I had completely forgotten about this blog. I am very glad we are reinstating it!!!

So life for me really isn't too exciting. I am living in Bolingbrook which is one of the suburbs farthest from Chicago. I work for JCPenney in Woodridge, IL which is like eight miles from my apartment and I am still trying to find a group of friends to hang out with on a regular basis. Part of my problem is the people I know up here are scattered around the city and suburbia. And some of my coworkers really aren't the kind of people I would hang out with...not to sound like a snob but our interests are just completely different. They are great people though!

I think I really miss JBU and how close we were to each other. I miss getting to pester and glomp people that are spread across the country and world...

So every Thursday I am off. I sleep mostly, but today I was up watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. He goes all over the world to sample the different cuisine of the country he is visiting. And he was in Korea today. I was like "Yay I can see some of the food Emma has been eating!" He also likes to taste some of the weird food of the country. They went all over Souel and out in the country. I really enjoyed it! Made me wanna jump a plane and visit Emma!

One of the reasons I wanted to move up here was because this city is one of my favorite places to go. I have relatives up here and so I stayed with them and their three crazy cats. Now I am living in their condo, they live in a house. I love going over there to visit and getting to mess around with the cats. Well two of them will tolerate me. The third hides most of the time. They have Domino, Kitty, and Marshmellow. Domino is the biggest of the three and loves to sleep all day. He might let you pet him but rarely will you get him in your lap. Kitty is very skidish and will spend most of the time you are there up on or behind my Aunt and Uncle's bed, unless he wants to go outside, then he will sit at the back door and meow mournfully till you let him out. Marshmellow is the female and the spaz of the group. She loves running around like a maniac in big empty boxes and her tent and has an unfortunate habit of flinging huge boogers up the wall when she sneezes. It is the funniest and most disgusting thing especially when you are within range of her projectile boogers. The poor dear has allergies that they haven't quite figured out.

Other than the crazy cats, its me and my homicidal clown fish living in the apartment. I hope to get a dog one day, but well that is more money than I have, yay for school loans! Anyway I am gonna stop for now.

Life Outside the Bubble

So often I heard people warn me about life outside the "bubble" once I graduated. Now I know some people strongly believe our school was a bubble, and I think in some ways it was, but I also think the degree of the bubble depended on the individual inside it. For me, life in the real world is not that different.

Probably the biggest thing that hasn't changed is the drama. I honestly believed that once I graduated all the drama that followed me like a magnet would subside. I couldn't possibly have been more wrong. Now it's just in the form of coworkers and friends who refuse to reach a suitable level of maturity.

I do miss having everyone within a half mile radius so that I could just skip down the hall and harass them for the next season of Friends or whatever the need, comment, or interest of the day was. I think, though, that the reason the transition was so easy for me was because I ended up back in my hometown with the group of friends I developed over the last three years of my college experience while working at a summer camp.

I've got to say though, I still feel like a failure for moving back home. I know it doesn't make me one, but living within the same 30 mile radius my whole life just doesn't do much for my spontaneous and adventurous nature. That said I fully plan to move to the west coast as soon as I am able.

Although I've found a recent distraction to keep me grounded a little longer. Not to mention the debt I need to eliminate.

Backstreet's back, alright!

So we're not the Backstreet Boys—although I did go see them in concert this summer—but we are cooler, and we are back. Not that I think anyone actually read this blog before, but maybe that will change.

When we started this place all six of us were in college and five of us lived on the same hall in our beloved dorm. Now all but one of us are graduated and none of us live within a 30 mile radius. One of us even lives on a different continent.

I'm not going to lie, I miss the days when all six of us would pile onto the ghetto couch in our dorm room and watch Friends until the sun came up, but now we're all on new adventures.

With that I bring you, yet again, Posse of Six.

Its been awhile

Man it sure has been awhile since anyone has really done anything on this thing....silly end of the year crap to get done oh well...more time this summer I guess....

Um...

So I started this post for the sake of updating and now I can't think of anything to write...Um, Jessie comes tomorrow. Yay! *Does the happy dance* Yay for fun times with Jessie. Um, yea. Ok, so I updated...