For some reason it is usually about this time of year that I get the hankering to go buy something, and I don't mean a candy bar or a new shirt (well, maybe a shirt), but I mean buy something like a new car! Every car I have ever bought was bought during September or October. I am, however, resisting the temptation this year and am saving up for something more reasonable, like a house!
The last few years of my life, I have made very few changes. About twelve years ago, I was a sophomore in High School. For one of my classes I was given the assignment to write a paper about what my life would be like in ten years. Those ten years have been here and gone and my sophomore ideas never came to fruition. Somewhere between the dream of living in a high rise in New York and having a pet fish to keep me company, I found myself clinging to dry, old, boring, uneventful Emery County. Pretty much everyone thinks I'm crazy for choosing to be here, but this is where almost everything is that I've found to be important to me. Where else would I be able to get dressed in the morning and find a scorpion on the pants I just put on!
Or order food and have it come home in a customized food box like this:
Or get my mail from a place like this:
This place has given me some of my greatest opportunities, learning moments and experiences that I would in no way have had somewhere else
These things and the people I find myself surrounded by everyday mean everything to me, and they make me believe that anything is possible, including flying pigs!
Change is absolutely necessary! If it weren't for change, we would all still be sitting around with diaper rash! (I don't know why I think to say some of these things). Sorry I don't have a picture to go with that last statement, so I will wrap this up with a lovely Clawson sunset!
Mandie was here, and she has never left!
-Mandie
