I guess I’m in a post-stealing mood this week because today’s post is borrowed from the wonderful Lisa! I love doing these types of posts because I find they can be great journaling exercises. Enjoy!
I wish I could afford to go on a cruise for my birthday. (There is a perfect 4-day one that leaves the day after my birthday and travels to the Bahamas but it’s just not in the cards. I guess two cruises in one year will have to be enough!)
I want to get the “okay” to do more strenuous exercise during my follow-up orthopedic appointment next week. I am struggling with motivation since I’ve been relegated to just light exercising because it doesn’t feel like “enough”.
I always pick Dutch up for a long “good morning” hug every morning. His body is so warm and sleepy and just absolutely perfect.
I need to be smarter about my money. I need to tighten up my budget and may have to start using the envelope system for my everyday needs!
I feel anxious when I think about my future.
I think way more than I should. If only there was a way to silence my brain!
I ask questions infrequently. I really need to break this fear of looking stupid and just starting asking, no matter what other people may think.
I hear the dryer and the dishwasher working simultaneously. (Have I mentioned lately how nice it is to have our own washer & dryer? It’s fabulous.)
I smell Dutch’s stinky dachshund breath whenever he gives me a kiss. It’s one of the most comforting smells in the world for me!
I ponder what my next step is going to be and when that is going to take place.
I seek for God’s wisdom when I’m confused or unsure of what to do about rocky situations.
I play board games more competitively than most. I am a whiz at trivia-type board games, but am literally the worst Monopoly player there ever was. (Obviously, I am not good at budgeting in real life or fake! Sigh.)
I try to see both sides of every issue, no matter how passionately I feel about the issue.
I prefer the NFL to college football, but I still like to catch a few college games every week.
I wonder why I am so awkward and shy in social situations – even when I’m meeting people I know!
I believe that God has a crazy-amazing plan for my life and as long as I follow in His will, I will see that plan come to fruition.
I mean every word I write in my letters to my future husband. Those words are my heart and soul and it makes me giddy to think about a special man reading them someday.
I never imagined my life turning out the way it has, but I’m okay with where I am now. I am exactly where I am meant to be.
I plan on meeting a group of girls I’ve never met next week for tapas and sangria. I am scared to death (as the last time I did something like this, it was awful and I felt so left out and basically cried on my way home and yes, I am that pathetic) but I know I will feel better for having tried.
I hope my review today (!) goes better than I expect it to.
I worry about my future on a daily basis.
I dislike condescending people. Quickest way to turn me off is to treat me like my ideas and thoughts are silly.
I struggle with self-doubt and insecurity a lot. It can be exhausting to be inside my head!
My best advice? Fake it til you make it! I get social anxiety too and my secret is I think what would I do/be like if my sister was there? My sister is the person I am most relaxed with and the version of myself I like best so I really try to channel that person!
You are awesome and confidence is KEY.
Thanks, Amber! I hope the dinner goes awesome and I have a blast, so that’s what I keep reminding myself of. It COULD be fantastic and I know I’ll feel better for having tried, even if it turns out to be awful. 🙂
1. Hope meeting with the new girls go better and you are not pathetic for being emotionally wrought after the last time.
2. Good luck with your review!
3. Pondering my next step too!
Aw, thanks, Linda! I wish I could smush all my closest blog friends together so WE could all go out for tapas & sangrias, but since I can’t, I hope this works out for me.
Review went great! Yay! All that stress for no reason.
Definitely second the faking it till you make it. I almost have a second persona that I sometimes slip into in social situations – one that tries to fill silences in conversation, one that’s almost bubbly though still cutely awkward (or at least I’d like to think. Think Zooey Deschanel). Actually, I had to trot that one out just on Friday night…
I’ve definitely been in the situation many times where I got somewhere and immediately wanted to turn around and leave before going in – most recently a catchup with old coworkers. I couldn’t find the place and almost just decided to go home because my best work friend, who was also going, wasn’t answering my text messages. Also, once I took T to a party that an acquaintance invited me to; it was an outdoors one in the yard. It was a huge crowd, I couldn’t see her anywhere and I didn’t have her phone number, so we just floated around for about five minutes before leaving. It wasn’t really our scene and I literally knew nobody else where.
Saying yes > saying no, even if you end up literally headdesking afterwards in shame at some of your faux pas!
I shall channel my inner Zooey Deschanel for this meet-up! Too bad I don’t have the funky glasses and bangs to go with it. 😉 (Annnnd… I now have the New Girl theme song stuck in my head. Ha!)
I know I’ll feel better having went & tried it. I’m trying to focus on the positives that can come from it and stop fretting over how awkward and shy I can be in social situations!
OMG HOW DID YOUR REVIEW GO?!
Sorry I didn’t e-mail you… I really thought I was going to have time today, but family got here before I got my homework done! Boo. I suck. I’m trying again when I wake up (it’s just past midnight on Monday) so yeah. When I wake up. Also text me about your review.
This is such a cute post idea, btw!
I don’t think I could go on a cruise 2 times a year, haha. As much as I had fun- I’d like to do something different before going on another cruise.
Hope your review went well!
The second cruise was something that came out of nowhere after we had booked our first one. (My mom’s work sent all their employees on one for free!) So that was a whirlwind summer for me. 🙂 But I just love cruising so much that I could go on 3-4 a year, no problem. Ha. It’s not for everyone, though!
I hope your review went well! You waited a long time for that to happen!! How nerve wracking! Often the anticipation of something is actually worse than the actual thing you are worrying about!
I am glad you played along! A couple of people have done this and it a fun way to leave more about others and what they are thinking about!
I hope your review went well. I know I am behind on commenting, but I want to hear all about it! Also, I agree with Amber. I am not very confident either, but sometimes a smile and a look right in the eyes is enough. You don’t always have to be the bubbly socialite. It’s okay. Just be yourself and friends who like you / who are like you will come around!