The winds are changing

A good friend told me this morning that age 33 is supposed to be the year of enlightenment. I wonder what sort of enlightenment I should pay attention to? Is it that I have started remembering my dreams again, eventhough my last dream was of me in a tatoo shop picking out designs. Does it include doing things that I have never done before? Like going out with the guy that I wouldn't normally find attractive, taking a trip, or just not doing the same thing on a Friday night like dinner and a movie with a select few friends.

2007 started off with figuring out how to shake up my life, in a good way. I went to a New Year's gala for the first time and drank myself silly on cranberry vodkas and kissed some twenty-something guy on the dance floor. I flew to Houston, TX, which I've never done before, and found that on the surface Houston is one giant, sprawling strip mall. I still don't know what there is to see in Houston. I signed up for the Washington Post Date Lab, which seems risky, so it's worth it. And I am making travel plans to go to Vegas with friends so I can say, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."

Many times I start off the new year with a goal like losing more weight, spending more time with family, exercise more, but this year I decided that it's time to shake it up. I need to make some change in my life, and it all starts with choosing a slightly different path doing the opposite.