Wow. It has been a hell of a long time since I've visited this blog. So long, in fact, that google apparently now owns blogger and I had trouble logging in. Truth be told I had no intention of posting this today, but I happened to literally stumble across my blog this afternoon. I spent 5 hours reading every post I made. I guess I didn't realize how dedicated I was to blogging back then.
Four years have passed since my last blog post and while re-reading I found a comment someone (Jess) had made in 2010 asking how I've been and basically what I'd been up to since abandoning my blog. So, I thought I'd fill you in!
My last post was in 2009 when I was just a baby 20 year-old. I believe where I left off was that I was done with Ex-Boy and I had met my dream guy. Wow! What a way to end a blog.
Well, let me first start by saying Dream Boy turned out not to be dream boy, although for a while there I really thought he was. I left to travel various parts of the world in 2009 and I was still dating Dream Boy. My first leg of the trip, DC, ended up proving that we just weren't meant to date and we stopped seeing each other. I spent the rest of the summer having TONS of fun in Israel and then London and then LA before heading back to good old MSU. I even had a secret affair with a Teaching Assistant during my study abroad!
I should probably also let you know that Ex-Boy and I never dated again. In fact, we hardly ever spoke again. I'm not going to lie, I was kind of an asshole when I ended it and I broke up with him for good in a text message. He wasn't too happy about it, but what goes around comes around. He ended up getting back together with his ex (the girl he cheating on me with) and stayed with her until, wait for it... just a couple of weeks ago! That's right, they dated for 4 years! I found out a couple of days ago that they broke up- she kept the dog they bought together.
As for the rest of the characters I wrote about, here's a breakdown:
Mom: She's still as nutty as always! Penny ended up moving with her and my Dad to California. They're both total socal babes now!
Dad: He's improved his array of jokes thanks to the comedy channel on sirius XM. He didn't like LA much so him, mom, and penny moved to Irvine, CA. They are loving it.
BPhil: My brother ended up moving to California as well and has a cushy job at a big time movie studio and is on the brink of engagement with his girlfriend whom I adore.
Penny: She's such a babe of a dog. She still looks and acts just like a puppy. The cutest!
BJ-M: After my trip to London I ran against BJ-M in elections for Film Club president. I beat him and our friendship never really was the same. We didn't see each other very often after that and my senior year he moved back to his hometown. I hear from friends that he's well.
FA: I can't believe I liked this guy. He doesn't like music...wtf! He's also an aspiring actor and looking back I think I liked his abs WAY more than I liked him. I think he's still in East Lansing.
The Let Down: Believe it or not, after I graduated from MSU I moved to the cottage my parents bought close to my hometown. I ended up hanging out withe LD a couple of times. The last time we ended up making out ( I always was a suck for a good make-out session). I realized immediately after that I was no longer the 17 year-old that met him and decided that it was a bad idea. I recently chatted with him and asked him if we could be friends and nothing else. He got really big into the Detroit music scene so he's pretty busy but agreed to our friendship.
Neighbor Boy: Never saw him again after I moved.
NNBoy: Never saw him again after I moved either. Although at the end of that semester I did find out that he had been accused of sexually assaulting a girl back in his hometown. Not sure if it was true or not, but I blocked him out of my life anyways. He was a player and he was bad news.
Summer Fling: I'm pretty sure Summer Fling is married now, although I'm not sure if it's to that girl that moved to MI for him or not. He's definitely in the military. I'm glad I never went back down that road. Military life wouldn't have been for me.
And I bet you're wondering what happened to me!
Well, the final two years of undergrad were crazy. I had a lot of fun, I had a lot more heartbreak from new and different boys, and I really learned about myself. After graduation I was offered a job working on a movie in Detroit so I packed up and moved to my parents cottage for that summer. When the job wrapped in July I moved to Los Angeles and have lived there ever since. I've worked for a production company, as a personal assistant to a TV actress, and on the behind the scene features for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
In the beginning of September of 2012 I began dating the real man of my dreams. On March 27th, 2009 I wrote a blog post titled "Adventures of a Thursday Night". In that post I mention a Shy Guy- a cute guy I met at a B-Movie Beatdown. Turns out he was the man of my dreams. We had run into each other all throughout undergrad and we always exchanged pleasantries. He had just started dating a girl when I met him in 2009 and he dated her right up until I moved away to Los Angeles. Every time I ran into him during school I always thought he was flirting with me a little but I new he had a girlfriend so I blew it off. When I moved we started to chat on facebook every now and then. And facebook led to texting. I was beginning to really like him but thought it was crazy considering I lived 2,222 miles away from him. In September 2012, while I was visiting Michigan for wedding season, we finally went on our first date. The date lasted the whole day and went into the next morning. I ended up spending my whole vacation with him (I even ended up staying at his place the whole time) and at the end of it we decided not to see other people- we were head over heels.
Shy Guy and I have been doing the long distance thing ever since. We have flown out to each others homes every 2 months and have spent every holiday together. In 10 days I'm actually moving back to Michigan to live in the cottage again and give our relationship a real "In Person" shot. I plan on working for a year to save and in 2014 I have every intention of starting grad school and if all goes well it will be at MSU. I plan on going all the way- getting my Masters, my PhD, and then hopefully getting a job as a professor of Film Studies.
That's pretty much everything! I hope you all have been well. So much has changed for me over the past 4 years and I'm sure so much has changed for you as well!
I must admit that re-reading all my posts today made me both happy and sad. I wrote about so much heartbreak and only now do I realize how much fun I really did have in college. I'm glad I could share that with you all.
Danielle
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
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