Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

It's been a while, I know.  The picture up top still says I'm 23, though it's been a couple weeks now since that's been accurate.  Quick recap of my life:  Turned 24.  Celebrated with friends.  Drank way too much and could not shut up about giraffes and the fact that they have blue tongues.  Really paid for that night the next day.  Boring and normal life.  Flew to Florida.  Saw Taylor Swift in concert, and that's where we're at right now. Back in 2011, my best friend and I saw Taylor Swift in concert for the first time.  It was amazing and magical and the best night ever.  I still think back to that night, and if someone were to ask me to name the 5 best nights of my life, that would be right up there at the top.  The day after the concert, I wrote about it so I would be able to look back on that magic-filled night.  Today is 2 days after our second Taylor concert, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't write about that s...

Here it is again - the day I hate most.  The day I wish wouldn't come; I wish I could wake up and find that this day had been skipped.  But it won't skip.  It won't not come.  It's comes every year, and here it is again.  October 1st 2013 was such a normal  day for me.  Let me tell you, let me try to explain, just how normal and boring that day was.  I woke up around 8ish and spent all day in class.  I procrastinated doing homework for the longest possible time before finally giving up and getting it done.  I hung out with friends and went to a club meeting where I laughed and joked around and smiled with people who I loved and trusted and was, maybe not actually friends, but more of "friends by convenience" with.  I got dinner late and hung out with Steven and Dan and Matt and Justin until suddenly it was almost midnight and I had class the next morning and so I said goodnight to my friends and disappeared across the building to my...