mel.

hello, blogosphere. welcome to my little blog. i've tried this blogging thing a couple of times before, but i feel like i kept making the same mistake. i tried to make a blog JUST about school. and a blog JUST about married life. and a blog JUST about me and my life. the problem, of course, being that life does not segment so easily. everything overlaps. so THIS blog is about anything and everything that happens to me, that i do, that is done to or for me, that i want to do someday, or that i've decided never to do. it's just about ME. being twenty-something, married to the greatest man on earth, and embracing the 'poor newlywed, starving student, stressed out, apartment living' phase of my life.

the main reason i started this blog was because i was having some bad times. i was feeling very down about where i am in my life and felt a big rush to move on to the next chapter. i started reading a few blogs of other people about my age who were in my situation (married, students, not ready for babies) and were really enjoying their lives. they inspired me to challenge myself to do the same. hopefully with this blog, i might be able to help someone with the same rain cloud over their head to start embracing life, too. 

my challenge to myself, and to anyone who stumbles upon this section of the inter-web, is to find one thing every day (or every other day cause some days are just CRAZY) that you love about your life that you wouldn't have if you were in a different stage of life or had different circumstances. 

today, i'm going to be grateful that my car makes that annoying, embarrassing squeally sound and we can't afford to fix it. because it encouraged me to take a walk to the store today, which was a chance to see flowers, and birds, and trees, and a warm sunny day i otherwise would have missed.