warning: high spending alert.
Q: are you ready to date again?
I don't keep track off how many days has passed, or keep tabs on how many things you've done right or wrong since we first met 4 years ago. Word has finally spread that we're over so they don't mention you around me anymore which I appreciate. Some people ask me, "when did you guys split?". My response is along the lines of, "a while ago. I don't know, sometime in the summer before my solo trip to Japan which was awesome and I got to be made up as a GEISHA!" Then we move onto how awesome it is to be made up as a geisha.
I'm writing today because I want to track my progress. Progress has to be accounted for; it is the evidence that one is moving forward.
I put myself out there, got 18 new digits in my phone. Started talking more to strangers, smiled more. I've taken up new activities (i.e. hiking/scrambling in the Rockies). I've gotten fitter, leaner, and feeling much more beautiful. Met up with some single boys since, some a couple times more than others. Been asked if I wanted to date them by a couple friends (who were serious and not at the same time I hope). Changed up my wardrobe (manager asked me, "are you trying to buy yourself out of misery, Val?" I replied, "hell yes. this is going to be me in NYC. fabulous, fashionable and single.") - definitely got a little more bad-ass and blew my pay-check on beautiful staples. Decided that as a milestone gift to myself this year would be to deconstruct and reconstruct my life, starting with an investment of 14K going towards my big bucket list.
A: (pause). I'd like to, and I am putting myself out there. But no, I know I'm not ready because there are times when I'm by myself and I start to cry. I'll get there.
valerie anne
in my 20s and wonderful.
dressed to dress you.
. i would do you, but i can't. it's just the wrong season right now.
I've been in canada for days.
. in need of a recommendation
. tattoo
. rolex
. prada bag
. hermes birkin/kelly
. hermes scarf
. prada penguin coin purse
. suped up VW jetta mk3 '97
. 911 Turbo
. WRX
. smoked e-codes/fogs
. porsche deep dish rims
.
my driver's license
.
a shaven head for my 18th
. be a somebody
. make {gravi.tee}
.
snowboard
.
own my first car
. travel: NYC, all over europe,
japan,
mexico, chile, argentina, spain, greece, laos, vietnam, bali, dubai, amsterdam
. publish a book entitled "you better quote val, or else" -
recommended by derek goh
.
fashion school
. travel: roadtrip canada
. travel: roadtrip USA
.
move out
. own a house
. ride the dragon in tokyo
. go fish/camping for a weekend
. open a cafe/boutique
. horse-riding
. speak korean/japanese/spanish/french
. skydive over mauritius waters
. white-water raft above level 3
. bungee jump from a suspension bridge
. break the world record for the longest time on a loop-the-loop roller coaster ride
. save an endangered species
. AND prove to my mum that i'll be married before 35.
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