15 Guaranteed Things That Will Happen In your 20’s- Thought Catalog

1. Your social circle will narrow. In college, you’ll have lots of acquaintances and party friends but that will dissipate over time. Eventually, you’ll find yourself unable to spark up new friendships simply because you don’t have the time or desire. Now you’ll only make a new friend and let them into your life if you’re absolutely obsessed with them.

2. You’ll seriously consider going to grad school. You’ll call your mom up in a panic one day and explain that you’ve always enjoyed something like psychology and, well, maybe it’s time to start entertaining the idea of, um, being a therapist. Mom? Stop sighing!

3. You will hate your job at some point, even if it’s better than 99% of your other friends’ jobs. You will be overworked and underpaid presumably until you’re 40. Then, you’ll suddenly be overpaid and not do much of anything. Right? That’s how it works?

4. Someone will betray your trust — a friend or a lover — and it will change the way you view people forever.

5. You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.

6. You will sleep with people who you genuinely like, have a great time with, but never want to date. Ever.

7. After learning your age, someone will say to you, “Wow, you’re so young!” and occasionally you’ll believe them.

8. You’ll miss certain days before they even end.

9. You’ll spend an entire day hungover in bed and nothing will make you feel more like a fucking idiot. Not even taxes or putting the fitted sheet on your bed.

10. You’ll read a book that will change your life. People say that all the time, especially your grandma and your mom and your professors in college, and it always made you roll your eyes but now you get it. Life is changed. You are this book’s bitch. You fell in love with it in the same way you fell in love with someone in high school: blindly and all-consuming. I’m talking about the book that became the lens from which you chose to see the world. You were just waiting for something to come along and explain to you how the world works, to make it all easier for you. and it came. You will remember this  book more vividly than some of the people you dated for three months in college.

11. You’ll meet people who are vultures, who were literally sent to this world just to annoy you, to work half as hard and somehow become more successful. They’re networking leeches. Don’t take their business card! Save yourself!

12. Some days you will wake up and be astounded by how ugly you are. People are always saying things like, “OMG, I look like shit right now!” but they don’t. You’re the one who looks like shit (truly!) so shut up everyone else!

13. That being said, there’ll be some days when you look in the mirror and think to yourself, “Okay, I’d fuck me.” That’s good. It’s healthy to want to fuck yourself.

14. The Internet will hurt your feelings. You will find out information you wish you never knew and maybe you’ll go so far as to even cry! Imagine that: a machine you spent over a grand on is making you weep. Screw the Internet.

15. You will understand that the biggest battle you fight in your twenties is the one you’re in with yourself. The most important thing you can learn in this decade is how to love yourself. Without that knowledge, your life will always be a little bit terrible. You will always be dating someone who’s a little bit rotten and you’ll always be working a job that sucks. It affects everything so be sure to make yourself a priority.  Work on liking yourself before working on getting someone else to like you.

25 things I’ve Learned In My 20’s by Thought Catalog

1. You can’t date a jerk and expect to turn them into a good person. Jerks are fully committed to being unpleasant. Those brief moments of tenderness they give you are designed to trip you up and give you false hope. It’s best to stay away altogether.
2. The rumors are true: your metabolism does slow down as you get older! That means if you’re still eating whatever you want, there’s a good chance you’ll start to gain an awkward amount of weight. It won’t be too drastic but your clothes will start to hang differently on your body and you’ll feel an overall feeling of unattractiveness. Start to be conscious of what you eat and strive to live a healthier lifestyle if you want to get your teen body back. (Let’s be real though, that might not ever come back.)
3. You’re going to lose touch with a lot of your friends. With some people, it will be expected but with others it will feel like a punch to the stomach. No friendship is truly safe in your twenties. You’re undergoing so many personal and professional changes that there’s bound to be some casualties along the way. Don’t worry though. You’ll end up with the ones that matter. If someone’s no longer in your life, it’s for a reason.
4. You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.
5. You’ll question every decision you make and never feel completely certain that you made the right choice. It’s pointless to wonder though. You’re here now so you might as well make it be the right decision.
6. You’re going to give your heart to a few people who don’t deserve it. Then, one day you’ll come to your senses and ask them to give it back.
7. You’ll see your parents get older. You’ll come home during Christmas break and see new lines developing on their faces. One day it’ll just hit you that your parents are old and going to die. There’s nothing you can do about it, besides treat them with kindness and visit as much as your budget permits.
8. You’ll have a boss who makes you feel like you’re nothing. It doesn’t have to be in a Devil Wears Prada way. The cruelty can be much more subtle. Don’t let them get to you though. They have no idea who the hell you really are and you’re probably going to have their job someday so…
9. Doing drugs is fun until it’s not, until it starts affecting your life in negative ways and leaves you feeling guilty and wrecked. If that happens, you should stop doing them.
10. You’re going to puke in public. It’s fine. No one cares. Just puke.
11. You’ll know how to make twenty dollars last an entire week because you spent almost all of your paycheck on groceries at Whole Foods and drunk cab rides. This lesson in frugality will serve you well.
12. You’re going to betray your convictions. You’re going to feel shame. You’re going to continue to put yourself in situations that aren’t good for you. And then, slowly but surely, it will become less frequent. It might not ever go away completely but it won’t be as bad. In the meantime, stop shame spiraling about it. It gets you nowhere.
13. Loving yourself is hard. Hating yourself is harder.
14. You’re going to hook up with someone who you would never touch in the daylight sober. Just don’t freak out too much about it. Consider it to be your good deed for the day.
15. You’re going to have people in your life who are toxic. They may say that they love you, they may say that they have your back, but they don’t. Get rid of them.
16. You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.
17. You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.
18. You’ll enter your twenties as a fashion disaster and (hopefully) leave them looking fantastic. If you don’t know how to put yourself together by then, I really don’t know what to tell you.
19. You’ll realize that the Internet can be a cruel son of a bitch but, you know, www.whatever.com.
20. So much of what you think matters doesn’t actually matter at all. It’s kind of rude. Like, thanks for making me believe in things that are ultimately so inconsequential, you jerk.
21.  You’ll treat someone terribly. Whether it to be a lover or your friend, there’ll be someone whose feelings you take for granted. We focus too much on whether or not someone is hurting us. The reality is that we might actually be the one who’s hurting someone.
22. Doing “grown-up things” doesn’t make you a grown up. Shopping for housewares, buying a plant, embracing domesticity — these things don’t create maturity. If you’re still a baby who hasn’t figured things out, you’ll remain a baby, no matter how many times you pay your rent on time.
23. Don’t force yourself into loving anyone. If it’s not working in the beginning, it’s probably not going to work ever.
24. You are so lucky to have everything that you have. Stop crying about an unreturned text message and get some perspective.
25. Don’t go too long without having sex. Ever.

