Dudes. I know.
It’s been almost a month since the last post where I attempted to explain my posting/non-posting relationship with the ol’ blog. We’re still working things out, have faith.
Also mentioned in the last post was the fact that I am now a year older.
It shouldn’t be terribly surprising to those who spend time with me that turning 25 was kind of a mind-trip. The subsequent 365 days were spent in a kind of thinly veiled pity party over my old age. I was convinced my life was pretty much over, that my love of tea, cats and quilts was setting me up for a life of orthopedic shoes and early bed times.
Straight up, I had a full on quarter life crisis, for the entire duration of being quarter- aged..
But then. THEN. One day, the ever wise man friend called me out on it. Confronted by my own BS I had no choice but to realize he was right, and to sit back and take stock of some things.
Truly, I don’t feel like my life is over. I’m in the best shape of life right now, I have a job, a car, a nice apartment, good friends and I manage to somehow ensure I am fed, clothed and somewhat bathed on a daily basis. Maybe I was being a touch over-dramatic? Maybe the saying “you’re only as old as you feel” was true?
Basically, I needed to buck up, get over myself and start living again.
So here I am.
In the past few weeks I’ve been doing some things I never thought I would do. I’ve also tried to get back on board with the 30 things challenge I was so half-assed committed to in the first place.
This, as you may recall for me, is more about saying yes when I would normally say no.
A sample of the things I have done:
- attend a yoga class at somebody’s home as part of a neat initiative, led by a classmate from last year
- attend Critical Mass on a tandem bike! (This is BIG! I don’t do bikes. Like, at all. Thanks to a gnarly bike accident and some hilarious-in-retrospect other events involving me and bicycles)
- Bake my own bread- this one is in progress as we speak. Well, by in progress I mean there is a big uncooked dough-blob rising away in my fridge as we speak. I’ve been less than successful with the bread machine lately, so I’m going to try to go old school and make my own. Stay tuned.
And…. this is the biggest of them all….. I booked a consultation for a tattoo! This is something I have been contemplating for a really long time but have always come up with a million and one excuses to not go through with. So I’m going to at least dip my little toe into the waters and see what it’s all about.
There it is folks.
