Some new me...written: January 19, 2007

Some things amaze me. Like how a clean kitchen, to me, means a clean house. And how a new journal makes everything that is wrong with my world right again. And how, when it rains, no matter what, jazz music playes in my head...and it makes me want to snuggle.

I went shopping yesterday. And I don't shop...the mall can be an alarmingly stressful place (and I happen to be in retail...figure that one out). And for a flip-flops and t-shirts kind of girl..it was an experience...amazing...

I begin my new job on Monday. Selling jewelry...(and I mean JEWELry...diamonds and gems...oh my!) And I still look like a little girl...and sometimes, I feel it too. And I don't know that these Dallas women would want to buy thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a child...

So, this shopping experience...turns out I'm not a child. Turns out, I am a grown-up...an almost 29 year old grown-up. And I can still feel like myself...artsy and a little bit bohemian...but be a grown-up nonetheless.

And it's okay...it's not so scary to let those flip-flops go (although next summer they will find their way back to me. This letting go...it's my attempt at a metaphor. How am I doing?) It's not so scary to turn 29 (even though it means 30 is practically staring me in the eye balls)

And what amazes me most...it turns out it kind of feels good!