What I did in my Twenties

Well, I'm turning 30 this year (not until November), but I thought I would make a list of all the things I got to do in my 20's so that I can remember how blessed I am and how much fun I had.  And that 10 years is a LONG time.  Hoping for another good decade in my 30's!! 

Here goes the list:

• Interned at Dell in Austin, fell in love with Austin, really had to move there, went back to school and figured out how to graduate early (3.5 yrs)
• Graduated from LSU, moved to Austin, started at Dell
• Traveled on Dell's dime to: Panama City, Panama the beach and an island, Toronto, Edmonton, Nashville, KY, OKC, Limerick, Bracknell, London, Paris, South of France, Madrid, Barcelona, Bratislava (via Vienna), Amsterdam, Brussels and various locations in California
• Bought a condo in Austin and had the best roommate ever, Danielle!
• Coached a junior high soccer team for 3 years, so much fun, and I still keep in touch with a few of the girls.  Played on a few soccer teams.
• Went to the Cape Cod family reunion 4 or 5 times? and had a blast each time!  Such a great place for family reunions!
• Camping, cliff jumping, hiking, water skiing, wakeboarding, boating, Hamilton Pool and party barges in Austin
• Justin (brother)'s Wedding in LA, Tamara's wedding in LA, Kathy's wedding in Mobile, Jenn's wedding, Liza's wedding in LA, Reno's Wedding in TX, Lee and Judy's wedding, Lizzy's wedding, another Jenn's wedding in TX, Fran's wedding in NYC, Todd's wedding in St. Louis, Amanda's wedding in St. Louis
• 2 neices were born and have grown up into adorable little girls - Abigail and Emily.  And of course Sam (other brother) met Amber and got engaged.
• Bought Spice my 4 runner.  She's trusty, she's cute, she is not 4 wheel drive. :(
• Went to some awesome Charity Gala's with Elexis and Lyle - saw a variety of celebrities, most of which I didn't recognize.  But I did meet Dennis Quaid and Al from Home Improvement.  And that black guy from the Aflac commercials. haha.
• Dated some great guys, some not so great, got married the first time, quickly realized my mistake and got divorced.
• Met up and traveled with Sanaz in a variety of locations - most notably NYC right after college, then a million times in Austin, Louisiana and once in Denver and once in Cape Cod
• Went mountain biking, trail running, ran a few 10Ks, worked out, didn't work out, worked out again (vicious cycle)
• Met the love of my life and MARRIED him (Brendan) on Cape Cod!  Changed my name again, for the last time...so I'm Sarah Healey!
• Went to Hawaii 3 times!!  Rocky Point Mexico beach vacation. South Padre Island twice. Cabo!!  Other beach vacations? 
• Took A LOT of pictures.  Played model on kind of a lot of occasions. So fun!! 
• Solitified the Hippo as my favorite animal for life
• Adopted our PUPPY Andy!!!!  And love him to pieces.
• Traveled all over watching Brendan play sand volleyball!!  So fun, and I'm so proud of him. Such an incredible athlete!!
• Worked at Dell for 7 years, more than doubled my salary, quit Dell and moved to Denver to work for Comcast
• Met some incredible friends in College, Austin and now in Denver, porch happy hours, BBQs, downtown, dinners, dancing, paino bars!!
• Hiked all over the foothills in Denver, a big backpacking trip with Dad, various other hiking and camping trips with dad
• A lot of really good New Years Eve's!!  Worth mentioning as it is my fav holiday.
• Started Healey Insurance Group with Brendan - the family business
• Played in the SNOW, went sledding, snow shoeing, skiing, not ice skating (dang it, there is still time)
• Bought a house in Denver (ok I haven't done this yet...but I'm hopefully going to before i'm 30)

Ok it's actually a little strange to sum up 10 years in 25 bullet points.  But ...i mean, it's a LOT of stuff.  This is a lot to be thankful for right here!!  <pause to be thankful>  Now for the next 10 years....let's rock this!!!   


Age 20 in College and Age 29 with Brendan (he's only age 28)

Flo my Food Log

It's me again.  I know...two days in a row.  This is some sort of record.  Maria and I started food logs last week.  This means that we write down everything we are eating and drinking.  The idea being that either (1) we won't eat as much because Flo would know about it and be mad or (2) we do eat like crap and then it's really obvious to Flo and she makes us feel really guitly.  Using a half notebook / pad of paper helps because if you're eating more than fits on the page, then you feel EXTRA guilty.  Guilt hopefully turns into better food choices for the next day.  Just to be sure everyone gets is ....Food log = FLo ....get it.  F. L. Food log.  Ok, i crack myself up.  I know.  Anyways.

