Hi everyone!
Since it has been so long so I consistently posted on my blog, I have changed a lot. So I figured that because I am basically a completely different person, combined with the fact that we might have a group of completely different people reading, I could share 25 facts about myself, with you!
1) I have social anxiety. This is probably the most defining fact about me. It's not diagnosed, and people always say not to self diagnose, but I did it anyway 😂 My entire childhood I was extremely shy, like my first grade teacher thought I was a mute shy. It wasn't until I got into high school that I realized that I wasn't just "shy" and that it went way deeper that so I did TONS of research, and from that I determined that I have social anxiety. I'd love to do a more in depth post about this in the future so stay tuned for that!
2) I love dogs! Loving dogs is such a common, trendy thing amongst girls these days but guys, I like really love dogs. I work at a dog daycare as a playroom attendant and I'm pursuing a career in dog grooming! I'm not saying I love dogs more than anyone else in the world, but, I really love dogs.
3) I am 20 years old! I actually just had my "half birthday" a few days ago which means there are only 6 months until I can finally legally drink! Excited would be an understatement.
4) I have 9 piercings. I have 3 lobe piercings on each ear, my cartilage and trigs on my left ear, and my right nostril!
5) I also have a tattoo! I just recently got two tiny paw prints tattooed behind my right ear and I think it's so cute. But to be completely honest, because I can't see it, I often forget it even exists 😂
6) I love going to concerts for extremely main stream artists! Haha, that was a jab at myself because I seriously listen to the most basic, pop, white girl music but hey, you like what you like! So far I have seen: One Direction, Melanie Martinez, Troye Sivan, Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Niall Horan, and I have tickets to see Shawn Mendes again next summer!
7) Shawn Mendes is the love of my life. I think he is the cutest, sweetest guy and I really wish he wasn't famous and lived in my hometown so that I'd actually have a chance with him.
8) I have a leopard gecko and her name is Izzy! I got her for my birthday a couple years ago and she is the sweetest thing. However, she requires live insects to eat and it is the biggest pain in the ass. I'm not scared of bugs, so it isn't that. But they are expensive and such a pain to care for! They have to be fed fruits and vegetables and 9 times out of 10 I forget to change it and end up with a ton of mold. Plus, I have to have them shipped to me and they often come half or all dead which is infuriating. But I do love Izzy.
9) I am a loyal Starbucks customer. When I started my first semester of college, I had a 2 hour break between my classes so I started going to the Starbucks down the street to do homework during that break. Well, here we are 3 years later and I am a regular at that Starbucks. I walk in and the baristas are all "hey Kylie! The usual?" and always talk to me and catch up on my life. It's great. I don't even go to school anymore but the Starbucks is also conveniently close to my job so, I spend too much money there.
10) I am the oldest of 4! I have an 18 year old sister named Leanna, a 16 year old sister named Katelyn, and a 15 year old brother named TJ.
11) I really enjoy binge watching a good Netflix series. My favorites right now are Greys Anatomy, Jane the Virgin, and Gossip Girl!
12) I make YouTube videos! Katelyn and I started a channel 5 years ago and although it's been slow growing, we have so much fun making and uploading videos! youtube.com/katelynandkylie
13) I love pasta. It's my guilty pleasure. Give me any type of pasta and I'll eat it, in fact, I'll eat too much of it.
14) I do this thing where I get really interested in a specific thing and then do SO much research on it and learn EVERYTHING about it. I know so many fun facts about many topics such as Walt Disney World, Kings Dominion, Big Brother, and Full House!
15) My least favorite, physical part of myself is my hair. Being half black, I have SUPER curly hair. It's also super frizzy. Over the last few months I've tried to embrace my natural hair but I often straighten it because it's such a pain and I don't even enjoy the way it looks.
16) I love planning! I have an Erin Condren vertical life planner and I have so much fun buying planner stickers on Etsy and making the cutest spreads.
17) Besides Izzy, I also have a Betta Fish, and 3 dogs: Minnie the Lab mix, Piper the Jack Russell Corgi, and Daisy the Bichon.
18) I danced for 16 years! I wasn't competitive or serious at all but I did enjoy it a lot!
19) I fear sadness. I hate being sad so much that I literally fear it. I dread and worry about my family members and friends dying all the time because I don't want to deal with the sadness I will feel when it happens. I wasn't always this way, but last year when I ended my relationship with my boyfriend of 3 and a half years I was just so sad and it sucked so much and now I dread it ever happening again.
20) I am not good with money. I have the "I'll get paid again" mindset and it is so bad. I used to be so good at saving my money but I just don't know what happened 😂
21) My favorite dessert is brownies and cheesecake!
