Lately, I have been doing a lot of research into furthering my education through self-education. I plan on attending college as soon as possible, and due to gaps in my formal education, I would like to better prepare myself. Plus I’m a firm believer in “you can never be overdressed or overeducated.” So here is the loose curriculum I’ve created so far. (It may be a little far-fetched, but this will be an ongoing project.)
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Of all the books listed on my fall reading list, I was most excited to read this novel, and trust me, I am not disappointed. Fall in love with Blue, Ronan, Gansey and Adam, just as I have.
“An unlikely group stumbles across ancient magic in Virginia: Blue, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, who has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. Gansey, who seeks the Welsh magic he believes saved his life. Adam, who searches for a way out of the circumstances he was born into. Ronan, who seeks to recover the magic of his childhood.” (Read the first chapter here!)
The Raven Boys
If you’re like me, you’re obsessed with creating goals for yourself (even if you never actually achieve them). This method of goal keeping is supposed to make it easier to reach your goals, so this is a list of 101 things I would like to accomplish in the next 2.75 years, or 1,001 days. Please feel free join me, and create your own list! 🙂
Start date: September 11, 2017
End date: June 8, 2020
Creative {1-16}
Finance {17-23}
Health {24-33}
Learn {34-59}
Personal {60-76}
Relationships {77-82}
Spiritual {83-92}
Travel {91-101}
Please note: this post is written about mental illness. This is a personal account and is in no way glorifying mental illness or drug abuse.
Growing up a heroin addict’s sister is growing up in fear that one morning you’re going to wake up an only child. It’s the automatic twinge of fear you feel when your mom receives a call late at night or the doorbell rings. It’s the panic when you knock at her door and there is no answer, or checking her breathing late at night when she’s unresponsive. It’s being young and having friends that aren’t allowed to come over, because their parents know that the cops frequent your house.
It’s the same story you hear all the time: one child grows up in the shadows while the other requires all the attention. Things don’t happen this way because they’re meant to, it’s just the way it usually goes. Growing up with an addict as a sibling, you don’t want the attention- it’s usually just leftover anger, anyway. So you learn to live in the background. You are a wallflower who doesn’t need attention, because as you learn from your sibling, attention only means trouble.
It’s not like my sister was born doing drugs, no, she was born craving them; craving the escape, the high, the mischief. She never knew what she ached for, just that she ached. She can smell trouble from miles away, though she’s usually the one making it. My mom always said, “we could move her to Alaska, but she’d still find the one eskimo smoking pot in his igloo.”
They think of you as the angel, never pausing to see how her illness has affected you, too. They expect more from you, because they will never be able to see that you and her are so alike. That you ache. That some days you can’t look truth in the face, that somedays you cant look at yourself in the mirror.
Heroin destroyed my sister, and it destroyed the rest of us, too.
Here is to putting ourselves back together.
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Most years, I am sad about summer coming to an end and fall swiftly approaching. Instead of slipping into my annual depression, I have decided to choose activities that will bring light into my quickly darkening days. Throughout the fall, I will be updating this bucket list, and sharing my experiences as I work through it. Please join me and share your own ideas or experiences!
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As the days grow shorter and the weather cooler, it is always a must to cuddle up with a good spooky fall themed book. Here is my fall to-read list. I will be posting reviews as I read through the list, please feel free to leave feedback or book recommendations!
As this is a personal development blog, I will often be posting different goals and challenges. Due to numerous health reasons, I am starting out as quite the weakling; for this reason I am not setting time-frames. This post will be consistently edited as I work through achieving my goals, and adding new ones. I would love to hear any different ideas or suggestions for a beginner in the fitness world.
Do you ever feel the urge to do everything at once so strongly that instead you do nothing? You want to conquer the world and achieve greatness but end up sitting on the couch watching Netflix. Yeah, I’m one of those people: an overachiever at heart but a sack of potatoes in reality.
So this is my transformation blog. The “new year, new me” blog. I will write about how I got off my butt and did chores for the first time in my life, finding creativity and inspiration in everyday life, finding passions and becoming me.
To me, this blog represents change, and hopefully will help to change the lives of others.
Musings of a shy girl 