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On preparing for what’s coming up….

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I think there are plenty of lessons that can be learned when looking back on a year lived. It’s natural (at least, I hope it is) to want to learn from our past and our mistakes and our accomplishments. For me, it’s hard to define the things that I learn in a year (unless I’ve been in school and then I can tell you pretty concretely what I’ve learned) so I end up reading about it from other people.

There’s this woman whose life story is pretty incredible and now she’s a wildly successful business owner who travels the world doing her thang. Recently, she posted a couple Top Ten Lists of lessons she learned during the course of 2011. So without further adieu, please click below and learn “Lewd Life Lessons” from ash Ambirdge (fair warning: She did title them LEWD, so don’t be surprised):

Lewd Lessons #1
Lewd(er) Lessons #2

Beyond the funny, some of those things really do ring true. I mean, who among us doesn’t need to be told that, hey, when you’re tired, there’s a reason! You should probably pay attention to that. At least, I know I should. It happened to me today, actually. Five hours of sleep does not a productive or accurate employee make. And I effed away my day in some pretty huge ways. Dammit.

But then there was this piece that I read by my best friend who has a way with words that I rarely see. And she reminded me that the “even more” in our lives is what we should be searching for. We are often meant for more than we give ourselves credit for or allow ourselves to be.

So that’s what I’ve gleaned from 2011. Take some naps and be prepared for what’s to come.

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On getting some answers….

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I’m the type of person that always wants to be “in the know.” I love knowing about the newest restaurants or latest fashion, even the best beers. It’s part of why I read magazines like Vanity Fair and 5280. I just want to know what’s going on around me.   
Unfortunately, this can also sort of bite me in the ass from time to time. Wanting (sometimes even needing) to know everything can often involve knowing too much, being given information I didn’t realize I didn’t want until after I already had it. And, like with the B-team at a strip club, you can’t unknow something.   
It’s a “be careful what you ask for” situation, that’s for sure. Yes, there are great bonuses to being in the know. I’ve been the person before that people come to first for restaurant suggestions. I know a fair amount about beer and wine, so when someone has a question, I can usually answer with a reasonable amount of certainty. And let’s not forget about wedding and party planning. I have those answers tucked away, Rainman-style. But there can be drawbacks to knowing too much. Information sometimes hurts. It’s the major underlying issue with asking questions, isn’t it? How many times have I been told (or even said): don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to.   
So I have to learn to temper my insatiable appetite for information. Because the reality is, there are some questions I simply do not want the answers to.

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On living through art…

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There is quite a bit of art in the world that I truly love. From friends photography to ancient sculptures, I’m kind of a sucker for art.
There are two pieces that I’ve been in love with for a really long time.
Water Lilies by Claude Monet

and

Winged Victory (Nike)

I’ve loved Water Lilies for as long as I can remember. I honestly don’t know the first time I saw a photo of the painting, but I will never forget the first time I saw the piece in person. December 2000. In Paris. At the Musee d’Orsay. It was then housed on the second floor of the museum and I just sat down and stared at it. The painting is enormous…takes up a wall in the museum. I sat on a bench near it and looked at it. I was with my mom and sister that day. They walked away from the painting without realizing I was still sitting there. I must have been in that room for a half hour or more before they came back to get me. It was (and still is) a very happy place for me to be.

But if there’s one piece of art that truly moves me to tears, it’s Winged Victory. She’s just stunning. An absolute mass of strength and beauty. It sits at the top of a massive stairwell in The Louvre. I remember walking around the corner and coming up on her. Holy God, she is beautiful. I took photo after photo of her and then, much to my great dismay, all the film from my first trip to Paris got exposed and I lost everything. It was a bad day when I found that out. Then, in 2007, I was given a small bronze statue of her and I about cried. She sits on my dresser and is filled with loads of memories. And, in a brilliant twist, I had the chance to see her in real life about a year and a half ago. And much like the first time, I was stunned by how beautiful she is in person…and, mercifully, technology had advanced such that I had a digital camera that day so no worries about exposed film!

