here's to first

i decided to start this blog at a big turning point in my life.

yes in less than a month, i will be a married woman. a happily, extremely joyful woman. to an absolutely wonderful man, who is more than my best friend, but also my hero.

you see, we've been apart this past year due to his deployment to afghanistan. but that shall quickly be over, and for once in our relationship.. we won't be saying goodbye. how wonderful!

but this blog is for me. for my doings. as i think about this time in my life, i think about all the many changes. things like moving from tennessee to north carolina. having to live with a man. being a wife and all that comes with that. starting a new career and a new school. when all these thoughts start zooming through my head.. and i do mean zoom.. my adrenaline gets going. and for the last three years, there hasn't been much to get my adrenaline going in my life.

at one of my recent wedding showers, my soon to be mother in law, described my soon to be husband as a adrenaline junkie. this fits him to the tee. seriously. he's an airborne paratrooper which means he jumps out of planes. this guy has more guts and adventure genes than i ever thought about having. and i so admire him for those qualities! to do things that are out of his comfort zone with no one else pushing him, or in my case, dragging him to do it. he simply enjoys it.

in the next 30 so days i have, i will strive to be like him. although my life is far from boring.. i do have a four month old puppy.. and a million things going on, i will strive to do something new. something that pushes my limits. something that stretches what i know or what i've done. something that creates in me a touch of a new person.

i could make a list for these thirty days, but i've decided to be realistic. some days i'll have the time for something grand.. and other days i won't. so to encourage finishing this and continuing on with this blog, i'll simply leave it at that.

here's to starting a blog. here's to pushing past the fact that no one might read this, or that i might seem silly. here's to doing what stretches me.. just a bit. here's to leaving behind being an adrenaline flunkie and becoming an adrenaline junkie.