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Act 172:

“It’s never too late… To Live For Today

Only today is certain. We’re not guaranteed tomorrow. Plan for tomorrow. But live in the present.” – Patrick Lindsay

Quote in book: “No Time like the present.” ~ Proverb

I made it 172!! Not bad for someone who has never considered herself to be a writer nor have I ever really wanted to be one. Although I don’t really consider this writing…. It’s not fiction. It’s not really journaling (which I never did as a girl…I was too lazy) because I’m writing with the expectation that people are going to read it. It’s like a written documentary of my life every day while certain topics come up.

This is the blog to reminisce about the last 6 months. 6 months of blogging. 6 months of Acts that were supposed to change my life. 6 months of life changing events. 6 months full of new friends and new attitudes. For those that haven’t been paying attention. This blog started out because I read an entry by Erin Kelly where she (searching for inspiration herself) vowed to blog on each Act in the book It’s Never Too Late… 172 Simple Acts To Change You Life

So, let’s look at my plan from 6 months ago.

Blog about every act in the book It’s Never Too Late… 172 Simple Acts To Change Your Life. – CHECK! I was supposed to finish on 3 Nov, but I decided to take a 16 day vacation from blogging because I went on a European vacation. However, this is Act 172… so DONE baby. WHOO!
Stop Playing Farmville – CHECK! I’m pretty sure I did that within the first month
Pre-order Waking Madison – -CHECK! It’s a great movie. Go check it out.
Support Rock Rose Entertainment by doing one and/or all of the following: Donate $$ (just like I did for Face2Face Movie), go to an ICCE or Hitching Post Theater Event. –Not yet complete. I still haven’t decided how to do this one. I really wanna go to a Hitching Post Theater Event. But, I also wanna support one of the films coming out, but I wanna invest my money in the right one. Not just force it, just to get this one checked off. In other news, I met Erin during Kat’s Power Up Awards Ceremony.
Organize a UCI Merage Alumni Reunion. – Sadly Not yet complete – I still miss all of you, but I’ve been so busy and travelling like a crazy person, that I haven’t had the time. New Year’s Resolution??
Lose a total of 25 pounds this whole year – Disappointed I’m still not done w/ this one. I still have about 1/5 months left in the year, but it’s Holiday season, which means… EAT EAT EAT!!!
De-Clutter my apartment by scanning all the paper: - This is a long term goal, but I’ve started. It’ll probably take me at least a year to finish this, but I spent about 3 wknds doing this in the past 6 months. I know that doesn’t sound like I’d be able to get it done in a year, but if I focus on it. I think I really could do it.
Finish the GLEE DVD project I started before my dad died: Not completed – This is also going to be one of those things that I need to focus on to get accomplished. I’m about ½ way done.
Finish the key architecture by working w/ SE&I – SO ANNOYED this is not completed – but this one is out of my control. There are people who I’m working with who are making this difficult. I’ve done everything I can in this area. You’d think that we could get it done in 6 months, but it looks like that was too hard to do.
Find a special way to celebrate my bday this year – Again, not complete- but my bro and my mom and I found a great way to spend our vacation and honor my dad the best we could. We had an amazing time. If you’re interested in looking at what happened during the trip, I posted my emails from the trip.

All in all my percentage sucks. 3/10? It’s a little unfair, because some of those are long term goals. But admittedly, I lost sight of some of these in the 6 months. I still have a chance to complete them and bring that percentage to 9/10. That’s not bad. So, what was I doing in these past 6 months that has kept me from completing my plan? Well, I was out completing these Acts.

Let’s do an awards type assessment of the Acts.

Favorite Act: Have A Happy Childhood - it was so nice reminisce about my childhood. The trivia in this one is the best
Least Favorite Act: Walk The Kokoda Track – I know WD tried to help me understand this one, but I had the hardest time trying to figure this one out.
Most Unlike Original Intent Act: Run A Marathon – I totally cheated by talking about a Glee-A-Thon instead of actually running a marathon, cause I’ll never complete an actual marathon.
Longest Act: Take A Trip – Because of all the pictures that was a really long entry.
Shortest Act: Find Your True Talent - I didn't really have much to say on this one.
Most Life Changing Act: Plant A Tree – This was the most life changing, because I actually feel like we accomplished something. We raised over $3000 and that’s over 3000 trees! -
Most Different Act: Enjoy The Rain – This one I did using links to You Tube videos of songs. It took forever, but I ended up being happy w/ it.
Best Titled Act: Share Wisdom - Come On Confucius Hook Me Up
Most Clever Trivia Act: Help Someone – I did trivia on just one song.
Most Political Act: Take A Stand – I bitched about Gay Rights. I still feel very strongly about this issue!
Best Advice Act: Cut Your Loses – I feel like this was the best advice I gave in one of the blogs over the last 6 months.

In retrospect, it’s been a crazy 6 months. My life has completely changed.

I have expanded my group of friends to include the Face2Face family and the Kat Pack. I’m friends with Kat Brooks and am involved with her last and next movie. How awesome is that?

I’ve changed my attitude towards life. I know a lot of this has got to do w/ my father’s death which was 4 months before I started this blog, but I was practically numb for the first 4 months after his death. It was only after started this blogging adventure that I really started noticing the change.

I removed all the negative influences in my life. I’m so much happier. All the energy suckers in my life are no more. It’s not that I don’t talk to them anymore, it’s just that I’ve limited my interaction with them and I’ve limited my outings w/ them as well

I’ve been hesitant to mention this next thing, but the other biggest change in my life is that I’m dating someone. It’s pretty serious (even only after 4 months) I’ve been very quiet about talking about this in the blog series, because I know that this blog series is something that I may want to turn into a book someday and that I will keep forever. I didn’t want to taint that by talking about a relationship that I was unsure if it would become anything. But I’m confident enough to say that I think it will last. If it doesn’t, I’m willing to take that chance by mentioning it now. For many of my friends, don’t be surprised or upset that I didn’t tell you. I’ve been keeping it quiet from everyone except my immediate family and a very select few. I usually don’t talk about my relationships before the 6 month mark. But everything about this relationship is different. It’s long distance, but I’ve never been closer to anyone in my life. I’m super happy and it has everything to do with this relationship. Shout out to you, babe. You know how I feel about you. :*

Over the last 6 months, I’ve learned a lot about myself and about some of you who comment and read these. In the course of writing about these 172 Simple Acts, my life has definitely changed. I will be forever changed by doing this blog series and I hope that you have been, too (even if it was just a little bit. Finally, I’d like to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all. There’s too many to name, so yes… I’m gonna us a blanket statement!! Thank you to all of the people who have helped me plant a forest, given me ideas, helped me w/ titles, and most importantly read these blogs. Thank you for making me feel like someone cares about what I have to say. You have no idea how much this means to me. I love you all… Family and Friends.

Here’s your last trivia of the series….

10 Points: Name the Musical and the Song of the lyrics referenced in the title and in the beginning of the blog.