22) I hate people who worry so much about what others are doing and just judgmental people in general. It's obnoxious.
23) I used to be more of a "tomboy" but now I am definitely more girly. I love getting my nails done, wearing makeup, having my hair done all cute. Definitely more of a girly girl now 😂
24) I hate winter so much. It is so freaking cold for no reason. The only upside to winter is Christmas but after that I'm over it. I also hate how dark it is all day! We get sun for like 30 minutes and the rest of the day is just dark. I hate it.
25) To finish this up, we're going to go with a really simple fact because I am completely out of facts 😂 my favorite color is turquoise!
So I hope you guys enjoyed this and got to learn a little bit more about me!
Talk to you soon,
Kylie
Friday, October 5, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
The Makel Family Moving Saga Part 4 (The Final Part)
If you haven't read the first 3 parts of this saga I suggest you go do that now!
Hey guys!
We're back with part 4 of this moving saga and as I'm typing this my leopard gecko is staring deep into my soul and creeping me out. But anyway, lets continue...
So we put our house back up on the market for the 3rd time, and unlike the first two times, we didn't have any quick luck with selling our house. Between moving season starting to wind down, and also the fact that anybody who had been watching the market saw our house be put up and taken down 3 times now, it was hard to get somebody to put an offer on the house. After a couple of weeks we FINALLY got an offer, although we really didn't talk about it or celebrate it much because every time we had gotten excited about something in the last couple of months everything came crashing down.
So my parents accepted the offer and we went under contract and that was that. We decided as a family that we weren't really going to look into buying another house until we were pretty much in the clear with selling this house. That way, if these buyers also backed out at last minute, at least we weren't going to lose another house that we wanted to buy.
And like I said, moving season was really starting to wind down and the already pretty small market in B City was becoming incredibly smaller. There were 3 houses on the market that fit the majority of our criteria but after my parents went to look at them, we found that something was wrong with each one and none of them were the house we wanted.
Finally, about two weeks out from our closing down on our house in M Town, a house came on the market in B City that fit our criteria and we were excited to see. We were worried that the house would be too small but after seeing it in person we all fell in love. It had 4 bedrooms upstairs, plus a 5th bedroom in the basement. The master bedroom was absolutely stunning and the kitchen was beautiful as well. Plus it had a very nice sized, fenced in backyard and it was a brick exterior which is something that I personally really enjoy.
We all loved the house, so my parents put an offer on it.
A couple days later we rented a moving truck to move any furniture we had left in our M Town house out of it so that the buyers would be able to move in. Later that day, we got the news that our offer had been accepted on the B City house!
With only about a week and a half until closing on the M Town house and our offer being accepted on the B City house, we thought nothing could go wrong at this point and we were so excited because after months of agony we were finally, officially, moving! Or so we thought.
Of course, we thought wrong.
The next morning, I was laying in bed when my mom came in my room crying. She had lost her job.
My mom worked for the same company for 9 years and just last year, her bosses sold the company to a bigger, British company. Since then, my mom and her coworkers have been worried that they would be let go but a year had come and gone and they all still seemed to be secure in their jobs. Unfortunately, the new company decided to let all 4 of them go. Because my mom was no longer bringing in an income, we could no longer afford our loan or the house we had just gone into contract with. Basically, we couldn't move anymore.
Since we were only a little over a week away from closing on our M Town house at this point, there wasn't much we could do as far as getting that house back and we knew we were going to have to continue to sell it. Meaning, we were stuck living with my grandparents.
And that's where we are now! For the last month my mom has been applying to various jobs and as soon as she gets hired we will be able to start looking at houses and moving again. This whole situation has been incredibly frustrating and upsetting. Of course, we are all so thankful to my grandparents for giving up so much of their home to let us all live here. Things will work out eventually, but man this whole move has been crazy.
I hope you guys enjoyed our moving saga! I haven't enjoyed it at all but it is a crazy story!
Until next time,
Kylie
Hey guys!
We're back with part 4 of this moving saga and as I'm typing this my leopard gecko is staring deep into my soul and creeping me out. But anyway, lets continue...
So we put our house back up on the market for the 3rd time, and unlike the first two times, we didn't have any quick luck with selling our house. Between moving season starting to wind down, and also the fact that anybody who had been watching the market saw our house be put up and taken down 3 times now, it was hard to get somebody to put an offer on the house. After a couple of weeks we FINALLY got an offer, although we really didn't talk about it or celebrate it much because every time we had gotten excited about something in the last couple of months everything came crashing down.
So my parents accepted the offer and we went under contract and that was that. We decided as a family that we weren't really going to look into buying another house until we were pretty much in the clear with selling this house. That way, if these buyers also backed out at last minute, at least we weren't going to lose another house that we wanted to buy.
