Day 5- Your favorite comfort foods and why

This answer is short and sweet-- anything my grandma makes.  I love almost all of it (with very few exceptions) and its my favorite stuff in the world.  I love the way my mom and aunt and pretty much everyone else in my family cooks too, but there's just something special about grandma's food.  Makes me a very happy person. :)


Oh and ice cream on a bad day. Specifically Edy's Black Raspberry.  I would eat that all day everyday if I could, it's so perfect tasting.

Day 4- Your views on religion

This is so complicated for me to answer, so I'm just gonna skip this one.  :)

Day 3- Five pet peeves

1. Smacking lips while eating.  Or make other stupid noises.  Mostly just noisy eaters.
2. Popping gum.  No  one wants to listen to it.
3. People who don't say 'thank you' or 'you too' or respond at all when you do something nice for them or tell them to have a good day, etc.  clearly a pet peeve from working in customer service.  rude folks.
4. When my face is touched.  For some reason this really annoys me, probably because there's rarely a good reason for somebody to do so.
5. When people stop listening and respond with "mhmm" and other random noises so that you know they aren't listening.  Just hang up or make an excuse to stop talking.

I probably could think of more but I guess they are my top 5, with number 1 definitely being in the correct spot and the rest are kinda interchangeable.

Day 2- Where you'd like to be in 10 years

So I decided to take a break from working on my 25 page paper to answer this one.  I feel like I deserve it, as I'm finally at 15 pages, working on 16, so I'm well over halfway done!  Especially since I could 'get by' with 20 pages if need be.

Here we go...

I don't know exactly where I'd like to be in 10 years.  Everything I had planned for 20 didn't happen the same way I expected, and I'm sure everything I had planned for 25 won't happen as I planned it originally either.  I'm ok with that though, because overall my life is going in a great direction and I know what I want now better than I did at 10 or 15 planning for 10 years later.  I can throw out some ideas of what I hope my life will be like in ten years, but I'm doing this knowing that life takes crazy twists and turns and my life will probably be nothing like what I'd imagine now.  This could be a little bit easier for 5 years, as I'm in my graduate program for the next 3 and then a CF for my career for 1, so its a little more predictable, but I'll give 10 a shot....

Ideally, by that point I'd like to be married and have children.  I thought I always wanted children early, but hopefully by having them a little later in life I'll be more financially stable, have more patience, and also I'll get to do some of the things now that I wouldn't be able to do as often with children-- like travel!

I hope that 10 years from now I will have been able to see more places of the world.  I know realistically that I won't be able to visit every place that I'm curious about, but as long as I keep making efforts to travel and see new things, I'm ok with that.  Hopefully I'll be able to instill this passion into my children as well, as I think traveling is a great great GREAT eye opener.

In ten years, I will be about 7 years out of grad school, so I should have a pretty solid job.  Thankfully I'll be in a job that I am passionate about...how much better could it get?  Who knows what field I'll be in (within speech pathology).  If I chose to work in a 501c or at a school, hopefully in ten years I will only be 3 years off from having my loans re-payed in full-- what a wonderful thought!!

Mostly, in ten years I hope that I am still surrounded by friends and family.  Those are the people in my life that make everyday worth it, and no matter the situation, as long as I still have them, in 10 years my life will be pretty bright.

Day 1- Discuss your current relationship

Ok so I totally said I was going to the blog challenge starting in August, and then, well....I forgot.  So I figure I'll do it now.  I mean I'm living in the middle of nowhere and have a decent amount of time on my hands, so why not?

Discuss my relationship status.  Ready, go....

SINGLE

I can't decide how I feel about this.   Sometimes it's nice to be able to do what I want, whenever I want.  Other times I really miss the benefits of having a relationship with someone.

I honestly think that while I'm in graduate school the fact that I am not in a relationship will probably prove beneficial.  It'll be enough to maintain relationships with my friends and family and peers, let alone a romantic relationship that is new and needs extra nurturing.  I mean lets be real, my relationships with my family and friends are so old by this point, each one feels pretty effortless to maintain because they're all just part of who I am.  Also, if I was to date somebody new, they wouldn't necessarily know random tidbits about me that may be affected by the stress of grad school.  Like the fact that I'm fairly easygoing usually.  Or the fact that I'm not overly particular about most things in life-- just school when I'm on a roll and trying to do well.  I feel like so many of those random things could be fatal to a developing relationship.

I'm not saying that I would be against dating somebody if the opportunity came up.  But let's be real, I've been single for two years and it doesn't look like that'll be changing anytime soon.  Sometimes I think I'm too picky when it comes to guys, but I'll save that for another lengthy post....

Sometimes it's a little frustrating to be the single one, when every (and I mean everyone) on facebook nowadays seems to be engaged or married.  Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for all these people, especially my friends, but it's like a daily reminder to me that my life is still in an awkward place.  Oh well!

I think those are all my thoughts for now....