What happened to life as a grown up being easy?

Welcome to Crinkle's (aka Crystal's) blog! For those of you that have somehow managed to end up in your thirties without quite being sure how you got here, I hope you will appreciate my candid attempt at exploring how it is exactly that life as a grown up actually is harder than being a teenager, when we were so sure it was going to be the other way around!

I don't know about you, but last I remember I was in my teens with my whole future "grown-up" life figured out and the world as my oyster. Then, the next thing I know its ten plus years later and I'm married with a house, 3 pets and no kids, no job, no direction, and the world is no longer a tasty shellfish capable of producing a pearl but a smelly sea creature trying to swallow me whole!

Don't get me wrong! I love my hubby and my pets and my house. However, I can't even begin to tell you how completely lost I feel when it comes to the rest of my life! I, without question, wanted to have children when I grew up and I really wanted to have a good job, like a doctor, or a lawyer, or a teacher, or a journalist, or something else really cool that makes a lot of money. Now that I am grown-up, I still want these things, but at the same time I also want to get out of bed in the morning and look forward to the day. I want to have fun, and smile everyday. I don't want to be one of the millions of people that get out of bed in the morning and hate the fact that I have to go to work!

So as a promise to myself now that I am in my thirties, I have decided that I am going to stop trying to figure out life as a plan that I have to execute, but instead I am going to work on living life every day as it comes in the hopes that I won't wake up at 40 wondering how it is that another ten plus years have passed by!

As a part of this promise I am going to spend the next 2 years of my life doing all of the things that I have always said I will do! I am going to learn spanish, I am going to take cooking lessons, I am going to buy and then learn how to use a digital SLR camera, I am going to take yoga, I am going to go scuba diving in Hawaii (or Fiji, or Australia...the location is irrelevant), I am going to go birdwatching in Costa Rica, I am going to get a job that I love even if it doesn't pay well, I am going to go to the gym at least 3 times a week, I am going to eat healthy, I am going to love my husband like everyday is our last, and I am going to be happy.

If you are like me, feeling lost in life, I invite you along on this journey. I will make a promise to keep you posted on my adventures along with the challenges and obstacles I encounter along the way with the hope of finally getting a grasp on my life and the goal to inspire as many of you as I can along the way.

Here's to tomorrow: Day 1

-Crystal