Saturday, May 30, 2015

Living Life on the Edge

Hey guys, I've been thinking about creating a blog for a while.  I used to feel like I was a good writer, and really enjoyed expressing myself through this medium, but ever since I have graduated from college, I haven't had a reason to write anything for four years I feel like I've lost all my ability to write well at all.  I think keeping a blog will help me learn to write again, and I often have fun things to say, so maybe I can get a few readers!

I'm still coming up with themes, of how I want the blog to flow, so just bare with me for now, this is going to be a mix of my life, fun recipes I have tried and loved, and insights I have learned.

Just a note on the title of my blog, I often feel like I'm living a life I never planned and happened upon accidentally.  If you had asked me 10 years ago where I'd be right now, nothing about my life resembles what I would have described to you... and I mean NOTHING.  That doesn't mean I'm unhappy with how things have turned out, I just often feel like I'm accidentally on the edge of something else.  

Right after I graduated college I did an internship semester at Disney World in Orlando Florida, and one of the best things to come out of that experience was becoming really great friends with one of my roommates, Natalie Wells.  Now Natalie and I are very similar in some ways, and one of those ways is we don't particularly enjoy roller coasters.  So we loved going to the parks together because we would like riding the same things and not feel pressured to do rides we didn't want to do.  While we were working in Disney World part of the park was shut down for renovations, but towards the end of our time there they opened up a small part including the Dumbo ride.  So channeling our inner child, which we basically did every day anyways.  We rode Dumbo, and decided to live life on the edge by going all the way to the top!!  So we always try to remind each other to live life on the edge... what did you do today to live life on the edge? I lived life on the edge today by planting a garden for the first time ever... I hope it turns out well!!

Today is my 28th birthday, and I spent it cleaning my house, shopping with a friend trying to help her pick out a dress for a wedding she's in NEXT WEEK!! And then I got to take a nap and the missionaries helped me plant my garden, nothing too exciting but I thought it was a great day!