And like I said, moving season was really starting to wind down and the already pretty small market in B City was becoming incredibly smaller. There were 3 houses on the market that fit the majority of our criteria but after my parents went to look at them, we found that something was wrong with each one and none of them were the house we wanted.
Finally, about two weeks out from our closing down on our house in M Town, a house came on the market in B City that fit our criteria and we were excited to see. We were worried that the house would be too small but after seeing it in person we all fell in love. It had 4 bedrooms upstairs, plus a 5th bedroom in the basement. The master bedroom was absolutely stunning and the kitchen was beautiful as well. Plus it had a very nice sized, fenced in backyard and it was a brick exterior which is something that I personally really enjoy.
We all loved the house, so my parents put an offer on it.
A couple days later we rented a moving truck to move any furniture we had left in our M Town house out of it so that the buyers would be able to move in. Later that day, we got the news that our offer had been accepted on the B City house!
With only about a week and a half until closing on the M Town house and our offer being accepted on the B City house, we thought nothing could go wrong at this point and we were so excited because after months of agony we were finally, officially, moving! Or so we thought.
Of course, we thought wrong.
The next morning, I was laying in bed when my mom came in my room crying. She had lost her job.
My mom worked for the same company for 9 years and just last year, her bosses sold the company to a bigger, British company. Since then, my mom and her coworkers have been worried that they would be let go but a year had come and gone and they all still seemed to be secure in their jobs. Unfortunately, the new company decided to let all 4 of them go. Because my mom was no longer bringing in an income, we could no longer afford our loan or the house we had just gone into contract with. Basically, we couldn't move anymore.
Since we were only a little over a week away from closing on our M Town house at this point, there wasn't much we could do as far as getting that house back and we knew we were going to have to continue to sell it. Meaning, we were stuck living with my grandparents.
And that's where we are now! For the last month my mom has been applying to various jobs and as soon as she gets hired we will be able to start looking at houses and moving again. This whole situation has been incredibly frustrating and upsetting. Of course, we are all so thankful to my grandparents for giving up so much of their home to let us all live here. Things will work out eventually, but man this whole move has been crazy.
I hope you guys enjoyed our moving saga! I haven't enjoyed it at all but it is a crazy story!
Until next time,
Kylie
Saturday, September 22, 2018
The Makel Family Moving Saga Part 3
*Read Part 1 and 2 first or else you won't get it*
So the next day rolls around and my mom comments that she's 100% positive they're going to wait until like 8:59 to tell us they're backing out of the contract. So we spend the entire day, waiting. My aunt and uncle and cousins came over that night and the wait for 9 pm to see if these dumb people were going to back out of the contract or not was excruciating.
Then 8:47 comes, and our realtor calls, and we're all sure this is going to be the moment our moving plans are ruined.
So my parents go in the other room to talk to our realtor and by the time they come back out its after 9 pm. To make a long phone call short, our realtor talked to the realtor of the people buying our house. They're realtor let our realtor know that the people wanted an extra 2000 dollars back in closing or else they weren't going to buy our house. Our realtor, and they're realtor, were both fed up with these people so they agreed to split the $2000 between them to give it to the dumb people so that my parents wouldn't have to lose money and we could still move. Our realtor called my parents to tell them that if the people didn't get their $2000 they were backing out of the contract, BUT, as they were on the phone, it went past 9 pm and the buyers hadn't put in a written statement saying they were backing out meaning, THEY COULDN'T!
This was great! We got to move! Dumb people were forced to buy our house right?! WRONG!
So our realtor got off the phone with my parents to call the other realtor and say "you didn't put in a written statement saying they weren't buying the house so now its past 9 pm and they have to buy the house". But, plot twist, before our realtor called my parents, the other realtor had texted our realtor about the whole $2000 situation. The other realtor was trying to say that that text counted as a written statement saying her clients weren't buying the house! Surprise surprise, the situation wasn't going our way.
So our realtor didn't really believe that that even counted as an official written statement and decided to contact her attorney and find out but until then we didn't know what was going to happen.
Well. The next day, our realtors attorney said that the text didn't count as a written statement. This means that the dumb people have to buy our house now right???? NO!
They didn't care. They didn't want the house so they weren't going to show up for closing. Technically we could have sued them but nobody has time or money for that so my parents decided not to sue them. They did end up having to pay my parents back the Ernest money but that was it.
And now, for the third time, the M-Town house was going back up on the market. And the people who owned the B-City house we were trying to buy decided, for good reason, they no longer wanted us to buy their house.
