Good things can happen after 2am, after all.

It is…approximately 2:30am on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I should be in bed, sleeping off the trouble that my eyes got my stomach into yesterday at the dinner table. Yet here I am. Hunched over an iPad, determined to end this 2 week nightmare and launch this freaking blog ONCE AND FOR ALL. (Friends, I have not been this stressed about coding since my MySpace days.) In addition to being persistent to a fault, I’m Crystal. Welcome to Quirky Strides and Awkward Vibes! Hopefully you’re reading this during whatever is considered normal blog reading hours.

This blog for me is the answer to the question: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” But what’s the point in waiting around for guaranteed success to try something you’d enjoy? I don’t know if anything will come of Gutsy Strides and Awkward Vibes. What I do know is that running, writing, and trying things to better manage my Crohn’s are my jam. Being socially awkward, my nemesis in middle/high school, is now an old friend that my life would be very boring without. So I’m doing a thing. Maybe you’re also into those things and you’ll stick around. If so, you’re my kinda person.