Road Trips

Whenever people start a road trip, they must get the necessary items for such an endeavor. For example, people need a destination or location. They must know what they want to do (or at least a guideline), and must make plans. After that process, the parties involved need a timeline- how long will this adventure take? Oh! I even forgot the step of carefully choosing who is involved, that is important.... Ya does this process sound familier?
To go on any long trip or adventure in life, you must first put yourself in certain vulnerabilities. Who you take on this trip with you will make or break it. You have to pick your person wisely...they must be awesome to talk to, there is a lot of talking involved in road trips. You must pick a person with a sense of humor, someone who enjoys similar music, someone who doesn't snore...no one wants someone who snores in their car for a long period of time, and someone who cares.
By finally picking this person, you then go on to what you want out of the road trip, which can be scary if one person wants to go to California and one person wants to go to Florida. When you have finally decided on a destination, you iron out all of the little plans, and move forward.
Obviously you cant drive the whole way by yourself, the other person must take the wheel...which if you haven't had alot of people drive your car, its a scary experience. By making this other person drive, you are putting your beloved car of choice (little red corvette for me remember??) and yourself in dangers way if they aren't careful.
How can we trust another person so much to put our cars and our safety in their hands? That my friends, is a grand question. Its obviously not a good feeling at first, but if they surprise you and can be a great driver its a whole new experience to sit in the passenger seat. On the other hand there is the whole death thing that could happen if you take that chance that they aren't...

What is your choice?
to trust? or not to trust?

Shotgun, a sudden pitfall

So the inspiration for this blog was watching old episodes of How I met your Mother... I will make the correlation to driving like I always do, just wait.
This particular episode was when Robin turns out to be a woo girl. Now a woo girl means your the kind of girl who WAHOOOO's! Whenever something stupid happens. Its our way of having fun. I can relate to Robin the most out of that show, but Lily ends up not being a woo girl. In the end Robin says people are woo girls because they have nothing else to be happy about. This is where I beg to differ. Being a woo girl is awesome. I have alot of fun when being a woo girl. I'll admit it, and any one who knows me knows that I am not girly at all; feminine for sure, but not girly.
This got me thinking, whats so wrong with being a woo girl? Whats so wrong with not being one? What is wrong with admitting you are a certain way? NOTHING! You should never take shotgun in your life. You are your own driver. Dont let someone else drive your car. Be your own dang driver!
Now I will totally take blame in the letting someone else drive my car concept. I love hanging out with people, but there are certain people that I care about what they think of me, so that dictates what I do. Not really what I say, but definetly what I do. I WONT DO THAT ANYMORE! If I want to do things that dictate my own life I will do it dang it!

I will not take shotgun to my own life!
Dont either

detours

DETOURS!
Sheesh, who said life wouldn't have any detours? They were seriously mistaken if anyone did say that! But if you really think about it, I guess its true. I dont know if anyone that reads this is spiritual, but I am. I do believe that God has a plan for us, and what seem like detours, or even pit stops, or even a thought like "Hey! Why are we going to Disneyland, when we can go to Disney World?!" can make our actual road trip change. Thats what happens, things CHANGE. Whether we like it or not, they do. Do we just accept the new found challenge ahead of us? Or do we hold onto our original plan? I'm a firm believer that it all is subject to change. Sometimes God wants us to hold on, sometimes he doesn't. But no offense to the big man, that feeling sucks. Especially when you dont know what to do anymore. What will happen once you come up to that junction? Will you turn right or left? That my friends, is its own Pin Point. The decisions we make now, will shape our future ya? You've heard this. But little do we sit and think about that poignancy. We just made a life altering decision, things aren't going to be what they used to be, and we made it that way. Take responsibility for your actions, stand  up for what you believe, and never back down. That is what makes you different. Trials in adversity! Each decision is the start of a new Pin Point...Will you turn right or left? 

We are Young!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6dMFF_yts


Some of you might be wondering, "What the llama is she going to make me watch?" with this youtube link. (I know all of you said that exact phrase too... Anyways, its the link to a song We Are Young by Fun. BEST SONG EVER! At least for today.
I am in a super de duper empowerment pin point in my life right now. I have accepted my power of awesomeness... This song is all about being young. "So lets set the world on fire, we can burn brighter, than the sun." are lyrics from this wonderful anthem. Who couldn't like this song?
This gives me inspiration, that no matter how old I act, I am young! I need to act like it sometimes. I'm all for being mature for my age, but isn't that what being young is all about? Making mistakes, learning from them, its all apart of a cycle isn't? It goes on, but not to the same magnitude as when we're young.
My Pin Point Challenge to you, is to see where you are and make a pin point! Dont let whatever point your at in your life just pass you by. Make it memorable! Why freaking not? If your at school and your one of those robots and just go to school, what is so memorable about that? ADVENTURE OUT INTO THE UNKNOWN! This is the time to make mistakes, or learn about yourself.
 To me, it all comes down to courage. You really make life what you want it to be. Dont hide behind excuses, and put yourself out there. No one wants to look back on any part of their life and say, "Oh ya, I guess I was just going to school. Oh I was just starting my career." I WAS JUST are evil words!
Break out! Do something out of the ordinary, something memorable. So people can remember you, who you  are and what you stand for.
Make a Pin Point in your life. For it will be a lonesome road without one.