There’s probably a million other works of art I could tell you I love. The art and writings that I saw in Japan were breathtaking, not necessarily because of their beauty, but because of how ancient they are. There’s nothing quite like looking at a journal entry from an emperor who lived in the 1200s. I mean honestly. I can’t even wrap my head around how old that is.

Buildings alone, pretty much anywhere but America, are works of art, in and of themselves.

But yes, if I have to choose favorites, Water Lilies and Nike are the tops for me. 

On hopes, rather than resolutions…

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It’s the time of year when many of us make resolutions to be better people in the new year. I’ve been known to make resolutions in the past…some have been attainable (eat at as few chain restaurants as possible, see a Broadway show, etc.) and others have been totally ridiculous (walk to Russia, etc.).
2012 is bound to be a year when I become a markedly different person. There’s really no way around that. So instead of making resolutions this year, I think I’m just going to make a list of hopes for myself.
I hope that I can be a happier person on a more consistent basis. I hope that my writing will improve and that I can get off my bum and do more with Clutch Weddings. I hope that I can learn to be selfish and take time for myself and for what I want to do more often. I hope that I spend more time outside. I hope that my faith experiences yet-unseen depths. I hope that I get to travel, both domestically and internationally. I hope that I will continue to love my job.
But if I have to make a resolution, I’m resolving to learn how to handle a gun, get my conceal & carry, and buy myself really fancy Christmas present in December.

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On a year gone by….

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This is usually about the time of year when I start to reminisce over the last twelve months and think about what I’ve done, where I’ve gone, things like this.
To be sure, there were a lot of great things that happened this year. Todd got a wonderful new job doing something he’s very passionate about and also very good at. The company is perfect for him. Hilariously, we both interviewed for the same job, me about a half hour before he did. We both nailed the interviews, but for reasons that were pretty obvious (at least, to me), he was the better suited candidate for the position. And he got it.
New York City was quite the adventure as well. I thought I’d be prepared for that city, having watched enough SATC, Friends, and numerous other TV shows. Nothing can really prepare a person for their first time in NYC. It’s busy and overwhelming and full of more sights than you can possibly see in just one week. But they also have shoes there. Oh, the SHOES!! Jimmy Choo has been kind to me and while they run at least $800 a pair, I have found a new (albeit pricy and unhealthy) addiction. Eeshk! It was an incredible trip…we at amazing food, saw beautiful art (in the form of clothing, thankyouverymuch Alexander McQueen), walked a million and twelve miles, everything a person should do when visiting the City.
I got a new job myself…with a company that’s pretty much a perfect fit. It also doesn’t hurt that there’s pizza here on a fairly regular basis *grin*. I love working here, I love my co-workers and customers, and I’m excited to go to work pretty much every day. It’s exhausting most days, but even that I’m fine with. This place is incredible and I’m grateful every day for the chance to be a part of it.
2011 is not without its heartbreak though. If you know what I’m talking about, then you know; if not, it’s not to worry about. I’m ready to start moving past it, in whatever capacity that looks like. Even on my most certain and sure days, I’m still a mess of insecurity and uncertainty. It’s the nature of the beast. It’s not like there’s a sure-fire way to deal with it either. No one can tell me exactly what steps to take. It just has to happen the way that it’s going to happen. I think the uncertainty is what makes it the hardest. No one plans for it or expects it.
So yes, 2011 has been a mismash of just about every experience and emotion. Here’s to learning from all of it and moving into 2012 with some amount of grace and dignity. Maybe that’ll be my New Year’s resolution.

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On the end of an era (mostly)….

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There are a lot of Christmas songs that I love. I made a playlist the other day on Spotify of just a few of my favorites (and I even managed to miss one…The Happy Elf by Harry Connick, Jr.). But one of my favorites has a bit more meaning this year than it has in the past.

