Alive, Well and Blogging!

And I'm back!

This morning, my mom and I left at 6:30 to reach the Greyhound station by 7 for my 8:00 bus. Yes, the ticket requested that I arrive an hour before my bus departed, and since I am a good customer, I followed instructions. So there we were (my mom and I), standing in a line with 3 couples ahead of me, and I felt confident that I would get a seat in the front. I decided to go to the restroom before boarding the bus. As I was fooling around with the dryer, I had a random thought, "What if they bus started boarding while I was in here?" I quickly dismissed that thought and proceeded out of the restroom. Well...I bet you can guess what happened! That's right; the bus started to board while I was in the restroom. As a result of this, I was seated in the middle of the bus, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise when the woman in the third row never stopped coughing! Way to contaminate all of us lady.

When I settled into my row, I took out my journal that my friend BB got me for Christmas. I had been saving this journal specifically for today. On the front of it, it says, "In the midst of our lives, we must find the magic that makes our souls soar." The first time I laid eyes on it, I knew that it would hold my memories of my journey to happiness. I wrote a bit about how I was feeling and how appropriate/cliche it was that I was taking a bus to Los Angeles with no money and huge expectations to become a star. I wonder how many other people have done that exact same thing.

The ride turned out to be pretty uneventful. It got kind of smelly towards the end of the ride, but it could have been worse; it could have been smelly the whole ride. The most entertaining moment was when the bus stopped at Barstow Station. This "rest stop" was in the middle of nowhere, but had a McDonald's, Panda Express, Popeye's, Quiznos, some random Mexican place and a burger place. I was in awe and a bit shocked or confused. I didn't think that it was anywhere I would have wanted to eat. Thank God I packed a lunch. I'm not gonna lie, I would have immediately been tempted to eat at Panda Express, and one thing I learned when I ate Chinese food in some random town in Oklahoma, is that you never eat Chinese food in some random town.

I can't wait to update you on my new life! I also can't wait until I can call it my new and exciting life! Yay!!!!