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May project: i’m working on it

May 16, 2013

It’s day 16 in the blog every day challenge. The topic today is: Something difficult about your “lot in life” and how you’re working to overcome it.

I have been stumped by this one since the beginning. I don’t know that I have an overwhelming must share answer to this one but I’ll try and give a little insight.

I am one of the worst worriers I know. I’m scared of quite a lot and am always thinking what if. I’m gotten pretty good at distracting myself but more and more I’m realizing it’s better to just deal with it when it comes and then move on.

I’m highly resistant to change and sometimes have a harder time dealing with big changes. I do think I’ve come along way as far as this is concerned. I’ve moved to two new states in the last 5 years and I surprised myself with the ease at which I made the moves. I think I just knew that is order for my life to progress I needed to be ok with it.

I can be extremely sentimental (I may have mentioned this). This leads me to hang on to way too many things. My old room at my dad’s house is filled with things from the past that I just haven’t been able to part with. I’ve decided something though. Every time I visit I must get rid of at least 15 items from my room. I know there are quite a few things I would like when I have a house of my own but there are tons of things that just need to go and are keeping me stuck.

What about you?

May project: I miss…

May 12, 2013

It’s day 12 in the blog every day challenge. Today the question is: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…)

I’ll be the first to tell you that I live so much in the past. I’m resistant to change and the future scares me. So what do I miss? I think it’s pretty clear. Basically any good moments in my life that have passed. I wish I wasn’t so sentimental and that I good appreciate a good moment and then move on, mmm but I can’t.

If you wanted me to be even more specific I could tell you that I miss the time in my life when I wasn’t worried about big decisions for my big girl life. You know like am I ready for marriage, am I ready to have kids, to start my life according to societal norms. I miss the days when I was just deciding what weekend I would drive to visit friends or go camping. In lots of ways I don’t feel like I’ve changed much from that girl and maybe that’s why it seems sad. So much more time has passed than it seems, but in my mind where all my memories live I’m still that young girl.

May project: my story in 250 words

May 1, 2013

Remember how I’m doing a different project every month this year? Well today I was trying to decide what this months would be when I ran across this post my Julie Ann Art. Jennie over at Story of my life is having a Blog Everyday of May Challenge! I figured this would be perfect! A great way to continue my project but also join in with this wonderful blogging community.

Day one of May: The Story of Your Life in 250 words or less.

{a few birthday moments}

I was born on January 1st, 1984 at 1:22 am in Grosse Point, Michigan. Because of this I have a complex about my birthday and can get intense when the day arrives. I have an older sister and a younger brother and we all drove each other nuts. We’re good now. Before any of us started school we were whisked away from the city to rural northern Michigan where my dad started and ran a summer camp for inner city kids for the first 9 years of my life. It’s where I did a lot of growing up and learning about the world. It’s also where my love of berries was cultivated. I went to a small school where everyone knows everyone. I graduate with about 60 people. I attended a community college and then got a mathematics degree from Western Michigan University. I spent the next year working at a health food store and doing nothing with my life. I needed a big change so I moved to Austin, TX with my best friend who was going to grad school. I found at job at the University of Texas, soon after I met Walker who also worked in the same office. I took a random jewelry class that was the beginning of my handmade business. After 4 years in Austin I moved with Walker to Seattle and pursued my business full time. I’m doing my best everyday to make it work.

Did I do it? Mmm maybe. See you tomorrow!

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