Happy Xmas (War Is Over). Obviously the original by John Lennon is far superior to any cover out there, but I won’t deny that I love the versions by Celine Dion and The Fray. Mostly, I think I just love the song.

I woke up on Sunday morning to AP news alerts on my phone that the last of the American troops had pulled out of Iraq. For a lot of reasons, I got very excited about this. It made me smile. All those soldiers coming home just in time for Christmas? That’s pretty special, if you ask me. Then I looked at my Facebook and noticed that my uncle had posted a news story about this and all he said was, “Happy Christmas. War is over.” and I just started singing. My uncle, being the world’s biggest Beatles fan alive, didn’t surprise me when he posted this. It just made me smile and sing.

Yes, there are several others wars that continue despite the end of the Iraq war…but we deal in baby steps with things like this. And just like when a baby takes a first step, we get excited…we envision the possibilities…we see the future and it’s bright and happy and stable.

So this is Christmas. Let’s hope it’s a good one…

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On choosing differently….

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People often ask the question, “If you could know everything about one thing, what would it be?” I’ve been asked that a lot. My answers tend to vary, but my standards are either dance or languages. I choose dance a lot because I love doing it and I love the way I feel when I’m dancing. Plus, because the Foxtrot is one of my favorites, I also get to listen to music I love while dancing. It’s pretty much a win-win situation.
Languages, however, has a much deeper meaning than simply “because I like it.” It has more to do with compassion and understanding that anything else.
The world is a big, fat, messed up place. There is absolutely no denying it. Despite all the wonderful things that happen all the time, there are just some really effed situations that are hard, impossible even, to ignore. And the reality, at least in my head, is that if we all just took the time to understand each other, things would be a lot different.
I hate the statement “War shouldn’t happen.” It’s stupid. Why? Because the world is a fallen, failing place. And because of that, because of selfishness and greed, fights – even to the extent of war – are going to happen. It’s because of that, that this statement is one of the most profound I’ve ever heard: Seek first not to be understood, but to understand.
There’s a deep lack of communication that permeates the world. I’m exhausted of my culture pushing its American agenda on the rest of the world. We’re a great country…I love my country. I really do. It’s just that our ideology and our way of life simply cannot work for everyone. It won’t. There are horrifying things that happen the world over. America is not immune from terrible acts of violence and disregard for its own people. We see it and hear about it all the time. So what right do we have to condemn and judge cultural behaviors around the world? No, we don’t kill women over acts of adultery; but look at how we’ve treated the GLBT community for decades…decades! How is it different?
The fact of the matter is that when we refuse to listen, to communicate, to simply understand, we fall apart. I heard a story recently that was chock full of atrocities…and also one of the simplest acts of compassion I may have ever heard: a bottle of water. I can’t, won’t, and shouldn’t go into great detail regarding the rest of the story; it’s not mine to tell. What I do know is this: when a young woman watches someone murder another person for no apparent reason, and then offers that same tired and thirsty person a drink from a bottle of water, it gives me hope. It restores, even if momentarily, my faith in the human spirit. We are capable of compassion and of understanding…we just have to choose it.
This is why I choose “languages.” I just want to sit and talk with people. I want to know people, to understand them…and I want them to know and understand me. It’s amazing what a little effort can do. I don’t want to push my agenda or have an agenda pushed on me…but maybe if we just took the time to understand the agenda, it would somehow become irrelevant.

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On taking a giant step backwards….

