a super sexy woman who grew up in the punk rock/ska music scene. She gets to do the 3 things I love most in life for her career - travel the world, write down her feelings, turn them into song lyrics and then sing and perform to audiences! That would be the ultimate dream for me. She stays at the top of her game because she is constantly reinventing herself. She works hard but she also gets rewarded hugely and gets to enjoy life. She's at the point where she doesn't ever have to work again but she does because she loves what she does.

6. If you were independently wealthy and did not have to work, what would you do in your spare time? I would be a travel writer and I'd open my own organic teahouse.