the key to eating alone

what is the key to eating alone and actually enjoying it?  how about the key to being a single, solo, uno? if you ask me, or rather if i ask myself, the key to these things is being confident, not being pre-occupied with other people’s perceptions.  the key is not conforming to what society, your friends, family, and peers expect of you.  we are all on different paths with different destinations.  it is highly unrealistic to think that your formula works, or even applies to me, to us, to the single people.

today i am not going to perch atop a soapbox and list reasons a, b, and c of why single people “have it better.”  i don’t even want to make that argument.  today i just am going to share my thoughts.  after all, this is the kelsey v blog.

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get swol!

as you may already know, i am not much of an athlete.  in fact, i stopped playing sports nearly 15 years ago because they just weren’t for me.  however, i am quite the sports fan.  baseball, football, basketball.  in that order.  as someone who is a sports fan and enjoys some kind of physical activity, i made the new year’s resolution last month that so many of us do:  go to the gym more.  get fit.  get healthy.  get in shape.  for me the hope is that this journey through a physical transformation (however dramatic or not) will just simply increase my quality of life.  i feel well, the doctor tells me i am healthy, but i know there is something a little more i can do.

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they call me kiddo

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although i never exceled in my english and literature classes throughout school, i really do enjoy reading for pleasure.  after i graduated from college, i found i again had time to read for myself, without any expectation for reports or exams afterwards.  i did a quick search online and saw that a local book club met at the barnes & noble down the road.  i found out what the fiction forum was reading that august of 2010, and although i didn’t finish the book in time for the meeting, they invited me to join them at the café table with open arms.

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atlanta saturday

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my group of friends is starting to become co-mingled, folks from college and folks from work.  with that, we have different allegiances to our alma maters, the main rivalry being between uga and georgia tech.  a heated conversation came up at lunch last week over which town, atlanta or athens, is more fun to explore and enjoy.  so, to give both cities a fighting chance, we decided we would spend a saturday in atlanta and then a weekend in athens.  things started with a day in atlanta this past saturday.  let’s see how things shook out!

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right place, right time

today i will trust that the events occurring in my life are not random.  my experiences aren’t mistakes, and the Universe, my God, and life are not picking on me.  i’m going through exactly what i need to go through to learn something valuable – something that will prepare me for the joy and love i’m seeking.”