It's been quite a while... and by "quite a while" I mean a REALLY LONG TIME. So so much has happened in the past month and a half that it's astonishing.
First things first, I'm MOVING MOTHA EFFAAS. Alright let's dial it back a little bit. I'm moving in August to the amazing city of Charleston, South Carolina with two fabulous people and the fact that this is all happening is a dream and a half come true. I have one job set up, but I'm looking for another as well because Lord knows you can't pay the bills with a part-time job. It's going to be a struggle, but I'm looking forward to it, as crazy as that sounds. Plus, my roommates are super out-going and adventurous and I'm ready to embrace that part of my personality with full clenching fists. I'm ready to shake up my life and I can't wait to get there.
I turned twenty-three on the nineteenth of June. It's still hard to get used to saying I'm that age. I certainly don't feel it... other than the fact that it is always harder getting up in the morning, but that's probably in part to my 3 a.m. bedtime I've been pulling lately. We started off with dinner and drinks (too many shots and frozen daiquiris and long island sweet teas) and ended with bowling. It was such a great night and I had fifteen of my friends show up, some with their boyfriends/husbands in tow. I laughed hard, had a toast in my honor, and held hands with one of my close guy friends in the same minutes I realized one of my other guy friends has a crush on me. It was a night and a half to say the least. It's going to be so hard leaving all of those amazing people, but I know that if I need them or they need me we'll always be there for each other. Plus it's always good to be reminded that you're loved and people know you, scars and all, and still hang around.
Speaking of people hanging around, I'm no longer friends with Spencer. Too many dramatics and shenanigans. Plus, he got a girlfriend and I didn't feel comfortable talking to him as much as we did and he didn't understand that... so, BYE. I miss talking to him, but it was for the best so it had to be done and sometimes that's what you have to remind yourself of when the going gets tough.
I ditched school for a day and went to the beach with my family and had such a BALL. I was so close to skipping vacation this year just because I had been in this "anti-family" funk and was being a bratty bitch to everyone that was related to me, but at the last minute I decided to go along. My tan is still here and I'm still sad I didn't get any fudge, but as usual I'm reminded how blessed I am to have such warm and loving parents that provide above and beyond for me - including tons of things I brought back from the beach that most people wouldn't dream of getting.
All in all, this has been an absolute gem of a Summer. I've let a lot of people go and rewelcomed a lot of others back in and I'm so thankful for that. I can't wait to see what else awaits me.
Until then.
-Tay