and now for some random updates...
i'm currently not speaking to my submissive.
(if you're new here, i also moonlight as a dominatrix. i'm multitalented like that.)
he was supposed to fund one of my little business ideas and instead managed to say something so remarkably stupid that i haven't spoken to him since.
i haven't yet decided whether i'm going to allow him to earn his way back into my good graces...
…or whether it's finally time to stop entertaining men who simply don't have the capacity to contribute at the level i'm trying to build.
it looks like this is going to be a healing girl european summer rather than the luxury girl european summer i had imagined.
let me make this clear: i am not thrilled about this.
i want to spend my days eating outside at trendy restaurants and cafes, wandering through summer exhibitions and pop-ups, shopping ALL of the summer sales all while attempting to plan a quick day trip to another city.
instead, i'm finally having to admit something to myself.
for the last several years, i've been so focused on reaching the lifestyle that i never stopped to notice just how much caregiving had taken out of me.
i just thought i could outrun it.
i thought if i could just make it to the lifestyle i wanted, everything else would finally fall into place.
instead, i would spend every trip battling digestion issues and anxiety while carrying a nervous system that's been living in survival mode for years.
i wasn't creating a soft life.
i was simply putting burnout on top of burnout.
so it looks like this summer isn't going to begin with my ysl shoes after all. 😫
it will probably begin with sleep.
as i try to teach a body that's been living in fight or flight that it's safe...
...and that not everything is an emergency.
not even close to the european summer i've been dreaming about...
...but it may be the one i need.
oh, and i finally did the thing that i've been threatening to do for years.
some of you have probably heard me talk about it at least three different times by now. 😅
if it survives, i already have plans for what I'd like to turn this blog into.
you'll know exactly where to find me.