February, 2001-Unload

When I was sixteen, I made a life list that looked like this:

1. Graduate college in 4 years, major in business. (cuz no one thinks I can)
2. Get a job in the fashion where I can travel and boss people around.  I love the GAP!
3. Buy first house with Kurt when i’m 23.  (don’t move in til we’re married though!  Tee hee!)
4. Marry Kurt when I’m 25!!  I want to get married on the beach!
5. Move into a big giant house when I’m 27.  I hope it’s in Danville!!!!!!!!
6. Have first baby when I’m 28.  I want a boy first and a girl second!
7. I want my kids to be two years apart.  They have to be best friends forever!

And being the control freak that I am, I stuck to the list. Even as a grown ass woman I chased after stuff written in purple ink, on college rule binder paper and folded into a fancy little triangle.  It never occurred to me that all of my satisfaction came from crossing things off the list, not what I was accomplishing!  Sticking to the damn list explains why my life was so empty once I had everything I thought I ever wanted and it also explains the total mental breakdown that led me to a therapist’s office three years ago.  One of my best friends has been stopped by cancer, something totally out of her control, but I was my own disease. 

My last appointment with my therapist is set for a week after I return from Mexico.  Sure I’ll struggle with life after therapy, but who doesn’t?  There’s not one thirty something year old woman out there that doesn’t struggle with men, marriage, wrinkles, cellulite and money. It’s time to grieve the loss of my best friend and the greatest love (and sex) of my life on my own. 

Girls, it’s time to meet CHRISSY ANDERSON.  It took a chance encounter with a young stranger at a bar to realize her life list was bullshit.  But does she have the courage to correct the mistakes of her past?  Is she strong enough to defy the wishes of everyone around her and become the woman she was meant to be?

Guess what? I’m Chrissy and you can find the answers to these questions in THE LIFE LIST, my story through my life choices- some good, some stupid, some sleazy.  Sure, I’ve made some big mistakes.  But, I learned from them and came out the other end in a pretty damn good place.  My hope is that I can help you do the same.

Go ahead and ASK CHRISSY questions about your own stupid and sleazy choices in absolute confidence and she’ll email you back.  And if all of that’s not enough to make you jump up and down in a fit of delight, you can friend Chrissy on Facebook and she’ll force feed you UNSOLICITED ADVICE every single day!