Yesterday, my friend Brandy brought some balloons to my birthday dinner for me. The others have lost their float, but this one is still going strong. [Edit Jul15.2011: Three weeks later, and it’s still floating like a champ.]
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Yesterday, my friend Brandy brought some balloons to my birthday dinner for me. The others have lost their float, but this one is still going strong.

[Edit Jul15.2011: Three weeks later, and it’s still floating like a champ.]

GPOYW (a day late) - That’s me celebrating my sixth birthday with a stupid bow in my crimped hair, but check out my awesome Jellies. Yesterday I turned twenty-nine. It’s not a special age for celebrating, but it marked a significant change in my life and the start of a new chapter, the one where I start over. My sixth birthday was similar. That picture wasn’t taken on my actual birthday because on June 22nd, 1988, my family moved from Wisconsin to Michigan. Yeah, I thought my parents were jerks too. It was the first time we had ever moved, and the concept baffled me. I had spent my first few years of life assuming I’d always live in the same house and have the same friends, but I was being told everything was about to change. The idea of starting over was terrifying, but it ended up not being as bad as I had expected. I got through it, made new friends quickly, and I remember my years in Michigan very fondly.  I still get a little anxious from time to time about what the future may hold, but I’ve embraced the idea of starting over. This is my time to make changes, and I am making plenty. If I want my life to be better, I can make it better, and I will make it better.  Here’s to finishing my twenties with my best year yet!
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GPOYW (a day late) - That’s me celebrating my sixth birthday with a stupid bow in my crimped hair, but check out my awesome Jellies.

Yesterday I turned twenty-nine. It’s not a special age for celebrating, but it marked a significant change in my life and the start of a new chapter, the one where I start over.

My sixth birthday was similar. That picture wasn’t taken on my actual birthday because on June 22nd, 1988, my family moved from Wisconsin to Michigan. Yeah, I thought my parents were jerks too.

It was the first time we had ever moved, and the concept baffled me. I had spent my first few years of life assuming I’d always live in the same house and have the same friends, but I was being told everything was about to change.

The idea of starting over was terrifying, but it ended up not being as bad as I had expected. I got through it, made new friends quickly, and I remember my years in Michigan very fondly. 

I still get a little anxious from time to time about what the future may hold, but I’ve embraced the idea of starting over. This is my time to make changes, and I am making plenty. If I want my life to be better, I can make it better, and I will make it better. 

Here’s to finishing my twenties with my best year yet!

GPOYW - This was taken on my twenty-sixth birthday. I’m about to turn twenty-nine at the end of June, and looking back at the last three years since this picture was taken is a little overwhelming. So much has changed, and that was really one of the last times I was happy before everything began to take a turn for the worse. By my twenty-seventh birthday, I was in my own personal hell, and it wasn’t until a few months before my birthday last year that things finally started improving. I can only hope the year to come has wonderful things in store for me.
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GPOYW - This was taken on my twenty-sixth birthday. I’m about to turn twenty-nine at the end of June, and looking back at the last three years since this picture was taken is a little overwhelming. So much has changed, and that was really one of the last times I was happy before everything began to take a turn for the worse. By my twenty-seventh birthday, I was in my own personal hell, and it wasn’t until a few months before my birthday last year that things finally started improving. I can only hope the year to come has wonderful things in store for me.