Where I’ve Been
Hi. Wow, It’s been a minute, huh? Well, more than a minute. Approximately 2 months since my last long-form post. I'm not going to lie, I've missed it a lot. This blog has been an outlet for me throughout the spring and summer, and without it, I noticed myself suffering immensely. I now understand that if I don't have an outlet, I struggle with my mental health much more. I've lived without a proper outlet for so long, that I think I just grew used to the numbness. But now that I have lived with one, and I feel so much more in touch with myself, I can never go without it again. At first, I didn't think it was a big deal that I was neglecting the blog. I was busy, after all. I worked the last two weeks of my job, started school again, joined a scholarship program, and was student teaching twice a week. I was animal-sitting on the weekends, in the process of car shopping, and planning a trip to visit my partner, which happe...