Monday, December 1, 2008

Mind tricks...will they work?

I am one of the many who is obsessed with Twilight! I love the books! Once I started reading, I finished all 4 books in 10 days. My poor family was so neglected. I would drop Danielle off at preschool and I would sit in the parking lot for all 5 hours (no wasted time by driving home) and read, I would stay up till wee hours of the night reading till I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer, my house was a mess and Hannah ended up wearing Danielle's underwear due to my lack of household duties. But, like I said, I was obsessed. I was one of the crazy ones who camped out till 12:01 am on November 21st to see the "Twilight" premiere. It was so cold (the one night it got in the 30's) and so much fun! Yes, I was one of the oldest there along with about 12 of my "old" friends although I felt very young as I normally don't do things like this. In my 33rd year of life it turns out that I feel like I need to prove that I'm not getting old. My mind is telling me I'm not, but everything else is headed in that direction. On our family vacation this summer, we went to Colorado and on my birthday we happened to go rafting down the Colorado River. Half way down in an attempt to stay young, I decided I wanted to go cliff diving.."I've done this before...when I was younger" I say to myself. "It will be so fun!" I rallied Brent to go with me and so did the girls. Brent & I jumped off 30 ft cliffs and the girls went off a 5 ft cliff. As I'm standing on the cliff I decide I will wait till I am just about to hit the water to get my breath of air. I jump. The drop scared me so much that I couldn't catch my breath. Once I hit the water, I think I went into shock. When I came up I still couldn't catch my breath. "This isn't what happened last time" I'm thinking. Again it was cold but still so much fun! I am hoping that if I keep telling my body that I'm not getting old maybe my body will listen?!

1 comment:

heather said...

I am with ya..I saw the movie with a whole bunch of girlfriends that Saturday after release. I had never read any of the books...now I am halfway through book 4!!!! Wanna take a trip to Forks?