The City

I tend to think of myself as structured, type A, sense of urgency, and always slightly stressed person. I'm learning to love myself, but there are many things I truly want to work on and change about myself. For years I have been practicing different coping skills that would hopefully rewire my brain and teach me a different way of being. For example- over the last 3 years I have made a habit of literally choosing the longest line at the grocery store to teach myself to be pa

I don't like when people see me in the middle of a process. It feels embarassing. I prefer displaying finished products. Maybe it is a fear of someone seeing the humanness in me. Maybe it's pride. I don't know. Moving to a new apartment in a new country, I have very few material things to fill my apartment with. I have been looking forward to a house warming party of sorts but thought I needed to wait until I had the apartment fixed up exactly like my Pinterest board before i

I studied French in school for six years. I always wanted to be able to speak it since my family has Cajun French roots. After graduation, I began traveling and learning Spanish, forgetting most of the French I had learned over the years. Seven years later, I decided to take up studying the language again. I was above the moon leading up to my first day, but after half of the class, I was straight up over it. I barely remembered anything from school and felt so frustrated for