College Ruined my Life, Pt 1

• I moved to Delaware for university schooling after graduating high school in 2004 outside of Philly. I totaled my (not even) two-year-old car in a blizzard visiting my parents for the first time in eight months. Yeah, Welcome Home!
• Joining facebook was actually, in all honesty, a homework assignment for a communications class. Talk about a huge time-waster. I never wanted the damn account in the first place, but the professor said I'd fail the class if I didn't create a facebook profile. Grr. Days later, I had a bajillion friend requests from people whom I KNOW don't care about me, otherwise they would have contacted me outside.
• What is up with pop music that sucks for longer periods than it is good? I miss the 80’s and early 90's.
• My clothes stopped fitting, so I get what is cheap, thus my wardrobe does not reflect me, but my tolerance for poor fashion.
• I haven't traveled since high school. I used to visit Hawai’i almost every year and after 2000, I was on a roll with Scotland, England, Iceland, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria…
• I'm not leisure reading. Burying yourself in textbooks for hours on end does not get you in the mood to read any more, no matter how much you enjoy the work.

For my entire childhood, I was outside all the time. All of a sudden, I hit college. I forget about my religious and spiritual practices because I’m buried in textbooks, I stop cooking because I lack time because I’m buried in textbooks, I neglect my natural athleticism and stop working out because I was so tired because I was always buried in textbooks.

I was really lost in college because I was pulled from nearly everything that made me happy and healthy (wait for next week's post). It's been a few months now and I'm back in the groove of things:

• I don't go out of my way to exercise most of the week because it's my job - I teach ballroom and pole fitness. So instead of going to work and then working out, I can do both simultaneously. I love two-for-one deals ::laughs::
• I'm eating better now (because I have more time to cook balanced, healthy foods) so I'm fine in that category.
• I'm always educating myself. I'm completing my fitness trainer certification in February and I'm taking culinary classes in May.

As if this post couldn't be filled with more random points...:

I have no one in my area to talk to about my beliefs, concerns, or spiritual paths. Furthermore, I grew up in a country setting and now I'm living in a small city. I feel a bit disconnected to animals and naked earth.

My main concern now is that I'll get started with diving into literature for druidry and it consumes my next few weeks..... and then I'll just drop it for months at a time. I think I get frustrated because I have no mentor. Not even a fellow follower to talk to. I soak all this information up and I can't dissect it into proper mental categories because I might be a little ignorant to some bits or possibly large parts of the picture I'm painting.