Personal
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My Top 24 Crushes
And the order I’d marry them in Now, before I begin, I’d like to talk about the elephant in the room… You may have noticed but all of my crushes have relatively pale skin. I’m hoping you don’t automatically hate me because of that! But I sure feel tense bringing…
1978, 1987, Betty Boop, Blondie, Boomhauer, Breaking Bad, Butch from Pulp Fiction, Christopher Reeve, Cleo, Crazylegs G.I. Joe, Curious George, David Tennant Doctor Who, Debbie Harry, Evan Peters, Freaky Friday, Fred Rogers, George Harrison, Guido from Life is Beautiful, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jennifer Tilly from Bride of Chucky, Jesse Pinkman, John Lennon, King of the Hill, Lucky from King of the Hill, Mark Harmon as Ryan, Megara from Hercules 1997, Michael Scott from The Office 2005, Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Saul Goodman, Sharon Tate, Superman, Susan Storm from The Fantastic Four” 2005, Tara from Tom and Jerry, The Beatles, The Man with the Yellow Hat, Tiffany, Tom Petty -
The Internet: Our Vast Playground
(With Endless Possibilities) I’d be a liar if I told you I understood the internet. In all honesty, I can’t even begin to comprehend how the internet works. Yet, as a consumer, I can appreciate it and feel intimidated by it all at once. This feeling of ambivalence has always…
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Bonds. What are they? What pushes us towards bonding? What’s the point?
Even though this is my blog and I can write whatever I want whenever I want- I get stage fright! I get nervous! And I often think to myself before writing: “What’s the next trick I’m going to pull out of my sleeve? I have no clue!” But eventually-EVENTUALLY, my desire to…
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Hope Without Expectations
Suggestions from a wanna be nonconformist As odd as I am… As strange as I’ve shown up in spaces… And as abnormal as I’ve been – the society I’m surrounded by has still been able to instill in me the desire to be like everyone else around me. I understand…
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A Letter To My Friends and/or Family…
Damn. You found me. Sorry! I didn’t mean to sound so disappointed! But I sincerely am because if you were to read what I’ve written so far (I mean ALL OF IT) and you compare that to our interactions- you might think “Oh, she’s a big fat liar”. But: No,…
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Being A Low-Energy Person In A Fast-Paced World
(Get Me Out Of Here) As I’m trying to mend the broken pieces of myself together, I still have a hunger, better yet a yearning, for the energy that other people possess. I can’t tell if I was built this way (as in, if I just by default have low-energy)…
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I’m Workin’ My Way Back To You, Babe…
With A Burnin’ Love Inside For as long as I can remember, I have felt inadequate. And unfortunately, for most of my life, I let the attention (or inattention) and praise (and complaints) of strangers outweigh my own beliefs and so- I have struggled with loving myself as I am…
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Having A Mental Illness Is Like Having A Full-Time Job
I may not be working or studying right now and I was going to be extremely harsh and mean to myself today about it… but then I remembered something someone once told me years ago while I was crying to her on the phone… She said, “Nancy, having a mental…
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My Relationship with Emotions
It’s been a hot mess, y’all! Today I saw my DBT therapist and I explained that I’ve been tracking my mood in the tracker she gave me. I showed her the sheet and we both recognized that I’ve been feeling manic-y. So instead of teaching me about Distress Tolerance like…
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Two Cool & Simple ways to stay Retro
Because I don’t gatekeep, sis! “What a time to be alive!” I think to myself almost every single day. Technology has been making it’s ways into our lives more and more each day and as that is happening, so are the advances in equipment. Today I’m going to write about…
Foolishly Happy 