Greetings from Portland, Maine! I know it has been a while since I updated this thing, but there's no time like the present, am I right? And the present I'm living in right now is 12-degree weather a slipping on ice patches in the morning. Needless to say, I don't have as active of a …
What's more exciting than having your best friend come visit? Having them visit on their birthday! To be fair, this is the second time this year one of my blonde best friends has celebrated their birthday here. Since Katie is super old now (just seeing if you'll read this :P), we decided to have a chill …
"Do no harm, but take no shit." Back in graduate school, one of my mentors introduced me to this quote. Maybe it's the Chreaster (Christmas/Easter) Catholic in me, but I'm always surprised when I hear people in power/charge swear, so I was initially taken aback. I was also puzzled because I'd never heard the phrase before, …
Okay, so this past month hasn't been mad in the sense that there's been so much to do and so little time. It has driven me mad though since I spent about half of it sick. I'm very ready for this month to be over. It has felt like the longest stretch of time so …
I'm pretty sure I blinked and February was over. I know it's the shortest month and everything, but it was quick and packed full of events. Here's a quickish updates and some photos to recap! Girls in Politics After a relatively dreary week, I opened my email up one day to a surprise opportunity--Girl in …
I've officially been a Golden State gal for a year. To say time has flown by would be an understatement. Booking a one-way ticket to California is one of the best decisions I've made so far in my life. It helped me transition from a college student, floating around into a semi-functioning adult. With the …
I'd like to think that I'm a happy, friendly, and mostly positive individual. Of course, I have my off days. Doesn't everyone? In my day-to-day life, I'm usually pretty upbeat but focused on my tasks and goals. Whether it's for work or pleasure I read often, which naturally requires concentration. If I'm studying a sign, …
While I'm fortunate enough to be living with one of my roommate's from college (Kelsey), one of my other former roommate/teammate/and best friend, Sòlene, lives all the way in France, so I don't see her as often. In fact, the last time I saw her was back in May of 2017 I blogged about it, …
And the saga continues. Here's the September briefing. What I did: Labor Day Weekend September kicked off with a packed Labor Day weekend showing my grandparents My grandparents had been traveling for a couple months across country. They started in Florida, hit up a bunch of different cities, stopped to visit my cousin in Alaska, and …
KIDDING! I'm still here, my party people! Although, I'm not sure this is the same me. Could I really be blogging again already? Maybe this new age also flipped over a new leaf. We were supposed to hit Las Vegas, but some car issues scratched that long drive, so we opted for Laguna Beach instead. …
Chasing Spain 