Let's Get Lost
Hello everyone!
This post is going to go into a good amount of detail about me, so if you just want a summary you can go to the About Me page. If you want to learn a little more, read on.
I've started quite a few blogs in the past but I've never been able to stick to it. This time, it's different. I have more time, more drive, and maybe more content? than I did in the past. But mostly, I'm in a different place in my life.
Like all 20-somethings, a hell of a lot has happened to me over the corse of only a few years. Your 20s are interesting that way. The age difference between 21 and 24 isn't numerically that great, but in reality it's a pretty huge difference.
Before I go into the past 5 years, I'll give you an overview. I was born in New Jersey. I'm pretty proud of this. Jersey can be a beautiful state (depending on where you are) and it allowed me a lot of freedom as a kid. At least, more freedom than my 15 year old completely Californian brother had. There was a forrest in my backyard, our neighbours had kids my age, NYC was only an hour's drive away, and I could walk to a Rita's and a WaWa. While I moved when I was young, I spent every summer in Jersey until high school. Jersey gets a bad rep, but I think Zach Braff did an excellent job representing the Jersey I know and love in Garden State.
From Jacksonville, NJ we made a brief 1 year stop in Duarte, CA before moving to Pasadena.
Pasadena is a very interesting and specific place. I both love it and make fun of it. The Big Bang Theory makes some excellent Pasadena jokes about it, but I think by far the most acurate representation was the book Helen of Pasadena. Anyways, when I decided I was very much done with the private school Pasadena world, my parents agreed and we moved a whopping 10 minutes away to La Cañada.
La Cañada is even more interesting and specific than Pasadena. And I both love and make fun of it as well. The best way I can describe it is a small town version of Beverly Hills. The people who live there are either successful lawyers, in the movie business, or scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Everyone is in each other's business, but also super obsessed with privacy. There is one main street and everything closes at 7pm. There are more Audis and Teslas than I can count and there are no sidewalks because it would "disrupt the rural charm." (ps La Cañada is 20 min away from downtown)
...And yet somehow I've become a part of the La Cañada community so much so that I'm on the La Cañada High School Alumni Association.
Why I'm telling you all of this is for context. I'm not quite an East coast girl, but I'm not quite a West coast girl. I'm not quite a city girl, but I'm not quite a suburb girl. But that's what makes me me. I wouldn't have it any other way.
When it came time for college I wanted to get the hell out of LA. So I went to San Francisco State University. I completely fell in love with the city. Most of my favourite memories are from that time in my life. But, the budget cuts were really making my education difficult so I decided to commit to my Art major and transfer to Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Partly because I moved from San Fran, and partly because Baltimore just isn't the city for me, I was kind of miserable there. I will never regret that decision though. I got a great education. But I can't tell you enough how much happier I am now that I'm out of Baltimore.
However, where you struggle the most, you learn the most. It's always difficult to see it that way when you're in it. But the biggest thing I've learned so far is that things really do happen for a reason. I was meant to go to Baltimore to gain amazing friends, to also lose friends, to be close to my extended family (who live just outside the city), but also to learn a lot about myself.
I didn't like the person I became in Baltimore. So, through outfit and music posts, part of this blog will be about my journey back to the person I am now. A person I like infinitely more. Moving back to LA was one of the best decisions I've made lately, aside from majoring in Graphic Design. Now that I'm back I realized how much I absolutely love this city. So another part of this blog will be my adventures around town.
But mostly, this blog will be about me sharing my tiny view of this great big world. So come get lost with me.
