Blog Hop '10

Welcome to my humble little blog! I’m glad you had a chance to stop by on your whirlwind tour around the blogosphere during Robin's Blog Hop '10.

I know you have places to go and people to see, so I won’t keep you long, but please, have a martini, and feel free to browse my shoe closet while I tell you a little bit about myself.

As a blogger, I’ll admit it, I’m a slacker lately, but I’m ever hoping to turn things around, and don’t ask me why, but I feel this is the time it’ll take. I feel full of inspiration and the desire to write and share of myself again, so hopefully that’ll translate into a once again active blog.

And what exactly do I blog about you ask? Well, that really depends on the day. I’m a single woman in my 30’s, venturing back into the dating world after a LONG hiatus, so there’s that. I’m also a bit of a shopaholic (cough{understatement}cough), and have a special weakness for VERY HIGH heeled shoes.

More recently I’m a bit of a fitness nut, and a new runner, about half way through the Couch to 5K program, hoping to run my first ever 5K in September. Um…wow, that’s sneakily right around the corner…

I also try my hardest to eat healthy, but I have a lifelong love affair with food that is hard to break off completely…

I’m a writer, and currently am doing the Write Fifteen Minutes A Day challenge, hoping to create a writing habit and finish my current Work In Progress.

I am an avid reader, my kindle is always with me.

I am a tech geek and a fashion diva.

I am an amateur photographer and a professional music lover.

I also work full time, as an executive assistant to the president of a credit union.

I’m a person of deep faith, God the center of everything for me, but I firmly believe faith to be a very personal thing, so you won’t hear preaching from me here. You will, however, have no doubt, see the strong influence my faith has on my life.

I’m the leader of a youth group, and those kids give me hope for the future, and I will defend teenagers today to the end. I believe they get a bad rap, and I don’t know about you, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be a teen today.

I am not a mother, but I am a big sister to a 17 year old girl through Big Brother Big Sister. She was 8 when we were paired up and in the last 9 years we’ve grown to love each other like real family. She is so much more to me than words can ever express.

I am a daughter to two amazing parents, still married after 36 years and still adorably in love with one another. I am also big sister to a 20something brother, who also happens to be one of my best friends now that we are both adults.

I am a cousin, a niece, a friend, a coworker.

I am silly and serious, I am confident and self-conscious, I am driven and lazy, I am a bevy of contradictions.

And all these things make up my blog. On any given day you can find me sharing my photography, waxing poetic about the latest concert I attended, or sharing my deepest darkest feelings about the lack of male attention in my life.

And I do hope you’ll come back to share these things with me, because as witty and funny as I think I am at times, if nobody is there to share the joke…well…you know that whole tree falls in the woods thing…was there ever really a joke? Or a blog post?

But oh, goodness, look at the time! Your drink is empty, and I’d offer you a refill, but I know you have to get going, there are other parties to get to.

Go, go, others are waiting! But please, come back ANYTIME, you are always welcome at Candid Karina’s!