The German in Me

The birthday weekend continued to improve with the gathering of several close friends at the German restaurant Hofbrahaus. Several steins of beer, sauerkraut balls and potato pancakes later, the German in me was fulfilled, and I was satisfied with the weekend.

It was a good way to kick off Spring Break; however, I can't help but wonder why this break hasn't felt that "springy" to me. I've never had the benefit of a real spring break because I was always working on campus. Particularly this week I am feeling it with all my peers disappearing and having to try and relate to the three stodgy all men I share an office with. We've already gotten into a "discussion" about why speaking American Standard English should be the law in this country (though they made countless grammatical errors when speaking of it by the way), why having an email address hosted in another country when you're American speaks about the kind of band member you would be and golf. I need some young estrogen up in here. Holla at me 20-somethings!!

I end this break with a weekend at home to see my family and celebrate my birthday. This very well will be the highlight of my break just because I get to take a break!

Birthday Blues

I cried on my 23rd birthday. I woke up with the feeling that I had not even started to live fully and wasted the previous 22 years of existence. The rational side of me declared that I couldn't do much about those first few years due to the fact I was incapable of anything other than pooping and eating. But, I feel like I should have been moving mountains by five. My sweet, incredibly broke boyfriend bought me flowers and a card that had the most beautiful poem on it which ebbed the emotional wave just a bit until later when I got hysterical much to his bewilderment. The catharsis was just what was required to put me in better spirits, and I spent the rest of the day spending money I didn't have and enjoying the company of friends. I'm just glad it's over, and I can move on with my life.

Though, I did decide, once again, to try my hand at this blogging thing. Twenty-Three to Twenty-Four should prove to be incredibly interesting as my boyfriend moves in this spring, I graduate in June, complete my student teaching in the fall and attempt to figure out the plan past December as I will no longer be a student and be un-employed. I don't want to miss a minute of it.

Goodbye for Now

I'm taking a break so I don't feel like I'm forcing myself to write anymore. I'm going to finish wrapping up my old blog and just go with the flow for awhile. However, I have will still obsessively read everyone else's blogs and secretly wish I was that cool.