my musings on growing up, mental health, cats, craftbeer, adulting, personal health, and wanting to be become a mother all while laughing at myself
I woke up this morning and after thinking about the lives of my peers I wondered if, on the precipice of my 34th birthday, it could be said that all the choices that I've made up until this point of my life have really been so poor that I cannot turn my life around. This …
Continue reading "It’s Birthday Week or Let’s Kick Self Judgement in the Ass"
Today as I drove out to a friends baby party, I listened to the Decemberists. I don't know if I do this when I consciously when I want to think about my sister, but no matter what happens I always wind up thinking about my sister. The Decemberists make me think of my sister because …
Continue reading "The Decemberists Feels or Trying to Make My Sister Proud"
I talk to everyone. This is something else I got from my mother. I talk to the man who works on our lobby at our 21 story office building, and I talk to people in elevators even when it makes them slightly uncomfortable. I ask real straight forward raw questions, and while I don't expect …
Continue reading "The Importance of Being Authentic or Tell Your Story or Quakers and Yoga"
I am posting this publicly with my friends permission to post pictures of her children. I didn't use their names, but if you know us you know them, and I mean this post with so much gratitude to the joy the kids and Roxy brought to me. This one is for you pup. Also said …
Continue reading "Try to Do it Without Laughing or Miracles Don’t Have to Be Big"
Recently the Death, Sex, and Money Podcast did a 2 episode feature on student loans. I have about $70k worth of student loan debt, and my current partner has a similar amount. I managed to graduate from a private liberal arts college as an undergraduate with about $15k in student debt. I saved money by …
Continue reading "Student Loans or Bonny Christine O’Neill, MURP, CPP"
When I was a little girl, I walked up to a middle aged lady while in a Rite Aid and asked her why she had a beard. Because the Universe has somehow decided that I am important enough to care about spiting me for this behavior, I was blessed with a mustache that is actually …
Continue reading "My Sun Mustache or Be Grateful You’re Laughing"
Joshua Tree is one of my happy places, and I got the opportunity to spend some time with one of my best friends there this weekend. That may seem like a crazy idea to most people, because it was 105 degrees outside, but our Airbnb had a very nice pool, so we did no hiking, …
Continue reading "People in The Desert; Musings on a Lovely Time in Joshua Tree"
There is a lot of controversy over the new term adulting. You can go down a internet wormhole on it if you want, and read about how millennials are entitled and silly, and make a big deal out of ourselves because we cook dinner or go on a run, but here's what I have to to …
I have done a lot of shameless self promotion of my weight loss lately, and I am not ashamed at all of that. I think that social media and the internet should be used to inspire those around us, and ourselves. I have been working hard on my body and my health, and I want …
This year I decided the best Mother's Day present I could give to my mom and honestly myself was to start becoming more emotionally self sufficient, despite my mental health issues which have often tripped me up in the area of growing up and self soothing. Growing up is a journey I feel like I …
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