100 Ways to Screw Up Your Life

1. regret stuff
2. accept being lied to
3. stay in the wrong relationship
4. succumb to addictions
5. dream without taking action
6. sleep more than you need
7. play the guilt card
8. victimize yourself
9. avoid introspection
10. work harder than you can
11. don't play
12. stop learning
13. gossip
14. aim to be famous
15. follow the money
16. don't make friends
17. be lazy
18. gamble
19. be stuck in a job that you hate
20. don't take risks
21. be selfish
22. don't listen
23. lie to people
24. lie to yourself
25. don't ask for help
26. don't exercise
27. eat junk
28. don't spend time in nature
29. don't clean up your house
30. procrastinate
31. spend more than you can afford
32. limit your social life
33. choose a career instead of a lifestyle
34. treat people like assets
35. choose (and stay in) the wrong friendships
36. reject criticism
37. buy your relationships
38. follow all of the rules
39. don't manage your money
40. promise more than you can do
41. don't keep the promises you do make
42. overdo
43. quit
44. say only yes
45. say only no
46. be a control freak
47. walk your life in someone else's shoes
48. be cheap
49. abuse others
50. accept being abused
51. try to please everybody
52. feed the trolls
53. don't look people in the eyes
54. don't believe insights
55. don't travel
56. don't read books
57. live by assumptions
58. be shy
59. live by habit
60. avoid mistakes
61. pay yourself last
62. hate
63. be a perfectionist
64. sabotage yourself
65. waste your power on useless stuff
66. be ungrateful
67. think badly of yourself
68. fake it till you make it
69. don't manage your time
70. solve the wrong problems
71. be judgmental 
72. complain
73. accept crap
74. take it personally
75. don't laugh
76. envy
77. leave the passion out
78. be a follower
79. react instead of act on things
80. live outside the present moment
81. be average-ish
82. be revengeful
83. be resentful
84. don't create value
85. avoid confrontation
86. when going through hell, stop walking
87. don't clean up your lenses
88. fall for "free stuff"
89. race against others
90. be an information junkie
91. talk more than you have to
92. be late
93. accept frustration
94. reject joy
95. give in to pain
96. be jealous
97. think happiness is a goal
98. panic
99. don't love
100. don't challenge yourself

Much love,

-L

Boring Class BINGO!

     So anyone who has ever been in school...and I mean ever...understands that sometimes the lectures can be the dullest things of your life and really you don't know whether cry from boredom or just sleep. But you know that you can't do either because if you fall asleep you might miss the one important part of the whole class and if you just randomly start crying people will think you are having some sort of frightening break down and you might end up getting yourself committed to some psych ward somewhere.
     Luckily there are clever folks out there {I am not taking credit for this idea, I don't think this creatively when I am uber bored in class, I just end up surfing the web} that come up with great ways to get you and your friends to pass the time in class without sleeping.
     It's called Boring Class Bingo and it is actually pretty funny to play.
     You start out with a piece of paper, any paper will do, and you draw a chart that is 5 boxes across and 5 boxes down. In the middle is your free space {sound familiar yet? Yep it's your basic run of the mill Bingo set up} the twist on this one is coming.
     Now in whatever order you choose place the following things in the remaining boxes:

• Student who obviously rolled out of bed five minutes ago
• flirting couple
• student leaving ridiculously early
• blatant cell phone use
• nodding off student desperately trying to stay awake
• shameless sleeper
• holy crap that guy/girl just won't shut up!
• [attempted] subtle cell phone use
• sunglasses indoors
• brave but fruitless show of individuality from "that" kid
• socks and sandals
• someone eating an entire meal
• achingly attractive member of the opposite sex
• flustered T.A.
• technical difficulties
• hilariousness due to foreign professor
• every adjacent student on facebook
• someone's phone going off full volume
• student arriving ridiculously late
• obviously stoned kid
• classic video game played on emulator
• student clearly working on something for another class
• that's obviously not coffee in that thermos
• professor says "divide into groups"

     Now the way my friends and I play it is we assign different point values to each of the squares because not every single one of those things happen every class period. So it is possible to get Bingo but that doesn't really mean that you are going to win the game. Although word of warning...don't excitedly scream out bingo in the middle of your boring class.....that might just get you committed to that psych ward I mentioned earlier.

Have fun friends ;)
Much love,
-L

Excited

Oh my heavens....it's already 2012!!!!!

Seriously where did 2011 go????

This year is going to be so great though. It started out fun enough after all. 

My UTES WON and became the champions of the SunBowl.
Fantastic way to finish out our first year in the PAC! 
Proud of my boys in red!!!

GO UTES!!!!

I went to a rockin' New Year's Eve party with my bestest best friend 

and then New Year's Day my 

RAVENS WON!

I'm a very proud Ravens fan right now. AFC North Champions!!! GO RAVENS!
Also they are continuing on to the Divisional Playoff game against the Patriots!
Proud of those boys in purple!

I am so excited for this new year though!
The new year brings with it new opportunities, new adventures and even more important a new, clean slate. I am so ready to make this year the best year of my life so far. I've already started that by buying myself a car! As I was driving it home from the dealership I kept thinking over and over again "Holy crap I'm an adult now!" funny how that hit me just now. I mean I have finished almost two full years of school at the U but it took buying a car of my very own for the whole adult thing to hit me.
I love my new car though and I really think that it is one of the very best decisions I have ever made. He's a cute 2010 Hyundai Accent GLS (and yes I did say he. I drive a boy car haha)

Name: Boo-RayLew {and yes there is a detailed story behind his name. Ask me about it sometime and I will tell you ;) }

Proud Parent: ME

I am so stoked about this car!!!!!!

I am so super excited for 2012! I feel like it is going to be a fantastic year!

Since I don't make New Year's Resolutions (why make a promise to yourself that has more than a 60% chance failure rate?) I instead pick a few of quotes that I try incorporate into my daily life. 

Here's a sample of them for you:

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters." -Audrey Hepburn

"Know your limitations, and then defy them."

"Being normal is not necessarily a virtue, it rather denotes a lack of courage."

"If everything seems to be under control, you are simply not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti

"A person who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person"

"I may not be the strongest, I may not be the fastest, but I'll be damned if I am not trying my hardest."

And finally the one that I really need to remember in my life: "Sometimes not being in control is the most beautiful thing in the world"

Happy 2012 my friends! I know I am a couple of weeks late but hey better late than never right?