I haven't blogged in a long time. One thing I have learned is: it's much easier to start a blog, then to sustain one. Especially when you start it with a part time job. So as Decemeber came and went and my post-work computer comma's set in I wasn't sure what to do about my little old blog. Keep it going? I just couldn't find the motivation. Then, a few days ago, my "tweep" (for those of you unfamiliar - aka: mom - that means like a "twitter friend") Angela passed along a site that she said reminded her of me. "The Year of Practical Thinking" by GILES TURNBULL
Giles did something that I think would helped me stay on track. He kept things simple. So from now on, I will continue to record what I learn, but I will try to keep it simple so I don't have to stress about whether I have time to write or not. To begin this journey I will start with a recap of things I have learned but haven't had time to blog about.
The End of 2010's Life Lessons:
- If your nipples chafe while running to the point of bleeding it is a running term called "Red 11's". Sick, I know. (I'm not a runner, so NO, I did not learn this from experience.)
- The Helen DeVos Children's Hospital is aiming to go completely PAIN FREE in 2011. That means even the insertion of needles for iv/sedation/etc. will be completely painless. I think that is incredible.
- A "tompion" is a small pellet made out of mud and saliva which a bear inserts into his booty before hibernating for the winter, to stop the ants getting in. (I can't verify that. But it was recently in a book I read...I wish I could remember which one...)
- That you can play darts at Cambridge House downtown
- That darts can give you a sore elbow for roughly 4 days. I can verify that, 100%.
- That even when you buy Orbitz.com's "Price Assurance" what you're really getting is a cash-back deal if someone else books the same flight. Not a different airline, at the exact same time. $200 mistake.
- That turtles can live with wheels as their legs.
- That 30 Rock is much funnier than I gave it credit for, for the past 6 seasons.
- (More somber note) There are 1,350 *documented* homeless students in Grand Rapids Public Schools.
- The number of vacant homes in Grand Rapids has gone up 66% since 2008.
- Between 2004-2010 18,000 homes in Kent County were foreclosed on (1 in 11). 8,000 of those were in Grand Rapids... (1 in 7 homes).
On that note, I have officially decided to stick with my decision to blog for a year. We can have this conversation again in August. Stay tuned, friends.
- Lizzie