So This Is The New Year

2010 was filled with my lowest lows and my highest highs.  I graduated from college, spent a summer and fall working full time and playing the rest of the time, developed a few very close personal relationships, went to my sister's wedding, made some major pitfall mistakes and poor choices in friends, recognized that I have a great support net of people who wanted to help me bounce back, fought long and hard with myself about who I want to be, and began paperwork to serve a mission and dedicate my life to the Lord for 18 months.  I don't think many more details need to be given about the lows because they are trenches that I have pulled myself out of and moved on from.  I hope to remember the great moments of the year that were stepping stones to where I am now.

2011 will be unlike anything I've met in the past.  I have moved home temporarily, something that I had vowed I would never do again once I was on my own, and am once again in search of short term work. I know that I am not going to be here more than 3 or 4 months and then I will be uprooted to another place on the globe.  Most of my best friends have been left behind and the social life that I crave is not available.  Living life where I am is going to be a big challenge. I love having my blog friends because I know that wherever I am I can just check in and see that life goes on.

I have some personal goal ideas floating around in my head that I am working on but I have never been a big resolutions person. Oh, except for that one year that I had a big time major crush on Billy Gilman and I resolved that not a day would go by that year that I did not have a little daydream about him. Yes. I kept that resolution faithfully! Oh 13 year old Elle. If only things were still that easy. But maybe not so stalkerish. 

I Have A Time Machine And It Took Me To 2006

How on Earth did I forget about this song??? It brings back beautiful memories of my senior year of high school and one great trip to Santa Cruz.  Also what? Johnny Depp is in this video? Weird.

Girls, Heed The Warning

When the boy that you have been dating tells you that he is "Summer" and you are "Tom" be smart and run away.  Remember how that works out? You get stabbed 13 times with a kitchen knife like Sid did to Nancy.  And you don't win in the end no matter how hard you try.  He warned you.  And then he played the silly game where he wanted to stay best friends and take you on dates, but he really was done with you and didn't care that you couldn't turn off your feelings.  He was your best friend for those few months and you don't remember what you did every Saturday night before him.  He's your world, but alas, you are not his.
It won't work out. He said so a million times.  And you thought you could change it. Move on.
His friends are nicer to you anyway.



Devin, this post is for you. Because you complained that I wasn't writing about my dating life on my blog.  Maybe because there was already a movie made about it.