Saying Goodbye to an old friend..

This is it! My very first post as an official blogger! I figure, why not start off by explaining what exactly I'm trying to do here. I'm trying to make things happen. I'm tired of going through each day, waking up, showering, working, eating, sleeping, repeating. I just don't think this whole "career life" is for me. The fact that my mom, to this day, still tells me the story about how in elementary school when they had a parent teacher conference, the teachers had all the kids make little artwork pieces of "What I want to be when I grow up" and all the children had "Doctor" "Nurse" "Mommy" "Firefighter" "Policeman" and what did her wonderful daughter have written? "Grinder Girl". For all of you non-western mass natives, a grinder is a sub, or sandwich. I guess this should have been a clear red flag that having a real career was not really something I was serious about.

I don't think I am truly allowed to say that I am hardcore about mountain biking...... just yet! Mainly because I compare myself to my boyfriend who rides his bike every single day 363 days a year...and I.....well I don't. But I feel my restraints are substantial. I work... my butt off, and guess what? IM SICK OF IT! So, now it's time to make things happen, because my dad always told me, "you can only make things happen if you do it yourself."

So, what am I exactly trying to make happen?? I'm trying to get nasty at mountain biking, and well, make money doing so. It seems like a really long shot in the dark, and I've thrown the idea away plenty of times, but women's mountain biking isn't as popular as men's, and at first I kept telling myself your getting old, all the young girls are going to have all the potential.; But my awesome boyfriend made me think otherwise. I feel I was born to be athletic, and never really put 150% into any sport I played, and I was still pretty decent, so what if I just focus all my attention on this one single sport? It never hurts to try? Well, it might hurt, I tend to be accident prone.

I've been thinking in the mindset of "The Secret". The whole idea that "thoughts become things" and the "Law of Attraction." If you have positive thoughts, you will attract positive outcomes. I think it can make a lot of things happen. So I am going to work hard, and picture myself succeeding and well, it'll give me something to do if nothing comes of it, but I think something will come.

To end this all, and give myself a new beginning for my next blog, today marks the day that I purchased my first expensive bike: A 2011 Specialized Era Comp Mountain Bike. This beauty should arrive within a week, and when it does, I am going to ride the crap out of it, or it may ride the crap out of me, either way, it's going to be great.