Late Week Nines - Part 3

Fifty things I'm proud of.

1. Opening my writing enough to be comfortable in it.
2. Attacking the sestina!
3. Surviving the divorce of my parents and not faltering into a false sense of depression or self entitlement from the endeavor.
4. Training my dog to hi-five me, even if it’s not accurate.
5. Saving and making it to Disneyland in 2011.
6. Being with Matt for four and a half years.
7. Shaving my head and growing it back to ¾ the previous length, at present.
8. My consistent GPA of 3.0+
9. I’ve written three short stories that are well enough to stand on their own.
10. I can cook.
11. Taking that life-drawing course, doing my best.
12. Learning more through the application of hard work and perseverance.
13. I have perhaps never read so many novels in my life at one sitting as I had in college, even in my own time, which is exciting.
14. Well, I do read a lot, so perhaps I have and perhaps this is a falsehood, but at least I’ve read new things.
15. Finding enough confidence in my ability to tackle/conquer what I had previously considered impossible.
16. Redefining impossible.
17. Who’s working on learning Spanish very, very slowly? This person!
18. Trying to plan a future. It’s a sketch but I’m working on it.
19. Being able to work with the inevitable and unforeseen. Things happen, keep moving.
20. Keeping moving even when I feel like the sky is falling.
21. I make a mean apple pie.
22. Alternatively, I make an amazing grilled cheese.
23. I can draw a person in five minutes, proportionally.
24. I have not succumbed to any personal illness of defeat.
25. I know when I can or cannot do things; But I press myself anyway. Some things are important.
26. I finally watched Psycho, among a whole host of other films that were on my to-do list.
27. My to-do list is getting shorter by the day, this is nice.
28. I’m not too bad at writing things, and for this I’m at least a little proud, and a little egotistical.
29. I don’t feel too bad about being prideful.
30. I don’t boast, however. One has to be humble.
31. I have opened my mind and read more ‘classic’ works of literature. It’s been interesting. A little stale in some areas, but interesting.
32. I have helped some of my dear friends through hard times. I am proud to be called their friends.
33. I have made new friends in areas into which I would not have previously ventured, and they are all incredibly dear to me.
34. I wrote some pretty nice poems. That was fun.
35. I was able to assist my mum over the summer in a variety of house projects.
36. I can overcome my fears, demons, or worries through discussion and writing, more-so than through hiding them away.
37. I’m in college; I can conquer the world, right?
38. Okay, not so much, but I’ve newfound confidence in myself nonetheless.
39. I have worked hard steadily all the time I’ve been here.
40. I’ve been to a couple of conventions in costume/character and they’ve each been a success!
41. I have better determined my political stance through my own research and learnings.
42. I do not need to be influenced by any one person or persons to make my own opinions, and to make them known.
43. I know that, when I see something I do not agree with, I can say so.
44. I have a voice of conviction, and I can use it.
45. I was in a small movie, and it was tons of fun.
46. I am, and will be, going places.
47. I have nearly completed this list, and have 50 things to be proud of.
48. I can see things from the points of views of others, and respect their knowledge and experience while comparing it to my own.
49. Furthermore, I understand and can discuss the importance in being able to do so.
50. I am happy, and there is no reason to feel otherwise.
51. My darling boyfriend, for all the work he has done, and the wonderful, amazing production he directed this past weekend.