What I Did Over My Bed Rest Vacation
Being restricted to minimal time outside the home will drive anyone a little batty, but it also gives you some nice quality time to reflect and prospect on your past and future. Interesting that my seven day sabbatical comes at a time of year when everyone is doing the exact same thing. I’ve sorta spent New Years weeks in years past thinking like this, but let’s be real…I’ve never really slowed down enough to just be and do that.
What have the past 28.5 years of my life been and what does 2009 hold for me? I think the lessons are best learned by What I Did Over My Bed Rest Vacation.
~ I love having a riotously fun time with my friends mini-golfing and spooking and whatnot, but some of my favorite times with them are dinner parties and hanging out
~ I have some of the most amazing friends who called, emailed (well, Facebooked mostly!), stopped in or took me out when I really needed to have people around.
~ It is possible to go too far…and it lands you in the hospital with a saline bag and vitamin IV trying re-hydrate and de-exhaust yourself
~ I love a dorky good guy. I’m obsessed with Damian Spinelli from General Hospital (one can only read so many books in approximately 100 hours straight) They make my little heart pitter pat like no smooth guy can.
~ I have a horrible propensity, however, for dating the suave bad guy. Call it personal sabotage.
~ I am a science geek. I love all things procedural and experimental and knowledge filled. .
~ I will not make excuses any longer for a goal that I’m afraid to attempt.
~ New Years Eve has not in the past nor will it continue in the future to be an enjoyable holiday for people of the single variety. The only thing that makes it worse? Being in bed asleep by 11 PM because you are exhaustedly sick.
~ I need to buy more books. All the ones I have, I’ve read. Novel concept, eh? (haha…novel…get it!?)
~ I still continue to be very confused about what I want to be when I grow up.
~ I love me a good Ramen noodle soup. Even if it is the staple food of college students around the world. And I’m not the least bit ashamed of that fact.
~ I am building nice healthy callouses on my fingers re-learning the guitar. Course this is slightly hampered still by the fact that my arms and hand are quite bruised from having IV’s and needles stuck in them.
~ I already look forward to my “Last Birthday of Our 20′s” party with the friend that I’ve done most of my “grown up” growing up with.
~ I work a little too hard and need to learn to not constantly check my Blackberry for emails and messages. That being said, I will probably never learn the rule on this one.
~ I anxiously await my course of treatment for said exhaustion and various other health issues that landed me on an unexpected weeklong “vaca.” In the future, I think I’ll take the course of treatment a little more seriously…and perhaps not land myself in an emergency room again.
The list could go on and on…perhaps it will at some point. I mean, seven days is a long while to sit and ponder (though a good 12 hours was devoted entirely to a Bones marathon on TNT)
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