2010

in celebration of one full year of blogging, ranting, bitching, moaning, tweet-posting, story-sharing, overly descriptive good times i'm going to make a list of all the things that made this year awesome. or at least memorable. LET'S GO.

• introduction to blogging: not only does this tool-age allow me to overshare with my vast amount of followers, it allows to me vent feelings in what seems like a harmless, inconsequential way but in reality shall soon prove to be quite self-destructive.
• i learned many things about my writing thru blogging: including my extreme need to edit things numerous times  in order to correct such errors like writing "quite" instead of "quiet" and when to use "whom" instead of "who" and of course meghan's classic "effect" vs. "affect."
• full on obsession with chelsea handler: not only did this begin during 2010 but also came full circle as i no longer give a shit. the obsesh started with buying all three with her books and concluded with becoming grossed out by her over-share-tweetage.
• twitter! i started following celebrities on twitter the night of the 2009 mtv movie awards (kanye! taylor! mania!) and have been obsessed ever since. not only do i find celebri-tweets semi-interesting but i feel obliged to share them with y'all, thus boring the. entire. world. to. death. no one gives a shit you narcissistic and hilarious & amusing  celebrities!
• intro to bo burnham: now this is a doozie. duzy? doozie. it started out with sonia becoming obsessed and me being extremely annoyed by this. "who cares, nia!" i'm pretending i once said. but then she gave me the cd and i downloaded it unaware of the explosion of grossness that would soon occur. i put the songs on my iPod, put the earbuds in, explained something in too much detail, and then listened to a random song..."ART IS DEAD" was the song. and i basically...fell in love.
• me and lizzle start a notebook of secretness: except that it's not really a secret. basically, in the beginning of this damn school year, liz noticed i was down-and-out as they say, because i was really hatin' on my schedule, and you know, life. so she thought starting a secret notebook to pass notes in would help...and it did! kind of! it was sort of a miracle...astoundingly after writing in the notebook for a few entries, i began to adopt a less depressing attitude towards school....i decided to become more carefree, less anxiety driven, and magic happened. not really, but sort of. 
• i got my driver's license! ah yes...2010 was the year i achieved the impossible and passed my driver's test. a miracle indeed! with all that paperwork came a new sense of independence...and responsibility. so i put those two euphoric feelings together to start a non-profit organization called "SADD" and was on my way towards philanthropic greatness... 
• green day & paramore concerts: after these two excellent concerts i realized that they had actually been my first: the 3 kdwb jingle balls prior had been mere CHILD'S PLAY. they just didn't stand up to the awesomeness that is green day live or even...parawhore.
• i came to terms with my HOT MESS of a head o' hair. it may not seem like it, but slowly through out 2010 i've come to accept the frizzy semi-waves that is my mop of deadcuticles. i "straighten" a whole lot less cuz that's just damaging, and i don't really hate the shit when i look in the mirror anymore. it's what makes me, me. just kidding that was a joke. A JOKE. LET'S ALL LAUGH TOGETHER. 
• the best summer of my fucking life.  i'm not sure i truly appreciated it, but summer o' 2010 was ridiculously amazing. i didn't have to go to summer rkk, that's fo sho. i had my license, so i had more opportunities to go places. i drove to the cabin without any parents! successfully! perhaps opening doors in the future...  i laid on my ass and watched "the closer" every day. i actually got fit, believe it or not, and i walked/jogged/huffed around the lake a lot, and even went to a yoga class. i spent tons of time with friends...oh, did we have good times. (kidding but not really.) erin had an in-ground pool! i drank coffee and was thus super-aware half of the time. it was just all around greatness. i feel like it was karma's way of saying, "here you go meghan...this will be your last" ...sort of. 
• JAPAN. i really don't want to brag so i'll keep this short and sweet....first real foreign trek of mine...and it couldn't have been in a more awesome place. 

honorable mentions: the year my friends tried the hardest and succeeded in making my birthday awesome, year 3 without meat, discovery of arcade fire, year i walked out of a $6.50 movie, year i tried to skip class but failed, year i tried so hard to never give in to #EPIC and #FAIL and succeeded, year i drank a super unhealthy amount of coffee.