Universal Truths

So, I have come up with some universal truths lately that should have probably taken me a lot less time than 26 years to figure out. Oh well.

1. If you never put anything on your floor than the floor will not accumulate all your crap. For a week I lived by the rule that nothing could be put on the floor that didn't belong there. For example, laundry. I kept my room clean for a whole week!  It took one day to destroy my new found glory when I had to rush and get ready for a weekend away and did laundry in a hurry. Never fear though my friends, after this week of blissful cleanliness, I couldn't stand my room with stuff on the floor so I immediately cleaned it. Habit successfully formed!!!!!!!!!

2. Putting off paying for stuff makes you spend more in the long run. I'm not a penny pincher although I probably should be. However, I don't like to spend money on anything really. Unless I can eat it. Unfortunately, I hate spending more than $20 at a time, so sometimes grocery shopping has seemed like an expensive endeavor. But, I have come to the realization that if I spend more money on groceries than I won't spend as much on going out to eat. This habit is taking a little more time to develop since I love going out to eat. Also I put off buying essentials like lotion, shampoo, make-up until it is absolutely necessary to buy them. I therefore, end up buying them all at the same time which puts a cramp in that weeks pay. No bueno. Had I not been a tight-wad all along it wouldn't have been a problem.

3. I'm only as happy and social as I want to be. I've always considered myself a social butterfly but lately I've been content to just staying in and doing whatever comes to mind with my roomies or with my fam. While these are both good options, they might not be best. I tend to get re-energized by people and therefore have missed that rejuvenation. Also apparently people think we are a clique. Whatever the heck that means. Really people, I'm just sitting in my apartment waiting for you  to come play with me. I know that's not how it works but I'm hoping that one day it will. :)

4. I can literally do anything I set my mind to if I'm willing to do the work to get there. I used to not actually believe this one. Sadly. It just hit me recently though. Pretty cool if you think about it.

I'm sure there are loads of others I've learned. These are just a few of them. Enjoy!

Life Plan

Soooo, every once in a while I come up with a new life plan. I've had a lot of different ones in my lifetime but now I feel like is the time to actually pursue one. I'm starting school again in April which is a huge and scary step for me. I just have to keep my eye on the prize which is actually moving forward in life. I've played around with a couple of different majors in my college career. Now I feel like I actually know what I want to do with life. I've always wanted to travel the world, even though traveling gives me somewhat of anxiety. We're just going to ignore it and it will go away right? : /

So here's the newest Danielle life plan. Obviously, finish college is the natural first step of the life plan. My decision about what to do springboards the rest of the life plan though. So that's semi-scary. I've always liked Anthropology and I'm still leaning towards that, but I'm also looking into International Relations. I want to meet the people of this world. I want to help them out, I want to find out what makes them tick. I also want to serve my country in any way possible. I think I'll go to Law school after my undergrad and maybe study international law. I would love to work in the Government and maybe even the FBI. I know, I know, I should probably stop watching Criminal Minds. Just hear me out though....

I think I definitely want to go to law school. It just is the best option for getting the most out of my education. I also want to study languages, right now I'm leaning towards Arabic. Which let's be honest, this day and age is going to make me super useful to the Government. I'm down with that. I don't know why, there is just something that intrigues me about law enforcement and something that pulls me that way. Whether that be in a courtroom, or out in the field, I don't know. Maybe it's because I am my Father's daughter and it's in my blood. Military family with two military police officers is bound to rub off on someone right? We'll well see where the wind takes me. All I know is either way and whichever direction I take, I want it to be overseas. I just feel a pull and I gotta go with it right?

Goals

So I have a lot of these. Unfortunately, I'm terrible at not only goal setting but also goal achieving. For instance, I have a goal to go to bed early and get up early. It is now 12:33 AM and I am blogging. I guess you could say I'm achieving my goal of blogging more........
I did however accomplish one goal today. I learned how to curl my hair!!! Be excited people! I will therefore be dressing my head up with all sorts of fancy curls. One might ask how a girl gets to be 26 years old and cannot curl her own hair. Well I simply blame the two older sisters I have. It was clearly their duty to teach us younger siblings how to tame the wild tresses. Unfortunately, my sisters grew up in the 80's, which led to learning how to curl only my giant bangs (not pretty). I think I was the first one in my family to own a straightener, a great crime. This also goes along with my goal to be more feminine. I need to better about dressing up, accessorizing, decorating, and just good old fashioned girlying it up. I'm not girly by nature, so this presents a challenge. Clearly, since it took me 26 years to figure out how to curl my hair properly. Sad. I have all these visions in my head of how I want to dress, fix my hair, and decorate my room, it just doesn't translate to real life well.
Therefore, another goal is born. Learn how to take the things in my head and put them into real life. We'll see how this goes.