a little history

As someone who is brand new to blogging, I’d like to blog about the actual process of setting up a blog. I felt like I was back in tenth grade, trying to figure out how to put color in my AOL profile with all those random letters and number signs everywhere. A little disheartening, I would have to say but I powered through. Now, here I am, my first blog with the most basic template ever. Just like my first AOL profile. The circle of life.

I won’t bore you with all the details of my life but I suppose a little background info is necessary. I’m 24, live in Yonkers, New York at home with my parents and am a legal assistant. I graduated college from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Worlds away from Yonkers in a lot of ways and I miss it every day. It has been almost 2 years to the day that I graduated and I still can’t believe it. I was an English major and absolutely love reading and writing but of course am now doing nothing remotely close to what I studied. Thus the blog.

When I moved back home from school I basically thought my life was over. I do think that anyone’s college years are the best in their life but I do realize now that all the good times don’t stop once they hand you your diploma. Every single person (no dramatics here) that I was close with at school lives in the Northern Virginia area. I mean ALL of them. I knew this upon graduating and I think this is what made it harder. Everyone was going to continue on with their friendships and leave me behind…or so I thought. However, over these past two years I have kept in really great contact with everyone and honestly I don’t think I’m missing out on much. Of course I get jealous when they are on kick ball teams together and go to happy hours during the week, things that I couldn’t do just from visiting, but I’ve come to realize that I really like my life here and I don’t think I could ever move that far away. I think it’s the whole “appreciating things you have more once you leave and come back” sort of thing.

 

I have two sisters: Brittany, 19 and a freshman at JMU (super jealous) and Danielle, 29 and about to be happily married. You can already see how different our lives are and yet we are pretty close. Not to say we don’t go through all the normal sister BS but they will definitely pop up here quite a bit. My roommates, aka mom and dad, are pretty great and I’m pretty sure if I never wanted to leave the nest they would never make me.

The reasoning behind the title of my blog is very deep and meaningful. Not really but there are a lot of reasons I chose it, all which will be revealed in due time.

And there goes my blogging virginity….