2018 Smiles and Tears

In 1998, my family and I were in Japan during the Winter Olympics. Kind of made me laugh today, sitting and watching the opening ceremony, to think that it's been ten years since I visited Nagano and Osaka and Kariazawa and Asakawa and all those other places...

Ten years from now, I'll be twenty-seven. Based on my current plans, I'll be finished with my doctorate in cognitive psychology and a traveler of lands I've only dreamt of. I'll have finished this book series that rules my life, and perhaps a few others, too.

Married? Eh, we'll see. Same for kids. You can't really plan that, obviously.

But if I had my way, I wouldn't be married at twenty-seven. Hopefully dating--at the very least--and looking forward to being married before I was thirty. And kids? Hmm... Well, maybe. ;]

Where will my sisters be? Pinks will be working her way through med school. Kailey will definitely have kids [25 or 26 by the time she's done, minimally]. Cassie will be "out in the business world" and making loads of money. Maddy will be happy, no matter where she is [probably off doing physics and playing, oh, ten or twenty instruments].

Funny story... Yesterday Pinks and I were at Cassie's for the night, just chilling and having a splendid time. We were also complaining for quite awhile about how everything sucks, including our own selves.

So now we're the Fups. As in F-ups [pronounced "fuhps," though, one syllable]. Tehehe. We mess it all up and still stay standing at the end. I'm going to make our story into a book. Seriously. I would so read a book if it contained the word "Fups" in the title...

Ah. I love my sisters. No matter what we do--"burn down the basement" with 10 tea candles and a whole box of matches, nibble on everything in Cassie's pantry, take 1,543,987,624 different roads just to get to 19 Mile [which is the mile road I live off of, mind you]--we do it without grace, with many laughs, and with the knowledge that nothing will ever, ever be this perfect.