We were back at square one. It was great. Stay tuned for what happens next. It just gets worse.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The Makel Family Moving Saga Part 2
If you haven't already read my previous post you should probably go do that now. If you have then...enjoy!
A few weeks after putting the contract on the B City house and having a contract on the M Town house, everything had been done for the B City House. We had the inspection done, the appraisal, all of the loans were approved and we were good to go! Things had been moving quickly for the contract on the M Town house as well, until it came out that the buyer of the house didn't have a job!
Well, to be fair, he did have a job. He was an independent contractor, but his contract had just ended and he hadn't signed a new one, therefore he was technically unemployed. Anybody with a brain knows that a bank isn't going to lend an unemployed man hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house, so why this man didn't really think this was going to be a problem is beyond us.
The man told us that he'd be signing a new contract in 3 days, so 3 days came and went and he hadn't signed a contract. But don't worry! He assured us he'd be signing one in just a few more days. He never signed one.
Our realtor advised my parents to just drop these buyers and put the house back on the market because the whole situation seemed sketchy and weird and didn't seem like it was going to end well. So, the next day we put our M Town house back on the market.
Lucky for us, the sellers of the B City house agreed to let us stay in contract and just push our closing date back later. Even luckier, we got a new offer on our house within the next two days.
The offer was not as great as the last one had been but it was still a good offer and my parents decided to except it, however, this meant that we were going to have to do an inspection. We weren't too concerned about that though because we knew our house was in good condition and that nothing major would come back.
The way an inspection works is that a house inspector comes in and writes down everything that could be fixed on the house. Then it us to the buyers and the sellers to negotiate what the sellers are willing to fix and if the buyers aren't happy with the sellers offer than they're allowed to back out of the contract.
Nothing major came back on our inspection, as we had assumed, however the buyers did ask my parents to fix EVERYTHING that the inspector had found. So, my parents negotiated with them and came to an agreement and everything was great.
That is, until the buyers became convinced that the deck on our house wasn't stable. If you read my last post (which you should have or else you're probably totally confused), you probably remember me mentioning that we had a licensed contractor come out to do work on our deck before we even put it on the market. Because of this, we knew that there was nothing wrong with our deck and we couldn't figure out why the buyers were so convinced it wasn't stable.
They wanted us to hire a contractor to come out and look at it again, so we had the same guy come back out and look at it and confirm that it was secure. For some reason though, they still weren't convinced. They went over to the house, snuck into the backyard, and started taking random pictures of areas on the deck that were "unstable".
After a lot of back and forth, they decided to let us know that if we did not pay to have work done on the deck they would be backing out of the contract. They had until the next day at 9 pm to do this.
Just wait until you hear what happens next.
A few weeks after putting the contract on the B City house and having a contract on the M Town house, everything had been done for the B City House. We had the inspection done, the appraisal, all of the loans were approved and we were good to go! Things had been moving quickly for the contract on the M Town house as well, until it came out that the buyer of the house didn't have a job!
Well, to be fair, he did have a job. He was an independent contractor, but his contract had just ended and he hadn't signed a new one, therefore he was technically unemployed. Anybody with a brain knows that a bank isn't going to lend an unemployed man hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house, so why this man didn't really think this was going to be a problem is beyond us.
The man told us that he'd be signing a new contract in 3 days, so 3 days came and went and he hadn't signed a contract. But don't worry! He assured us he'd be signing one in just a few more days. He never signed one.
Our realtor advised my parents to just drop these buyers and put the house back on the market because the whole situation seemed sketchy and weird and didn't seem like it was going to end well. So, the next day we put our M Town house back on the market.
Lucky for us, the sellers of the B City house agreed to let us stay in contract and just push our closing date back later. Even luckier, we got a new offer on our house within the next two days.
The offer was not as great as the last one had been but it was still a good offer and my parents decided to except it, however, this meant that we were going to have to do an inspection. We weren't too concerned about that though because we knew our house was in good condition and that nothing major would come back.
The way an inspection works is that a house inspector comes in and writes down everything that could be fixed on the house. Then it us to the buyers and the sellers to negotiate what the sellers are willing to fix and if the buyers aren't happy with the sellers offer than they're allowed to back out of the contract.
Nothing major came back on our inspection, as we had assumed, however the buyers did ask my parents to fix EVERYTHING that the inspector had found. So, my parents negotiated with them and came to an agreement and everything was great.
That is, until the buyers became convinced that the deck on our house wasn't stable. If you read my last post (which you should have or else you're probably totally confused), you probably remember me mentioning that we had a licensed contractor come out to do work on our deck before we even put it on the market. Because of this, we knew that there was nothing wrong with our deck and we couldn't figure out why the buyers were so convinced it wasn't stable.
