its been an even longer while....

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..... so, im gona jump right into it.

WEDNESDAY
this was a small one. i tried blue cheese dressing on my chicken wrap. #fail. i'll continue to do without lol

THURSDAY
today, i redeemed my "thank you" points from my bank. not sure if i want to consider this as a something new experience, but i indeed have never done this before lol. i diiiiid however have a more exciting experience! russian chocolate! AAAAMAZING!
so the squirrel on the wrapper kinda weirded me out, but there were nuts in it.... i.e. the squirrel i guess lol but it was good.



FRIDAY
more Russian chocolate!!! this was even better than the last. now, the camel on the wrapper, not gona lie, questionable. wtf? a camel? don't know what that could represent. neither did the Russian guy that brought them into my job lol. but, they were good as heck.


SATURDAY
another relatively small win..... tried the potato skins at applebee's lol #win


SUNDAY
I baked a red velvet cake from scratch!!! PIYAAHH!! i think it turned out really well. and, according to the bday boy, it was great, so im not being partial lol

its been a while....

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.... but i've got a few new experiences to share!
so friday was my last post. that gives me FOUR days to catch you up on!! check me out.......

SATURDAY
can't quite say the new thing i tried today. but it resulted in great convo lol
not everything is for yous guys to know! lol

SUNDAY
let's begin with.... my food doesn't have a face. ever. lol for the first time, i tried food from Nagasaki, a west indian restaurant not too far from my house. we got jerk chicken and pork, rice and beans, wee bit of cabbage, and these babies

yeah. lol so, the guy ive been dating eats the whole freakin thing. eyes, feelers and all. then he'll just spit out the shell for the most part...... i want to gag at just the thought of this (again) but, i try not to yuck other peoples yummies. being that this "try something new" thing is a bit new in itself, i compromised with myself and decided to take baby steps. i started by picking one (the only one) without a freaking face. lol BIG step. next took off the shell which had the legs n crap all attatched (insert shiver here), cleaned it out a bit, and i was good to go.....

took a bite

didn't like it.
lol i'd NEVER seen shrimp w faces! who knew! i don't think i knew what an actual shrimp look like. so today was a double whammy. one. this, dana, is what an actual shrim looks like. two. i don't like them with the head attatched.... even if i unattatch the head lol


MONDAY
today was quite a lesson in disguise. didn't see it coming. started out with me about to paint my toe nails. simple task. the guy im dating asked me to give him a manicure.... kinda. all i did was cut and shape them really (about time too lol). anyway, for like the first three nails, im cutting as little as i can with each snip. im scared as all begezus that im gona cut too low and hurt him. the whole time im cutting and bout to break a sweat, this guy is fallin asleep. and it hit me. he has absolute faith in me. he's not worried about me hurting him. he trusted me. now, yeah, it sounds insignificant, and unimportant, but think about it. how often do people trust you with something that you yourself doubt yourself on? honestly, it didn't hit me until today. initially, it was just a new experience. doing a guys nails. cute. but i learned so much more from it. it turned out to be a life lesson -- i should trust myself more. im not gona screw up as many times as i think i will. sometimes it pays to just let go and listen to your instincts. they're right a lot of the time! who would have guessed, that cutting someone's nails turned into a learning experience where i was able to learn something about myself?
today's lesson: trust yourself, someone else trusts you.



TUESDAY
cosmos!!!
i've had this cosmo mix in my liquor cabinet for who knows how long.

never cracked it open. don't know what gave me the push, but i went for it. they turned out GREAAATT!! lol today's experience wasn't anything spectacular. but i must say, i did enjoy it. not big on cosmos in general, but, i think ima a fan now lol

day one....

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hi guys. initially, todays experience was supposed to be waking up early and walking w the dogs. i never do a long walk in the am w them. im far from being a punctual person, and the last thing i have time for in the am is a long walk. so as i rolled out of the bed 20 mins before i was supposed to leave the house for work, i quickly scratched that off the list. lol i did however, complete something different today. i had two important convos, w two dif people. sounds uneventful, but in each situation, i said what needed to be said, even though i didn't quite want to. i stepped outside of my comfort zone today. TWICE! baby steps guys lol. and there's still time in the day for more!! i won't go into detail about who the people were or what was discussed, but im sure you'd be proud of me. 8:0)
day one, success.

the longest journey begins with a single step.....

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i've come up with really great ideas, plenty of times in my life. grandiose and elaborate schemes to accomplish this or that. but, i generally never follow through. most of my ideas stay just that. ideas. for a while i've wanted to blog but could never come up with something that i would stick to. so finally, i think i've decided on something that should be RELATIVELY easy for me to stick to (lol).........

me.

i like me. and im working on unconditionally, wholeheartedly, unequivocally, best-thing-ever loving me. in 37 days im going to be 25yrs old. for me its quite a milestone. growing up i always saw myself being midway into the dream of my job (soon to turn into an actual career), working someplace in NYC, and making easily 50k by 25. presently, i borderline hate my job, live in long island, and am def NOT making 50k lol.

at this point in my life, im ready to find out what really makes me happy. what makes me tick, and keeps me going. to accomplish this, im going to do something new everyday until my bday. this is quite impromptu, but i figure why the hell not. i'll be enlisting the help of my friends and any random blog readers for suggestions on things to do. im welcome to ANY suggestion, but def have more sense than to undertake them all lol. (i know my friends lol.)

i'd really appreciate if you guys could comment on my posts and suggest different things i can add to my list of things to do. id also appreciate if you guys could check in on my blog and see how im doing along the way. everything is easier with support. but most importantly, don't forget to leave some feedback!!

so -- sit back, relax, or hell; stand up and exert yourself lol. but hopefully we can enjoy this adventure together.

here's to self improvement, and self love.

ms.vixin