Mo Chridhe

Favorite Movie: The Ugly Truth. Or All About Steve.
The Ugly Truth just speaks… the truth. A definite win for those of us who need something to show our airhead friends to get through to them. Or through to ourselves. Whatever.
I saw All About Steve three times in theaters. I’m certain that’s the most times I’ve ever seen a single movie in theaters. IT WAS FREAKING HILARIOUS. Especially when Mary falls into the giant hole, and the newscasters replay it ten times on TV!

Favorite Song: I have too many songs I love to pick just one.
I will say, though, that I started buying CDs again this year. Only the ones I HAVE to have, since I already buy the iTunes version. There’s just something about holding the real CD, with the real case and the real artwork that iTunes just can’t duplicate.

Favorite Lyric: “I’ve never seen a smile that can light the room like yours, it’s simply radiant, I feel more with every day that goes by”
I played this song SO. MANY. TIMES. Everything about it reminds me of MFH. And that line is always the part I fastforward to.

Favorite Line: “Good story!” (said sarcastically)
My friends now yell it after something they tell that isn’t that interesting before I can. It’s almost become like a contest… who can put down the sucky story first.

Favorite Trip: Family reunion in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
My uncle was feeding baby Brian his bottle while Sarah and I played in the hallway next to them. My aunt asked Sarah if she could please play outside, because we were disrupting Brian from focusing on his bottle (bahahaha.) Sarah, then barely 4, looked my aunt straight in the face like she was crazy and simply said, “No.”

Favorite Moment: Twirling around on the ice blasting music with no one there except me… and Hillary.
Literally, twirling. Not spinning. Twirling. There’s a difference.

Favorite Holiday: I don’t really do holidays. But my birthday was definitely the best one I’ve had yet, thanks to my cousins who came up from Tulsa to spend it with me. I guess Halloween wasn’t bad down in Tulsa either. I was Superwoman!

Something Bad: I made a lot of stupid choices out of laziness and carelessness.
Something Good: By figuring out what’s wrong for me, I’ve figured out what’s right for me.
Something you regret: Not much. Maybe pushing certain people away.
Something you learned: Always listen to your instincts. They almost never fail you. As long as you have proven good ones. Like me.
Someone that changed your life: Soooo many. Everyone I come in contact with has some sort of impact on my life.

Go back and change something: Don’t cross the friends line.

Subtractions from your life: Friends. Boyfriends. Trixie and Sophie. Raging anger.
Additions to your life: More skating. Tons of laughter. Confidence. Arabella Jane. Overflowing love for my family.

I wrote 2009 resolutions at the beginning of the year:
Continue writing.
—> I went through most of the year documenting pretty much everything, until recently. The motivation to blog and journal has left the building.

Do my best in school.
—-> The first eight weeks or so of each semester are great; I pull in straight A’s, life is good. Then, after spring break and fall break, I’m drained and end up skipping more classes than I attend.

Those were the only two New Years Resolutions I had. Obviously I sucked at sticking with them, like most people are, but it doesn’t matter. This year wasn’t horrible… and going back and reading my 2008 journal, it was MUCH better than being 17. I don’t regret anything I did this past year. I had a bunch more ‘firsts’, I had the wind knocked out of me, I went in a million different directions. But out of every choice, every decision, every triumph, every failure, I have learned.