Things I'd never thought I'd do...

I never imagined single life after college. Don't get me wrong, I have a really great man in my life, but as in single I mean daily life without a man, not married. I used to always feel bad for the girls in my church who were graduated from college and not married. I would think, man they must have it rough. Growing up in Small Town Indiana, there wasn't a category for single out of college, so I never imagined it. I never realized that this space of single mid-twenties existed, until I was walking across the street last spring in Chiang Mai with some of my girlfriends. Kelly Newton says, "Man, isn't this the time you always dreamed about -- single, mid-twenties, living in a great city." She continued, "This is the time of people's lives when all the great sitcoms are made: Friends, Seinfeld, Grey's Anatomy..."

I realized then that I was living a section of my life I never had a plan for -- and it has been amazing. I have been forced to do things that I never thought I could do on my own. This all came to me tonight when I did something I'd never thought I'd do. Don't hold your breath, it's nothing amazing... But, I was cleaning and reorganizing my room and realized that there was an entire desk downstairs that I could move up to my room to be able to organize my things better. No one was home, so I thought, "I can do this, I don't need man." And sure enough, with some thought and using what I learned in Physics class, I moved the entire desk up 10 stairs, around a corner stair, and up another stair, through the kitchen, dining room and into my bedroom. So I did it, all by my self... and for some reason that makes me proud.

Along with moving to a foreign country alone, opening up a bank account alone, traveling alone, I can now add to my list moving a desk upstairs by myself to that list. I really hope I don't have to still be doing all of these things alone when I am 50, but as of now I am proud that I can.