I’m going to be honest, I’ve been dreading writing this post. August was hands down the hardest month I’ve had this year and my spending was out of control trying to make myself feel better (news flash: it didn’t!) But I just saw the amount of my first paycheck at my new job and I…
From Scratch: A memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home by Tembi Locke A memoir of more than just travel, this book is the very heartbreaking story of actress Tembi Locke and Saro, her Italian chef husband, and his battle with cancer. I was crying from the prologue and cried at just about every section…
I am officially a kindergarten teacher! I’m so excited, but it’s been less than a week since I accepted my job offer and I already have SO MUCH going on. I officially start on the 24th since I had to give notice to my preschool, but I’m still working on my lunch breaks and going…
I’m late! So much has been happening and I decided to give myself a break from blogging for a week or two until things settled down. I ended up passing all four of my Florida Teaching Certification Exams the first time (truly unexpected, even for how much I studied!) and that immediately opened up a…
This year I was really looking forward to renting a boat with a couple of friends, drinking some beers, and catching some scallops for dinner, but because of COVID, gathering with enough friends to split the cost of a boat from a marina wasn’t practical or safe, so I thought my plans were a bust….
The moral of Part One was to follow your instincts. If you’re going home from a new job every day crying and reaching for alcohol, it’s probably not the right job for you! Even if you dreamed about it, prayed for it, made a whole new budget for your life based around how much money…
Dame Traveler: Live the Spirit of Adventure by Natasha Yakoub This was so absolutely weird. Why would you want to look at an instagram in book form? The pictures were very pretty, but I would rather just follow the instagram, which I did. Maybe this makes more sense not in a Kindle edition, like a…
Well, it finally happened. It was only a matter of time with our scant safety procedures and Florida’s numbers rising exponentially every day, but yesterday one of my coworkers tested positive for COVID-19 and my school has shut down for the rest of the week. I am scared and angry, most of all because my…
Is it just me or does selling stuff on the Internet suck? I honestly have never bothered before. I usually just take the majority of my things to the homeless shelter, try to give a bit of it away to friends, and take whatever is left to Goodwill. I tell myself that it’s because I…
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins I was so pleasantly surprised by this book in the beginning. I must’ve been recommended it by a travel page while I was half asleep one day because it just appeared in…