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Christmas is kind of an absurd time of year. It gets incredibly busy; extraordinary amounts of money are spent…on gifts and baking and electricity; churches practically go in to upheaval when it comes to Christmas productions and Advent Sundays and the like.
For me, Christmas has always been marked by these things. I love buying gifts for those I love and wrapping them in lovely paper and bows. If I could “replicate the intensity of the sun” on my tree and house, you better believe I would (can you say “Griswold Family Christmas”?)! My love of baking comes out in full force whereby I typically bake somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 cookies in one fell swoop. I’ve watched my church friends agonize over scheduling and participation and yadda yadda yadda.
Then there’s the point at which I come unglued about the religiousity of it all. Christmas, after all, celebrates the birth of Christ. Or does it? Sure, advent celebrates all the reasons, big and small, that Christ came on down to our messed up world. But does Christmas, with all its spending and busyness and general insanity, really celebrate Christ? I’m not sure it does.
I read a blog recently about the entitlement of Christmas. I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve complained before about being told “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas!” I don’t like that Christmas plays and songs at most schools these days are now called “Holiday Plays/Songs.” I think it’s a little ridiculous. But it did make me think a little bit…why is it that I think I’m the only one entitled to have her religious holiday represented? What about Hanukkah? Or Kwanza? Or people who just aren’t religious and simply want to have a day to celebrate friends and family and give each other pretty things? I talk a big game about not forcing religion down other people’s throats, but isn’t that exactly what I’m doing when I demand that people say “Merry Christmas!” to me or that there be a manger scene in front of city hall?
If you ask me, Christmas as we know it has far less to do with Christ than many of us Christians would have you believe. I’m all for the gifts and the lights and the music and the food, but would it kill me to step back and reflect, even for a moment, on the reasons Christ came to Earth, the manner in which He arrived, and His ultimate purpose in coming?
It won’t be any time soon that I stop celebrating Christmas the way I always have, with all the insanity and lights. But maybe all of this is why I love Christmas Eve so much more than Christmas morning. The stress stops. The night calms down. Everything is finished. And I can go to midnight mass with nothing on my mind except the miracle of what happened so long ago. It’s in the silentest of nights that I’m then able to sing about and reflect on the most holy of nights…

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On the most wonderful time of the year….