New Years

NEW YEARS! 

Ok, so new Pin Point *tangent* decided not to number my Pin Points, too many to count. 

Anywhoo- so of course New Years Eve for me was more poignant then New Years day. Well lets think about this, NYE (New Years Eve) is designed to make people ponder about the year before. Well 2011 was a hard year for everyone. Mine personally was filled with life choices. This is the year that I looked at one highway in my life, and I could see my future in its entirety. I saw every day, every year, and every possibility for the rest of that trip. You know those awesome 'only in emergency's' little U turn things on the freeway? Well unfortunately, California doesn't have many of those. If I went down that freeway, there are only a few possibilities of coming back home, so again, my roadtrip would turn into a moving truck. *tangent* my car of choice is a little red corvette..thank you Prince...and a little bit of Josh... anywhoo.

 SO I decided to go down the path that I was going on, plenty of Emergency U turns down that one. Geeze, its college, its nothing but U turns. I decided that if I wanted to, that if it worked out that way, I would go back down that path. It could be fun. Actually it would be fun, that I know. The people I 'roadtripped' with were nothing short of inspirational. Isn't that crazy, how the people that are in your life physically and emotionally change you. So now I am a different navigator because of it. With different pit stops and gas stations along the way. 

SO there I was, New Years eve, a new person in an old place. Crazy huh? I have found that that's the case with alot of people on this day. The day where we all realize, we are so different than we thought we'd ever be. With different priorities, different passions, different looks, different goals....which brings us full circle to the day of goals.

My Advice-to all those lost souls out there... your not alone, everyone is facing new experiences and we are all feeling the same way. The greatest thing about that feeling, is we need it to move on in life. The feeling of fear of the future, the insecurity of moving on makes us do just that. It shows us that our past was important to us. It shows us that what we went through in our past wasn't in vain.

SO PEOPLE!

Lets embrace it! Embrace the feelings of fear, so you can finally move onto the new freeways in life. So you..can add another Pin Point to your map.

The Pin Points

Let me tell you a story.

One day I came home and helped my poor little brother with an English paper. All of you lovely people know that when you write a paper, you need to have an attention grabber to go POP! LOOK AT ME I...AM AWESOME! Well I, the awesome person that I am, had an unbelievable flashback. 

SETTING: My silver 03 Oldsmobile Alero, Oaks, green and brown rough plants across the freeways, not anything what December should look like. Yes, I am in California. Well kind of, I am making my way, cross country to my beloved white wonderland (insert sarcasm here) of Idaho. Anywhoo back to my story. My good pal Daniel and I were traveling back from the holidays from Ventura CA. We started back to the homeland, when Daniel insisted to drive first. "Ok let me see your GPS" he says.

"Psh GPS, Lets use my handy dandy IPHONE. Ya for its google maps." I say

-__- is the face he gives me. "I want to check the altitude."

"eh fair enough," for I know my google maps doesn't do altitude. While he drives, I was looking at my google maps. "Added Pin Point" Jr (my Iphone 4s) says to me. But I dont want to add the pin point, so I figure out how to take it off and move on with the trip. Through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and of course Idaho. And through that road trip, Google maps were branded into my brain. Hey, a 17 hour car ride will do that to a person.

Anywhoo... So we use the metaphor of road maps at Harrison's attention grabber. Comparing it to life and careers, how we choose things affects where the map takes us. 

BUT ALAS,

Just like the Grinch on top of mount Krumpit, I realized Christmas was more then just gifts, ha jk but I did have an epiphany. You cant change the Pin Points in your life, they are there, whether we want them to be or not, there there. You cant go back and dismiss them, but if you look at them, it shows you where life just took you. Imagine if you couldn't get rid of the Pin Points on a Google map... We can see everywhere we went in life. We can look back and say hey, Pinpoint 47 is when we were chased by Emu's (true story) or anything like that. 

SO

This is the blog for people, just like me, who love hearing about adventures, however relate able or not. Here, I will answer lifelong questions, and give advice, and yes, add a Pin Point in there somewhere.

To the Pin Points!