Inspired by My Roommates

Let me tell you about the lovely ladies that I live with: Rebecca and Elizabeth.

Beckie, myself, and Hash road-tripping somewhere in
Florida during Spring Break 2015. 

Let's start with Rebecca, aka Beckie (on the left).
She "practices" yoga, whatever that means. She loves Jesus. She babysits a 17 year old girl with special needs and LOVES it. She leads backpacking trips in the Grand Canyon. She is doing this crazy awesome experiment where she doesn't use social media, doesn't watch tv, only wears 3 outfits, and prays more. FOR FOUR MONTHS. What the heck?! She is 20 years old and acts like the most responsible and organized adult around (for the most part). She writes a blog that blows this little thing out of the water. Beckie is a doer.

Then there is Elizabeth, aka Hash (right).
Hash is triple-majoring in English, Psychology, and Environmental Humanities, or something like that. She is the editor-in-chief of a magazine on campus. She is the rock wall manager at the Outdoor Pursuits Center. She drinks wine like a champ. She volunteers at a hospital in Lubbock to write stories with kids who are ill. She has a lovely (disgusting) pet snake named Monte. She hiked 420 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail- majority of it BY HERSELF. Hash is a doer.

Let me tell you why I am telling you about my roommates: my roommates are doers, and I'm not.
I always talk about doing this and that (getting rid of my stuff, going on spontaneous trips, volunteering at shelters, writing a blog, etc.), but never actually do anything about it! Even tonight, I told Beckie that I wanted to seriously minimize the amount of crap I have sitting in my apartment. Will that ever get done? Eh, probably not until I graduate.

So, as my first step to becoming a doer, I am going to minimize my social media use. Minimize- not eliminate. I am going to choose a topic that I want to learn more about each week, and fill my time with that instead. I'g going to start off with only 3 weeks and see how it goes from there.

• Week 1: Hand lettering & Calligraphy
• Week 2: Astronomy
• Week 3: Photography

Here's to the next 3 weeks of drawing more, looking at stars, and taking pictures!