30 day blog challenge starts NOW!!!

Well, here goes...
Most of the prompts were taken from DanaCreative, except for the ones that were requested by friends. If you have a request for a prompt, let me know...I'll consider it. And just for shits and giggles, I think I may add a video clip that reminds me of each prompt, since I like music and don't get to post enough of it.

Day One: Something you're looking forward to this year.

I define years in terms of school. For me the year is half over. If I were to define a year the way the normal person would...that would start me at second semester...in January. I guess that means that this year goes all the way until next January...my final semester of grad school (holy crap, scary thought).
This year I'm looking forward to finally working on creating that life with Cowgirl that for some reason, we never really got around to creating. Winter break showed me that we really can live together, have a life together, build a home together (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively). I look forward to a summer when we actually get to spend every day together (I know we did that last year, but she had a roommate and it was different), and the prospect of a time when I won't be in school anymore. I look forward to waking up in a real bed, not an air mattress in a lonely apartment for three whole months over the summer, and cooking dinner, packing lunches with little notes in them, falling deeper in love.
I know that sounds so super cheesy, but it's true. I've never thought I was one for settling down, but this year feels like the year to do it. And yes, that surprises me as much as it surprises people who know me. I'd never been the settling kind. I used to say I wanted to live like a nomad...going wherever the wind blew, just seeing where my life would lead me. But the thing is, the wind deposited me on the doorstep of a little house in the middle of nowhere and now I want to cling to the rosebushes that surround the front steps and never ever let go. That feeling both confuses and excites me. I want to follow it. I want to see where it leads to not go anywhere...to sit still, realize I don't have to go chasing dreams because for once, they fell right into my lap.

And in honor of Etta James.."A Sunday Kind of Love"....(lyrics can be found here). This is so completely what I want. And I'm realizing that it's actually what I have. And how fucking lucky I am.