Hello, long time no see! I have not been writing recently because I have no time and have been experiencing some writer’s block. Transitioning from a fully remote role to a hybrid role also messed with my schedule. I’m slowly beginning to find the balance between work and school again, as well as everything else I need to do to be a fully functioning adult in society. It’s hard, I’m exhausted!

To ease my way back into writing, I’m going to start easy. But stay tuned, because we are so back. At least, I’m hoping.

Here are some quotes and thoughts on my mind recently:

Recently, I decided I couldn’t keep letting my parents control the narrative. It was causing me so much distress, and it took me much longer than I would have liked to finally change the story. I’d rather be seen and alive.

Eternal Sunshine deluxe has truly been keeping me going these last couple of months, and the original album was keeping me going all year. Ariana Grande will just do it every single time.

No notes….I am just a girl in love, is all :)

Every time I realize that my therapist did not dig me out, but handed me the right shovel to dig myself out, I come back to reality. I get out of the grave most of the time, but sometimes I fall 6 feet under again. I have my trusty shovel now, though.

It gets better, and I know it. I think life goes up and down, but there are more ups than you realize. As winter turned into spring, I saw what I was holding onto. Now the sun creeps over the horizon earlier, and I find myself knowing that it got better. Summer is just around the corner now, and yeah, there is something to hold on to.

Exactly. Not sure if I can add anything as simplistically honest as this, but everything I was once confused about was answered by living my life. I’m doing things now that I was once unsure would ever be possible. But it is possible, you just have to keep moving towards it.

I’ve been moving fast recently. Between work and school, I don’t have much time to move slowly. I try to find pockets of slowness, wake up earlier so I have time to move through the morning, read a book on the bus, walk slower to the office from the train station, and take a slow breath here and there. Capitalism wants us to move fast and produce, but we aren’t meant to be fluttering from place to place.

Currently Consuming

Reading

• Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Watching

• Just finished Sirens on Netflix

  • This was interesting. I was expecting literal sirens, but figurative sirens are cool too.

Listening

• Genius by Rayvn Lenae

  • I’m addicted to this song….no joke….will be hearing it live later this year, I hope.

• Leave Me Alone by Renee Rapp

  • Um hello?? She is back in the studio :)

Life Recently

Finally got my Chicago Public Library card!! Go support your local libraries, and getting a library card is really easy.

Trying to get through spring quarter with my sanity, but I am struggling! I only have one more quarter after this left of working and going to school at the same time. War is almost over!!

See ya! 

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next week!

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