Category: life
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Real Talk – ACOMAF, Healing, and Me – *spoilers*
Bookish besties, this is the most personal post I’ve made yet. Grab a drink and some snacks because we’re unpacking how your favorite book can become a mirror, reflecting back the parts of yourself you thought you lost, while teaching you about endings, rebuilding, unexpected friendships, and healing. I’m rereading and annotating A Court of…
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A Day in the Life of A 2nd Grade Paraprofessional (Vol. 2)
Hey besties!!! So this happened earlier in the month and I’m still tired. Working with second graders means everyday already has the potential to go off the rails for reasons that make absolutely no sense. Somebody’s crying because someone looked at them. Somebody else is lying badly. Somebody is singing a song that is entirely…
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March Wrap Up + April Reset
Heyy bookish besties! It’s been a while! Let’s just say March was…a month. Not in the cute “it’s spring” way either. More in the “why is my basement flooded, why are these 2nd graders bouncing off of the walls…literally, and why has my reading slump followed me into yet another month like a clingy ex”…
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Real Talk – When Life Gives You Lemons…
Dear Bookish Besties, …sometimes life doesn’t hand you the lemons gently. Sometimes the lemons get yeeted through your front door by a catapult and they’re all shouting, “SURPRISE!” Let’s review the chaos, shall we? Okay, but like on the real? I need to talk about those diaries for a second. These were not random notebooks.…
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February Wrap-Up: Reading Slumps, Tears, and Bridgerton Season 4
February is supposed to be a short month, but in all honesty? It felt like 47 business days. Let’s unpack. 📚 WHAT I READ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel This book held me hostage. Not in a bad way. In a “you WILL sit here and contemplate art, survival, and the fragility of…
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Soft Love, Soft Life: How I’m Entering My Soft Girl Chaos Era This February
Besties…February has arrived (literally a week ago), and she did not tiptoe in. She kicked the door open wearing a pink satin robe, holding a mug of chamomile tea, whispering, “Be gentle with yourself, babe…and also maybe a little unhinged about it.” So yes. Welcome to my Soft Girl Chaos Era – the era where…
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January Wrap Up – Chaotic Reads, Cinematic Spirals, & Main Character Shenanigans
Welcome back to Stories, Sips, and Shenanigans, where I do my best, fall apart a little, read a few things, binge a few shows, and pretend I’m not already behind on three different life challenges. January came in hot, weird, emotional, and dramatic – basically me in month form. Did I read a lot? No.…
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Late January Check-In: What I’m Drinking, Reading, Watching, and Avoiding Right Now
January feels hella long. Like, aggressively long. Like it started in 2024 and refuses to leave. And now meteorologists are whispering sweet nothings about Armageddon-level snow? I support it. Cancel the plans. If we’re gonna suffer through the longest month known to man, we might as well do it wrapped in blankets with a mug…
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A Day in the Life of a 2nd Grade Paraprofessional (Vol #1)
Let me set the scene for you. It’s early morning. I am armed with coffee, vibes, and the delusional hope that today might be normal. Reader, that hope did not survive the first hour. Being a paraprofessional in a second-grade classroom is like living inside a group chat that never stops talking, never stays on…
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A Letter to Myself at the Start of 2026
Dear Me, We Made It (Somehow???) Look at you. Still here. Still swinging. You walked into 2026 with bruised feelings, a stubborn amount of hope, and very specific playlists about becoming that girl. You didn’t glide into the year with grace. You limped in. You yeehawed in. You dragged yourself across the threshold like “surprise,…
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