I'm back...

Wellllll...I officially failed at what I set out to do in regards to my blogging aspirations. But what it comes down to is that everything that I so brilliantly decide for myself turns out to be really ridiculous. So, I have recently taken on a new attitude towards everything that I decide is a good 'plan' for myself: EFF it. (excuse my French - at least I didn't REALLY say it). I'm sure that will raise some eyebrows (Mom and Dad, everything is ok, I PROMISE) but I'm just choosing to get off that all too tempting treadmill that seduces us into believing that we have to have it all together and figured out. In ten days, I will have lived in Jacksonville for a year. ONE WHOLE YEAR. It seems like yesterday. And it seems like a lifetime. It's been the most freeing year of my life. It's been the hardest year of my life.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way"

It all sounds WAY more dramatic than it really is. All is well and life is good. I've got much to be thankful for and little to complain about. I'm just re-visiting the last year and realizing how much effort I've put into things that don't matter. Time to scale back, get simple, appreciate the things that are right in front of me...

More on all that later........

to all of you (all two of you, mom and dad) who have been waiting patiently for me to post, I love you.