I feel like poo.

Fever, sweating, freezing, coughing, aching, runny nose, headache, dizzy. Why, Saturday? Why?!

Bloggggggy

Tomorrow is Friday, yaaaay!

Ok, I did it…

I ate Nutella straight from the jar and put peanut butter on top! Alright, I’m also skipping my workout to socialize tonight. This vacation mode i’ve been in for the past two months needs to stop. Sort of. 

October

Today I woke up early and got coffee and a wax, saw my little Taylor bug, got my hair done, took Jojo bean and Taylor bug to get fro yo and now I get to see my main queeze. Good day? Good day :)

By the way, Jordan doesn’t like candy, so she didn’t eat her frozen yogurt but Taylor on the other hand got cookies and cream fro yo with oreos, sprinkles, m&m’s, and gummy worms….what a cookie monster.

Saturday, what a day, what a pretty little day.

I love Saturday!!! It’s sunny outside too! This is great. I’m just taking much needed time to enjoy my morning coffee, in my favorite mug. I’ve been using this mug since December(don’t worry, I wash it daily), Kristin got it for me when we worked at Penterra together. Anyway, I am meeting Gwen and Carly at H&M in a little bit….I should probably get ready soon actually. I cried last night, from being tired I think. There really was no reason but then I had dreams all night of me crying. I’ve also seen a lot of news stories about people getting beat up in Seattle at random. This contributed to a few dreams where my loved ones were getting beat up, so sad and scary! The world is crazy.

I’m ending my post with some T-Swift lyrics because I really love this song right now, “Begin Again”.

And you throw your head back laughing, Like a little kid
I think it’s strange that you think I’m funny cause,He never did
I’ve been spending the last 8 months, thinking all love ever does
Is break and burn and end but on a Wednesday in a cafe, I watched it begin again. 

WEIRD.

Weird that I haven’t blogged in such a long time! I forgot I even had a blog…but alas, I do. I am currently in someone’s home, listening to their baby make all sorts of crazy noises from his crib even though he is supposed to be asleep! The reason for this is that I nanny for a living, currently, not indefinitely. Life after graduation has not been what I expected. About a week before I graduated I was offered a job at CareerStaff Rx. I was the ops coordinator and let me tell you, I hated it. I loved the people, they were great, friendly, but sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day doing payroll, spreadsheets and other meticulous work was not my passion. I would go to work at 8, get off at 5, come home to work out and pretty much cry the rest of the night because I was not expecting to be in that place after graduation. I wanted to love my job! It has never been in my nature to quit a job, I had never even considered quitting Penterra until that time because I thought that is what you’re supposed to do when you graduate, get a better paying, grown-up job. NOPE. You’re not. You are supposed to figure out what you love to do and do it! If you’re not loving what you’re doing at least a little bit, you’re a moron and I feel bad for you son! So anyway, I started there in March of this year (2012). I wanted to quit after the first week but I was like uh, no, I need money and I just started, who am I! I tried it out for 6 months and every week I was applying for other positions. Finally, I joined care.com and got a nanny job! I gave my resignation July 3rd and it was SUPER awkward. Maybe I’m just awkward, I don’t know, but regardless, I quit. My nanny job ending up falling through so I worked there for about another month until I found another one and everything worked out according to the way God planned it, not the way I planned it. I went to Chelan, and Vegas, and celebrated 2 years August 12th with Shawn and now I’m here in Kirkland enjoying the sunshine streaming through the window! I can’t believe it’s this nice out in October! I can’t wait for things to come but I am definitely appreciating the present. Pictures from my summer!