Last Day of 2011: What I Did Today

What did I do on December 31, 2011? This:

• Slept in late
• [CENSORED]
• Brushed my teeth
• Took a shower
• Was amazed my dead laptop battery charged to 100%
• Started a blog post on “new passwords for the new year”
• Met up with my BFF

• Wondered if the horrible neighbors had finished moving out
• Was interrupted for a nap by:
  • Starting a load of laundry
  • Phone call from my parents
  • Phone call from my mentor
• Sketched a picture of a wizard/squid character
• Delivered a late Christmas present
• Opened a cabinet only I could open
• Drove around to find a place to eat that wasn’t too crowded
• Had lunch at Luna Grill (good burger!)
• Had a photo shoot
• Raced to the Pacific Ocean to catch the sunset
• Got to the Imperial Beach Pier to watch the last sunset of 2011
• Saw a lot of fog, instead of the last sunset of 2011
• Had an amazing, impromptu photo shoot at the pier
• Posted on Instagram
• Ate quesadillas at the Tin Fish
• Stared at the awesome pitch darkness at the western-most end of the IB Pier, into the Pacific Ocean
• Had a special time in Imperial Beach (“Like visiting a new state”)
• Drove past my old high school (Mar Vista)
• Drove past my old middle school (Mar Vista)
• Recalled the time I was in a car accident back in middle school
• Sung car-aoke with PmDuarte: Forgiven by Alanis Morissette
• Drove through some incredibly dangerous fog on the 905 and 125
• Dropped off my BFF and hugged her for the last time in 2011
• Visited my parents and hugged everyone
• Went on a quest to buy dinner at
  • Giant Pizza King
  • KFC (got a photo with The Colonel!)
  • Rally’s (but was closed!)
  • Jack in the Box
• Pigged out at my parent’s place
• Watched Ghostbusters II on VH1 (WTH?) till midnight
• Watched CNN to ring in the new year (Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin rock)
• Hugged everyone for the first time in 2012
• Texted everyone at the stroke of midnight
• Left my parent’s place with some tasty leftovers and a great Yoshi bag
• Listened to Jimi Hendrix on the drive back home
• Fed my kitty for the first time in 2012
• Started to change my online avatar
• Started to change my passwords for 2012
• Throughout the day had some fun moments in social media:
  • foursquare with Raul Meza
  • Google+ with Kevin Key
  • Twitter all the time
• Finished the first draft of this post at 4:30am
• Finished the last draft of this post at 6:15am and then published
• Went to bed about 20 hours after I woke up

What a long, wonderful day, huh? Obviously the last few things I did took place on the first day of 2012. But since I haven’t gone to sleep yet, I’m counting it all as one “day.”

The moral of the story? Live each day to its fullest.