DScottGRRL

Once upon a time I used to be a yellow mini.

Yellow!!

But then… the real world happened. And somehow all of the yellow mini-ness got sucked out of me and I ended up being…

a black volvo.

Black….

What happened to happy, giddy, fun-loving Dan?

I’ll tell you what.

Work happened.

Not that I hate work, but I definitely did for a while.

It was that whole work/life balance thing that really got me. Mainly in that I didn’t have one.

Yellow mini Dan didn’t really understand the concept of working for a living.

Actually, it all still seems a little too base. (What? You mean I have to do this every day for the next 30 years? Impossible.)

Black volvo Dan put all her energy into those 40+ hours a week to the detriment of what normal people would call ummm… having a life.

I’ve always been attracted to extremes.

Anyway, now I’m older, wiser, maybe bitter-er but working on it. Hey at least I’ve gotten the work/life balance thing down.

And even though I’m not a yellow mini anymore, I don’t think I’m as black volvo as I was when I got the car a year and a half ago.

Thank God.

So what next, you ask?

Beats me.

It’s another year and a half until my lease is up so I have oodles of time to ponder what kind of car I want be next.

Suggestions?

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