Happy Birthday !

Can you believe that 1 year ago today, From Zero to 13.1 started ?! I mean, have 365 days seriously passed already ?

Wow.  Just wow.

Did you miss it ? Don't worry, the posts didn't go anywhere so you can click through them and catch up !  I will say that after looking back at the posts from last year vs thinking about everything that's happened, I'm going to make a point to be more open.  I feel like everyone has a tiny, microscopic glimpse into who I am based on what I've posted and that's cool and all, but I feel like there's SO MUCH MORE we could talk about, explore, and learn.  

25 Things

25 Get to Know Me’s

1. What is your middle name?: Marie.  Pretty sure every girl born in the 80's had this name

2. What was favorite subject at school?: High School would be Performing Arts or Chorus.  College was Epistemology.

3. What is your favorite drink?: I could drink white mocha soy lattes forever. I especially love when there's a shot of vanilla added.  I'm in sugary, chocolatey heaven.:)

4. What is your favorite song at the moment?: I can't pick just one, but right now I find myself gravitating towards The Pretenders "500 Miles" when I can't think of what else to listen to at the moment.

Adulting Sucks.

I really don't want to be an adult.  Mostly because I a) have no idea when I became an adult and 2) totally didn't ask to grow up. There are some major perks, don't get me wrong, but I can't count how many times I want a time machine just so I can go back and slap my younger self anytime I would say something stupid like, "Man, I can't wait to grow up !"

Quitting.

I'm not a quitter.

That sounds like a weird first thing to say for my first blog post back.  However, life is crazy and twisted and awesome and scary and for some weird reason, I feel like a quitter recently.  No, I'm not being hard on myself or looking for encouragement or anything like that. This is not an apology post.  This might be a "I want to hold myself accountable" post. I don't know what it is.

Harry Potter Hilarity

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned, but I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan.  My mom used to wait in riddikulusly* long lines to get the books for me when they came out, only to hide it for about 2 weeks until we went on our family vacation.  Basically for about 5 years (I got the first 3 as a set about a year after they came out but about a year before they got popular) I was physically present for our family outing, but my nose was stuck in those books.  (I really don't want to talk about the vacation the year Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out. Page 596 ? Devastated. Ruined the whole trip !)  If you haven't read the books, or seen the movies you could bookmark this and come back after you've realized the error of your ways.  Or you could just stop reading now.

(*No, that's not a spelling error)