Breaking Upwards....Heck Yea I am

So we've all been through break-ups...if you haven't you are extremely lucky and I hope that you never have to. They basically suck on all levels, saying goodbye to someone you love, getting all your stuff back, saying goodbye to their family members who have become a second family to you, seeing the dreaded facebook evidence of them in another relationship/moving on, basically it just a negative experience all around.

Except that it's not, sometimes a break-up can be a very very beautiful thing. First off, chances are that if you broke up in the first place then you weren't happy with that person and you were probably not very compatible so you get to untangle yourself from a person who probably wasn't that great for you anyways. Secondly, you get to focus on improving yourself which can be pretty awesome. My break-up was a weight loss catalyst, at first I couldn't eat because I was oh so heartbroken and I wanted to exercise because it was a way to take out my frustration and anger, then it turned into a self-improvement mission and now I'm 25 lbs. down and focused on losing 25 more. Plus it's a great excuse to change your hair (just don't pull a Felicity and mess your mane up) or your wardrobe or BOTH. Thirdly, you feel like a new person and you have more time to try out new things with your new adventurous personality. For instance, I've done way more in the past three months than I did the whole time we were dating including going to a Panthers game, pumpkin patch, Chris Brown concert, and lastly going to a male strip club (Chasers...this Saturday and yes a post will follow about that one). The fourth and perhaps most awesome thing about a break-up is that you get to spend more time with your friends and family and more than likely you get to make a lot more new friends too! Lastly, the best part of a break-up is figuring out who you are again and going forward in your life as a much stronger person so....here's to going forward and being more Jolene than ever. Holler!

revamp.

So A LOT has changed since my last post, months ago.....actually A LOT seems like an understatement. I finished my wonderful internship, got my degree, started working two jobs, got an apartment, and oh yeah me & my boyfriend of nearly 2 years (a year and 10 months) broke up and went our separate ways. So I decided to revive the blog and focus some diy projects, home/style inspirations, my attempt to write a screenplay (not even joking), and just me figuring out how to be single again. So stay tuned....