They wanted us to hire a contractor to come out and look at it again, so we had the same guy come back out and look at it and confirm that it was secure. For some reason though, they still weren't convinced. They went over to the house, snuck into the backyard, and started taking random pictures of areas on the deck that were "unstable".
After a lot of back and forth, they decided to let us know that if we did not pay to have work done on the deck they would be backing out of the contract. They had until the next day at 9 pm to do this.
Just wait until you hear what happens next.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The Makel Family Moving Saga
Oh boy. You guys are in for a story today.
So, my family consists of my parents, me (20 years old), my younger sister Leanna who is 18, my younger sister Katelyn who is 16, and my brother TJ who just turned 15. For sixteen years the six of us lived a townhouse. When my parents bought that house they didn't plan on it being our forever home but, life happened and we never ended up moving out.
Over the last couple of years various members of my extended family have begun to leave our hometown where my moms entire family lived for years (we'll call this town "M Town" so that nobody finds me and kills me), and they have all slowly but surely begun moving to a city we will call "B City". B City is significantly cheaper than M Town. It is about 40 minutes south from M Town and consists of a lot of farm land, a lot of houses, and pretty much nothing else. At first, when my extended family members began moving there, my parents, siblings, and I didn't want to follow them just because we were so used to living in a city that had everything you could imagine within a 5 mile radius. However, after a year or so of back and forth on the subject, we decided that maybe moving to B City wasn't such a bad idea after all. I mean, sure we were no longer going to have a grocery store across the street or 16 different Starbucks to choose from, but, we would get to be close to our family and have a much bigger and nicer house for a fraction of the price it would cost my parents to buy a bigger house in M Town. So this past May, we got a realtor, and decided to sell our house.
Putting your house up for sale isn't really a "simple" task. A lot of our furniture and other belongings had to be packed up and stored at my aunt and uncles house and in my grandparents basement. We had to paint every wall, every ceiling, and every baseboard in our home. A contractor had to be hired to remove our deck stairs and fix other small issues we had on the outside of our house. We basically spent the month of May painting, cleaning, and packing the entire house. A lot of screaming, crying, and name calling ensued amongst our family that month. But then, Memorial Day Weekend came and our house went up for sale.
Within 12 hours of our house being on the market we got an offer which almost never happens. Houses are typically on the market for days, weeks, or months before an offer comes in so we were all ecstatic to get an offer so quickly. And not only was it an offer, it was a good offer. The potential buyers offered asking price AND didn't want to go through with an inspection. Not having to worry about an inspection was huge because you never know what a house inspector is going to find that you're going to have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to have fixed. So, naturally, my parents excepted this offer almost immediately and we went under contract. Being under contract meant that we could begin to look at and put offers on homes so two days later we went out and did just that.
We looked at one house that we thought we would love based on the pictures but after seeing it in person we weren't as thrilled. So we went to see another house that our realtor recommended we go see. We had seen this house online and none of us were huge fans of it but we thought "hey, might as well humor him", so we went to see the house anyway. Immediately, upon walking in the house we fell in love. It was the perfect size, had a beautiful kitchen, a huge unfinished basement that had so much potential, and a beautiful backyard. My parents put an offer on this house that same day and it got excepted the very next day! We were all so excited by how smooth, quick, and easy this moving process had been and we were all excited to be moving on June 26!
Little did we know, that excitement would be crushed...like 4 times. Stay tuned for part 2.
So, my family consists of my parents, me (20 years old), my younger sister Leanna who is 18, my younger sister Katelyn who is 16, and my brother TJ who just turned 15. For sixteen years the six of us lived a townhouse. When my parents bought that house they didn't plan on it being our forever home but, life happened and we never ended up moving out.
Over the last couple of years various members of my extended family have begun to leave our hometown where my moms entire family lived for years (we'll call this town "M Town" so that nobody finds me and kills me), and they have all slowly but surely begun moving to a city we will call "B City". B City is significantly cheaper than M Town. It is about 40 minutes south from M Town and consists of a lot of farm land, a lot of houses, and pretty much nothing else. At first, when my extended family members began moving there, my parents, siblings, and I didn't want to follow them just because we were so used to living in a city that had everything you could imagine within a 5 mile radius. However, after a year or so of back and forth on the subject, we decided that maybe moving to B City wasn't such a bad idea after all. I mean, sure we were no longer going to have a grocery store across the street or 16 different Starbucks to choose from, but, we would get to be close to our family and have a much bigger and nicer house for a fraction of the price it would cost my parents to buy a bigger house in M Town. So this past May, we got a realtor, and decided to sell our house.