So - point of the story is I think it's working so far.  I didn't have the added drinking calories on M, T or Thursday.  I sucessfully brought fruit to work to snack on instead of the usual snack machine purchases (failed on tuesday though).  I avoided eating while cooking on more than one occasion.  AND I have tried avacado and raw tomatoes this week...tomato on more than one occasion.  (note that i am a very picky eater so these are major milestones for me)  I also have taken a vitamin a few days this week (why not everyday?) and did some excerise.  Flo also tracks vitamin taking, and exercise.  Next week will focus more on excersie and Flo might put in some push up / crunches goals (Maria doesn't know this yet).

I did get some sun in Hawaii, so I'm feel less white and generally better about myself.  Hopefully getting in some pool time this weekend to further the tanning process while avoiding the fake tanning and $40 a month charge. 

If I go mow the lawn right now can I count that as exercise for Flo?  Hm. I feel like as I've gotten "older", I have started counting things as "exercise" that i previously never would have.  Example:  walking. 

Maybe I'll keep you posted on my goal to lose 9 pounds and tone up.  WIth the help of Flo, it could be possible.

May Update

Well I'm the worst blogger ever.  All my blogs should start with that since I only blog a few times a year.  I guess that's just how it's going to be.  Whatever.  But I LOVE reading everyone elses blogs. :)  Keep up the good work.  More frequently would be better.

Things new with me:

• We went to Kauai last week, that was super fun and adventurous.  We went ziplining, zodiac boating, hiking, surfing, swimming, etc.  My favorite parts were the sea caves on the zodiac tour, and hiking down to Wailua falls and swimming in the pool.
• We are going to have one of busiest summers on record.  I mean, 2010 and 2011 were pretty busy.  2010 we had to have a spreadsheet even to manage each weekend's activities.  I'm about to need to make one for this summer I think.  Brendan is playing in volleyball tournaments here, Aspen, Breck and Steamboat this summer.  We've got a St. Louis wedding (yay!).  Camping. GIRL TALK concert - YESS!  Golf tournament for Brendan.  And of course BBQs and porch happy hour.
• A note on porch happy hour - this is the greatest invention ever.  The neighborhood we live in is full of "bungalow" style houses and all have front porches.  The neighborhood is by the park there there are lots of folks out and about.  So us and the fun neighbors next door sit on the front porch around 5:30pm with drinks and cheese and crackers and then porch hh gets bigger as folks walk by and we end up with a big party!!!  :)  SO. FUN. 
• A note on fun neighbors - i was always jealous reading other blogs of folks BBQing all the time with their neighbors because I never had fun neighbor friends...UNTIL NOW.  So Maria and Ron moved in NEXT door (i'm talking like 4 feet away, that's how close these bungalows are).  So we BBQ, walk, porch hh, run back and forth in our PJs.  It's REALLY fun.  And not just them, but we know like ALL our neighbors.  I'm not even kidding you.  And we're meeting more.  Just went to someone else's porch for porch hh the other night and they had like 10 neighbors there from the block down.  So....we almost doubled our neighborhood friends in just one night.  So. FUN.  So fun Wash park and this neighborhood should have its own blog.
• A note on Wash Park - we want to live here forever.  FOR-ever.  We are renting right now.  So...how do we convince our landlord to sell us her house?  Hm.  An interesting one.  Ok, well if not this one, we want to buy one REALLY close by.  I stalk realtor.com and all the for sales around.  Fav thing to do - walk the neighborhood and dream about living in the cool houses.  There is one from the late 1800's that is my FAV.  It's not for sale, but if it was it would be like $1.5M.  Whatevs.
• Happy Memorial Day weekend.  I'm planning some cleaning, organizing, hiking, BBQing, and hanging out in the park.  And of course the usual realtor.com and open house stalking.
• A note on buying a house - we can't until fall.  Realistically speaking.  It is a 3 step process.  I won't go into it now.  But Step 3 involves selling the Austin house which is leased until Sept 15.  So unless the renters want to buy it, we are kind of stuck until then.
• Alright - well, signing out for now.  I won't say I'll blog again later, because I probably won't.

But everyone else should go blog RIGHT now.  :)

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