Monday, August 4, 2008

I like station wagons!

It seems that it's getting closer to that time of year again. You know the time of year when you're over 28 you start to dread? The time of year when people say ah you aren't old 30's the new 20? The time of year where you really start to notice those gray hairs that are creeping up? Well, it's that time of the year for me pretty soon.

As I sit down and reflects on my 30th year (which I still have one month of left) I realize I haven't completed one of my goals. I had this goal to visit 30 countries by the time being 30 was over with. I still have I believe 7 left. I think that goal will need to change to 30 countries by the time I'm out of my 30ths.

In the past 11 months I've had the chance to travel to Tacoma, which was just awesome. Then did a road trip to Kansas City, MO. Both of those trips I got to do with my good friend Cassie.

Also in the past 11 months I changed jobs. It's funny in a recent conversation with an old friend she mentioned that I've had a lot of jobs in my life. As we reflected on those jobs, each one taught me something that I'm now able to tie into my dream job of sorts that I'm now in. Leaving the corporate world banking wasn't that hard to do as my heart was never in it. It's strange to think that I haven't even been in my new job for 10 months, I don't think there could be a more prefect job for me out there.

I had two of my photo's auctioned off for charity. Which was awesome as I've never even sold a photo before, but they each went for $300. The greatest part was that all the money raised by the auction in total was around $9,000 and I got to pick the organization it went too. After that a few people were keen to purchase some of my work.

My car was totaled as well in the past 11 months, so bye bye Honda Civic and hello Chevy HHR. I'm still super pleased with my choice. Now thinking about it I think I have a thing for station wagons. Am I odd?

Let's see what this next year holds for me...

2 comments:

Charlie said...

yay for $300 photos! woo! Was is Dr. P? heh

Joanne said...

No it was 2 co-workers at Wells Fargo. Every October they do an auction for charity, everyone has to donate something to be auctioned off. My boss asked me to auction my photos as she wanted to buy some. So needless to say she didnt' get them two other co-workers did and she ended up just buy one.
But ya I was pretty excited.