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It's official, I can add Wisconsin to the list of states that I have visited. I've lived next door to it for my entire life (granted, the lake proved to be a rather discouraging moat for 24 of those years) and only now entered the land of cheese. And plenty of cheese was ingested during this stay.
Besides cheese, there was a little bit of traditional autumn goodness (pumpkin patch and cider), college football awfulness (translation: Spartans choke out a last minute loss), and a lot of high quality bonding time. As it turns out, I think bonding time is a three-part formula: conversation, eating and drinking.
For someone who has never really had a close group of female friends, girls' nights and weekends are a new territory for me. I've always had more of the singular female friendships. Honestly, I was always driven away by witnessing the omnipresence of drama in lady groups. I don't do drama, not even with a ten-foot pole.
What I'm finding refreshing is that there are other females who are anti-drama. Mind-blowing, I know. And if you keep a group intimate and focused on truthfulness and trust, there seems to be proof that cliché girl drama can be kept at bay. Perfect.
mad-town, happy day \10.20\
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Besides cheese, there was a little bit of traditional autumn goodness (pumpkin patch and cider), college football awfulness (translation: Spartans choke out a last minute loss), and a lot of high quality bonding time. As it turns out, I think bonding time is a three-part formula: conversation, eating and drinking.
For someone who has never really had a close group of female friends, girls' nights and weekends are a new territory for me. I've always had more of the singular female friendships. Honestly, I was always driven away by witnessing the omnipresence of drama in lady groups. I don't do drama, not even with a ten-foot pole.
What I'm finding refreshing is that there are other females who are anti-drama. Mind-blowing, I know. And if you keep a group intimate and focused on truthfulness and trust, there seems to be proof that cliché girl drama can be kept at bay. Perfect.
At times throughout the past nine months, I mentally step outside of myself and look at my life. I find that I'm amazed at the some of the things I've done, the places I've ended up, and the ways that I've opened my mind. For so long I lived pretty tidily inside the lines. I wish I would've realized that life is so much more interesting if you increase the area between those lines.
Being stubborn doesn't necessarily make you strong. You can take risks without being irrational. Saying yes to the smallest thing can lead you down paths you never would've unlocked. There's so much to learn by going places you've never been and engaging with people you don't know.
I don't have a life plan, a ten-year or a five-year plan; I have a barely outlined tentative idea of plans in the next year (mostly involving international travel). My plan is to go day-by-day and accept or create opportunities as circumstances arise. Like tonight, when a visiting co-worker from New York extended an open invite to grab food or drinks after work. Since the rest of the Chicago team is in the "married with a baby" stage of life, the spontaneity didn't really work for them.
So, instead of my plan to catch up with my DVR and cook a new quinoa recipe for dinner, I ended up getting to know a long-distance co-worker. Oh, and I realized that I'm a huge fan of Korean BBQ. I've walked past del Seoul a thousand times and always been intimidated, because I wasn't sure I'd know how to order Korean food. There was nothing intimidating, only deliciousness.
festively fall \09.26\
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Being stubborn doesn't necessarily make you strong. You can take risks without being irrational. Saying yes to the smallest thing can lead you down paths you never would've unlocked. There's so much to learn by going places you've never been and engaging with people you don't know.
I don't have a life plan, a ten-year or a five-year plan; I have a barely outlined tentative idea of plans in the next year (mostly involving international travel). My plan is to go day-by-day and accept or create opportunities as circumstances arise. Like tonight, when a visiting co-worker from New York extended an open invite to grab food or drinks after work. Since the rest of the Chicago team is in the "married with a baby" stage of life, the spontaneity didn't really work for them.
So, instead of my plan to catch up with my DVR and cook a new quinoa recipe for dinner, I ended up getting to know a long-distance co-worker. Oh, and I realized that I'm a huge fan of Korean BBQ. I've walked past del Seoul a thousand times and always been intimidated, because I wasn't sure I'd know how to order Korean food. There was nothing intimidating, only deliciousness.