12 of 12 / asthma / life

12 of 12! – january ’13

• by kerri

On the 12th of each month, a bunch of bloggers from around the world take 12 pictures of their day and blog them.  Here are my pictures for January 12th, 2013!

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12:54 am – kitchen. Trying to actually do some non-blog journaling this year. Now it’s bedtime.

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11:20 am – kitchen. Got some snow overnight.

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2:26 pm – kitchen. Watching WheezyNews vlogs. “This is my preferred method of transportation.”

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2:33 pm – kitchen. Mike and I discussing how boring our Saturday 12s will be. Go see his here!

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3:08 pm – bedroom. Spent some time on Google Hangout today–second call about to start with Steve because we wanted to try it out–by the time I joined the hangout he’d already decked himself out with effects. Dia and I also did a Hangout call when Skype/Facebook failed us in the morning. I am in love with Hangouts. :]

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6:08 pm – kitchen. Vegetarian tacos! I’m extremely boring and all I top the soy taconess with is cheese. So good.

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6:28 pm – kitchen. Rocking my ugly sweatpants that you cannot see, so needed to rock my Tummietote to hold my iPod while doing dishes. Priorities, people. See also my epic Threadless shirt with the awesome organs hugging each other :].

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7:03 pm – kitchen. I am never going to get an anatomy grade, am I?

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7:52 pm – bedroom. Cleaning all of my empty inhalers out of the drawer in my bathroom. This is out of control. That blue Ventolin off to the side is actually probably nearly full but expires in a month. Total count, 47.

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8:17 pm – bedroom. Moved onto a different drawer in my room. Seriously. Total count, 57. I haven’t been on Advair [purple] since September ’09, and FloVent [red/orange cap] since March ’09.

Total total: 104. This isn’t a complete number but pretty close. See also: tired of this! Cure please?

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10:33 pm – kitchen. Been kind of lazy on the video blogs. Tomorrow.

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11:54 pm – kitchen. This made me laugh. A lot. By myself.

life

consciousness: i guess today’s going to blow us away.

• by kerri

some days go by, i wish i were famous. or maybe religious, so i could go to heaven just like you.

[…] I guess today’s going to blow us away.

21 and invincible, something corporate

There’s the perception that there is something awesome in every day so long as you find it.

I fully believe that there are Good Things in every day. I need to make myself more conscious of them.  And whether I am just succumbing further to the technology that surrounds me, or whether I am actually becoming more focused on what is around me, hopefully the goodness is double-edged within the newest project I’m working at: daily vlogs [or, as my cousin Dean has dubbed them “klogs” = kerri vlogs, as opposed to “funny Dutch shoes”.

So far I’ve eaten cupcakes two days in a row, acquired a Keurig and played Apples to Apples for an hour at work. I mean, this is goodness–we are only four days into the year, over here!

Now to work on defining some goals for 2013!

Time to move.

life

creating resolution: make yourself.

• by kerri

Life isn’t about making resolutions.

It’s about finding and creating resolution.

there’s a lot that i don’t know, there’s a lot that i’m still learning. when i think i’m letting go, i find my body is still burning, and you hold me down. and you got me living in the past. come on and pick me up, somebody clear the wreckage from the blast.

i’m alive, and i don’t need a witness to know that i survive. i’m not looking for forgiveness. i just need light, i need light in the dark as i search for the resolution.

and the bars are finally closed, so i try living in the moment. till the moment it just froze, and i felt sick and so alone. i can hear the sound of your voice still ringing in my ear, i’m going underground, but you find me anywhere, i fear.

the resolution, jack’s mannequin

Change, growth . . . they are processes that can start at any time . . . and hopefully are continuous. There may be lapses. That doesn’t mean it’s over. A “resolution” to me seems so finite. Nothing is finite.  Goodness . . . is continual.

Let’s make ourselves better all around, let’s move, let’s meet new people . . . let’s change our worlds through interaction, through hope, through love . . . and though Good Things.

2013. Let’s go.

make yourself

Make yourself.

life

looking back on 2012

• by kerri

At the end of 2011, I declared 2012 the year of Good Things. And . . . that little declaration delivered.

