My Birthday

This is the last week of living at home, before moving out and making my own home to live in. Quite exciting and perhaps a little scary, which just shows that I'm moving in the right direction.

So many feeling of joy and excitement are pulsating in me. I am eager to be done with cleaning bathroom and kitchen and finally starting to set up our decor and various other things. I am glad that we are taking this step forward and am looking forward building a nice place, a home with Michelle. Unpacking, setting up, putting food in a pantry, hanging with cats. All good things. Just started watching Nurse Jacky, TV show.

I sometimes find myself unable to occupy my free time, but I understand that I still can read and even paint, i just need some space to do so. I can go to the Black Rock Library for some internet.

Made some delicious soup on 21st, out of veggies, homemade chicken broth, fried onions n potatoes. Even michelle loved it. I added a little red chili pepper for a great spice play. I'm salivating just by typing about this super soup!

Boston College nostalgia. It has been 9 months since i have graduated, but i often receive relevant and not so relevant emails from the community. Undergrad was so much fun and learning, I would like to continue to have a connection to Chestnut Hill.

(Feb 24th) The day before my birthday? I'm really excited to read what i wrote in my birthday journal on my 23rd day of birth. I'm also eager to fill pages with my present thoughts and current influences. Is it weird, that i can not wait to get old? i understand that no matter our outlook, we all get older at the same rate, but if I anticipate my age, I feel that i would get a kick out of getting what i want - age. I am quite a reflective person and i think more people should listen to their thoughts, record them, and come back to it sometime later. Our view points change, we get influenced by random factors of life and if we don't take a minute and acknowledge and notice it, we might fall into a trap of thinking we have always been the way we are now. This is not true. Another great thing about reflections is that when i do eventually get old, say in my 50s and 60s, I would be able to look back at my 20s and even re-live the experiences i did have through words i put on paper or computer. Perhaps this is another reason i am excited to be old.

i am living fully now and am planning on doing so until the very last day I breathe. Nobody can take away my experiences, even if my memory fades, the letters I put will live, maybe long enough for my children and grandchildren to see and read and smile and what kind of person I was, what my values were and how weird it was to live in the world not riddled with technology to the extent our future will be :)
Current Books from the library:
1. What the dog saw and other adventures [sound recording] / Malcolm Gladwell
2. The war of art [sound recording] : winning the inner creative battle / by Steven Pressfield
3. A man, a can, a plan : 50 great guy meals even you can make! / by David Joachim and the editors of Mens Health
4. The blue zone : lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest / Dan Buettner
5. Material World : a global family portrait / by Peter Menzel ; text by Charles C. Mann ; introduction