#6 selfies

A hike in the snow in January

A train ride in March. Read this fun and fascinating book called 'The Last Spring of the Dinosaurs' by awesome paleontologist Melanie During (also had the pleasure of attending a lecture of hers this year)

It's giving 'Girl Who Is Going To Be Okay', but in actuality the sun was shining in my eyes during this hike in April 🤣

More dinosaur shenanigans in a Hannover museum in October 🦖

My solo album cover 😝 Made during a trip to Scotland in October

And lastly, from that same trip, the kind of big dick energy that I would like to exude more often 😎😂

Started this year pretty depressed. Luckily I received help and am definitely mentally in a better place at the moment. Will continue seeing my autism life coach for at least 10 more months, because my self-esteem is still extremely low and impacts everything else.

Healthwise I finally had bowel resection surgery this year! 🙌 I really hope I'll be able to get by without any Crohn's medication for a few years at least 🙏 They told me I'll be getting an endoscopy in January, so we'll see.

(I also sought help for my excessive hair loss, and my scalp has since improved. Hopefully my hair will become a bit more full again 🥺)

And I've been thinking about dipping my toes back into fandom servers on Discord. Been avoiding it because my social anxiety is pretty severe. But I also miss it 🥺

6 selfies from 2022!!

@justastheyplayoursong tagged me for 6 Selfies from 2022 🥰 I think these sum me up pretty well 💜

I took this at new years so it’s 2022 ish. I don’t always smile well for pictures and don’t take selfies very often. No filter obviously but that’s because I’ve started a sort of “philosophy” for my selfies. There were a few years after college where I didn’t take any pictures of myself and everyone was sad that that didn’t have many pictures of me from that time so now I try to snap a selfie when I think of it no matter what. Usually no prep, doesn’t matter if I’m “photo ready”, no filters (it’s good to see what real human skin looks like, and try my best to smile genuinely (big or small).

Ok so I’m sharing this selfie with my new kitten (at the time) Torin who I got in January. He’s still an undercover snuggle bug.

Happy to have my short hair back! I call it my “Leo” hair. I call my long hair “Virgo” hair because I was born in a cusp and have two horoscopes (none of its real so I just play around with the two 😂 ♌️ ♍️)

Finally got to go to the beach with a bunch of friends. We hadn’t be able to do that (during good weather) since Covid happened. I was feeling good, and happy, and fulfilled and I think it showed up in my smile. Glad I caught it as proof.

This is one is just funny 😆. Obviously I can take a good picture and I did but while I was taking selfies the sun was killing me eyes and decided to capture the moment. Ow! My friends and I all laugh at this one. I’m still waiting on an opportunity to use it as a meme with them.

And THESE, I took just now for this meme. I need to cut my hair again and I’m sporting a cute, little, heart-shaped ♥️ acne patch on my upper lip. Yay human skin and eye bags!