This is not the future for which I prepared. ( ::wink:: )
No, this is not a work of fiction. However, I couldn't let that one pass. :)
2009, I set out to change myself and the bits of the world to which I have immediate access. In some ways, life reared up and bitch slapped me good. In others, I gave as good as I got, if not better. This has been a year of gathering up the pieces and forging a new iteration of Laurie McCright.
I am FINALLY graduated from university, and financially independent from my parents. It feels...extremely liberating to be under the control of myself. Sometime in the past year, I have uncovered an extremely independent streak within myself.
I am incredibly excited to learn the violin, and really really hope that Brooks will let me borrow his violiiiin ::puppyface:: ;)
I'm learning to knit! YouTube is teaching me :) I wish I had a random old lady to teach me, because I feel like that would be extra-effective.
Mom has tried to throw away my magical baking apron. That is awful and shouldn't be allowed to happen ever! I intend on keeping that apron for at least another couple of decades! Preferably forever. Forever sounds good. Maybe one day my apron will be in a museum! ;) On a quasi-related note: More and more I desire to open up a small cafe/restaurant. Definitely my career choice after I get sick of doing psychology as a profession (for I will never tire of it in general, people are ALWAYS interesting).
One of my most favourite sensations ever is to walk outside on a cold winter's evening. Looking up at the clear night sky, feeling the cold wind bite into your flesh; it makes me feel so very alive. I try and keep my mind on things I love; it keeps me grateful. :)
I have three hundred dollars in my PS3 fund, and in three months FF XIII comes out. I will be incommunicado for at least three days. I am so excited, you have NO IDEA. ::bounces up and down::
I miss my UNT friends, especially Elizabeth, Courtney, and Caroline (who isn't even in Denton anymore, so I NEVER seeee herr! AND she doesn't have unlimited text messaging :*( ).
I love Christmas, even though this time of year is extremely over-commercialized. <3 :)
