Planning a Life }{ Our future plannings...?

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

"You fail to plan, then you plan to fail."
"Reach for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Though, from a nerdy perspective, the stars are further away so I think I wanna reach for them, anyway, because that means I went further in life


I don't know about y'all, but I see everyone on BT as extended family. I love every single one of you unconditionally, and I can't imagine a time before having known everyone here. We've been together to listen to each other's rantings, cheer at each other's victories, hand out helpful advice, or curse someone's name together This being said, I feel comfortable enough to bring y'all into my own personal planning for the future of my life--what course I plan on taking. Everyone, feel free to add on your own courses in life, advice to others on how to obtain their goals, joyfully give support, tell someone that a certain thing doesn't seem to be a thing that'd fit them, etc. So, here's my 'plan for the future'.

I am going to continue battling through AP Biology, Pre-AP Chem, Pre-AP Algebra 2, Yearbook, AP English 11, History, and German 3. I'm a Statue of Liberty Waver at Liberty Tax for the next few months to save up on money. I plan to work on getting my license and will jack one of my parent's 3 cars so as to have a new job (one that I don't need my mother's transport to, thus it can be anywhere).
Four months up and a new license in hand, I will become a more active volunteer at Angels of Assisi Animal Clinic. Not sure where I will work at at this point in time (need to be 18 to work at Angels of Assisi), but that will be answered when the time draws nearer. Maybe Liberty Tax will keep me (though I will REFUSE to continue being a waver...most boring job in the world--five hours of standing there waving in single digit temperatures....fun fun).
School comes back and I go on to do Anatomy, AP Environmental Sciences, Yearbook, Government, Healthy Living, Adv Algebra/Trig, and AP English 12. Year goes on, I turn 18, move on to work at Angels of Assisi either as a second job OR, if I hate my current job, it can be my only job (you see, I literally have no social life outside of church, and I don't want one, so two jobs will be perfect).
Now my senior year comes to a close and I graduate with my Advanced Diploma(hopefully, lol). Almost immediately, I am going to work my 10 months with Americorps (yes, I will get paid). This will help me raise money for both college (if scholarships don't cover it) and my Appalachian Trail trip. Speaking of which, soon as I get back from my 10 months working with Americorps (coming home on weekends), I will set off to Maine (Katahdin Mountain). There I begin my 6.5 months (that's how long it should take according to my average hiking rate, though that is providing I do not get caught in huge storms) hike on the Appalachian Trail with just my dog as a companion for that time.
After that hike is complete, I shall return and recuperate for a VERY short time (month at the most) and then leap into college. During that month of recuperation, I will, hopefully, purchase my own car. I plan on majoring in Outdoor Education and Leadership and maybe minoring in Photography at Central Wyoming College. I will, of course, drive or fly home on Christmas and Summer break to be with the family in Virginia One of my semester courses for CWC will be covered by National Outdoor Leadership School (video).After college is all said and done with, I plan to do the Florida Trail. My dog will probably not join me on this one because of age (though, by that time, we may have a bigger, but younger pooch to tag along while my little old Appalachian Trail Beagle can stay home and sleep). Once I return from that I will jump into being a Park Ranger in a Virginia National Park (haven't decided which, yet).

Other hikes I plan to do sometime in life (I do not believe in doing sectional hiking. This means that I will do an ENTIRE hike, not chop into pieces and do it little by little...oh, and I will probably do these with for causes so as to be sponsered):
Eastern Continental Hike
American Discovery Trail
Great Western Loop
Iditarod Trail
North Country Trail
Pacific Crest Trail (this is a definite)
Pacific Northwest Trail

In addition to those, I would love to try some smaller (less than 1,000 miles) USA backpacking hikes. There are many listed here (all my above ones can also be found there).
As an added note, if I get the chance, any out of country backpacking hikes would be amazing...but only without a tour guide and group. That takes away from the experience.

Yes, I plan to die on a long distance hike.

[I L Y I C H]

Oh god bhu, I bow before you. You have everything planned out, Im so proud xD Then again Ive already said Im a neurotic freak so joy <3 Its so nice to see this though, a lot of the people in my graduating class had no idea what they where going to do even as they stood on the platform to get their diplomas. And that's just sad. So bravo, Bhu!

