Fourteen Thoughts

How has it already been two weeks since I posted last?! I really entered this whole blogging thing again hoping to change my past habits, so I am going to post again, before I completely lose momentum. Not much has gone on in the past couple weeks, which is probably a gigantic reason for not posting anything. But now, to make up for each silent day, I present...Fourteen Thoughts.

1. The Giants won the World Series!, and though I'm not a baseball (or really, any sports) fan unless you count the odd MMA fight I'm forced to watch, I do super wish that I was in San Francisco last night to experience the excitement. This, I think, marks the first time since moving that I have actively desired to be back in San Francisco, and is a sharp contrast to the feeling I had over the weekend when I saw my first homeless person in months, and experienced a huge wave of gratitude that I don't have to hear "Spare change?" mumbled at me daily anymore.

2. Do I sound like a Republican?

3. I feel much more relaxed and less anxious than I did when I first started this blog. I'm attributing this to yoga/not running anymore/just getting more used to my surroundings/day-to-day routine in general.

4. Illustration of the difference in Type A and Type B personalities: Last week, I went to my first dental appointment out here and was incensed to learn that after they spent an hour farting around, taking X-rays and carefully recording every detail ever about my teeth that ever existed, ever, they were not going to clean my teeth and that I NEEDED TO COME BACK AT A LATER DATE. The way I responded to such news, even though I was super annoyed, was by amiably agreeing to just come back (later that day, of all stupid things). Cody experienced The Dentist yesterday, and when he was told to make another appointment because they weren't going to have time to get around to cleaning his teeth, he was ALSO incensed, but expressed it by telling them he was just going to go to another dentist, and going to the gym immediately after his appointment to "work off steam." I like being Type B and all, but methinks that if I were just a little more fiery, I could achieve a lot more in life...

5. Speaking of Cody, Georgia seems to have inexplicably turned him into the most stylish dude ever. To truly understand how this is hilarious and worth commenting on, you must understand that when I first met him, he dressed like a total middle-aged dad, basically refusing to wear anything but khakis from Banana Republic. When we moved to San Francisco, out of necessity, he became much more stylish, but only in a grad student, vaguely metrosexual kind of way (emphasis on vaguely...really, he just grew some facial hair and started shopping at places with a younger demographic than Banana Republic). Here, though, he gets comments on his button-down shirts ALL THE TIME! (And um...they're all from J.Crew. Apparently if you pair anything with a skinny tie, you win big in the style category.) This is a tad consternating for me, since I have yet to figure out what my style here is going to be (my old uniform of skinny jeans/flats doesn't really cut it here in the land of tanned and toned undergrads wearing tiny shorts), so I need to step up my game.

6. My mother-in-law got me a Clarisonic skin care system for my birthday, and I think it's made my skin break out. It's a $200 contraption, so I feel strongly that it should DO THE OPPOSITE.

7. Not too much progress on the house front, though we have picked out a paint color for the exterior, found a picture of a vintage bathroom that I would like the contractor to somehow just replicate, and I'm pretty certain that I want an orange front door. I think that would be kind of...badass.

8. I submitted my grad school application to UGA yesterday! It feels so good to actually be making changes in my life instead of just saying I will, one day in the future. The extremely old professor did eventually agree to write me a letter of recommendation, though I have a feeling he's not totally sure who I am.

9. I recently read that a woman's fertility decreases after the age of 30, something that is rather concerning to me, since I am 29 and always thought of myself as rather young and having plenty of time to figure life out. But now that I'm going back to school hopefully, it creates issues that I definitely did not consider earlier in my twenties. I realize every woman deals with the family/work/school balance in some way, but it's finally starting to hit me now. Part of me wishes I hadn't put everything off until 30 was looming, but I know that my life would have been extremely different and not necessarily in a good way, and you have to respect your own process.

10. We bought four bags of candy for the massive number of trick-or-treaters we thought we would get this weekend. Final number of trick-or-treaters: 0. I think this qualifies as a Halloween Fail.

11. Trader Joe's opened in Athens this past weekend. I'm not even lying when I say that my visit to TJ's this weekend substantially increased my happiness level, by like, a million. It was like a little slice of my old life, but with ample parking and an easy drive home!

12. Another thing that vastly improved my life this weekend was going to Woodfire Grill. Holy shit, that meal was a-mazing.

13. I voted today. I had no idea who I was voting for, and I had a not insubstantial feeling that it didn't matter anyway (hello, red state!), but I admit, I partly did it because I thought it would help me establish residency so I can get in-state tuition next year.

14. Next blog post, I WILL veer away from the list. Hopefully.