a little bit rock and roll

do you ever feel like reinventing yourself?

i'm kind of in the middle of my own little reinvention at the moment.  it wasn't an intentional thing.  and it's nothing drastic...  i guess i've just felt for awhile that my outside didn't quite match my inside.

anyone who knows me knows that i'm a bit of a free spirit.  i think i'm to a point in my life where i know who i am and what i want (to sum up: NOT a husband, a house with a white picket fence, and 2.5 kids) and i'm not afraid to tell you.  i believe in working towards a better world, in equality for everyone, in higher taxes to support integral parts of our society (education, healthcare, etc.), in legalizing marijuana...  basically i'm a crazy liberal hippie chick.

but aside from my tattoos, i don't look the part.  which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  identifying myself as a hippie doesn't mean i have to grow dreads, wear hemp clothes and shop at thrift stores - not that there's anything wrong with that.  but i'm also not sure that the preppy banana republic/gap-centric look i've been cultivating the last few years really works for me anymore.

so my mission now is to find some middle ground between my hippie side and my preppy side.  and i started by putting feathers in my hair and piercing my nose.

crazy, huh?

clean slate

you know, that whole "actually-blogging-regularly" thing that i said i was going to do?  score one for me...  or not.

so this time i'm not going to make a big production out of "i'm back and i'm gonna stick with it" because it seems like every time i do that, i post once or twice and then fall off the face of the planet for several months (5, this time, but who's counting?) only to come back and lather-rinse-repeat.  

i will say that this time i have a little bit of motivation to stick with the whole blogging thing...  it all started with a facebook message from my dear friend alexis, simply to share the link to her blog with several of her girlfriends.  someone tossed out the idea that we should all start blogs and post the links on the thread, and behold!  a blog-club (i guess) was born!  i'm hoping that reading the blogs of all these lovely ladies (like chelsie, holly, and kristin) will encourage me to keep up with my own blog a little better. 

i'm also going to attempt to take this blog in a bit of a different direction.  it seems like i got a little overly focused on clothes and diets and tattoos, and while all of those things are important, it's really not what i want my blog to be about.  at least, those aren't the ONLY things i want my blog to be about.  so, in honor of turning over a new blog leaf, so to speak, i'm clearing out all my old posts and starting fresh.  :-)

so there you have it...  i've got a lot of news to share, but if i post it all today, i won't have anything left for later.  guess you'll have to stick around if you want to hear what i've been up to!