2018 began with me crying and laughing hysterically in a mini-van loaded up with personal belongings with a passenger window that refused to close as I drove to my mother’s instead of my new place of residence because I was scared someone might break into the van parked on the street and steal said… Continue reading Why 2018 Was The Worst
This isn’t what I thought life would be like post-grad, but—then again—I don’t think I ever had a real plan for the months between graduation and possibly starting graduate school. I couldn’t have imagined the frantic hurry to deal with the holiday season and applications that would ensue once I graduated, and I certainly didn’t… Continue reading Life in Limbo
A new year is like the first page of a new book: full of promise, optimism, and grand hopes for a happy ending. With that in mind and the depressing 2016 over, I’m glad for a new year and one where my entire life is in a state of upheaval and change. I’ve graduated from… Continue reading 2017: A New Beginning
One year, a week, and three days ago, I was in a car accident. I still don’t really know how to talk about it. How do you explain a traumatic event? Do you talk about the physical trauma—cuts, bumps, bruises—or the mental? The minutes before, hours after, or following months? How do you sum up… Continue reading Giving Thanks: A Year After the Accident
Being sick on vacation sucks. It sucks when you want to hike a volcano and see the city, but your lungs are on fire. It sucks when you want to go to hot pools but your nose is running like a faucet. It sucks when you want to go outside and do things, but your… Continue reading How to Have an Adventure on a Sick Day
I’m big on resolutions—always have been—and nothing makes me feel more optimistic and hopeful for the future than sitting down to write them out. This year I composed a rough draft based on old resolutions I either didn’t succeed at or really liked and then added some new ones in. I feel like if I… Continue reading 2016: Ready, Set, Go!
I love resolutions. I love goals. I love New Year’s Eve when I can say goodbye to another year and look forward with wide-eyed hope to change and success in the future. Does that always happen? Not really. This year I made a long list of resolutions because I figured if I had more than… Continue reading I Find My Lack of Resolve Disturbing
It’s been a bit since I last wrote, and I’ve found it hard to come back to blogging when the world around me keeps going on and being unplanned. You know, life basically. It seems that I experienced my own series of unfortunate events shortly after my last entry and since then I’ve had some… Continue reading How to Get Back in the Swing of Things
I honestly didn’t plan on having a summer job this year, but I got one. I imagined that I’d spend the hot days locked away in the house, writing and creating, and I had The Captain’s blessing to do that. However, I got asked back to an old sales associate position at the thrift… Continue reading So Long Savers: Deciding When It’s Better to Go
Since The Captain and I got engaged, I’ve gotten a lot of advice on relationships and making them work. One of those pieces was to make sure I took time to be ‘selfish’ and take care of myself. I think this is one that I need to work the most on, because a lot of… Continue reading Fill the Bath with Bubbles: A ‘Me’ Night
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