a deal and a plan...

{seeking my career}

so here's the deal. my clint is a clint-self and a clint-husband and a clint-medical student, and we are hoping he will eventually be a clint-doctor. currently, i am just a becky-self and a becky-wife. i was very recently also a becky-student of american studies, but then I got the piece of paper that said congratulations on a job well done with that but it's time to move on (and actually I need to look into that, because it still has not yet come in the mail...). i do dabble in a little administrative assisting... more of a bookmark or a door-stopper or another form of useful (and I daresay decorative) place-holder. yes, I reception (possibly the verb form of what a receptionist does?). i reception well and cutely, i might add (and so I am told, but I do not let it go to my head). but all my cute receptioning and administrative assisting is a means to my real career--being marvelous.

that's not a career, becky; it's something you are born either being or not being (you might say to me).

well, that may certainly be true, but sometimes ignorance is bliss. because because because i haven't yet reached the being marvelous threshold (which may sound roughly like other thresholds i.e. the poverty one but cannot actually be surmised monetarily). so if we can pretend that maybe it is not a right-out-of-the-womb kind of quality, then i have a future career ahead of me. {please let it be so!}

so i was thinking to myself, what will get me to that threshold? well, maybe becoming very wonderful at some things. ugh. there are so many things. i mean a gajillion, at least. maybe i could work on first singling out the things i could never {want} to be great at: jumping rope, finagling, anything that has to do with large numbers, being an equestrian (horses make me sneeze...), body building, cattle ranching (don't want those cows stepping on my toes-- I have seen what they can do), computer nerd work (i say nerd with the utmost respect, i assure you; i just can't handle computer screens and all that pinging!), puppy pound operator (i like dogs only when they are clean, but please don't be offended! i am very glad there are people willing to help the underdog-- aren't i punny?)...

okay, blah blah, i'm already bored with myself.

see what i mean? my marvelousness is not even enough, as is, to keep myself interested. this must be remedied. so what i need is a plan. after much deliberation, a diet coke, a brief brain nap, a little admin assisting-- i have come up with the plan in the form of a checklist:

(1) make a blog {check} and put in it some of the following things (which i will be doing daily)...
(2) create a work of art
(3) study something beneficial to my spirit
(4) discover one new thing about myself and mr. clint
(5) get out of bed on time
(6) don't bite my nails
(7) exercise
(8) say at least 10 very nice and very true things

... oh my gosh! i am bored again!

(9) never post anything boring

okay-- i am going to take my expectations and reality out to dinner tonight to shmooze a little, ya know? see if they can't see eye to eye and give me a little break on my journey to being marvelous.

any suggestions?