A long list of excuses never got me anywhere

Last Day

I suck, I haven’t been writing here as much as I should. I’ve been devoting my time to my new startup, the baby (not my baby!), The College Crush, and College Candy. I know it doesn’t seem like a lot but when you factor in a new relationship… time stops making sense.

My orignal plan for this article was to talk about ways to get rid of your excuses and prioritize your life. In the process I just came up with more excuses. But I’m going to continue on with it anyway…

I’ve been trying to live my life by doing what makes me happy. Living in Brockton and working as a nanny does not. Being in Massachusetts in fact makes me very unhappy. But leaving my friends and family would also make me unhappy. So I’ve been prioritizing to leave, secretly.

You see at the top of my list is find another job, the second one is a find a place to live, and about 20 spots down is tell friends, family and employer. Conflict is never something I was good at.

It all seemed like a great idea, secretly plotting knowing nothing would come of it. Except, something has. In fact we’re flying down this weekend to look at two places.

Side note, yes I said we’re. But if I tell you who we’re is you’ll just lecture me like everyone else has already. And I can guarantee I have already heard what you are going to say. So thank you for the concern, yes I have thought about it. No but really I have, stop worrying. No I will not wait longer. Okay, fine, be that way! Walk away when we are in the middle of a post.

Okay back.

I think that sometimes you just know when something is right, and with everything falling into place, it seems like the perfect moment to move. The fact that I have two siblings getting married to distract my parents from what is happening has nothing to do with it.

Anyway, to get to my round about point, everyone makes excuses. We tend to make them when we are scared of the reaction that will come from loved ones, when we are lazy or when we simply don’t want to do it. But making that long list of excuses isn’t going to stop you from still having to do that item on your check list. It’s only going to slow you down.

So, stop making excuses and like Nike says Just do it (although don’t take it the way Tiger’s did).

 

Who wants to be grown up anyway?

I thought I would have at least a couple of years after college. I mean, I’m still in the kid mentality…stay up late, eat sugar, run around, then crash. That has to mean something right?

Just because I move out doesn’t mean I have to grow up right away…or does it?

Now that I’m five months out of college it seems everyone around me has begun their decent into adulthood, something I’m not ready to tackle…not in the least. I’m still  using the microwave to cook all of my meals, refusing to brush my hair, over accessorizing every chance I get, and wearing patterned tights with patterned dresses.

I don’t want to grow up and be responsible, I want to live a carefree life of peanut butter sandwiches and not caring if my shirt and pants match. I’m afraid that once I start moving toward adulthood I’ll lose the me that has always made me…well me.

Maybe it’s the pom poms on my shoes, or the bright pink bow in my hair, but gosh darn it I’m not ready to grow up. And I am prepared to kick and scream my way to avoid  just that.

Tip Of the Day

Don’t tear down the walls you’ve been building up for some quick romance that seems too good to be true. Chances are it is and you will be left alone with a piece of chocolate cake, a glass of milk, and reruns of Arrested development on a saturday night.

Although…not to shabby for a night alone, at least you’ll be laughing.

Facebook knows if you’ve been creeping?

so you better not stalk for friendship sake!

Okay so I know this isn’t a how to post..and I know I have been sucking at updating BUT I thought this was pretty worth while..

Like most college students I creep/stalk on Facebook like nobody’s business. Sometimes I even forget that I’m doing it and somehow end up on some random person’s page who just had a baby named Ella. It’s not healthy, but everyone is doing it!

The creepy part about this whole game is…who ever I have most recently “creeped” on starts to show up a lot more in my news feed. So that boy I went to high school with from three years ago and never talk to randomly starts clogging up my news feed?? What is up with that!

My friend and I have decided Facebook must somehow be able to detect when you are “creeping” on someone’s Facebook profile. Which means that soon they are going to be able to let all of the users find out who has been looking on their profile! Hopefully not though, because then that cute boy from my Psychology class will really find out what a creep I am and that I just might check his profile more than I should…I’m just making sure he is still single though so it’s okay.

So what does this mean? Do you want people to know you creep on their profile? Do you want that weird boy from high school to start talking to you because you just randomly glanced through all of his pictures that one night?

Or

is this just some random coincidence? and we are just being overly paranoid because we “creep” more than we should.

Guess we’ll never know!

What are your thoughts on the subject?