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1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?: Have to go with wrapping paper. Bags are sometimes necessary, but I love love love wrapping gifts and putting all the pretty bows all over them. It’s really hard to beat!
2. Real or Artifical Tree?: I grew up with a real one so it’s sentimental, but also a giant pain in the bum. Plus, a real tree costs every year what a fake one costs once and it’ll last for, like, 50 years. Economics, people.
3. When do you put up the tree?: Day after Thanksgiving. Obviously. If I had my way, I’d put it up the second Santa rolls into Herald Square (there’s a girl out there, K-Spence, who is after my own heart in this manner…and for that, I thank her!).
4. When do you take the tree down?: December 26-ish. It’s just not Christmas anymore. I also don’t listen to Christmas music after December 25th, despite my mother saying otherwise. She is wrong.
5. Do you like egg nog?: Yup. With or without brandy, it’s frickin’ delicious! I love the chubby holidays!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child?: That’s a really hard one to say. I always loved the jammies my aunt would make for us every year. And once, I got the sheet music for The Little Mermaid soundtrack…that was pretty rad, especially since I got to play it all for the first time on my grandpa’s big organ. Yes, I played Disney music on an organ. Go figure.
7. Hardest person to buy for?: My brother. No question about it. Every year, I ask what he wants and every year, he says, “I dunno. You’re so good at choosing gifts, I’m sure whatever you get will be great!” Sheesh. It causes me great anxiety. He gave me a heads up this year, however. He wants an LP…yeah, like that won’t be hard to find.
8. Easiest person to buy for?: Leo and Suki. Just some rawhide treats and a new collar and they are golden!
9. Do you have a nativity scene?: No, but I really want one. I’m holding out for the one my parents have, but they won’t be giving it up any time soon. I’ll have to pry it from their cold, dead hands.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?: When I do them, I do ’em right and send them in the mail. I love getting snail mail. It makes me feel special, so I figure other people must feel the same way as me!.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?: I can’t answer that question. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a crappy gift. Unless it was white elephant, and then it’s to be expected.
12. Favorite Christmas movie?: Either Muppet Christmas Carol or Love, Actually. Or The Holiday. Pretty much anything but It’s A Wonderful Life. Gawd, I hate that movie.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?: I try to shop all year long to save myself the torture of the holidays at the mall. Usually I have everything done by late-November. I’m a bit behind the curve this year and still have some things I need to get. Ugh.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?: Yes, but it was legit. About a billion years ago, I got these giant stuffed animals…one was Flounder, another was Sebastian. I think I still have Flounder, but my teeny cousin also loved The Little Mermaid so a couple years ago, I went through all of my TLM stuff and sent it off to her…Sebastian was in the mix. She LOVED him!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?: My dad’s fruitcake. Put aside all your feelings regarding fruitcake, because my dad’s is the shiz. OMG. It’s so good, I actually asked him to make a tiny one for my birthday one year. Nomz.
16. Lights on the tree: All of the lights. All of them, ever. Last year, there was approx. 1000 twinkle lights on the tree. LOVE IT!!
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home?: As a kid, I used to go with my family to Illinois and Pennsylvania every year. By the time I turned 16, we started staying at home in Colorado and I’ve loved every second of it! I’d be okay with taking a vacation from Christmas for Christmas some year…going somewhere tropical and amazing for a week and just chilling. And there was the time we went to Paris for Christmas. That didn’t suck.
18. Favorite Christmas song?: I have to categorize for this.
Favorite Traditional: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Favorite Campy: I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas
Favorite Pop: Colorado Christmas
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer?: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph. Yes, I did that without looking it up.
20. Angel or Star tree topper?: Either is fine with me. I’ve had both. My friend has a disco ball right now, which is pretty much awesome. I don’t care about the topper, so much as the tree topping ceremony!
21. Open presents on Christmas eve or morning?: It took 20 years, but we finally convinced my parents to let us open one small present on Christmas Eve. The rest we save for the morning. Santa comes in the night, after all!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?: That retailers seem to think Christmas starts in October…or, God forbid, July. WTF? Can’t we just let each holiday have their own time?
23. Favorite ornament?: My parents have this gorgeous blown glass ornament with a rose on it. My sister and I fight over who gets to hang that one every year. I love it! And since she doesn’t live in town anymore, I got to hang it this year. SUCKA!
24. Favorite food for Christmas dinner?: Gravy. Yup, I love the gravy. My dad makes the best gravy known to man and he taught me how to make it. I started as gravy watcher, moved to gravy stirrer, then graduated to gravy taster, and have recently been promoted to gravy adviser. YESSS!!!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year?: A lot of things. Peace, love, and happiness most of all…for everyone. For always.

On WINNING!….

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I haven’t won very many awards in my life. Most of the ones I have gotten were from high school. Some were awesome and some were just plain weird. There was the National School Choral Award (or something) which was a super huge deal and I cried when I won it. Then there was the one I got for going to same school for 14 years. Kind of weird. There were four of us that got the same award at our high school graduation. I got one for being the “Most Improved Student” and to this day, I have no idea why I got that award considering my grades were abysmal at best my senior year. I got nominated to NHS, which is pretty big deal…managed to do that in high school and in college.
But one of the best awards I’ve ever gotten, I got about a month ago, along with all of my amazing co-workers. It’s called the “Cal Bears Teamwork” award and we won it for generally being awesome. There’s something really special about being nominated for an award by your peers and superiors. Knowing that someone else thinks our entire little group is that good at what we do is empowering. We all love what we do. Our clients are great, our teams are fun and diverse, and on any given day we’re all really happy coming in and doing our jobs. But it’s also nice, from time to time, to have your work recognized and, well, appreciated. It feels really good knowing that someone else sees what you do and wants to commend you for it. Now, granted, I’ve only been at this job for just over four months, so my co-workers definitely deserved the award way more than I did, but it still felt really fantastic to be part of such a great team that day. It feels great to be a part of this every day, frankly.

Yes, that’s an award. Yes, that’s a cowbell.
And to quote my co-worker who won another award the same night: “It’s easy to be this kind of employee when you work with people who already think that you are.”

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