Take a Chance, Make a Change...

A little bit about me….

Few things about me. I recently moved into a 2 bedroom apartment. Scratch that, I’m going to be braggadocious for a second. I bought a 2 bedroom apartment all by myself. #GirlBoss I can’t believe I’m using hashtags in my first blog post as if I’m on Netflix’s The Circle talking to a television. I guess this is what it’s like when you live in isolation. You talk to yourself via thoughts.

Which by the way, I’m obsessed with Pop Culture and Reality Television.

I’m the type of friend that’s already seen the latest celeb news whenever it goes around in the group chat. What am I supposed to do? Send a text every time I see something? I’ve self reflected and cannot be that person who is constantly a know-it-all and starting the group text convo. It’s just not me, I’m an introverted extrovert. But it does keep life interesting for me to see what the celebs are up to ASAP.

So turns out I like reading…

Apart from my crippling pop culture obsession, my friends and I recently started a book club. Which is great for me because I’ve fallen back in love with reading this summer. I feel like reading and my dating life have a lot in common, falling in and out of love. That being said, since my first reading fall out, I’ve had 2 resurgences in my lifetime. My love for reading formed in middle school when I found The Twilight Saga. From there, I read my entire way through high school. Seriously, I would eat lunch in the library with my kindle. So safe to say I fell off the reading wagon when I went to college, like every other millennial.

My first reading resurgence was 2.5 years after college when Bridgerton came out on Netflix. I was obsessed and couldn’t put the series down. I was reading 100 pages a day - which is saying something for someone who hasn’t read for fun in years. However in the middle of the 6th book (Francesca Bridgerton), I got my first book hangover. The stories and writing were starting to feel the exact same over and over and over again. I was left uninspired and could not read another page for 8 months.

My second reading resurgence happened with Where the Crawdads Sing a year after my book hangover. I am the biggest Taylor Swift fan so naturally when she was inspired to write a song for a movie based on a book - I had to read it. I read this book on the beaches of Virginia Beach summer of 2022, a week before the movie came out. WOW this was a captivating book. Then I picked up the books for the latest series that had just come out onto Amazon Prime - The Summer I Turned Pretty. I had finished the entire series within 5 days on top of having a full time job. I was hooked on reading and haven’t put a book down since. It’s been 57 days and I’ve read 9 books since. My 2022 reading goal is getting crushed.

If you are ever looking to get into reading, I highly suggest reading something that you are dying to see on screen. I guess this holds true in my life, when Camp Rock came out I begged my parents to take me to the book store to get the book based on the movie. Obviously Camp Rock wasn’t a movie based on a book - it was a movie made into a book. Typical Disney to get that coin. Sure enough, the book was exactly the screenplay. It’s 2008 so naturally I picked up the Twilight Saga next. Which of course turned my reading obsession to every television and movie series of our generation - Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Pretty Little Liars just to name a few.

As of now I’m cured of my book hangover, it only felt right to go back and finished the 6th book of the Bridgerton series but I’ll leave the last 2 books for Netflix to catch up ;)

A little bit about my blog goals…

I’ve noticed in my recent day to day life, I just have way too many thoughts and I need an outlet. Mainly caused by my latest resurgence of reading. I never realized how much reading is like therapy and self reflection.

I’m severely single and have way too much to say to the point I’m annoying my friends with my deep inner thoughts every time I see them. They’re kind, they would never tell me to my face, but I can see it on theirs.

Now I’m bottling up my thoughts which is simply not great for mental health. Especially for someone who is alone with her thoughts now and most of her life. I’ve been inspired to write it all out. Hoping that it will let me wake up a bit lighter and set a new mindset on my life.

On another note, my screen time is at an all time high and it’s only because I watch YouTube Podcasts as work - shockingly NOT because I’m watching too many TikToks. Podcasts are better with video and I’ll stand by that. Here’s my reason, when I’m working and listening to a podcast - my mind is not processing what is flowing through the headphones, it is just comes in through a buzz to drown out the silence. I love thought provoking content and love hearing different perspectives, which only sinks in when I can see them out of the corner of my eye. Ironically, the video playing helps me focus more.

For me, I need to watch them talk - just like I was obsessed with watching Regis and Kelly in between classes in college. Podcasts are the millennial talkshows. Heck, I’m watching the The Morning Toast right now as I’m writing this.

Ok, Here’s my thing with podcasts, I love them don’t get me wrong, but I always feel like my perspective on stories are missing. I find myself saying out loud “you’re wrong”, “Wait no I think this is why”, “But did you consider this?”, etc. wanting them to go into my point of view they haven’t touched on. I just want to be included. 👉🏻👈🏻 Podcasts and content that I’m thinking about throughout my day will definitely be topics of discussion.

My 9-5 job is in Tech, and no not like cool fintech or working in the cloud — I’m in supply chain analytics. The most methodic part of our society. It can be quite riveting. Long story short, I deal with upset users in IT software. Then when I’m in my 5-9 life when something goes wrong on my iPhone Apps and I simply cannot call Steve Jobs to tell him my app problems. I’m reflecting on my day job - its a riveting cycle of life in Corporate America that I just have to express my frustrations.

All I want from an app is to share my thoughts and revisit how I felt about all the books I’m reading. Good Reads is just not cutting it. To clear the air, I’m not an app developer so I will not be developing the bigger better version of Good Reads, however I do have design skills and UX ideas to improve the app. So @GoodReads, call me. Get ready for some dedicated posts for books I’m reading and any other thought provoking content that comes out of it. Because honestly this whole idea of starting a blog came from a book I read.

So here I am taking a chance on getting famous and making a change in my life. Here goes nothing….