Wow. So. It’s been while! I’m not even sure if I remember how to do this whole blogging thing anymore… Not that I was ever particularly great at it…
A lot of things have changed since I last posted.
I enrolled in cosmetology school, and my life is pretty much consumed with that. (When you go to sleep at night and dream about perms and fingerwaves, you know you have a problem.) I’ve never experienced anything like this before, though. Never in my life have I been able to see myself doing any one certain thing for the rest of my life until now. With this, I look at it as my craft. My calling. My passion, if you will. I don’t see myself as ‘just a hairdresser’; when someone asks me what I do, I usually half-jokingly say “I make people beautiful.”
I moved to the capitol city. “The Gump”, as they call it around here. I have to be honest, this new chapter in my life wasn’t all sunshine and roses. I started out very excited… I had my own place all to myself, living in the big city, decorating everything the way I wanted to… But then after I got settled in, the reality hit: I was alone. I couldn’t just drive five minutes up the road to see my friends, I didn’t have any family close by, and the friends I had at school all had families to attend to. It took a while to adjust to just being by myself, and even now I still get lonely. I’m slowly adjusting though, and I’ve found ways to keep myself occupied enough to not notice my lack of human interaction. (Thank god for Netflix and long naps.)
I’m in a relationship now. A pretty damn great one, at that. As you may or may not know, I’m a closet-southern belle, born and raised in the deep south on a farm…. And now I’ve, to quote my father, “done went and got yer’self a yankee feller!” We make an awesome pair, mainly because he’s the most incredible person I’ve ever met, and I find that all of my happiness starts with him.
So yeah… That’s what’s been going on down in my neck of the woods!
Moving on to business (sort of):
I feel awful for neglecting Pangela.com for so long, but the truth is, I had sort of hit a road block there for a while: I didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do with this site! At first I was using it as an inspirational blog of some sorts, but that fell through. Then I was using it to post some of my writing… But then that fell through. I’m sure any writer can tell you that the number one question that runs through their mind is “What do I write?”
So here’s what I’ve decided for the time being: I’m just going to write. No guidelines, no themes, no pressure… Just me.
For those of you that have been sticking around and encouraging me to pick this back up… Thank you.
And to those of you that gave up on ol’Pangela over here… You suck. Hahahaa…jusssst kidding.
And to those of you that are completely new to my site… Welcome!! I hope each and every one of you come on in and sit a spell… We’re all friends here.
Until next time, my lovelies. (:
It took me 4 attempts at 4 different blogs to find my path. I hit the exact same block: what do I write about? Took me a while but I finally found my voice. You, too, will find your’s and I’m pleased as punch that you’ll be writing again.
Thank you! I hope that I find my niche soon… But right now I think that just a big, sloppy, blog/portfolio/journal explosion is what I need. (:
Your words fit right with me. I’m not sure I could explain. You could be discussing anything under the sun and I would be walking right beside you in relation.
You are simply wonderful.
It’ll never cease to amaze me how much we have in common. <3