It's so funny, I've barely written on this blog (while I've been pretty consistent on Youtube, I have not been able to find a way to do both well), and yet once it's time to reflect on my birthday, the first thing I want to do is sit down and write a post. 30 was a big "mid-life" crisis year....

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After the past week we had, I thought we were leaving winter behind and slowly drifting into spring. Yesterday my friend informed me that there was a huge winter storm hitting us today. Now we get these warnings all the time and sometimes it's nothing. But when I woke this morning, the roads were plowed, snow was falling at a...

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I have had a blog since December of 2016, and have never joined in on Bloganuary. I honestly didn't know it existed until it popped up on my dashboard this morning. I wasn't planning on writing a post today, just catch up on some of my favorites' posts (here, here, here). I don't know how consistent I will be with...

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Three weeks ago was my final session with my therapist. Before we ended out final session, she asked me something interesting. She asked "What goals to I have for the future? Where do I see myself in the future?". It's a little funny, because I spend most of my life in my head with my thoughts either thinking about the...

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Why is it that the moment you move on, and are no longer interested in someone, they decide they want to reach out again? It's like they have a 6th sense. The power to know when someone is not longer interested in them. That's the moment they want to reach out. It's odd. It's happened more times than I can...

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When I brought up the idea of playing Dungeons and Dragons with my uncle and cousin in December 2019, I never expected it to be my saving grace for the next year and a half. I was really into playing board games when I was younger and I was intrigued by the idea of playing D&D. I remember passing by...

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Growing up with 3 other siblings wasn’t easy. To start off, I had to share a room with an annoying younger sister for all of my childhood and some of teenage years. I finally got my own room when I was 16 or 17, and it felt like a breath of fresh air. Living in a house full of people,...

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It’s the night before my birthday, and all I can think about is 28. Twenty-eight. The number doesn’t sound quite right coming off the tip of my tongue. Maybe it’s because I don’t feel like I’m turning 28. It’s not necessarily that I feel old or younger than that age. It’s because I’ve always felt like I was falling behind...

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I’m in the best relationship I’ve ever had, and I’m still baffled. How did I get so lucky? Not only that, but how did I allow myself to settle for such shitty relationships beforehand? I feel like all my past relationships (except the one good one I had for a short time) had these giant red flags. Red flags so...

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Growing up, I always made lists about what I wanted my person to have. I have dozens of iterations of "the list". There were basics that were a no brainer and stayed consistent in my versions of my list, like good hygiene habits, had a job, etc. But there were things that were more specific to me. Things I thought...

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