A Necessary Re-Introduction

Hello hello hello.

Here we go with the necessary introduction post. Even though the only person I really expect to read this is my mom… HI MOM. & she for the most part knows everything about me. Well, not everything.

I could write a boring paragraph but lists have always made me really happy so here is a list of 12 things about me. They’re random, they’re significant, they make me into the whole & happy & growing human being that I am today.

01) I have a wild & uncontrolled love of stationary supplies. Notebooks, pens of all kinds, highlighters, the more the merrier. I can rarely leave a Target without browsing the planners for a good 20 minutes.

02) My hair is naturally extremely curly & I just recently learned how to style it (by that I mean that it’s a day to day struggle and I still do not really know how to style it).

03) I am obsessed with reality tv. The Bachelor, The Voice, The Real World (& the Challenges), Shark Tank, Chopped, Masterchef, Project Runway, etc. I could honestly go on for a very long time. The only scripted show that I keep up with right now is How To Get Away With Murder.

04) I went to school in Rhode Island for Dance/Performance Studies & Psychology. My parents flipped out when I told them I wanted to be a Dance major but it was alllllllllll I had eyes for. Dance is, to this day, is the thing that makes me feel most alive.

05) I would categorize my personal style as minimalist meets classic meets bohemian.

06) My favorite places I’ve been are San Fran, LA, New York City, Atlanta, & Costa Rica. Getting on a plane is the most euphoric feeling I’ve ever experienced. I haven’t gotten to travel much but my heart yearns for it every day.

07) I’m obsessively checking plane ticket prices, travel Groupons, & vacation packages. On the daily. It’s kind of a problem. But my frugality & my wanderlust heart collide and fireworks spark when I find an all-inclusive airfare included Groupon to Ireland with a rental car - FOR ONLY $599??? Even if I never buy it.

08) I’m going to graduate school in the fall for Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a focus in Dance/Movement Therapy in either Cambridge or New Hampshire and I will be deciding which one SOON. But I miss learning tremendously & I can’t wait to be back in that thriving, inspiring environment.

09) Yoga & meditation are very important to me, very close to my heart. They’re two things that I find that I don’t do ENOUGH of, but when I do, I always wonder why I don’t every single day. A far off dream of mine is to complete a 200 hour YTT & teach yoga classes part-time.

10) My favorite unhealthy foods in this life are cheese, chocolate chip cookies, garlic bread, and cupcakes. My favorite HEALTHY foods are kale, edamame, fresh blueberries, and clementines.

11) This is my second blog! I broke the domain to my old one, oops.

12) I am honestly, truly, wholeheartedly a different & better human being after I have consumed coffee in the morning.

Where Have I Been? Part 2

Lately, blogging just hasn't been for me! Blogging the proper, controlled, contrived way. With photos and links all carefully curated, taking hours to format a post, to make it look just so, to check the grammar and the spacing. 

NOT TO MENTION. 

The pressure. The pressure to get page views and comments and engagement. Honestly? I don't care too much about that right now. I took a long social media semi-hiatus. I was still on social media but I was barely looking. Then I decided that my old social media handles all harbor too much angst, sadness, nostalgic memories that give me anxiety rather than the warm fuzzies. 

So I made new ones. New Twitter, new Instagram, new Tumblr. All the same derivation of my first name, middle name, and last initial. Clean, simple. Me. Also, a fresh start (one of my favorite things of all time!).

I don't feel like obsessively reading other woman's blogs just to produce a mediocre comment that MIGHT get me a couple of page views or comments back. It feels inauthentic, which is something that I am trying soooooo hard to steer away from. And which is why I'm writing a post like this. Unedited, semi-stream of conscious, Trebuchet font. I don't know who I'm writing to - if anyone at all - or just to myself. My future self. 

A couple of life updates: 

- I finished applying to grad school.

- I got into the Cambridge grad school program as of two days ago!

- I interviewed for the New Hampshire program on Monday.

- I really loved the NH interview & will find out if I got in there by Friday.

- If I get into the NH school I'm very confused about which program is right for me. 

- Really, I just am terrified to live in either Boston or NH, for very different reasons. 

And even more fun stuff! 

- I'm going to Atlanta, Savannah, and Orlando in FIVE FREAKIN' DAYS. 

- I haven't been on a plane in two years, so I may cry with happiness. 

- I haven't taken this much consecutive time off in a year and half I believe. I feel that I deserve it. 

Travel ignites my restless soul. I have been to Atlanta & Orlando but never to Savannah. I think it's really important to go somewhere once a year (at least!) that you've never been before.