Before I get into my experience with the Moderna COVID vaccine, I have to say: writing this post feels surreal. This past year has been long, hard, and incredibly scary. To be sitting here typing this, vaccinated and seeing our society be so close to reaching the light at the end of what sometimes felt… [Read More]
13 life lessons from someone who’s 30, flirty, and thriving
Wow. How am I even writing this post you guys? I feel like I should be introducing a guest poster who’s old and wise and can tell me about life. But it’s somehow ME who’s sharing the life lessons of a 30 year old. I remember so clearly going to the movies and watching 13… [Read More]
The truth about antidepressants
This should go without saying but my experiences with anxiety and the specific medications listed are mine alone. They are not recommendations for others. I am not a doctor, just a blogger sharing her own journey. I’ve always been an anxious person. Growing up I was always the worrier/ the mother of my friends. The… [Read More]
Six ways I’m surviving quarantine
Life has changed a lot in the last few weeks. Josh and I are both working from home. I haven’t been around people in a month. We get all our groceries delivered to our front door. I half cover my eyes before loading news websites, scared for what the latest headlines are. I feel like… [Read More]
6 key things to look for when buying a house
House hunting is not easy, friends. We’ve been searching for two years now and finally, finally, finally found our house. (And closed on it today!) When we first started looking we had a vauge idea of what we were looking for in a house, but there is nothing like time and experience to teach you… [Read More]
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Growing up, I spent a lot of time in my head. I felt like an onlooker to my own life, studying it and narrating it from afar. It was like those around me were really living life while I was merely watching them live. I waited for the day I’d grow up and life would… [Read More]
Lessons from six years of marriage
I can’t believe it has been six years since Josh and I said I do. When I got married, I was 22 years old, fresh out of college, and preparing to move halfway across the country for Josh’s new job. We had no idea what the future would hold, but we were excited to take… [Read More]
What it’s like to recover from double jaw surgery
Ten months ago I had double jaw surgery. Otherwise known as orthognathic surgery with a Le Fort 3 Osteotomy on my upper jaw and a Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy on my lower jaw. (Essentially my mouth was broken into five pieces and completely reconfigured.) Jaw surgery recovery was no joke but I survived and lived to… [Read More]
What it’s like to get LASIK
A little over a week ago I had LASIK eye surgery on both my eyes. It was simultaneously the scariest and easiest thing I’ve ever done. (Scariest being the days leading up to the procedure when I was worrying about lasers in my eyeballs! Easiest being the actual procedure, how quickly I saw results, and… [Read More]
8 Jaw Surgery Recovery Essentials
I’m three weeks post-op double jaw surgery today! (Make sure to check out my jaw surgery recap.) While I still have many weeks of healing ahead, I made it through the worst of it and have lived to tell the tale. I’ll be back next week with a recap of weeks three and four of… [Read More]
My Double Jaw Surgery Experience: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (2 weeks post-op)
On Thursday, August 23, 2018, I had double jaw surgery. This included a Le Fort 3 Osteotomy on my upper jaw and a Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy on my lower jaw. This corrective jaw surgery (otherwise known as orthognathic surgery) was done to fix skeletal and dental irregularities I was born with. Read on to hear… [Read More]