Things I Have Discovered About Myself and/or Finally Accepted In Past Year
1. I DO NOT like change. I thought I was okay going with the flow/seeing what happens/etc, but it turns out I'm not.
2. Even though I want it to (if for no other reason than to use the thousands of dollars worth of supplies in my house) scrapbooking doesn't give me the creative outlet that it used to. There's no motivation there, and hardly any desire. Most of my creative energy goes into preschool and writing witty blog entries.
3. I love living in a small(ish) town, because the people have such big hearts. Unfortunately those big hearts too often come with small minds. It's like living in a huge warm, funny, sincere, petty, crazy, dysfunctional family. I need to learn when to speak up and when to keep my big mouth shut.
4. Anxiety medications are a Good Thing.
5. There's a difference between being stupid and Being Stupid. Far too often I am the former, but I thank God every day that I am not the latter.
6. I spend far too much energy thinking about people who are Being Stupid. I need to be more kind in my words and actions to those people, in hopes that they will be kind in their words and actions towards me.
7. Heavenly Father is probably frustrated and disappointed with me, for a lot of reasons. But He probably feels the same way about Pat Robertson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright and Glenn Beck, and at least I'm not making money off of His name.
8. I'm fat, but my eyes and lips are gorgeous. It might be time to join Weight Watchers.
9. I wasn't nearly as smart and mature at 18 as I thought I was. (In fairness, I realized this a long time ago. But given that I'm closer to being the mother of an 18 yeard old than I am to being an 18 year old myself is really driving the point home.)
10. It will be OK if I don't ever "finish" college. I have never stopped learning, and I don't plan to stop any time soon. I am an intelligent, well-rounded, creative woman who loves her careers; both the one I get paid for (preschool teacher) and the ones I don't (wife, mother, pseudo book reviewer, wanna-be librarian, occasional writer).
11. Sometimes writing a blog post at 1:30 in the morning is a good thing. SOmetimes it's not. We'll see what the verdict is on this post in the light of day. ;D
12. I physically can't make an odd numbered list.
2 comments:
First thing: I hope I haven't made the Being Stupid and being small-minded list. I've always prided myself on being smart, but pride is bad thing so I never know.
Second thing: I think you are a lot smarter than me so you can have an honorary masters degree from me ;)
just remember you have a sister who will glady take your scrapbooking supplies off of your hands :D
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