1. Not telling my Big when she really pisses me off
2. That trip to Miami of Ohio... only bad things came of that
3. Getting involved with a man who was in no position to get involved with me
4. Taking too damn long to get over said man
5. Chris D.
6. Working too much and not enjoying college life like I should

When I graduated high school, one friend left me these words:

"Don't miss temptations".

Another said:

"The only things we regret in life are the chances we didn't take".


Luckily, I listened to both of them and have no big regrets.

I do wish I would have gone off backpacking across Europe the summer after I graduated from college (I always said I wanted to).

Of course, I would probably still be paying off the trip if I had gone. ;)

But seriously, why regret the very things that have shaped you into who you are today?

Yikes....I have quite a few, unfortunately.

1. Not being certified in CPR prior to February, 2000. Had I been I might have been able to save my mom's life.

2. Not pursuing my singing career when I was young enough to really do it.

3. Getting my degree in English instead of theatre or vocal performance.

4. Having no siblings....(I know I couldn't control that but to this day I feel like I missed out.)

"HERE WE GO AGAIN"
 

My biggest regret is messing my credit up as an undergraduate student.

My second regret I have is not taking a teaching position that was offered too me. (afraid that I wasn't ready when in fact I was ready more than I could have ever been). There goes my chance to increase my salary by $12,000. WHAT A FOOL I WAS.:confused:

Not pursuing my singing career when I was young enough to really do it.

3. Getting my degree in English instead of theatre or vocal performance.

Nothing you can do about the degree (unless ya go back for it), but you can ALWAYS better yourself artistically, especially if you love it. I mean, i've given lessons to people who are grandparents, they just want to learn. That's what's amazing about the human mind, we can always learn. There's really no excuse to pursue singing if that's really what ya want to do.
Hell, I'm behind ya!:)

There are a couple things that I regret not doing

1) Not telling my best friend in high school how much he meant to me and how much I cared about him. He was in a horrible motorcycle accident our junior year and passed away. I will always regret that.

2) I regret not taking more ballet classes to do pointe. It's so beautiful and I love dancing it. I have the body and the gracefullness just never did it. I am still thinking about doing it today but I just don't know

3) The last thing now is I regret not sitting my now best friend down and making him listen to me and being able to tell him that I am in love with him

I also regret not rushing zta my freshman year here. I have been here for 3 years and I think it is to late now to do it but I would love to

Recent regret:
Wearing a white tshirt to the Tennessee vs Vanderbilt game on Saturday. It rained hard - and the stupid guys I went with were all :eek: during the whole game.

Regret of my life:
Allowing my parents to take a loan out in order to send me away to college when they could not afford to due to having 2 other siblings in college and not doing my best...partying too much.
Thankfully I have wonderful parents who let me come and start over...after some strict rules I made it through and did well in school and have an awesome job. But I regret disappointing my parents the most.

Thanks!!! I still think about trying to make something of it, everyone tells me I should. But let's face it....I am almost 30, a stay home mom of 2, I don't write my own music and I don't have a band. How could I even begin? I love to sing....it is one of the great joys of my life. I get such a high out of performing....I just wish I could find a channel for it.

Here's an idea, take a tip from your experience with #1 and get#3 done ASAP. Having those feelings and not saying it to someone is, well, selfish...so just be straight up with him. if he is your best friend, it won't mess up the relationship. I did this last year and although it was weird after I told her, it would have been 10x worse knowing how i flet but not having enough balls to say anything to her. Gather up the courage and do it, there's just no reason not to.:)

K, not to bitch, but, I get sensitive with performers, especially musical ones. Are you trying to tell me that because you're 30 with 2 kids, you can't pursue your joy because you don't know where to start? Think of how proud the kids would be of mom for doing that! You can start by redevoting yourself to it and getting as good as you can, readup on the industry and decide where you want to take it if you want to go professional, hell, email me if ya want! motivating and yelling at people who are musicians is what i'm going to do with my career anyway, I may as well start with you!;)

Feel free to yell at me.....I always need a kick in the ass to get going on things I am tentative about. My husband has told me to try and get a demo and start marketing it. I know better than to try and slot myself in the Britney market, but I am very versatile....I could do jazz (think Diana Krall) or A/C easily. My brother in law has a fraternity brother who is in a group that has been approached by a few labels....I should talk to him.

