Hi all! Yes, it’s been far too long since my last entry but I’m currently working hard on a new design for this blog. So keep your eyes peeled for something superfantasticly awesome (hopefully) in the next few weeks.

Usually, I don’t really write about my personal life on Found & Kept and I think that’s just fine for me since I have other mediums for expressing my emotions on either a good or bad day. One of these mediums is the well-known diary or journal (as I like to call it; the term “diary” is too reminiscent of 5th grade girls and their first-time heartaches). I’m very happy to say that I just recently finished one of my journals: all 200 pages of teenage angst. I started this journal when I was in middle school and by the last page, I was talking about issues of college life! It’s interesting to see how I perceived situations at a certain age and later on to read how I would handle something similar many years later.

I love writing in my journal because it allows me to not only vent my frustrations but also remember fond memories shared with family and friends. I know that pictures are an easy way to account for that, but I think that writing about an event just forces me to remember certain things with greater detail. I also get a better perspective on my emotions during that instance. To me that’s nostalgia at its finest.