Welcome to the (Blogging) World, Baby Girl!

Although I've been quietly reading and enjoying blogs for years, it finally occurred to me that this is the perfect time for me to bust out my own voice and add it to this wonderful, unique world that I had only passively participated in before. 

I am 25 and live in a small college town in Northern Arizona.  I graduated from college in May of 2008 and have been working the same jobs that I have had throughout college and travelling ever since.  I have reached an interesting (although admittedly somewhat uncomfortable) time in my life, and rather than spend this time focussing solely on the future or yearning for the past, I want to document these months (or years!) and the whimsy, kitch, beauty and adventure that I am experiencing RIGHT NOW- on a daily basis, no less!  I love love love creating and interior design.  I am a workout junkie and pretty healthy eater.  I love all things old fashioned and kitschy (one of my favorite words, you'll soon find out).  And I love to travel.  These are things that I have a want and need to share- so here we are. 

I'm sure many of you out there can relate to the "quarter-life crisis" I'm going through now.  Afterall, your early- mid twenties are the first time (for many of us) that we don't know exactly what we're supposed to be doing.  I have known, with absolute certaintly, that when I turned 5 I would be starting Kindergarten, at 12- Middle School, my 14th year would bring High School and, for me, there was no doubt that after I graduated High School I would be moving on to a 4 year University.  To make matters even more predictable and comfortable, I have done all of this with the same group of wonderful friends (whom I still consider my best friends, almost 20 years later!). 

So now, I sit here at 25, and of course a career would be the logical next step to the progression - but when you aren't sure that you can pick any one thing to devote the rest of your life to doing, what's next?  For me it's been to stay put and not really rock the boat for the past 3 years.  My college friends have all since moved on, starting careers or are atleast starting to actively look for careers.  I am now to a point where I feel like my life is stalled.  I am a Preschool aide by day and a bartender by night, in some ways I still enjoy both of my jobs and there is absolutely nothing wrong with either of those professions!  But it's not what I had planned for myself.  I know that, in order to grow into the person I am going to be, I need to push myself and move on.  But as I'm doing this I'm going to need to pop my head up every once in a while and enjoy all of the wonderful things that surround me now- which is the exact purpose of this blog.  Who knows what will happen in the next few years?  I will probably (fingers crossed!) start a career, maybe get married and start a family - and looking back at this "uncomfortable transition period" I will be able to remember what an amazing adventure and endearing chapter of my life it really was.  

It's a great feeling to become part of the blogosphere!  World, here I come!