I used to love my birthday growing up. Mainly because it was time for family to come together and celebrate and plus the closer to my birthday, the closer it was to being summer time. Take my 3rd year in college, my birthday came at the same time as my finals so I basically had an extended weekend to celebrate. Now my birthdays look a little different and feel a bit wacky. 

     Although this year, I got to celebrate in the happiest place on Earth with one of my oldest best friends and my mom, I am still well aware my numbers creeping up in age..With that being said, I do want to take the time to think about what I want to accomplish this 27th turn around the sun. 

     "I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can'."

     With the end of 2021 finally passed and as we enter our third year of a global pandemic, I made a self conscious decision to decide on what my 2022 resolutions would be early. I have been feeling in a slump the 2nd half of the year, and whether that was because of my surgery and not being 100% myself, or the never ending changes going on in our world, I knew I wanted to give 2022 the year to beat. One of those resolutions: create more. So here I am and here are my 2022 Resolutions.

     The title pretty much gives it away but on June 08, 2021 I had surgery for the first time ever. Mind you, I have had my wisdom teeth taken out but the top two (which were the only ones they could take out), just had to be pulled out so all they gave me was some numbing meds and pulled them out.
      This surgery was for something a bit more drastic and bigger. Anyone who has known me for a while knows soccer has always been a passion I chased after. I played it from the age of 4 up until my sophomore year of high school. 

      It’s taken me 2 years to write this blog post because mentally, I wasn’t in a good place to write this. Now, I have nothing to hide. It has been mentioned several times I worked for two local newspapers in my hometown, but back in November 2018, I broke the news I was no longer employed with them and I was employed somewhere else. I mentioned briefly about how I was feeling while working there but it wasn’t until I was away from the newsroom I had a chance to fully realize what happened to me and what I went through.
     A toxic work environment is described as a workplace that is marked by significant drama and infighting, where personal battles often harm productivity. 
     It took some time for me to realize for 2 years I worked in a toxic environment. The place where I got to do what I absolutely loved ended up being the worst placed for me. 

     There is one day left in 2019. One day to look back on not only the year past, but the past 10 years as the decade comes to a close. Now I know I have not been active here this year but this little place still holds a special place in my heart. Even more so as this is my FIFTH YEAR of truly being a content creator. It is crazy to think back on it and how I came about to creating my personal little brand.

     I can remember sitting in front of my computer and thinking “You know, maybe I can do this…” I can remember every aspect of creating this little space and I have loved every minute of it. I have grown as a person and as a creator through it.

      Nevertheless, she persisted...

    I've been blessed that throughout my life I have been given amazing female role models and inspirations. If I had the time and space, I would write something for each woman who helped mold and shape me into who I am today. My love and gratitude have no bounds for them. But today, on International Women's Day, I did want to highlight and thank 4 women who have helped me along the path I walk today as a woman. 

     When you are asked as a little kid "What are you scared of?" Most kids answer "Spiders, the dark, ghosts, the boogey man, clowns," etc. As you get older and learn that spiders are more scared of us, the boogey man is not real and clowns are just people in make-up, those answers change to more...realistic answers. 

     When adults are asked "What scares you?," sometimes they answer "nothing." Or "I'm not a kid anymore, what is there to be scared of?" But most likely, everyone who answers that they are scared of nothing, is probably scared of something bigger. 

     I can list probably five things that scare me. But the biggest thing I am scared of?