2008/2009 Lessons Learned

Last year, around this time, I posted a blog on my Lessons Learned for the first-half of 2008.  As many of you expected, I never came through on finishing out this list for 2008 but I have compiled a list (starting from where I left off last July) that should bring you all up to date on many of my stupid mistakes and ah-ha moments over the last year...

• Six days is a really long time to go without washing your hair.
  
• Loving Los Angeles is entirely possible.
  
• Even after a long hiatus, I am still pretty good at school.
  
• Some people can do some pretty amazing things with Craigslist.
  
• I am really gay, or at least according to Google.
  
• My family is fun, dorky and highly inappropriate.
  
• Vomiting on Santa Monica Boulevard may be a funny story to tell but is never classy.
  
• Yes, we will.
  
• Most of the time big white vans are manned by rapists and kidnappers, but every once in a while Jesus takes the wheel.
  
• You do not really get a toaster oven.
  
• Never put your phone in your back pocket – or at least not when you are about to use the restroom.
  
• I can live on a budget, without really trying.
  
• Most everyone is at least a little socially awkward.
  
• Cookies are much better than flowers.
  
• It does not matter how much time you have, it is never enough.
  
• As long as there is morphine and a cute girl, breaking your wrist can be a highly enjoyable experience.
• Roller-skating is like riding a bike.
  
• Playing softball is not like riding a bike.
  
• When people do double and even triple takes at your driver’s license, it is time for a new one.
  
• Mixed tape creation is a fine art.
  
• I am old enough to have had a friend for almost 20 years but I AM NOT “like 30.”
  
• I am very quotable.
  
• I can run 13.1 miles, and much faster then I would have ever imagined.
  
• Virtual farming is highly entertaining.
  
• Cupcakes are as delicious at 26 as they were at 5, yogurt is even better.
  
• Some people think I am a real Bad-Ass
  
• When you realize your little sister is a grown up it makes you really sad and really happy all at once.
  
• “Tiny” and “stick figure” can be words used to describe me.
  
• I am incapable of overcoming my addiction to coffee.
  
• Wearing a dress is not as scary as I remember.