T.W.E.N.T.Y O.N.E~

T.W.E.N.T.Y. O.N.E

Wow, this is a big start to my life.. The day before I turn what's considered to be a HUGE number in society…TWENTY ONE! I've wanted to start up a new blog following my life experience and what adventures I'll have done turning over in this new found life of alcohol! Not that I haven't drank before but I'm one of few who never had a fake i.d. I'm excited to see where my journey of being twenty one will take me. So to start off this blog I will begin with a story;…..

Today, April 14th 2014, started off very well. I've had some hard times in the past year with family issues but I awoke at around 7:30.. (which doesn't happen easily most mornings) Anyway, I got up and opened my bedroom door to enter to the bathroom when my stepmom peaked around the corner and I hear…..

"One More Day!" 

Of course, I immediately smile, to think I only have more day in my life to be 20… I'd thought about this day for YEARS and as a little girl thought it would take more than forever and a day to arrive and here I am, just hours away from being legal.  Okay, Carry on Kaitlyn… Back to the real story…

My very best friend Kristi and I started the day off with a meeting for creating looks of hair and makeup for Portland Fashion Week (PFW) and when that ended we went back to her house and sat on the porch, which more and more seems to become a tradition. We sat there just speaking of what to expect and what we feel with the craziness of all the things going on in life and also juggling school. I started on some rant about life, family and men… OH MEN! We just sat there talking of all things on this beautiful sunny day when suddenly a UPS truck pulls up and I hear Kristi, in here oh so hopeful voice she does say 

"Oh, is this my wine?!?"

I think to myself, 'wine? what is she talking about?' She start to tell me about the winery her best friend Sara loved. Sara is a woman I never got to meet for she has passed away from battling a wicked thing we all know as cancer, ( HEY CANCER, SCREW YOU!) She passed just this Christmas and it has been very hard on my dear friend Kristi and while she was down in Cali for the funeral she and some of Sara's friends and family took a drive to her favorite winery; Cypher. While there Kristi signed up for what I think is a seasonal disbursement of their wine.

While we were sitting there talking and getting a little chocked up over some of the life struggles we've been currently dealing with, wouldn't you know it…. Sara sent Krist Lou (as I call her) a present. THE WINE! Kristi turned to me with the newly opened cardboard box of wines and softly speaks;

"Friend, what a special gift it is to get this and I want to share a glass with you to celebrate."

The celebration of me, being twenty for the last day and waking up 21 tomorrow, and the celebration of Sara. I like to think that as Kristi Cheers'd me and said the most wonderful words a friend can say to you that Sara was there clinking her glass with us. A moment I will not forget, with tears in my eyes I realized how blessed I am to have some of the very best people in my life and that right there is the best way to go into turing twenty one.

I write these last few paragraphs promising myself nothing but adventures and a life full of fun and never settling for whatever the situation. I promise to love more, laugh more, and be free. So goodbye to the years that have shaped me, goodbye to no longer worrying about if it's a kid friendly place, goodbye to all the bullshit in the past year, GOODBYE 20. I gladly welcome this new age and right of passage…

HELLO TWENTY ONE!