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I CANNOT believe I'M starting a blog!  Here we go though...

I figure with my plan for post-graduation coming together it will be best to start a blog for my experience.  This way friends & family can find out what I'm up to if they choose to without me flooding their emails or having to copy and past because of time (so impersonal I hate having to do that).  Not that this will be more personal than that...  Hopefully you get what I'm trying to say.

So I'd like to explain the title of my blog in this post.  I titled my page Vida con la esperanza because I originally wanted to say Life with spirit, but I wanted to use espenoza, what I thought was spirit, because Dad told me that was one he would never forget about a year ago.  Turns out espenoza is not spirit (I don't think it's a word).  So then I thought it might be hope.  And I believe that was it.  So I went with Life with hope.  

And the website I wanted LisaRisa in honor of my service trip to Nogales because that's what they called me (risa means to laugh).  But that was already taken so I'm going with RisaLisa.

I'm going to focus this blog on making decisions for post-grad and preparing rather than my day-to-day life right now because I can see all you right now....

Still can't believe I'm doing this.

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