I’m going to be honest, I thought my seasonal work would be more fun! I was so desperate for a job when I got to New Zealand. It took about a month to find my first gig, and I mostly liked it! My coworkers were great, but it was only about 20 hours a week—…
Reading is just travel without a plane ticket. It’s my favorite thing in the world. And for the foreseeable future, when I’m not scuba diving, you can find me with my toes in the sand and my Kindle in my hand. What I’m reading this week: Two O’Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain by…
Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia “All my life, I’d assumed it was only brave people who did brave things. I’d never once considered how many of them were absolutely terrified.” Nowhere for Very Long is a memoir about a woman who buys a huge, ugly orange van to live in/out of with her…
It has been a while, but what better reason to return than to share that I bought a plane ticket to Peru yesterday?! The trip isn’t until this June, but I have been planning it for several months already and yesterday I finally got the Scott’s Cheap Flights alert (if you don’t know about it…
I have been planning my trip to Tulum in fits and starts since last year. My then partner and I were just about to buy tickets for a week’s vacation in June when COVID hit. Ever optimistic, we talked of pushing it back to July or August maybe, but as we all know, it was…
A few weekends ago I was lucky enough to have a Teacher’s Work Day on a Friday, so I booked a mini-vacation to St. Augustine only 90 minutes from where I live. A friend came and split the cost with me so we decided to go a little pricier and get my favorite amenity: 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…
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…