Jumping Off

When I initially started this blog, I avoided the obligatory “Dear Blog, This is Why You Exist” post, and shortly thereafter it imploded into a vortex of technical issues. So the second time around at attempting a launch, I’m not going to fall into the same trap.This blog has a beginning, and it’s beginning is the end of another blog.

Last July I started writing online – about my new house, my upcoming wedding, my puppies – all sorts of stuff. I wanted to have a craft blog, but with my wedding fast approaching it quickly turned into a personal blog. I found the 20 Something Bloggers community and started to make friends and, like a version of Alice armed with a laptop, I kind of tripped into a whole other world – and it was wonderful. I was working in a job that wasn’t fulfilling me, so I let blogging step in – it was a high reward part time job, and what I tended to think about while I drifted in and out of tasks at work.

Slowly, my blog started to take up a lot of time. I loved the community and started spending an hour here and an hour there – but the mental space that writing was taking up started to grow and grow. And then I had a chance at a job that would be really, incredibly, intimidatingly challenging. Engaging. Exciting. So, after much encouragement from you fine folk I jumped at the chance – and then I totally fell off the edge of the blogosphere.

It took me about a month of being offline to feel like I could come back to it, and then when I did, shockingly, my internet friends were still here!

While I have been around and reachable, I think a formal update is over due- so this is what has happened from March until (almost) May in my life:

• I’m over a month in at my new job,  working in marketing in the entertainment industry. It is exhilarating & exhausting, and over all much more than I imagined it would be. It was definitely the right move – thank you for all of your encouragement!
• My husband, Mister, is very good and the puppies are turning one year old (!!!) on Sunday
• I’ve started getting a lot more into fashion blogs & into pulling together my work clothes
• I’ve started jogging three times a week
• I’ve firmed up my vegetarianism and have stepped a little closer to being vegan – I’ve completely stopped eating dairy but I’m still eating eggs, provided they’re free range

I don’t think I’m going to be so explicitly verbose here on a regular basis, but I thought that it was probably a good way to bring you guys all up to date. And just in the mean time, I’ve been tagged in that take a picture now! meme a few times – so here you are, this is me fresh as a daisy without any makeup:

I was tagged by the wonderful Lily, Alexis, & Apricot Tea and the idea is to just take a picture of yourself without primping and taking 100,000 pictures – just a picture of you as you are, at the moment you find out about this (or when you get off work, let’s be honest).

I tag: Nora, Laurwik & Caz!