Putting your house up for sale isn't really a "simple" task. A lot of our furniture and other belongings had to be packed up and stored at my aunt and uncles house and in my grandparents basement. We had to paint every wall, every ceiling, and every baseboard in our home. A contractor had to be hired to remove our deck stairs and fix other small issues we had on the outside of our house. We basically spent the month of May painting, cleaning, and packing the entire house. A lot of screaming, crying, and name calling ensued amongst our family that month. But then, Memorial Day Weekend came and our house went up for sale.
Within 12 hours of our house being on the market we got an offer which almost never happens. Houses are typically on the market for days, weeks, or months before an offer comes in so we were all ecstatic to get an offer so quickly. And not only was it an offer, it was a good offer. The potential buyers offered asking price AND didn't want to go through with an inspection. Not having to worry about an inspection was huge because you never know what a house inspector is going to find that you're going to have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to have fixed. So, naturally, my parents excepted this offer almost immediately and we went under contract. Being under contract meant that we could begin to look at and put offers on homes so two days later we went out and did just that.
We looked at one house that we thought we would love based on the pictures but after seeing it in person we weren't as thrilled. So we went to see another house that our realtor recommended we go see. We had seen this house online and none of us were huge fans of it but we thought "hey, might as well humor him", so we went to see the house anyway. Immediately, upon walking in the house we fell in love. It was the perfect size, had a beautiful kitchen, a huge unfinished basement that had so much potential, and a beautiful backyard. My parents put an offer on this house that same day and it got excepted the very next day! We were all so excited by how smooth, quick, and easy this moving process had been and we were all excited to be moving on June 26!
Little did we know, that excitement would be crushed...like 4 times. Stay tuned for part 2.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
An update!
Hi everyone!
I thought that since I randomly decided in the middle of the night last night to restart my blog after disappearing for 3 years, that it would be a good idea to update you guys on what has been going on in my life. A lot has changed since I was 17 and made my last post on here. I'm in that really awkward time in your life when all of your peers are on completely different paths and you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing.
I'm 20 years old now which is fucking insane. In a little over 6 months I'm going to be 21 and I seriously don't even know how this happened. One minute I was 14 years old and "in love" and "so stressed" (because freshmen year of high school is totally the most stressful time of life right?) and now I'm 20 years old, graduated from college, and have absolutely no idea what is going on.
After high school I went to a community college with plans to get my associates degree in general studies and then move on to a four year university and get my bachelors degree in graphic design. A couple months before my first semester of school I started a job working for a dog daycare and boarding facility and I fell in love with it. I have always been a huge dog person but this job just escalated my love for dogs so immensely. So much so that I actually changed my entire career plan! As much as I love messing around on photoshop, creating invitations for my cousins birthday parties and thumbnails for my YouTube videos, I had an epiphany one day that if I decided to turn a hobby I enjoyed into a career I was going to end up hating it and ruin my life. Because I loved my job working with dogs so much, it kind of just clicked with me that I was supposed to have a career working with dogs. It seems so obvious now but it really took me quite awhile to realize it. I toyed with the idea of being a vet tech but I can not handle having to watch so many animals be put to sleep and I also really hate science, so, I decided that I wanted to be a dog groomer. To be a dog groomer you don't need a college degree, or schooling at all actually. Since I was about half way into getting my associates degree at this point, I decided to go ahead and finish the classes I needed to get it. This past May, I finished up my last semester and achieved my associates degree! I was really excited to be the first person in my family to have a college degree, even if it was just an associates, and since my degree is in general studies, I have most of my basic classes covered and that means, if I ever do decide to go back to school and get my bachelors degree it won't be a giant pain in the ass to do!
After graduating from college, I decided to spend the summer continuing working part time at the job I had and loved so much because I really was not ready to leave it. Now that summer has come and gone, I am still working at the same job, however, I have gone almost full time so that I'm not spending a ton of time sitting around wasting my days since I'm no longer in school. My plan was to start looking for apprenticeships in the dog grooming field as soon as summer ended, however, I'm really not ready to leave my job. So, as of right now my plan is to continue working 30-35 hours a week at my current job until after the holidays, and at the start of 2019 I will finally make the move to start a job in my career field. I am super excited to start with a "real" job and just be at this point in my life, where life is actually beginning!
