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Especially after sitting down over the last couple of weeks to put this together once again, I think I can safely say that 2024 was one of the most fun years yet. Some big changes (not a move!) and a lot that stayed the same. Here's my annual blog post:

2022 was an incredible year...and it was a lot of fun to re-live a ton of those memories. My annual year in review is here!

What a freaking year - a lot of great things happened, a lot of goals accomplished, and a ton of fun had.

Another year behind us, and another looming very closely in front of us — for me, 2021 was a year of accomplishing some big goals, and also a year of falling short on a few long-term goals. There were a lot of unexpected wonderful things, and a lot of stress, but thankfully I’m ending 2021 much happier than I began it. Lucy and I are both healthy, and I made it home for Christmas (with a plus…

Year In Review: 2020

Um, wow. Hi. I can’t believe it’s been four years since I sat down to try and do one of these year-in-reviews. I only have one excuse, really, and that’s that 2017 was such a brutal year for so many reasons…and since then, I lost my juju to not only keep up the blog, but also the year-in-reviews. Not that 2020 hasn’t been brutal. It absolutely has. But in such a different way, and for so many…

I’m 24 and I want a Hysterectomy

…is not something you see every day, but is something I have seriously been thinking about every day, lately. And to be fair, let’s preface this whole thing with clarifying I don’t exactly want a hysterectomy…but it’s seeming to be a far better option than any of the alternatives.

Last year (2018), I was diagnosed with Endometriosis. I had never even heard of this condition until I was diagnosed…