Ah but this is such a hard thing to think about. Planning your life. You can't really just pat down everything and make it perfect. But still its a very good practice that I've done multiple times (and edited thousands of times). At this point im pretty sure I have my life (and my years of schooling and student loans) planed out.

For me life's greatest joy is writing and drawing. Ive been slaving to get my bachelors in computer animation and storyboard artistry. The first is almost completed the second is two more years of schooling. (and a butt load of more money xD) At this point the money I make comes from commissions from people at school, the sale of my art work and animations at art shows and my part time job at a bookstore down town. All of that money is then painfully twisted away into rent, food, gas, utilities, art supplies (though I buy those happily) and the phone bill. Finances suck. they really do. I advise planning your budget and never EVER deviating from it. You can live without some cd's you can't live without your apartment.

After that I plan to get a job as either a grunt animator or a storyboard production artist at a larger firm (Pixar anyone?) Oh how I dream of the day I get to start working on movies. To be able to draw and create for a living is something Ive always dreamed of. Some far off fantasy I didn't think was possible. But it was and is, and Im extremely excited about it.

I plan to drag my poor little Ashley with me the entire way though.(she has already agreed to this xD) Its really weird to think (not so much as weird as shocking) to think that we've been together for two years and have made no plans to deviate from one another in that entire time. God it actually makes me extremely happy, but im not so good at showing off my emotions. Ah but i'm not going to ramble about that here.

In the next four to six years after I have settled down a bit I do plan on returning to school. My largest issue in high school was deciding between going to art school or going to medical school. I planned to do both. And I shall drown in student loans until the day I die. At least they die with me. I am planing to go into medical school for a surgical degree- I want to work in a trauma unit as a surgeon. I was in a medical magnet program in high school, thankfully grabbing myself 6 medical college credits as well as strapping a year of clinicals under my belt. So that should lessen the horrible blow to my poor wallet (which has been under enough stress already dang it).

But after that schooling and the job/jobs that follow I have no plans. I don't know what I want to do with myself. I have no plans save one.

One of these days Im hauling my ass up Everest. I don't care how corny or stupid it sounds. I don't care if its 'every man's womans dream'. I'm climbing the damn mountain. One of my professors was a mountian climber, an extremely serious one. He was always going on about how nothing was as beautiful as the roof of the sky. He was a corny old man but his words were inspirational. And if it kills me Im getting up that mountian, just to see the ranges of snow and glaciers for myself. (Id love to climb Kilimanjaro as well. and Mt.McKinley.) the biggest thing Ive ever climbed was Mt. Rainier in Washington which is a well sized 14,417 feet. Compared to my ultimate goal of Qomolangma at 29,029 ft Washington's Rainier is a sign post.

But Ill get there. I swear If im 92 climbing that mountian Ill get there xD

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

I love planning. My will is already written on a piece of notebook paper, and I have draws upon draws of papers with plannings for my life scribbled on them. It changes like a wind--though I have always had a basic idea. My devotion is to animals and the natural world. I have tried my hand at vet sciences, but found I don't have the motivation for it. Death is not something I do well with. People say that "every death will become a little easier", but I think it's a load of dog doo. Every death has lead me farther into actual sickness. I never miss school, and my most recent death (my rat) had me out for two days because I was living in the bathroom with no pigment in my skin. I am just as awful handling the death's of random animals. So vet is a no-no. This is when Park Ranger leapt in and when I uncovered NOLS and CWC, I have been hooked.

Illyich, you have such a wonderful talent so I am so overjoyed you plan to pursue in your artistic carreer. And, of course, I am a big supporter of you training in medical. We need more people in the trauma units, so I pray for the very best for you!

As for your everest and such dreams, I do hope I am invited to join you! My ma supports my hiking, but even my Iditarod Trail is iffy with her, seeing as it is across Alaska. She has put her foot down about Everest. "There's no point! It isn't pretty, it's just a thing guys do to show they have balls! No, Lindsay, I forbid you from it. It's suicide." But if you go, I will tag along, for sure. Hey, once I am on my own, ma can't say no to it, now can she? Also, I have never heard of Qomolangma, but I will be looking into it. I did some very strenuous, high climbs in Yosemite, but Qomolangma tops any height in Yosemite.