When I was last active on here, I was in a 2 and a half year long relationship with a guy named Jack. Jack and I have since ended things but oh boy guys, it was a roller coaster. He cheated on me, so we broke up in early 2016 but we ended up getting back together a month later. Then, in August of last year I broke up with him again. Since then we've been really good friends and actually did consider getting back together but eventually we decided that that was a bad idea. He was super super toxic for me which breaks my heart to say because I truly love and care about him. I don't want to sit here and trash talk him because he's a good guy and I wish him the best. However, I am 90% sure he's a sociopath. He truly only cares about his own happiness, he's a really good liar, and he's super manipulative. Being friends with him has been good, but he is just not the type of guy who should be in a relationship. It was just a bad situation. On top of that, his family is really fake and kinda bitchy (whoops) and I would be miserable if they were my in laws, sorry not sorry.
So, those are probably the two biggest updates since I stopped posting here. My family is also in the process of moving which has been...interesting. We lived in the same house for 16 years and finally, at the beginning of May, my parents decided to move into a bigger house. It didn't go as planned and now we live with my grandparents so that backfired 😂 I will definitely do a post explaining all the details of that entire saga that still isn't over but let's just say, this summer has been hell for my family haha.
I hope you all have a great rest of your day! Talk to you soon!
Kylie
I thought that since I randomly decided in the middle of the night last night to restart my blog after disappearing for 3 years, that it would be a good idea to update you guys on what has been going on in my life. A lot has changed since I was 17 and made my last post on here. I'm in that really awkward time in your life when all of your peers are on completely different paths and you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing.
I'm 20 years old now which is fucking insane. In a little over 6 months I'm going to be 21 and I seriously don't even know how this happened. One minute I was 14 years old and "in love" and "so stressed" (because freshmen year of high school is totally the most stressful time of life right?) and now I'm 20 years old, graduated from college, and have absolutely no idea what is going on.
After high school I went to a community college with plans to get my associates degree in general studies and then move on to a four year university and get my bachelors degree in graphic design. A couple months before my first semester of school I started a job working for a dog daycare and boarding facility and I fell in love with it. I have always been a huge dog person but this job just escalated my love for dogs so immensely. So much so that I actually changed my entire career plan! As much as I love messing around on photoshop, creating invitations for my cousins birthday parties and thumbnails for my YouTube videos, I had an epiphany one day that if I decided to turn a hobby I enjoyed into a career I was going to end up hating it and ruin my life. Because I loved my job working with dogs so much, it kind of just clicked with me that I was supposed to have a career working with dogs. It seems so obvious now but it really took me quite awhile to realize it. I toyed with the idea of being a vet tech but I can not handle having to watch so many animals be put to sleep and I also really hate science, so, I decided that I wanted to be a dog groomer. To be a dog groomer you don't need a college degree, or schooling at all actually. Since I was about half way into getting my associates degree at this point, I decided to go ahead and finish the classes I needed to get it. This past May, I finished up my last semester and achieved my associates degree! I was really excited to be the first person in my family to have a college degree, even if it was just an associates, and since my degree is in general studies, I have most of my basic classes covered and that means, if I ever do decide to go back to school and get my bachelors degree it won't be a giant pain in the ass to do!
After graduating from college, I decided to spend the summer continuing working part time at the job I had and loved so much because I really was not ready to leave it. Now that summer has come and gone, I am still working at the same job, however, I have gone almost full time so that I'm not spending a ton of time sitting around wasting my days since I'm no longer in school. My plan was to start looking for apprenticeships in the dog grooming field as soon as summer ended, however, I'm really not ready to leave my job. So, as of right now my plan is to continue working 30-35 hours a week at my current job until after the holidays, and at the start of 2019 I will finally make the move to start a job in my career field. I am super excited to start with a "real" job and just be at this point in my life, where life is actually beginning!
When I was last active on here, I was in a 2 and a half year long relationship with a guy named Jack. Jack and I have since ended things but oh boy guys, it was a roller coaster. He cheated on me, so we broke up in early 2016 but we ended up getting back together a month later. Then, in August of last year I broke up with him again. Since then we've been really good friends and actually did consider getting back together but eventually we decided that that was a bad idea. He was super super toxic for me which breaks my heart to say because I truly love and care about him. I don't want to sit here and trash talk him because he's a good guy and I wish him the best. However, I am 90% sure he's a sociopath. He truly only cares about his own happiness, he's a really good liar, and he's super manipulative. Being friends with him has been good, but he is just not the type of guy who should be in a relationship. It was just a bad situation. On top of that, his family is really fake and kinda bitchy (whoops) and I would be miserable if they were my in laws, sorry not sorry.
So, those are probably the two biggest updates since I stopped posting here. My family is also in the process of moving which has been...interesting. We lived in the same house for 16 years and finally, at the beginning of May, my parents decided to move into a bigger house. It didn't go as planned and now we live with my grandparents so that backfired 😂 I will definitely do a post explaining all the details of that entire saga that still isn't over but let's just say, this summer has been hell for my family haha.
