To find out how ALL of it started, click here.
This, however, is a short history of this blog and all that goes with it.
Let us go back to a a day in early March 2011. The sky was cloudy, with some drizzle in the air, mixed with a barely noticeable smell of sulfur. And a little blond girl (that would be me) was sitting on a lakeside, quite bored, with only her iPod and notebook for company.
And despite the peace and the calm and some lovely tunes, she was getting increasingly worried and anxious. Lonely, in a distant land, and without any pressing deadlines, the weight of the future somehow fell upon her and her heart got dropped into an emulsion made up of panic and excitement. The life had so much in store for her – but only if she decided to go out and take hold of all those amazing opportunities (duh). So she opened a notebook and started writing down lists. Lists of things to do on her travels, lists of things to learn in life, to accomplish during her senior year in college. Parts of those lists are quite impossible to read. The lists also continued to get longer and longer over the following days.
Things to do, learn, have
- good pair of dancing shoes
- motorcycle
- dive
- surf
- backpack, tent (wet cover, dry bags), sleeping bag, little stove & cooking eqp, mat, spices –> CAMPING
- horseback riding
- SLR (take water photos)
- exercise
- camera that works well in the dark
- rockclimb
- get formal clothing
- nice looking tops
- grow hair
- learn massage and have massage oils
- find a nice perfume (Lush?)
- buy nice underwear + lingerie
- dancing clothes
- pair of leather boots
- small flashlight
- work in a bookstore
- buy them bombachos/harem pants OR MAKE
- KNIT fun warm socks, fingerless gloves
- gumboots
- buy scarves
- KNIT a hat-scarf
- make incense holders
- belly-dancing belt – cuz its cool
- get pretty cushion covers
- knit a PONCHO
- NOVEL NOVEL NOVEL. WRITE WRITE WRITE
Cool Jobs (to aim towards)
- furniture making. some other craft (glass? metal?)
- anthro research and policy making (? not really cool)
- vet med and research
- (CENSORED CAUSE IT”S A GOOD IDEA) restaurant/baking
- other design/architecture
BRAINSTORMING LIFE
- use fucking planners
- figure out who will pay you t do stuff and teach you. horses, sheep, farming, weaving, diving, SAR dogs, carving, first aid, massage, working with cattle. –> WWOOF!!!
- SET UP A GOALS BLOG “Shooting for the moon. Set up goals give yourself ‘Karma point” if you accomplish
- have a goals picture book – one goal per page, put a photo in when you’re done
- MONEY a) track earning and spending in an excell sheet, b) DO NOT SPEND money if not for a goal/essential stuff. rand goals by priority, c) tell parents to tell everyone –> no more gifts, rather set up an account/give cash
- Buy books for info on cooking (collect recipes) hiking etc. read, learn, try out
- PUT TOGETHER THE “How do you do that again” book/folder – origami, knitting/bracelets, food, cocktails, tie tying, random tips and tricks, DIY stuff
Senior Year
- PE – west coast, horseback riding, rockclimbing
- outing club
- DO NOT GET into a RELATIONSHIP
- save up money
- get recc letters from profs
- get more involved with the house
- knit a sweater
- THESIS
- keep looking for jobs/internships
- do sth for trips and/or be an intl mentor
And then there were many more scribbles that don’t have much to do with this blog (send postcards? make a copy of tax documents, etc).
But this is basically it. Some of the ideas are a bit older (like the “How do you do that again?” book). I guess the lists are more or less self explanatory and do showcase the purpose of the blog. I’ll set up goals for myself (from visiting friends and getting enough sleep to finishing a sweater and calling my mom), and set up a Karma point system which will keep track of how I’m doing. I’m also gonna post info on how to make things I like to make, so It’s easily accessible to me, and to you if you wanna be like me. Finally, I’ll try to write down information I find while researching stuff like motorcycles or diving. I’ll also write about my novel, about music that I like and all that fun stuff blogs are for. Hopefully, I’ll be keeping track of how I’m growing/changing/stagnating/wasting time online. I will refer to this paragraph in case I forget why I have a blog in the first place.
Hopefully, this blog will last longer than all the others which I started and which are now in the broad cemetery of blogs with lest than five posts, blogs that got started with even more enthusiasm than this blog is growing out of and still, died. A moment of silence for all of those blogs. And a moment of happiness for all of those blog authors who decided they have much better things to do in lives, then to write a blog.
Love,
kapowai
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