2015 & My Goals

So we're fifteen days into 2015 and I've already broken one of my major new year's resolutions, I bought Dr. Pepper for my apartment. I promised myself I was only going to drink Dr. Pepper when I went out to eat and I would drink water and tea at home. BUT I AM WEAK AND I BROKE. Anyways, me buying Dr. Pepper is not the point of this post. This post is going to be about 2015 and what I'm expecting and how I want it to be different from the previous years.

To be honest, I've always thought that new year's resolutions were dumb. I never really set any for myself because I knew that I wouldn't follow through with them. But this year I decided to actually set goals for myself.

• Live healthier: less junk food, less soda, more water, get active, feel better
• Look for the best in people: show grace in all situations, know that what I see may not be the only thing going on in someone's life, everyone has struggles and are trying.
• Look for the best in myself: try not to be so critical of myself and to be more confident
• Be kinder than I feel.
• Read more: reading stimulates your mind and it's fun and it helps me write better.
• Write more: yay for words
• Take action against injustice: Okay I'm not becoming a vigilante or anything but for too long we have remained silent about injustice simply because it doesn't necessarily affect us directly. I'm so over that
• Be intentional: It's so scary to be intentional. Like what if you get rejected?! Oh well. People matter. Relationships matter.
• Love unapologetically.

Something that's super cool about life and changing the way you live is that you don't have to wait until January 1 every year. Every day is a new start and you have the power and choice to change. So maybe you've broken one of your resolutions already. That's okay. Tomorrow is a fresh start and 2015 doesn't have to be as yucky as 2014 was. Don't be discouraged. Be kind. Drink lots of water. Don't let people walk all over you. You are incredible and 2015 is a blank page. Make something beautiful out of it.

Moving to Georgia & Other Adventures

You're probably wondering where I've been and why your newsfeeds haven't been clogged up with my Taylor Swift obsessed statuses and really dumb (me trying to be hella spiritual) blog posts. Fear not, friends. I just haven't had wifi for the last two weeks. I am alive and will be back to clogging up your feeds in no time.

I'm sure most, if not all, of you know that I recently packed up and moved to Marietta, Georgia to help out with a church plant here. Honestly, I don't think anyone was really surprised that I moved again, because let's be real, I could never really stay in Sulphur for long. Anyways, I made it back to Marietta on December 27 and my life has been insanely busy ever since.

But I thought I'd crash at Starbucks for a bit and take advantage of their free wifi and drink a cup of coffee. I've only been in Georgia about two weeks, but I've learned (or experienced) some weird things.

1. Atlanta has eight lane traffic and it scares me. A lot. Like how am I supposed to get over 73094 lanes to exit when THERE IS TRAFFIC OUT THE WAZOO. I'm not prepared for this.
2. Marietta has traffic lights every five feet. Like I spend more time at stop lights than I do actually driving.
3. I am nowhere close the being the hipster I thought I was. I look like a preppy sorority girl here. New wardrobe? I think yes.
4. It's cold here??? Like I walked out to my car this morning and it had ice all over it and I had no idea what to do??? What is ice? What are temperatures under 87 degrees? AM I IN ANTARCTICA 
5. Food gets expensive. Like hello I'm going to eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.
6. Deep southern accents are not satyrical here. PEOPLE ACTUALLY TALK THAT WAY.
7. We have a Gone with the Wind Museum??
8. I'd rather sleep than job hunt, but ya know, money.
9. I now humbly appreciate free meals and people being nice to me
10. Meeting new people is terrifying but necessary so I might as well suck it up and say hello
11. The Lord is incredibly faithful and He's stretching me and growing me, so let's do this

I'm also tired and want to sleep for 75 hours, so I'll get back with you.