Drama! Conflict! Chickens!

Recently, it's come to my attention that this blog would be SO MUCH BETTER if I had some sort of crazy drama going on in my life.

Stunted adolescence?

Crazy relationship trouble?

Weird family?

Horrible job?

OK, we will reserve judgement on the last point but I have to say... after a few traumatic experiences in the working world... my early verdict on Splash Media is positive. Really positive. Without seeming like a crazy person, I'd say awesome. But that would be overly-aggressive way too soon. So right now, things are positive.

Anyone who knows me knows that my family is freakishly normal (perhaps that's the weird part?), so we'll cross that off the drama list.

Crazy relationship problems? Negative. The biggest problem in my relationship is that we eat wayyyy too much chicken. CHICKENS!!! (Imagine me shaking my fist at the sky so that I'm maximizing the drama, people. CHICKENS!!!) Oh yeah, and the cat keeps playing with her poop, which means one of us (read: me) has to pick it up. Since Nia once pooped directly on Sean's lap (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA) -- a story that I am under no conditions supposed to tell -- I'm on poop duty for a while.

Stunted adolescence? I WISH. Damn you, bills, for making me so responsible.

That's all the drama I can come up with. Sorry I'm not sorry I'm generally happy. Please, keep reading my blog anyway.

I've been doing some thinking

..and if you know me, that's a little scary.

Anyway, quick list of things I want to do with my life. No big deal.

• Learn French. Two (three?) Christmases ago, my parents got me the Rosetta Stone for French. I was quite religious about it until my computer crapped out, which was about 1/3 of the way through the program. Basically, I know a bunch of random phrases and would really love to learn, you know, the whole language. I need to download this on my new computer and get at it immediately.
• (Re)read the classics. Truth: I downloaded 63 books on my Kindle for free!! the night Sean gave it to me. I am approximately one book down. All of the books are classics that I may or may not have read in elementary/middle/high school, but should re-read anyway. Truth #2: I read a lot of these books in elementary school. Somewhere, stashed in my parents house, is a trove of books with child's handwriting all over the margins as I made notes to myself about words and phrases I didn't understand. <- This explains a lot about me. It also means that I probably didn't understand a lot of the nuance. I need to get on this immediately, too. 
• Actually start working out. I love yoga, dancing, and riding bikes. I hate running and lifting weights. Why do I keep trying to cram myself into the latter box? I'm signing up for yoga immediately after this blog.
• Shameless plug: Meghann and I decided we are writing a book. Stay posted, friends. It's coming. Immediately. :) I promise it will be full of sass and sarcasm. It's what I do best. 
• I put myself on a spending freeze. I'm not buying any clothes/shoes until I pay my credit card off. I'm already dying. I want these so bad it hurts. Snake skin ballet flats with a bow! ON SALE. Anthro kills me. 
• I put myself on a drinking freeze. I'm only drinking on weekends, now folks. That's right: NO HAPPY HOURS. I don't need the calories. Maybe one day, margarita Monday will be back for me. But until margaritas cease to be 1000 calories a pop, and I cease to be dieting, we can never be together.