Today I decided that it would be a good idea to start a blog. I have never done this, so I have no idea how it works, but I'm guessing there are no rules! Yay!:) I promised my Memaw that I would write down my whole life story, starting with my stay at FSU! Well it's taken me a little while to actually do this, but I am, so here it goes.....

I came to Florida State in search of a degree, now I'm just looking for friends. No one ever really tells you how hard it is going to be to pack everything you own up and head into a city all by your lonesome. I was soooo uber excited to get to Tally that I never stopped to think how lonely I would actually be. When I got here, I couldn't wait to start classes and get involved in the many different organizations FSU has to offer, but once I actually started to get into everything I realized something about myself that I never realized before.... I'm really super shy! I have NEVER thought of myself as a shy person before, and I'm pretty sure my friends would say the same, but it seems like ever since I moved to Tally, I have lost my sense of crazy outgoingness! It kinda stinks because I don't feel as though I am really allowing myself to do this out of fear of someone not liking me. It's almost like being back in middle school, when everyone wanted to be cool to "fit in." I never really got that though until now! Now I know this sounds extrememly sad and like I'm depressed, but let me assure you that I am not! I have these three amazing roomates who can cheer me up in a second, and I have started to make friends, but it's not like Starke, where everybody knows everybody... It's not the same, but I am really trying hard to just put myself out there! I'm trying to reach out of my comfort zone and allow people to see the real me! Crazy, outgoing, goofy, loud and bubbly Abbie! I keep hoping that people will like me, but I'm starting to realize, that I will never make any friends if I don't stop caring how people look or respond to me!

Yay! So I totally just figured all of that out tonight on my own! Here is my promise, I will continue to be my outgoing self and see how well that works, and then I will allow all of my readers (which doesn't seem to look like many right now) to know how that goes for me!:)