31 Things

"I don't want to survive, I want to live!"

-Pixar, Wall-E 

Here are a few highlights on what Dr. Elemis Pott did in 2018:

1.  In a few classes and a few dozen fails, Dr. Elemis Pott learned how to and how not to audition for theater 

2.  Performed her first musical as a Whickersham Brother in Seussical.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened 

-Dr. Seuss 

3.  Performed in Little Women as Jo March

"I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you Jo, all the days of my life.  Upon my word I will!"

-Little Women 

4.  Dr. Elemis Pott learned how to perform one break dance move.

5.  Went to Ecuador for ten days.

The ship in port is the safer one, but that's not the reason it was made 

-Radical Face

6.  She ate donkey 

7.  Played soccer, evangelized, gave eye tests, and did other things Dr. Elemis Pott has no idea how to do

7.  Got her drivers license

8.  Spent a majority of this year in the car.

Faith is to be awake, and to be awake is for us to think, and for us to think is to be alive, and I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think.

-Twenty One Pilots, Car Radio 

9.  Failed her first drivers license test 

10.  Almost got into five car accidents BUT DIDN'T.

11.  Got lost 48 times in 4 months 

I'm NOT sucking my thumb

12.  Watched several friends graduate 

13.  Watched several friends move

14.  Lived alone with some dogs and fish and snakes and birds for about 6 weeks out of the year. 

15.  Started a You Tube channel while living alone.

16.  Went to One Year Adventure Novel Summer Workshop. 

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken.  A light from the shadow shall spring.  Renewed shall be blade that was broken.  The crownless again shall be king.

-The Lord of the Rings 

17.  Met Tory Martin.  Had many great talks with him.  He gave Dr. Elemis Pott a movie and book of his as a gift before he left, to which Dr. Elemis Pott responded with a happy dance and a few tears.

18.  Accomplished another swing dance performance with more areals.

19.  Wrote for 2-3 hours a day throughout the summer 

20.  Got a job in a kitchen 

21.  Traveled alone 4 times.  Got lost in the air port only 3 times.

22.  Won 2nd place in an art contest 

23.  Went to Creede with some dear friends and climbed a mountain.

Adventure is out there 

-Pixar, Up

24.  Went on a road trip to the east coast and Canada 

25.  Saw Niagra Falls 

26.  Went to the Bible Museum in DC and tormented a pharisee.

27.  Broke the car in Nebraska 

Dr. Elemis Pott in the back of the tow truck 

"One loves the sunset when one is so sad."

-The Little Prince  

28.  Rubbed a soft-serve ice cream in my arm pits and drove home with it on my head.



















29.  Started college.
30.  Performed in Robin Hood.  (unfortunately I have no pictures, but it was probably one of the best events of this year).
31.  Performed in Mountain Rep. Theater's Christmas play.

Honestly, none of these things were what made this year amazing.  A bunch of little things made this year amazing.  I wish I could list them all.  In fact, I've been re-writing this over and over trying to find the right way to put it. 

It was a bunch of random people who did a bunch of random little things that made this year great, I guess.  I have a hard time remembering big things, probably because my mind is small.  This blog post took 6 hours to write because I had to dig through note books and calendars and pictures to remember what I did this year.  But I remember all the little things.  Beautiful people do beautiful things they might not even remember, because beautiful people don't do things for show or attention.  Most of these people I only had a short time with.  

But whether they know it or not, they helped me in overcoming my anger issues, they helped me get to know Gods character better, and they make me want to do everything I can to be a beautiful person too.

Happy 2019.  

Happy birthday, dear blog.