How Did We Get Here?

This blog started with the intent of becoming a place to chat about current events in the music industry, and other similar, yet indiscriminate topics.

But I'd much rather talk about what I'm doing.

Let's talk a bit about how I got from point A to point B, and then back to point A.

I grew up in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Iowa, longing for the day I could pack up my simple belongings and make it big in the BIG city (which I thought was Chicago, at the time). I was a music and theatre nerdgirl from a musical family, and thought that I would surely become an overnight star the moment I moved away. I had a dream, and a passion to chase that dream that couldn't be matched. But somewhere along the way, I lost that passion. And I couldn't find it again.

I began my college career at a local community college, where I majored in Spanish. I soon found that Spanish was not my calling - something that was also very clear to my Spanish professor, who encouraged me to reacquaint myself with theatre and music, specifically at Minnesota State University (God bless her).

Minnesota State is where I discovered my second passion: The business that revolves around the making and promoting of music. I loved every moment of my three years at MNSU, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I was active and busy because I loved what I was doing. But the moment I walked off that campus, the passion seemed to dissipate again.

In order to meet my last requirements for graduation, I did a marketing internship at a club in New York for a summer. At first, New York seemed like a dream come true to me - I was finally making it in that BIG city, and doing something that I thought I truly loved.

But, sad to say, New York sucked the life out of me pretty quickly, and that little girl who thought she'd never step foot on the farm again was gone. Suddenly, I wanted nothing more than to be home - a place I hadn't truly been in a long time. With no real desire to be where I was, I lost my passion for everything I was doing and everyone around me, and have suffered the consequences ever since.

But now I'm learning. I'm learning that I don't need to know exactly what I want to do all the time, and that I should be taking more time to stop and smell the roses (literally).

So, while I take my first steps into adulthood back in Middle-of-Nowhere, with my first big girl job and big girl bills, I'm making a promise to myself to stop and enjoy life along the way. I want to do things I never felt I had the time to do before; simple things like gardening, baking, and drawing. Things I used to so thoroughly enjoy.

And when I do find something to be so exuberantly passionate about, I want to write about it here - where I can share it with everyone who cares to read about it :)

Besides, I have plenty of time to figure out the rest of my life.