My mom and I go on dates maybe once a month and we’ve been doing this since my real parents divorced. I’m always the stand in when she doesn’t have a significant other to cling on to. At some point after she and my stepdad divorced, she started dating. Since I’ve been in the dating scene for quite some time now, she turns to me … Continue reading My mom’s boyfriend
Everyone I know is either married with kids or has a significant other. I’m the only one who is actually “single.” When I’m in a group setting, the conversation revolves around their family life and there is nothing I can relate to because I really can’t relate to anything they talk about. As far as kids go, my kids are my two cats and my … Continue reading Singled Out
Growing up is the time when you try to figure your self out, but there is so much change going on in your life that you can’t exactly know who you are yet. There are those who are lucky enough to know themselves by the time they reach college. When you get to that time of being in relationships, you tend to gravitate to the … Continue reading finding and taking care of yourself
I feel like I have to re-examine myself as to what happened in the past, while I was trying to figure out how to deal with my mental illness, why things are the way they are now. I keep wondering if I should go back and read through my journals that I told myself I would never open again. Afraid that it might be a … Continue reading Going backwards
A lot of good things have been happening and I have my surgery to thank for that. I feel like it’s been a month, if not more, since my surgery when it has only been three weeks. The last three weeks has really been a blessing considering everything that I have gone through. The first week I was home, my mom stayed with me and … Continue reading Better late than never
Being in recovery mode for the past few weeks and have nothing to do but binge watch TV show and think endlessly about everything. The one thing that has been running around in my mind is that certain people become a part of your life and then at some point that comes to an end. When I was little, I grew up with my cousins. … Continue reading Phases of life
Valentines weekend, I was sitting on my couch Sunday evening and I get a call or text from my dad saying that my grandma was in the hospital and she had a stroke. Shortly after, I got a call from my sister saying she was on her way to the hospital and that my grandma didn’t have a lot of time left. I jumped off … Continue reading I Love you Lola
Things have been going so well these days. My medication is doing what it’s supposed to be doing. I’m enjoying my life and doing the things that I want to do that I forget that I have this mental illness. The only thing that reminds me of it is when I have to take medication twice a day, other than that, I’m as free as … Continue reading Sometimes I forget
This is a really outdated post but I wasn’t in the best condition when it happened so I’m going to write about it now… I always heard about this event called the RiSE Festival and had been wanting to go for years. You basically light giant lanterns and release them into the open air. Well I finally got information and eventually got tickets and friends … Continue reading RiSE Festival 2016
So I have to catch up on writing about my mini adventures that I go on around the city and I think I started with this one… I think… Anyway, I constantly look for places to hike or explore and I have a website that I go to that lists odd and out of the ordinary places. The first one I went to was Murphy … Continue reading Mini Adventure: Murphy Ranch
The Odd Clumsy Girl Stories 