Life In Beween With You

"Life in between with you"...what does it mean? I'm sure that's what most of you asked yourself as you came across my blog. So let me first explain why I signed up for telling the world about my life in the first place. I used to keep a journal all of the time when I was younger. It was a way for me to get my thoughts out of my head and feel the sweet release as if I had told someone. Then it always turned out that I had told someone--my mother. Who, at this time period of my life, was the LAST person I wanted to read my thoughts. Mostly because it caused moments like the following:
"Tara, hunny, do you need condoms? I know you've started having sex and I just want you to use your head and be protected. If you need me..." MOM STOP! That moment defined awkward.
Anyway, I realized that the last thing I wanted was for the wrong person to find my journal and read my thoughts, so I stopped keeping one. These days I find myself lacking a best friend (I mean she's still there things are just different and we don't spend the night together Friday and Saturday night every weekend.) So I feel blocked up sometimes. These are the times that I need to release my thoughts and know that at least someone is hearing (reading) them. So the birth of this blog came about.

Back to why "Life In Between With You"? Well, the way I see it life goes in stages. Early childhood stage, the elementary school years. Teenager stage, jr. high and high school. College stage, state the obvious-the time one is in college. Adulthood stage, you know marriage, morgage, career, and children. Late adulthood stage, grandparenting and retirement. While I am in college I've never felt as if I'm eligible for the college stage. I study more than I drink, I wear full coverage clothing ALL of the time, and I don't attend themed parties. I live in a house with a very serious boyfriend (we own a dog together) participating in a relationship that feels like the "real world." Yet I don't believe to be in the "real world." I'm not married, I don't have children, I don't even have my career yet. So I'm stuck in the middle with him. Here in the middle with you.