confessions...

We've done it before and I think we should do it again.

It's time for confessions! Origen said, Confession is the vomit of the soul. So it's about time we purge.

I'll go first. Please don't leave me hanging, friends.

• One time I hit a parked car and left the scene. [I was seventeen.]
• I cheated in my French class sophomore year of high school during my midterm. [I still have trouble sleeping over that one.]
• I ripped the pay phone off the wall of Stauffer Hall at Whitter College and never told anyone. [I'm telling you.]
• I threatened my sister's life after she hacked a loogie and it landed on my forehead. [It was disgusting. You would've too.]
• I tried being bulimic multiple times. [I just couldn't do it.]
• I Googled my ex-boyfriend a year ago just to see what he was up to. [It was pathetic. I know.]
• I stole Jasmine's Isabella Fiore purse over a month ago. [She doesn't even know it's gone.]

Now it's your turn. Keep it real...

Note: As always, you can comment in anonymity. But don't be chicken! I ain't gonna throw stones. I'll leave that to the Pharisees :)

the list...

I don't do resolutions. It's just too much pressure and one more thing to add to my to-do list. Today, however, I was reading my daily devotions and I came across Genesis 18:14 and I realized, nothing is too hard for my God. I immediately grabbed my journal and wrote down my goals for 2010. Why? Because nothing is too hard for my Lord.

I'll revisist this list in December and my hope is to scratch a line through each of these goals. If we can be people who commit everyday to change the world, we'll leave the world a better place one day at a time.

The List:

1. Create world peace and end hunger.

*Or at least try to.

2. Be healthy, happy, and content with my weight.

*No more binges, wacky diets, four-hour workouts, or genetically modified foods.

3. Read two books a month.

*One book to strengthen my character, one book for mind-rotting entertainment.

4. Find an agent who believes in me.

*God bless you, Chad Cannon!

5. Create and produce curriculum for the summer series that's fantastically amazing and spiritually inspiring.

*Or even a small fraction of that :)

6. Be financially wise and frugal.

*In being financially wise, I'd like to sponsor a child in a third world country and help domestically by investing in a non-Christian family near me.

7. Be emotionally stable.

*I'm a dramatic ledge-walker. This is not cool.

8. Love out loud.

*Even people who don't wear deodorant or drive too slow on the freeway.

9. Live out loud.

*People should be able to see my faith and my Maker through my life... even when I don't use words.

10. Build a community of people who want to change the world one day at a time.

*Yes, this includes you.

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five things i love but don't want to...

Some people are effortlessly cool. I, on the other hand, must really try hard. You know, try to be witty, try to be suave, try to be composed when really I'm desperately trying to find that happy place of assurance in my mind. People like Promise Tangeman just are cool. Like, really, really, ridiculously cool [said like Zoolander]. Promise has a reoccurring post on her blog about the five things she loves each season. I told her I was going to copy her idea, but when non-cool kids try to be cool, it somehow ends up flat. So, I'm embracing Nerdom and creating my own version of "five things."

Five Things I Love But Don't Want To:

1. CalorieCount.com. Using this data-base you can plug in virtually any food and it'll tabulate your caloric intake. It'll also allow you to chart your weight loss, exercise routine, and help you target your necessary calories.

Why I hate it: I'm OCD and I'll become a bit too obsessed with trying to calculate my caloric intake. By the end of the day, I almost always go over my calorie amount and feel like calling my friends Ben and Jerry to bring spoons to the couch so we can commiserate.

2. Pink Grapefruit Perrier. I try not to drink carbonated liquids, but there is something about this sparkling water that I adore! I literally drink it out of the bottle like a parched man in the Sahara desert.

3. iPhone and apps. My iPhone is literally the bane of my existence. I don't want to love it, but I can't get rid of it. It's like a three-legged puppy with one eye; you don't want to like it, but it's almost neglectful to ignore it. I'm trying to work on turning it off just as an act of discipline. But yes, I twitch until it's back on.

4. Reality TV. Ugh, I know, I know. Reality television isn't real. But that's why it's better than real life. Hello?! I'm smart enough to know that game shows are rigged, scripts are surreptitiously memorized, and drama in injected to every episode, but that's what make it fun.

5. Hulu. My schedule pretty much doesn't allow time for television, but now there's this handy-dandy website that is AMAZING. Thanks Hulu for letting me waste the few free minutes I have on mind-rotting trash. You're the best!

So at the end of my day you'll find me sitting on my couch drinking Perrier out of the bottle, twittering on my iPhone, and tabulating my calories while watching reality TV on Hulu. So spill it! What are your five things you love but don't want to? I dare you!