Sometimes I can’t sleep at night. 96% of the time when this occurs it’s because sometimes at night when my body crumbles into bed for sleep my brain gets all…
Welp, my sister Lauren just left again. She and Mason were here for 2 weeks for Christmas and today they went back to the wasteland of Oklahoma. So I’m…
Happy New Year!!! It’s that magical day where we make general statements either about how great or terrible the entire past year was…which is fair right? To make a blanket…
Friends, I can’t believe what just happened. My family has a tradition where we go to the movies every Christmas. We celebrate Christmas and do gifts on Christmas eve so…
It’s Christmas time. Hope you’ve already done your shopping because from here on it’ll be a gamble as to whether or not Amazon can ship in time. So I am…
YEAH ADOPTION!!!!! Some of you just groaned and thought, “Ugh, this is going to be a serious post. No thank you! If I wanted to feel things I would watch…
Christmas is coming my friends!!! It’s that time of year where we all write our letters to Santa telling him what we want…you guys still do that right? What…
The week after a long break is hard. Is that right? Wait, I think what I meant to say was the days in between weekends are hard. Yes, that is…
I love holidays a ridiculous amount. It doesn’t matter what the holiday is, I will love it and I will celebrate it to the point that other people think I’m…
Sitting in a coffee shop working on an article and these two people walk in on their first date. I had planned to just ignore them and be respectful of…
Folks, we just hit 1,000 reads here on the blog!!!! You have no idea how happy I am right now. I am so glad that people are enjoying reading the…
Here’s something they don’t tell you when you’re growing up—adulthood kind of sucks. Not like in a “I’m unhappy with my life” way, just in a “those bills are in…
I am what is known as a borderline nerd. I say “borderline” because there is a balance. I love Star Wars but I don’t like Star Trek. I enjoy superhero…
A funny thing happens when you watch a bunch of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit—–You realize that everyone is trying to kill you. This realization doesn’t come immediately during…
So it turns out that I do in fact have a conscience! Celebrate that friends, some of us were wondering if it still existed. I know that it still exists…
I LOVE MY BIRTHDAY!!! Not in like an adorable ‘she’s so happy, that’s so precious’ way, but in like the ‘that chick is insane, let’s go with the madness rather…
The NC State Fair is a thing of beauty. I feel like that needs to be said before I proceed. If you are lucky enough to live in the triangle…
I am cowardly and twitchy and I scare super easy. 11 months out of the year you couldn’t get me to watch a scary movie for anything. Commercials for horror…
I have an english degree…now what? See, what they don’t tell you when you go off to college all bright eyed and bushy tailed (or whining and being shoved like…
Oh friends, I am actually giddy! Why? Oh, because it’s finally fall! After the misery that is a North Carolina summer we get this little glimpse of paradise: a magical…
My sister leaves today for freaking Oklahoma. She and I said goodbye last night, not with actual words of course, but with a hug and a non-versation where nobody talks…
I’m sick. There is nothing terribly remarkable about that fact seeing as it is the beginning on the magical allergy/clod/flu season, where your immune system weakens and then spends the…
Last night I watched New Girl while I was feeling bored and restless…10 minutes into the show I was holding a pair of scissors and watching YouTube how-to videos online.…
Sunday is a holy day. It is the Sabbath and I believe in keeping it holy—–But this morning I’m laying in bed and I’m behind schedule. My roommate is in…
Day 2 started beautifully. I woke up and it felt like fall outside, so I celebrated with my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season and took my dog for…
As I explained in an earlier post my sister is moving to Oklahoma because the military told her that she has to. She moves officially in 2 weeks, but she…
At my core I’m pretty much just a goody goody. In fact, for the most part I am simply a scared little rule-abider, and that’s okay. It’s worked pretty well…
My sister is my best friend. We were born 18 months apart and are ridiculously close. In fact, my toast at her wedding was about how there is that one…
Some Saturdays are exciting…but some Saturdays are the worst, and those Saturdays are usually spent at the ER with a 3 year old who shoved a giant bead up his…
True story. Technology and I have a sad, tear-stained past together. She and I have been in combat since I was just a wee, starry eyed child, fascinated by this…
for a rainy day 