Just Me

It's been over a year since I posted on this blog. What?

I guess I've been a little busy. I graduated from college in January and moved back home with my parents. I was jobless for a few months before starting to work parttime at The Shoe Department... a move that has been, well, interesting.

I assistant choreographed and directed MAHS' spring musical, Sugar, and I'm in the process of playing Velma in West Side Story at Little Theatre of Wilkes Barre.

I'm nowhere near where I thought I would be. But I'm not as far away as I could be either. I have a job interview for one of my dream jobs, and I am working as hard as I can in as many different ways as possible to be the best version of me that I could possibly be.

I'm 23 years old, and it's been nine years since I started this blog my freshman year of high school. High school freshman Jade was a lot... she's almost a completely different person from who I am now, and that's absolutely a good thing. In the nine years since I started this blog, I went through some completely ridiculous and obsessive crushes on people that I don't even know anymore, I dated my high school sweetheart for 3 years, had my heart broken, went to college, and dealt with more drama than anybody has a right to.

I got through it all. With tears, with screaming, with pathetic poetry, with help from others... and I'm here. Different. New. Scared of the future but excited at the same time, having made the most peace with my past that I've ever been able to make.

It's time to say good-bye to this particular blog. It's entirely possible that I'll re-start it someday years in the future, but I need to put space between 14-year-old me and 23-year-old me and again, between 23-year-old me and the me of the future.

I'll be blogging over on Tumblr for awhile. I won't shut this time; maybe someday I'll come back. But for now, so long, farewell.

It's been good.