Life as a leaf

is one in which you become more beautiful right before you die. Maybe that is a really bad euphemism about aging gracefully, but who wouldn't want to have thousands making a journey to see you at your peak? Both literally and metaphorically speaking, of course.


I won't neglect you any longer, little online notepad. But, such is the title of this blog.

Movin' along...

As I am writing and setting up this website I have received five phone calls, all of them unanswered, all of them with the same thing in common: they want money I owe them, and as far as I know, trees are still not bearing cash. So, the calls remain ignored, I am still unemployed, and I've decided to start a(nother) blog if for nothing more than an outlet for me to vent about my frustrations with being job-less, income-less (no unemployment here, folks!), finally receiving my undergraduate degree after nine long years (but not nine consistent years, may I add), and generally being a 27 year old female who had to move back home with her folks, leaving her boyfriend and pet turtle behind in another state, facing this unexpected bend in the road with as much of a sense of humor as possible.


It's often said that the college years are the "best years" of our lives. I can't disagree with that but I also can't entirely support it either, due to my non-traditional college career. One of the things I hope to do with this site is reflect on quirky stores from my drawn out past as an undergrad; offering advice that I wish I had received back then, tips that got me through that first hazy semester and general experiences that maybe you thought noone else ever went through.


I'm cautiously optimistic about this new venture. I have to be, because the only other bright spot in my week so far is that I just received a phone call from a woman with a thick southern accent letting me know I was "chosen" to win one of three prizes - a fancy car, 25k and/or a trip, BUT all I have to do is call back RIGHT NOW. I have a feeling credit card companies are being creative in their debt collection pursuits...

I last posted over a year ago.

In that year these things have occurred:

*raced in the triathlon I planned to do last time i wrote only my knees were awful so I competed as part of a relay - I swam the 1/4 mile and biked the 12, and my cousin ran the 5k. In two weeks I am doing a full tri myself - 1/3 mile swim, 15 mile (hilly eeep!) bike, 5k run.

*Lost friends and made new acquaintances

*turned 26 and 27

*thought i was graduating college. then thought i was graduating college again. the thought i was graduating college for real. then thought that the moment had come. i'm still sort of waiting to figure out if it's REALLY happening as i have one week of a course left then I'm supposedly done. who knows

*Have been car free for a year and a half

* been job free (not by choice, however) for four months. ugh, these bills don't pay themselves, people!

* figured out a diet that works with my lifestyle and goals i have set for myself

* goals! lots of them! and not just in soccer!

* joined a women's rugby team. then quit because i have a busted foot

* ran another road race with no training and didn't die and i realized i don't like running so much but i'll do it cause it means i'm being active

* remembered how and why i love being in the water, be it a pool or the ocean, so much

*surfed!!! (not enough. never enough)

* got a short story published

* realized i'm more attractive then i think

* realized it's all relative.


maybe i'll update this more now that i remember i have it.


chance is a lucky entity.