You're Only In your 20's for a Decade!

Take advantage of your 20s

I read a blog today that made me think. I am living my 20s all wrong ;)

My favorites

1. Don’t feel the need to respond to every text message, phone call, and email the second it reaches you. Once upon a time, it took longer than a minute to reach someone. People used stamps and envelopes; they had answering machines they didn’t check for hours, sometimes days. No one will die if you don’t immediately respond to every message you receive.

2. Ask for what’s owed to you. Half the time, you’re not getting your needs met because you’re not making them known. Your employers, romantic interests, and friends are not going to read your mind and give you what you need unless you speak up.

3. Never turn down an open bar. Seek them out and make them a priority. Indulging in open bars when you’re older isn’t appropriate because a) people will think you have an alcohol problem and b) you’re supposed to have enough money to afford your own alcohol.

4. If you’re unhappy and someone offers you a way out, take it. You don’t owe your first job years of loyalty and your first-born; you don’t have to stay in your city just because you’re on a first-name basis with the bodega guy. Do what feels right; the initial fear will give way to excitement.

5. Take advantage of all the energy you have in your 20s. In your 30s and 40s, your body starts getting upset with you, when some 20-something babe is all, “Wanna race?” That’s not a concern when you’re in your 20s — don’t ever take it for granted.

6. Play a sport you played in elementary school. Kickball, dodgeball. There are leagues for these games now. Get on it.

7. Keep making friends. Everyone complains that it’s hard to make friends after college, but we still manage to find new people to flirt with and date, right? It’s not that hard. You know yourself better than you ever have before, and your friends can finally reflect that. Don’t cling to old friends because it’s too frightening or ‘risky’ to make new ones.

8. Stay up late. In your 20s, you’re all, “Let’s go to another bar!” “Who wants to eat at a diner?” “Have you guys seen the sun rise from the High Line?” “In this moment I swear we were infinite!” When you get older, this becomes, “What are you doing? Go home. Watch Parks and Rec and go to sleep. What is wrong with you, staying up all night? Who has time for that?” If you’re in your 20s, you do. You have all the time. Do it now and take advantage of how not tired you are. You think you’re crabby now when you stay up too late? You’ll never believe how terrible you feel when you do it in your 30s.

9. Savor those 20s hangovers. They are a gift from God so that you’ll always remember what your tolerance level is. Your hangover recovery time is like flippin’ Wolverine in your 20s. You wake up, feel like death, pull on some shades, gulp down coffee or maybe a bloody Mary and whine about your headache over brunch. Oh, boo hoo. When you’re older, every hangover is Apocalypse Freaking Now. You’re not making it to brunch. You’re not making it off your floor in a weeping puddle of regret.

10. Do ‘unacceptable’ things to your hair. Dye it. Dread it. Shave only the left side of your head and give a crap if it grows back in a flattering manner (hint: it won’t). There’s no time but now.

11. Sit down, unplug, and read non-fiction. Do this daily. None of your peers are doing it. They’re playing video games and refreshing Facebook and Gmail chatting about nothing in particular. After a month you’ll be smarter than all of them.

12. Take road trips. Sitting in a car for days on end isn’t something your body was designed to do forever.

13. Go to/host theme parties. Once people age out of their 20s, no one’s trying to wear pajamas or Saran Wrap out of the house. The only theme parties that exist after your 20s are ‘Wedding,’ ‘Baby Shower,’ and ‘Funeral.’

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/21-ways-you-should-take-advantage-of-your-20s/

Cryin' on a suitcase

Don't wait, don't think, don't lock the door behind you
Run and jump into your truck, hit the gas, burn some rubber up, your time's running out
Do it now, Take a shortcut, take a back road, take the shoulder to the exit, Skip the parking, screw the ticket, hit the curb and leave it sitting.
Whatever it takes, You gotta get to that gate

She's cryin' on a suitcase
Sittin' at the airport
Waitin' on the airplane
Bout to take her out of here
They're gonna call her number, She'll sit down by the window, The plane'll leave the runway, And fade into a goodbye sky, better run while you still got time

She's cryin' on a suitcase

Admit it boy you blew it, you really messed it up, You can make excuses if you really want to lose her, It's all on the line, do or die time, Getting on your knees time
Tell her that you want her, need her, love her, gotta have her, Everything good in your life begins and ends with her
Lose your pride while you can, Come on man be a man!!

She's cryin' on a suitcase

I will participating in Lent!

I have decided to participate in Lent.

I may not be of the Catholic religion but I think it’s a great tradition! Sacrifice something pleasant for 40 days. Take this time to look in the mirror, acknowledge my faults, appreciate the small things in my life that I normally would take for granted and, choose a happier, healthier lifestyle.

 I have chosen 3 things to give up, all of which have a great benefit to my health.

 Sacrifice #1 Hot Cheetos.

 If you know me well enough, you will know that I eat AT LEAST 3 bags of these bad boys a week. (Sometimes a bag a day!) When I was in high school I developed a disease called GERD. This makes it so my esophagus doesn’t shut like it should and anything acidy will trigger horrible pain. The doctor warned me that spicy food and anything with carbonation will always cause me pain and will most likely make it worse. I have been good about avoiding soda but Hot Cheetos, I couldn’t give those up. This decision will not only help the pain, it will also go hand in hand with my next sacrifice.

Sacrifice #2 Free Time for Gym Time!

Every day after work I go home and just sit. I pretty much do nothing since I’m not in school this semester and the weather is shitty. I pay for a membership and I’m letting it go to waste. I will give up 6-8 hours of free time each week to go to the gym. It may not seem like much but, with the busy schedule that Tesslynn and I have, this will be totally doable.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Sacrifice # 3 SMOKING!

 This isn’t just for the 40 days, this will be for good. I want to have a long healthy life style! This may not be considered a enormous sacrifice but it is a change for the better! It’ll make me appreciate the air I breathe, the air others breathe and most importantly the bad air that I am contributing to by smoking that my daughter has to breath. I will be able to keep up with Tesslynn is all her recreational activities in the future and I will feel like a million bucks.

 

Let the Lent begin!