A sort of explanation.
I feel like I need to briefly explain what will probably be going down this month as I get started on this blog.
So although I am a few days late, I am doing this thing called a "30 Day to do." The idea came from a good friend of mine who got it from this video here. Basically you come up with 30 things you want to do in the month of September, do them, and write about it. So I'm going to be doing that. Some of the things I have I might not talk about because they're personal, but I'll probably keep track of which ones I do just by going "Oh I got #14 and #20 done today" or whatever. BUT one of the things I have on my list is to write a little every day, so it all just sort of works together. Yay me!
See, I really want to do something with my life. I currently live with my parents and my parents are moving from North Carolina to Kansas....next week (holy crap one more week) so I recently left my job and have to start planning what I want to do when we move. Obviously, I can't live with my parents forever, and I've already lived with them for more than a year of my post-college life. Ideally, I want to move in with a friend of mine, but given that we live in two different states and stuff, it's been really hard to get that going. Also, I have no friends where I live now and as a consequence no social life to speak of. Plus the job I did have wasn't making me either happy or a lot of money. Oh and I do not have a driver's license. THAT is a story for another day.
Some time last week, I was Skyping with my dad who is already in Kansas and he told me that when we move, it's time for me to get my life "started." Which immediately sent me into panic mode. It's going to sound dumb, but my whole life I thought I would be married before I graduated college. No joke, it was always how I pictured it. It wasn't until my senior year when I realized that it wasn't actually going to happen and I needed a backup plan. I did not then, nor do I have now, a back up plan. (Just as a note, I DO still want to get married and have a family, but I also decided I want to spend a few years enjoying my singledom and discovering myself as a person because CLEARLY I have issues). I want to be a published writer, sure, but that is really hard to do and honestly, as you might have noted from my first little post, I am really really really bad at follow through. I have TONS of ideas for stories and I am constantly composing in my head, but I rarely (see: never) actually write them down. This is something I am working on.
Anyway, this project I guess you could call it is a sort of result of that. They say it takes 21 days to make something a habit, so I guess this is day one. We'll see where this goes and where I am at the end of it. My plan is to just treat this as a sort of journal-type activity. There is no theme or anything, just me and my thoughts. Which admittedly could get pretty scary. And I have no idea if anyone will be joining me for the ride, but who cares? It's about me and my life and if people want to know what's going on in my scary mind, that's fine as long as they are nice about it.
I DO know my next blog post will be about books though. So that's coming tomorrow. Looking forward to it!
So although I am a few days late, I am doing this thing called a "30 Day to do." The idea came from a good friend of mine who got it from this video here. Basically you come up with 30 things you want to do in the month of September, do them, and write about it. So I'm going to be doing that. Some of the things I have I might not talk about because they're personal, but I'll probably keep track of which ones I do just by going "Oh I got #14 and #20 done today" or whatever. BUT one of the things I have on my list is to write a little every day, so it all just sort of works together. Yay me!
See, I really want to do something with my life. I currently live with my parents and my parents are moving from North Carolina to Kansas....next week (holy crap one more week) so I recently left my job and have to start planning what I want to do when we move. Obviously, I can't live with my parents forever, and I've already lived with them for more than a year of my post-college life. Ideally, I want to move in with a friend of mine, but given that we live in two different states and stuff, it's been really hard to get that going. Also, I have no friends where I live now and as a consequence no social life to speak of. Plus the job I did have wasn't making me either happy or a lot of money. Oh and I do not have a driver's license. THAT is a story for another day.
Some time last week, I was Skyping with my dad who is already in Kansas and he told me that when we move, it's time for me to get my life "started." Which immediately sent me into panic mode. It's going to sound dumb, but my whole life I thought I would be married before I graduated college. No joke, it was always how I pictured it. It wasn't until my senior year when I realized that it wasn't actually going to happen and I needed a backup plan. I did not then, nor do I have now, a back up plan. (Just as a note, I DO still want to get married and have a family, but I also decided I want to spend a few years enjoying my singledom and discovering myself as a person because CLEARLY I have issues). I want to be a published writer, sure, but that is really hard to do and honestly, as you might have noted from my first little post, I am really really really bad at follow through. I have TONS of ideas for stories and I am constantly composing in my head, but I rarely (see: never) actually write them down. This is something I am working on.
Anyway, this project I guess you could call it is a sort of result of that. They say it takes 21 days to make something a habit, so I guess this is day one. We'll see where this goes and where I am at the end of it. My plan is to just treat this as a sort of journal-type activity. There is no theme or anything, just me and my thoughts. Which admittedly could get pretty scary. And I have no idea if anyone will be joining me for the ride, but who cares? It's about me and my life and if people want to know what's going on in my scary mind, that's fine as long as they are nice about it.
I DO know my next blog post will be about books though. So that's coming tomorrow. Looking forward to it!
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