Monday, June 05, 2006

Graceful Ari is the Shizz: Or a List of My More Auspicious Accomplishments

Just because I felt like reflecting...I have:
  • Moved recently
  • Joined match.com (it's really not as psycho as you think)
  • Sunbathed on the beach while secretly hoping for more than five minutes that I would sink into the sand and never reappear
  • Considered a serious life change
  • Postponed said life change in favor of manipulating the system for a bit longer and "milk it" for all its worth
  • Watched way too much tv and pondered whether it really rots your brain
  • Sighed with happiness
  • Wanted to rip someone's eyes out of their head
  • Driven through farmland
  • Googled a crush...several times
  • Drunk way too much Starbucks coffee
  • Started reading a ridiculously long and academic-type book...for fun
  • Wanted to fly
  • Run for my life
  • Cried to my mom on the phone
  • Rolled my eyes at someone else's idiocy
  • Danced in my bedroom
  • Been serenaded by guitar in the woods (very romantique!)
  • Told my best friend I love her
  • Walked to the metro station
  • Had eye sex with a stranger
  • Taken a friend with benefits that is "bad for my soul" (but I told him so first)
  • Watched my brother graduate from high school and known that I was happier for him than he has been/will ever be for me
  • Seen every current movie in the theatre that I had a desire to see
  • Cheated the system
  • Watched a grown man cry...and felt inexpressable joy that he shared that with me
  • Been dumped...twice...and counting...
  • Seriously considered that I may be single for the rest of my life
  • Overeaten
  • Obssessed about my weight
  • Called a boy one too many times
  • Bought many things I did not need
  • Fantasized regularly
  • Blushed and laughed
  • Been called "genuine"
  • Sung at the top of my lungs
  • Seen a photograph and pondered the story behind it
  • Prayed
  • Passed a homeless person without ignoring him but lied about having money to give him
  • Felt ashamed of my country's leaders
  • Not resolved my anger over Hurricane Katrina
  • Cried because not everyone has access to quality healthcare
  • Too many pairs of shoes
  • Drunken Prosecco with a good friend
  • Watched two of my best friends make out with each other
  • Canceled one gym membership to join another
  • Lost touch with loved ones
  • Called an old friend
  • Networked my ass off
  • Not let go of a number of girlish crushes
  • Been to Greece and thought that the Aegean Sea looks like blue raspberry Jello
  • Argued with my parents
  • Considered that writing may be my true calling (and no, I don't really care for your opinion on that)
  • A serious addiction to Pinkisthenewblog.com
  • Decided that the birth of a celebrity baby does not qualify as "breaking news" suitable for distribution on a certain reputable 24-hour cable news network.
  • Managed to find something wrong with all MBA programs except Harvard's
  • Made my parents proud
  • Not learned to cook enough
  • Stopped to smell the roses (I'm not kidding. My neighbors have the most beautiful bushes...)
  • Asked for forgiveness
  • Worked really hard
  • Exceeded my monthly cell phone minutes
  • Felt lonely...often
  • Not been kissed nearly enough
  • Learned to love me just as I am

That was cathartic. I'll probably make another list every once in a while.

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