So you wanna be my agent?????;)

Don't tempt me kiddo, i don't want to fail my ass out of law school before I get my degree. Seriously though, don't waste what you have, wasted talent is a sin.

Aw hell, my best friend went to law school, passed the bar and everything, and then quickly realized she didn't really like law all that much. She got into the education area as quickly as she could, as an attorney, and now she is looking to chuck law out the window altogether and become a professor!!!!

Erika, here is the kick in the ass you need! If you have the gift of a beautiful singing voice, get out there and use it! Whether its a church choir, a local musical theatre group, amateur night at some bar in Cleveland...whatever! Sure, you're a stay at home mother of two but you're still a person with her own interests, right? Besides, you KNOW Coulter and Miss Thang would be so proud of you! :)

Ok, there is a big ol' footprint on my heinie....(is that a Manolo???) I promise all of you that I will try to do something with it, even if it is just standing out in my front yard and serenading the passers-by.....maybe I will go back out on the karaoke circuit. You would not believe how seriously some of these people take it, and half of them can't even sing!!!!!!!!!!!!

definitely, hands down...

DATING TIMOTHY CARL STRAITE.

girls, if you meet a smooth talking, 6'1", dark haired, blue eyed boy who swoons you with poetry...especially "Sparrows in LaGuardia"....RUN TOWARD THE HILLS!

believe me. and my sorority sister jess. oh dear.

BASTARD!

Oh, Jenna, I hear you. I could put a list out there......I'd like to assume that the ones I encountered have grown up and settled down, but they are probably exactly the same but with graying hair!

For me, it has to be not changing my college major. I knew it was wrong for me fairly early on, but refused to change because I would lose credits, have to take more math and science, etc. The 18 months I spent at my first job were the most miserable of my life, and it took me a long time to get straightend out career wise. If it feels wrong, don't do it - that all I have to say.

Pick my first college better. As in visit everywhere I applied and not just randomly choose where I went.

That's actually one of mine, too.

I dunno. I can't think of any right now. I'm sure something will come up.

That I didnt stick to my guns regarding my UNC experience.

I got mono midway through my first year at UNC. I was out of class for about 5 weeks. Instead of filing for a medical withdrawal, which would have been accepted (basically, a medical do-over), I listened to my father (who was paying my out of state tuition), and struggled to catch up. It didn't work. Lesson: do what's right for ME no matter what.

Me too. I toured where my parents wanted me to go, went where they wanted me to go, and was miserable. I'm glad I at least made the decision to transfer. BEST decision I've ever made.

I applied to 8 schools and only toured two of them. I got freaked out by the audition process at most of them and decided to choose one that didn't require an audition. One of the schools I visited, the audition would have been easy, however I didn't really feel like I liked the school (what do you mean you have a tornado drill every Friday?!?) and I would have missed a flight to see my long distance boyfriend. It probably would have been better for me to go there, but I still probably would have transferred back home.

I do feel like I wasted freshman year because of it though. I was soooooooo unhappy.

1) letting my "stress" in life take over and pulling my eyebrows out (it's a type of OCD). They have never fully "grown" back like normal.

2) not doing as well as I could have in high school academically, I should have done better.

recent regrets:
eating chinese food and McDonalds in the same day. ugh.
that whole mess with my coworker a few months ago (were barely talking, even months later)

overall regrets:
being all over the place with my UG studies
not being a little more loose in HS and college (i dont mean sexually, though that couldve been ok too, but more outgoing and lived a little).
keeping up with the gym and my personal trainer. i couldve been a hottie right about now.