life update.

So much has happened, in so little time.  I look back to even a year ago and I see how much I've grown up, and it's weird.  I still don't know what I want out of life, but sometimes it's better to sit back and smell the flowers for awhile.  It's good to have goals, but I think it's also important to live a little, to not make those goals the entire driving force of life.  I don't want to look back and realize that in the rush to move life along, I missed something or someone.  Sometimes I like to list the firsts I have accomplished in a year.  This last year, I had my first promotion at a job, I had my first relationship, am going through my first break up, had some firsts I don't particularly want to mention... got my first moving violation.  (I had my first and only parking ticket for parking outside of my own house in California a few years ago... so this wasn't my first ticket, just my first, well, speeding ticket.)  Last year, I painted my room for the first time ever.  This week, I repainted part of it.  I sent something as classified mail for the first time... and took a driver's safety course for the first time.  (Ah, Texas and getting rid of speeding tickets.)  I also went to the emergency room for the first time on July 4.  Not my emergency, but my dad's.  He is doing much better.  For the first time ever, also, I have had to fight with bed bugs.  I have never dealt with these before and they are the most annoying creatures on the planet.  My hand and arm were covered with bites this morning.  I have been washing my sheets almost daily, constantly cleaning, and sprinkling/dumping diatomaceous earth in select spots around my bed and room.  I hate this and I hate them with a passion.  I declare war.  And I plan to win.