6 Months In

I'm going to try this again--mainly due to the lack of cable in my room.

Life update:
I am working at Sears Pool Management right now full time and at Anthropologie a few nights a week for extra spending money. I moved out of my parents house (YAY!) and live in a townhouse in West Atlanta/Midtown/Howell Mill area-ish. It feels nice to be out of east cobb and having more responsibility in terms of bills and all that. The jobs are going pretty well but 13 hour days get tiring and many days my energy is spent even before making it to Anthro. Its probably a good thing that not many of my friends are home since I have little time to hang out anyways. I try to make time to spend just hanging out around my apartment but even on my days, nights, and someones only hours off I can't get nearly enough done and the next full day seems to come so much quicker than the days off do. I am trying to get a hold of this real life concept though. I feel older now that I have moved out and am paying bills and rent. Some days I question if I made the right decision to leave my parents house which would of been only $200 in rent but I like to think that paying real rent is a better life lesson and practice in adulthood than at my parents. I am lucky to have minimal expenses even with moving out--no car payments, no student loans, no credit cards so that has helped a lot. So this is where I am at now. Some place between living at home and making it on my own.

I am reading a book right now that calls this first year out of college your freshman year of life. And I kept thinking after reading this how true it really is. Freshman year of college, and high school for that matter, were times of change and challenge. They are the time years that really seem to test patience, friendships, and ability to accept change. I'm not sure they have ever been my best years, but they have been great learning years and have set the later years up for great success. So this really is my freshman year of life. The year that I have to figure out what its like to be a grown up and make it on my own. The year I learn what I want to start doing for the rest of my life (or at least the next 5 years). Its the year I test myself to see what I can achieve and what is better left for others to explore. I hope that this year turns out to be as successful as my previous freshman years, but we will just have to wait and see.

Hopefully the rest of the summer give me some time to figure out what I plan to do with the coming years and allow me some time to focus on my future. I hope that I can learn to pay bills and rent while still enjoying life and all that Atlanta has to offer.