Our List

Not too long ago we created a list of things we wanted to accomplish this year. We decided that we wanted to live our lives our way and do the things we wanted to do, not what was “the norm”.

Although, we had mentioned things we would like to do whenever we were out with each other, we had never decided to make a list until…

One night while we were driving to go downtown, Melly was telling us a story about something that had recently happened to her. As we do with every story anyone of us says, we started interrupting her because it would remind us of something else, but we would stop ourselves and say, “I’ll tell you when you’re done”. But as we know, we don’t always remember everything, so Roland brought out his phone and made a note of the story I was going to tell them so that we would remember. Luckily he did and all stories were said. We then arrived downtown and were driving around, singing at the top of our lungs. “Hey, slow it down. What do you want from me? What do you want from me??????......” Anyway, back to the story, during one of the songs that we were not singing something was mentioned about doing one of the things now on our list. (We’re not too sure on exactly what the first thing was but it was something that we had already mentioned to each other.) We were all talking at once, saying how we should do that one day, then came something else. Then we remembered how Roland had just created a list on his phone and we thought, “Well why not start one so that we don’t forget?” He wrote down the things we mentioned, and we continued with more and more things that we wanted to do and pretty soon had a list of about 12 things.

We were very excited about our list, and continued driving around and singing. We then passed by one of the bridges downtown that has lights under it that change color and decided on the next round we would go through it. We did and we decided we wanted to get off and take some pictures of it. We did and then we started to get closer to the street. Melly was laughing at how there was a couple of pieces of pizza on a bench, and we started to walk that way, then (well Melly might be upset, but I’m gonna tell you anyway J) this car stopped. It was full of black guys and they were making kissing sounds at Melly. It was quite funny. I was behind her and I did not notice them approaching and stop, and when I did, it was because Melly walked back towards Roland and I was left there. They continued making kissing sounds and asking questions such as “Do you think I’m cute/sexy?” They then left and we told Melly that she attracts “chocolate”. She said that I do too, but we know it’s not true, they stopped for her. Lol. Anywho they left and we continued taking pictures (& teasing Melly). We then crossed to the other side of the street and it’s a bridge that is at an angle, and we said, “Look we should go up the bridge” (since it was one of the items on our list, we figured we should do that then. I’m not sure why we said we should add that to our list, I guess it is just something different, something out of the ordinary and well that’s how our brains work, so we added it to our list.) We walked all the way up the bridge to where you could touch what is the bottom of the road that forms the bridge. Let me tell you, it’s a whole lot easier getting up there than it is getting back down. Once you’re up there and look down it looks a bit steeper than you imagine, but there were no accidents and all fine. We then got back in the car and continued driving around.

We were all very excited because we were able to cross off an item from our list and we had just created it. We have added a couple of things since then, and done other things on our list as well. We hope to be able to accomplish all those things and anything else we add on that list within this year. I think we can definitely do it, and well, we’ll continue to post with updates.

-Romesa

The pictures are a bit dark, but it was pretty late, but at least you can kinda tell. The first one is Melly with
Roland, and the second one is Sara with Roland.

The lighted bridge.