New Year - New Feelings

There's an over-used phrase that with new beginnings, comes new people.  I absolutely hate trite sayings, but I've found that it's true in most instances.  This school year, 2008-2009, has come with many new twists and turns that I didn't see coming at all, and I'm far-sighted!

I consider myself a strong person.  I've been through a lot that not a lot of people can say that they have and survived without so much as a one tear shed, but this year has been different.  I have been more human, some would say.  I'm not nearly as cold hearted as I have been in the past, and it kills me when I think about it.  Not that I particularly like being that, but I like the fact that very little affected me. This year, I find myself moved by the smallest things.  My mother says it's the woman in me finally surfacing after nearly twenty years of being a rambunctious tom-boy, but I'm not sure.  Gradually, however, I'm gaining my old self back, and it feels good to be able to smile and know that it's not fake.

Anyway.  I've decided that I need to update this thing a whole lot more.  I completely forgot about it since "The Happening," seeing as the summer got crazy after that, but I think that I can take a little time out of my busy week to write and be a little creative.   Beware the return of Clutzy McGee.  I've been falling a lot... and sliding down stairs.  ;)