Now What…?

Well I’m done with college, don’t have a full time job at the moment, and just over a month until I move from Wilmington… what to do, what to do?
I finally got my graduation portraits done! That’s one thing off my to do list… and by done I mean I went to a friends house, we set up the lighting, the tripod, and the camera and did the photos ourselves. I figured with my background in photography and my new tripod my Dad gave to me I could put together some good lighting and do portraits the cheap way. I wish the lighting was better but we did what we could and I have to say I’m pretty pleased! We also made it onto campus just as the sun was setting to get photos in front of the big seahawk that sits on a round-about. I wanted to get photos there on graduation day but there was an extremely long line that my family didn’t want to wait in because we had dinner plans. Of course, a few days ago when I went it was the coldest day of the whole week and I was in a skirt and tank top with nothing but my gown to keep me warm. We didn’t even bother with the tripod because it was sooooo cold and windy and the sun was setting so we would have lost light, so this was really a five minute shoot!

I have a huge to do list of things that should get done before I move, some more important than others like making sure my power & internet get turned off. These are things that I just don’t have energy to do… unfortunetly. I mean, who wants to stay on the phone for long amounts of time listening to music while you’re waiting to talk to a real person about something as simple as canceling your power! UGGGG, this is the part I dread about moving! Surprisenly I don’t mind the packing as much, though unpacking the boxes that hold stuff from an ENTIRE apartment into my bedroom at home may be an issue.
I have a feeling this next month and a half are going to go bye entirely too fast! I’m planning to pack some boxes and do a drive home by the end of this month so I can at least get a head start on moving.
Speaking of getting a head start on things, I have other goals that I’ve started but haven’t gotten done yet. New Years Resolutions are not for me! In 2009 I decided not to make New Year Resolutions anymore and instead focus on yearly goals. I just feel that if I have resolutions & I don’t accomplish them than I get upset at myself. If they are goals though than I won’t be that upset if they don’t get done. I don’t start these goals on New Years either, I feel like so many other people start ‘resolutions’ & ‘goals’ on January 1st that it’s just too much pressure on me to compete with the rest of the world. Instead I make a ‘Things to do Before my Birthday’ list. If I don’t get stuff done than it just carries onto my next birthday list, but I do try really hard to get almost everything done.
I’m currently knocking stuff off of my ’24 Things to do Before I Turn 24′ list. (WOW, just typing that makes me feel old…. 24?!?!?! ::sigh:: ) Some of the big things I want to get done, in the next eight months may I remind you, is to run TWO half marathons, finish the ‘Hunger Games’ series (still on book one), detail plan my trip to Austraila & New Zealand (& hopefully buy a ticket), finish my photography portfolio, complete my oversea scrapbooks, etc. I guess those are the things I am SUPER excited about on this list. These are the more fun things too, believe it or not there are more ‘I should really get this done soon’ items on there too… like decide on graduate school and work-out a certain number of weeks (that took a tole when I broke my ankle & couldn’t do much of anything for awhile, but like I said, these are just goals so I don’t really get upset if something doesn’t get done… especially if it’s because I broke a bone!).
I feel like life is just full of ‘to-do’ list. “Things to do before I move out”, “Things to do before I turn 24″, “Things to do before the end of the week”, etc. Will these lists ever end??? I have a feeling a know the answer to that question… :/

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