January

  • Jay, who might I add is the guy behind the phrase Good Things, guest posted about his type 1 diabetes story early on in the year. This has gone to be one of the most read posts on this blog–it also proved to me to just ask. I’ve learned a lot from Jay over the last year and a half, and I’m blessed that he chose to share his story here, too.
  • Thanks to my friend Steve Richert, I rekindled my love of climbing. Turns out that a youth event would be the only time I got up on a wall this year.

February

March

April

May

  • World Asthma Day 2012 means being intentional: a bike ride decked out in Team Asthma apparel.
  • I go public with my Stanford Medicine-X Scholarship deliberations.
  • I realize I am the only one in charge of my choices, even if circumstances change how I am thinking and I have to make it happen.
  • I turn twenty-one — and announce that I’ll be going to Quebec City with the Asthma Society of Canada for the World Congress of Asthma and making my way to California for Medicine-X!

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Except for a few blips, I feel that 2012 was a pretty darn good year.

Year of Good Things? Check! Time to bring it home.

life

awakening revisited

• by kerri

At the beginning of January, I wrote a list of goals for 2012. As the year closes off, let’s take a look at these again and see how I did

Small things

  • Focus on the good things.

I think I did this one pretty well :]. It’s pretty un-specific, but it’s clearly smattered across the last year of this blog.

  • Complete the onehundredpushups program and not derail. Yes, I am doing girly push-ups. It is better than no push-ups.  If all goes well, this will be completed by the end of January.

Unsuccessful. I think I got up to 50 and then derailed.

  • Stop making Saturday and Sunday the exception:
    • the weekend is not an excuse to only brush my teeth once a day instead of twice
    • it is not an excuse to forgo a workout or two
    • and it is not a cop out for eating all kinds of random food.

Can you say derailed. Says the girl who has not legitimately worked out for over a month, has derailed on the twice-daily weekend brushing-of-teeth [once always. Twice not so much.] and is having cookie-dough hot chocolate for breakfast at 11 am?

  • Become more reliable at hitting up the cardio workouts 45 minutes/day, 5 days/week.

See workout explanation from previous point.

  • Read over the day’s notes when I get home from school and make study notes as the term goes on, because it will make finals suck less.

Considering 2012 featured the failing of anatomy in the spring, dropping two classes in Fall term, and possibly sneaking by with a D in social psychology [and a currently unknown in the anatomy repeat] this . . . might have been helpful.

Okay, let’s move on to the bigger things

Bigger things

  • Health advocacy: do new things, reach beyond what I’ve already been doing in some way.  [Maybe that’s doing more races sporting the Team Asthma gear, maybe that’s trying to see if volunteering at asthma camp will work this year, maybe that’s giving my time and my own body for research if I’m eligible.  It could be a lot of things, or all of these things].

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! This happened in ways I would have never believed: Quebec City for the World Congress of Asthma, the Stanford University Medicine-X conference . . . and I might possibly have some new goodness with the Asthma Society of Canada rolling out in the near future.  My friends and I also participated in the Canadian Diabetes Association 10K, and I launched the Kerri Kicks Asthma CanadaHelps page.  I also started working on a couple new asthma advocacy related projects, The Forward Project which needs some realignment, and the Living With Asthma Twitter chat which will be live again in January.

  • Actually walk a half marathon.  I’ve been saying I’m going to do one for about two years, so let’s make 2012 the year pending all goes as planned.

No bueno. I have been saying this half marathon thing since 2009 or 2010, and it still scares me, probably why I haven’t done it yet.

  • Work with others to help them realize their own potential, be a part of that ripple effect.

So much goodness. This one has been a plethora of little things. Its actually caused me to reach out of my comfort zone to people I haven’t spoken with in several years over Facebook to provide them with resources on things. It’s

  • Figure out where I’m at with God.

More lost than ever, but learning more at the same time.

I tried this twice and lasted one or two days respectively. Continuity is not my strength.

  • Hesitate less, do more.

YES. Airplanes. Road trip. Internet “strangers” who are among my best friends.  I think the prime example of this one is going to California for Medicine-X.

I fully expect to not accomplish all of these, and if I don’t, they’ll transfer into 2013.  If I do, then I’ll be golden.

I didn’t accomplish everything, but I definitely accomplished more different things than expected!  And, I’m 3/6 for the big things, which is pretty phenomenal.

This I am very okay with.