sidenote

who doesn't like food? Thats right, nobody. Food is a lot of the time the only reason I get out of bed in the morning. Unfortunately cooking isn't my strongest point but I'm learning. I will however, never be able to bake, ever. Its a fact that i've just had to learn to accept.

The good thing is my best friend Brandi is a pretty phenomenal baker. On top of that she is even more awesome because she likes to write about it (and posts pictures of it that make me want to eat my computer screen.) Please check it out, you won't be sorry!

http://brandisdozen.tumblr.com/

Bon Voyage America

In less than 24 hours I leave on my trip to South Africa. I have extremely mixed feelings about this now that the hour glass is down to its last grains of sand. Mostly excited, somewhat nervous, and a little scared.

Going out of the country for the first time by yourself is a huge deal, at least to me anyways. At the ripe age of 22, I never thought I'd be traveling around the world, much less to SA, but it makes me realize how fortunate I am to live the life that I do and to have the ability to take this trip of a lifetime with the support of my friends and family.

I didn't really do a whole lot to prepare for this trip considering I had less than 3 weeks from the time I bought the ticket to now when I'm leaving, so I suppose I'll find out if this comes to bite me in the ass later. Spontaneity can be a great thing or a very foolish one. Lets hope for my sake that it isn't the latter.

I did however, make sure I stayed up on my gym routines. After all, it is bikini season there and I wouldn't want the "fat and lazy" American stereotype to continue.

I was extremely proud of my workout accomplishments and I thought I would share them with you guys, not that you probably care or anything, but I do. These pictures are results of my weeks of cycling classes I've been taking.

I cycle 3-4 times a week and do yoga on some days in between with one or two days off every week. I've decided to also make this blog a personal workout log for myself.

(19.8 miles in 60 minutes, last 4 I didn't realize the machine was still timing)


(16.9 miles in 58 minutes)

mid-mid life crisis

Yep, I'm back and yes, I realized I lied to you in my last post. Sorry.

BUT...

A lot has changed since I last updated. I've graduated college, traveled to places i've never been, met some incredible people, said bye to some not-so incredible people, and well, become unemployed. I could have done without the unemployed experience but we can't win 'em all.

Honestly, being unemployed might be the most necessary thing for me right now. Its allowed me to mellow out since my last semester, spend time with my friends who I didn't have the time to see, and I'm going on a spontaneous trip to South Africa next week with a ONE WAY ticket. I haven't figured out if i've lost my mind or not, but i'm just assuming its a mid-mid life crisis and roll with the punches. Lets look at it this way, at least I didn't blow thousands of dollars on a sports car or start dating younger men....or women.

I promise to keep you updated on trip to South Africa, my unemployment life, etc. But for now i'll leave you all with a little note of advice.

Don't graduate before you've found a job. It doesn't have to be a career that pays 50 grand and up a year but ANY type of job. Even bartending jobs are becoming seasonal or hard to find.

P.S. interviews either rule or they suck. There is no in between feeling like "oh man, I'm nervous about this interview but i'll be fine once its done" feeling, but its a "wow this interview made me feel absolutely miserable and I don't want to leave my house kind of suck," or "I just drop-kicked that interview in the face and made it call me mommy" type of feeling.