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Throwback Thursdays!

March 28, 2013

Ive come to love this post although since I lost my FB account finding old pictures is actually harder than it used to be! I’ve come across so many photos of myself doing ridiculous things…its a wonder that I am not considered an alcoholic!

This was on one of my many trips to Orlando to visit my family down there. My sister and I actually managed to go together that trip(rarely happens) and we all went out that night. We got a limo and went out to this Greek restaurant where we (my stepmother, her friend, my sister & I) ended up dancing on the tables with the belly dancers. It was a great night and I just love looking at this picture and seeing how happy I was in that moment.

Another picture from that night, my sis and I in the limo on the way to a bar after dinner 🙂

This song is completely unrelated but a throwback for sure. I am a Bush fan and remember being obsessed!!!

Link up over at When in Doubt Just Add Glitter

30 before 30: Update!

March 25, 2013

Its Monday again…ooye! I didn’t do anything exciting this weekend, being very strict with clean eating and working part time on the weekends I am pretty much dead to the world by Friday and can’t be assed to do a damn thing.

Its starting to get HOT here and I am not sure I like it. Its like a very humid, disgusting soup bowl hot. Haha hopefully that explains it well.

So since I have no amazing weekend photos to show you I decided it was time to update my 30 before 30. Its time I get to work on some more of them but still I have made some progress! I also might be making some changes to the list soon, things have changed a bit since I wrote it 🙂

30 Before 30

~~1. Teach Abroad for at least 6 months~~ In my 9th month!

2. Take one trip to a foreign country alone **Technically did but will do a solo trip to be clear instead of just moving!

3. Finish my Bachelors

~~4. Get Engaged(double points if married)~~ **CHANGING THIS

5. Learn a completely new language or two **trying to learn Mandarin

6. Run a half marathon

7. Buy a completely new wardrobe(get rid of it all and start all over)

8. Pay off all my debts

9. Go Skydiving

10. Meet some of the many bloggers I come across

~~11. Take strip dance/pole dance classes~~ *got this done with Snifferella before I left! It was an awesome time!

~~12. Cook a whole 3-4 course meal for friends/family~~ *Made my first whole Thanksgiving dinner for friends here in China (I do hope to do this again at home)

13. Buy myself something ridiculously expensive and not feel guilty about it

14. Do a mission trip

15. Take Salsa and/or ballroom dancing lessons

~~16. Live in my own place for at least 6 months(ALL ALONE)~~ Been living alone for 7 months now! It has its sucky moments but I like no one witnessing my dance parties

17. Start and complete a scrapbook

18. Reunite with some old elementary/high school friends

19. Take a road trip

20. Take my parents out and pay for it

21. Spend more time with my brother and nephew

22. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

23. Go to Seattle

24. Get fit, to a place where I am happy with my body(and keep it up) **a work in progress!

~~25. Have a whole spa day~~ **Took a whole day in Thailand when I was living there to get a mani/pedi, a few massages and a lay on the beach. PERFECT!

26. Learn how to sew/use a machine well enough to make a dress

27. Get a gun license and own my own gun

28. Learn how to play the piano

29. Read the bible everyday for a year

30. Forgive and Forget **also a work in progress!

Well…I’ve crossed out 5 of 30 and I still have 2 years to go. I think I might be on the right track. Although a part of me wants to change #4 since I realized I don’t really care if that happens by 30.

Might change it to:

(*4) Visit more places in the US

I have been traveling around Asia like crazy and after meeting lots of foreigners who would love to go to the US I realized there is a lot I have yet to see in my own country.

Do you have anything you want to do by a certain age??

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Throwback Thursday???

March 21, 2013

So I got the invitation to my 10 year reunion and I suddenly felt twice my age! I am actually looking forward to it since its a few weeks after I get home and I will not have seen any of my friends in such a long time anyway getting them all in one place should be really fun!

Anyway, I came across this link up over at Pretty Rambles and thought it would be perfect for my reminiscing. When I got that invite I realized I have been friends with my best friend G for 10 years this year…yikes!!! I think this year makes I am thinking 5 years that I became friends with Snifferella. Somewhere along the lines it became like the Three Musketeers.

So I thought I’d take a look back…as best I can since I lost my FB account w/all the awesome pictures from the beginning!!!(DAMN YOU FB!!!)