Merry New Year and a Happy New Blog!

Yes, it’s January. The entire world is set on keeping their New Years resolutions. (It’s still January 8th, so that statement remains true for at least another 7-days.) The world is filled with good intentions, so I’ll add another one to the batch.

I’m actually going to keep blogging here.

I wish I could say that the past 4-months have been a whirlwind of adventure, leaving me no time to detail you on the turbulent journey that is me reaching adulthood. It hasn’t been. Then again, the past 4-months haven’t been a prison sentence of ho-hum boredom either. I’ve pretty much just been lazy, or selfish. Or maybe a little bit of both.

How I managed to completely skip over 4-months of my life, I couldn't tell you. When I was in college I had semesters to mark my life. It's been x amount of days since mid-terms, or y amount of weeks until the final. You started dating so-and-so the fall semester of your Junior year, and bought your favorite t-shirt the summer before you were a Senior.

Suddenly, when you graduate, all sense of time gets thrown out the window. (and don't even get me started on how life-altering it is to no longer list your facebook albums by semester.) You begin living for the weekends, and there's no summer break to hold out for. Soon you can't remember if the weekend you lost your flip flops at the beach was in July or January. (and here in Southern California, either month is a toss up.)

Before you know it, it's been A YEAR since you finished school. One full year, can you believe it? I certainly can't. Then again, there was a time where life was filled with blue books, paper cuts, and coffee. lots and lots of coffee. Today those stresses are a thousand miles away. Instead I came home from work today, took an hour to decide on dinner, and stared at a book before deciding once again to toss it somewhere under my stack of bills. (This may or may not be the same book I've attempted to finish SINCE my last final, but that's neither here nor there.)

Where has all the time gone? What have I done? Suddenly my built in self-reflection time has withered up and a winters break worth of "what now" must be fit somewhere into the weekend between "wash all the dishes from last week" and "neah, I don't think I'll make the bed again today." It's a different life now, and I'm not sure how to deal with it.

But maybe that's it. Maybe I'm not supposed to figure out how to deal with it. I just deal. I wake up, I go to work. I see movies when I want, I binge on Grey's Anatomy episodes when I want. I pay the bills, and if I decide I feel like making a spur of the moment trip up North, I put it on my credit card.

Then suddenly, I wake up, and it's January. and it's been 4-months since I've blogged. Hello again.