Je Suis Ici

I am here...

And like Ms. Elise, I feel like I should be jumping through a window with someone saying something like "INTRODUCING.... magnificent MITCHELL!!" Or maybe that's just how I introduce myself to the world every morning.

Well ladies, we've come a long way! It's so exciting to see and hear about the fantabulous journies we've all had. Like Miss Elise I feel tremendously blessed to have each of you in my life. The last few months have been fabulous, to say the least. We've been able to hang out and party, and I've even had a chance to get much closer to a couple of you. Needless to say I'm uber excited about this blog and its potential. I only hope that the rest of you are as excited and use it frequently enough!

As far as my life goes, I graduated from Howard and got a job that I'm really enjoying. So that's pretty simple. I bought a car and I'm saving to buy a home next year. So that's pretty cool. But the biggest part of my life that has really been anything to really talk/think about is my love life. As you know, N and I broke up in July. It was a hard call to make at the time, but immediately after I felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulder. I started seeing other people - including an ex who will not be named (*cough*) lol - and I've had the chance to learn a whole lot about myself.

Now I'm seeing a really great guy (let's call him C), whom Katrina and Raquel have already had the chance to meet. He's really sweet, caring, driven, sexy and everything else I look for in a man. We have an incredible connection that is so great it almost scares me - especially since I never intended to be serious about someone so soon. The really hard part these days is that I miss N terribly. More, now, than I did over the first few months of our break-up total. It seems as though the closer I get to C the more I miss N. I remember all of the little things that N and I used to do that C and I won't (b/c he's not N) and can't (b/c that would be depressing and borderline pathetic). I haven't spoken to N in almost a month now. We used to speak at least periodically through text or something but lately its been nothing. I'm the one who broke up with him so I feel like he's needing his space at this point and plus I want to make sure I'm not sending any crazy/mixed signals. But ALL I want to do is call him. I mean,the honest truth is that I don't want to be with him anymore, I just miss what we once had. I miss him because I miss what we were. And now, it's hard to become intimate (and I'm not talking sexual) with someone new. Especially when the last relationship is so fresh on your mind and heart.

Sigh. Well that was a load off my mind. Sorry my intro post turned into a vidavisi blogger support group meeting lol.

(I'm also at www.mademoisellemitchell.blogspot.com)

introducing...misskatrinaelise!

(hmm i just remembered that they used to say that when you would jump through the window at gold/white). As I enter into my next phase of life (well it's been damn near 7 months now) I felt it necessary to create this blog to stay in touch with a few of my favorite people. Graduating from school and transitioning to the next phase has been a lot harder than I thought and all things good that I have endured during this time has been because of my friends. I truly value the friendships I have in my life and I realize that a lot of them came from my high school experience. I know for each of us that experience was different but I would do it again if I could and I am so happy that I walked away ( in a fab white gown and white satin gloves) knowing such fabulous females. I am so elated by the paths we have taken and where we have arrived thus far. I hope that this blog will make it so that I never miss a moment of what is to come from you all. I imagine this to be some sort of online, written talk show, and you know I LOVE to talk, about everything, so get ready.

As for my current status, I am still looking for a j o b . I had no idea it would be this hard, but then I again I honestly say I didn't know what it would be. As you all know I went to Babson because I was interested in Business etc. and I had ( and still do) have aspirations of being a successful entrepreneur. When it was all said and done, I hated Wall Street, Corporate America and all other things I thought I would grow to love. So when I graduated I guess you could say I went into a state of shock because for the first time, there was no smooth transition into something that I was excited about and could embrace. I came home and am staying with my grandmother and went on this loopedy-loo search for a job. I had no particular industry or position in mind, especially because everything I have been trained for I now loathe. So after months of disappointment, and letters saying "due to the current state of the economy, we are no longer hiring for this position", it has hit me that I actually did get something out of the four years that I can use to make my life what I want it to be. I had to have a heart to heart with myself and reassure myself that I attended the number one institution in the world for entrepreneurship and I have exactly what it takes to create whatever business I want to. I just had to shake off (and by just, i mean in the last week) the idea of coming out of school and landing the 60+ thousand dollar salary and I had to shake this fairytale image of of success I didn't even know I had! lol.

With that said, I vowed that I would just buckle down and get to it. If it means not buying another shoe, clothing item, piece of jewelry or drink (teardrops...pause) then that is what I will have to do. I planned to go to New York with Ashley starting Dec.5 and staying until Christmas. While she was at work, I was going to work on my business plan, make calls, connections, meetings etc to take my ideas to the next level. Ashley as you all know is my partner in crime and obviously would be in on the biz too. So after I made these plans I got a call back from a company (FINALLY) wanting a first-round interview on Monday, so we will see how that goes. Depending on the results I still may or may not be spending a month in NY...

ps: I will still be keeping up with misskatrinaelise.blogspot.com, but I will keep a personal touch to this blog.