merry post christmas and happy early new year everyone! let me start by addressing my holiday hiatus. i haven’t posted the last couple weekends because i’ve been too busy, as they say, living life…cliche i know hahaha. but really, i had all sorts of holiday ideas planned to blog about the last couple saturdays but i just didn’t have time because i was doing holiday things and honestly it just didn’t feel right rushing to write something just to post. my intention when i started this blog was for it to be fun and relaxing, without the pressure of “have to” and “should” because then it just feels like work.
i had fully intended to write about my cute af christmas decorations and all my new holiday candles from bath and body works. i very well still might do a candles post because candles are life. but in any case, i quickly and frantically want to discuss feeling like december, and this year in general, flew by so fast, and why i feel like i’m in an alternate dimension filled with existential crises during the period after christmas and before new year. here are a couple memes to illustrate this better:
how did this year go by so fast???!?!! i feel like the last few months especially flew by. it was like i started decorating for christmas the day after thanksgiving and then next thing i knew christmas was over. time flies when you’re watching every single hallmark christmas movie wrapped in a blanket burrito on the couch lololol. so anyway, i kind of feel like i have no idea what i’m doing with my life right now, which isn’t actually true so where does that feeling come from?! anyone please feel free to let me know.
i had an amazing december/christmas filled with family and friends. i spent lots of time with my bffs (as shown in pic below at lincoln park zoo lights, juice box wine not pictured). it was my first christmas sans relationship in like 7 years which felt so f*cking good and liberating. i drank a christmas af hipster af drink out of glass/mug/thing that looks like santa’s ass (also shown below). i went to the christkindlmarket on christmas eve which was so packed it felt like lollapalooza at the daley plaza. i had mouth-watering steak and $60 red wine at RPM (no guiliana rancic sightings unfortuantely). and finally, on christmas, my sister and i made cranberry mimosas (life is full of possibilities when you figure out how to rim a champagne flute with sugar) because you can’t go wrong with mimosas right?!
those were just some of the things that made this month/holiday season awesome. i’m going to wrap this up by saying it’s been an amazing year, but it’s also been one of my toughest. i’m sure many of y’all can relate. i want to thank my family and bffs and puppy niece for all of their love and support. i plan to take some time to reflect on how i’ve grown and what i’ve learned so that i can start fresh and maybe, JUST MAYBE, get my life together next week. happy 2019!