I hope you all have a great rest of your day! Talk to you soon!
Kylie
Monday, September 10, 2018
So It's Been Awhile...
Hey guys,
Wow. I can't believe I'm actually posting on this right now. It's been a good two and a half years since my last post on this blog and almost 3 since I stopped posting frequently. That is crazy.
I haven't read this blog or looked at it at all in years but the other day I kinda just randomly remembered it existed so I started reading all of my posts and needless to say...I am so embarrassed. I am so sorry to every single one of you who ever read some of the things I posted on here. Thirteen to fifteen is an awkward time in life for a lot of girls but I just took that awkwardness and multiplied it by 1000 and you can really tell when you read this blog 😂
A lot has changed since I stopped posting on here! I graduated high school...and college. I got a job. YouTube became an actual career for me for awhile. I experienced real heart break, not whatever that weird shit I was going through during my freshmen year of high school was lmao. I want to say that I am a completely different person now than I was back then but I guess I'm not, I'm just a lot more mature.
I grew up a lot and experienced a lot in the three years since I stopped posting on here and part of me is kind of sad because I wish I would've written all of those memories down as they happened. Another part of me feels great relief that I didn't decide to expose so much of my life to the public in a really poorly done way, haha.
But, while I may have disappeared from this blog for the last 3 years, I definitely did not disappear from the internet completely! I was, and still am, making YouTube videos which has been an amazing outlet for me and so much fun. At one point I actually did start a whole new blog but I couldn't keep up with it so I quit that. But I miss it.
As I'm reading all these posts, I'm cringing, a lot, but I'm also remembering how excited I was to come on here and write about all the things going on in my life. I got so excited when I found a new tag to do or when something "so incredibly stressful" happened that I just HAD to share with you guys. So, I want to bring it back. I'm not promising daily or even weekly posts because I know I won't be able to commit, however, two things that I love in this world are writing and talking about myself and I feel like there is no better place to do those things than right here in my own personal blog.
I don't expect anyone to read this because hardly anyone did before so I don't know why anyone would now but that's okay because I'm excited and that's what matters. I considered changing the name because let's be honest, the name I chose at 12 years old hardly makes any sense and honestly just sucks in general, but, I feel like it's kind of...iconic? I don't know, I just feel like my blog wouldn't be my blog if it didn't have this dumbass, uncreative, barely making grammatical sense, name, so it's staying.
My life is hardly above average so don't expect to read anything crazy, just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Talk to you soon,
Kylie
Wow. I can't believe I'm actually posting on this right now. It's been a good two and a half years since my last post on this blog and almost 3 since I stopped posting frequently. That is crazy.
I haven't read this blog or looked at it at all in years but the other day I kinda just randomly remembered it existed so I started reading all of my posts and needless to say...I am so embarrassed. I am so sorry to every single one of you who ever read some of the things I posted on here. Thirteen to fifteen is an awkward time in life for a lot of girls but I just took that awkwardness and multiplied it by 1000 and you can really tell when you read this blog 😂
A lot has changed since I stopped posting on here! I graduated high school...and college. I got a job. YouTube became an actual career for me for awhile. I experienced real heart break, not whatever that weird shit I was going through during my freshmen year of high school was lmao. I want to say that I am a completely different person now than I was back then but I guess I'm not, I'm just a lot more mature.
I grew up a lot and experienced a lot in the three years since I stopped posting on here and part of me is kind of sad because I wish I would've written all of those memories down as they happened. Another part of me feels great relief that I didn't decide to expose so much of my life to the public in a really poorly done way, haha.
But, while I may have disappeared from this blog for the last 3 years, I definitely did not disappear from the internet completely! I was, and still am, making YouTube videos which has been an amazing outlet for me and so much fun. At one point I actually did start a whole new blog but I couldn't keep up with it so I quit that. But I miss it.
As I'm reading all these posts, I'm cringing, a lot, but I'm also remembering how excited I was to come on here and write about all the things going on in my life. I got so excited when I found a new tag to do or when something "so incredibly stressful" happened that I just HAD to share with you guys. So, I want to bring it back. I'm not promising daily or even weekly posts because I know I won't be able to commit, however, two things that I love in this world are writing and talking about myself and I feel like there is no better place to do those things than right here in my own personal blog.
I don't expect anyone to read this because hardly anyone did before so I don't know why anyone would now but that's okay because I'm excited and that's what matters. I considered changing the name because let's be honest, the name I chose at 12 years old hardly makes any sense and honestly just sucks in general, but, I feel like it's kind of...iconic? I don't know, I just feel like my blog wouldn't be my blog if it didn't have this dumbass, uncreative, barely making grammatical sense, name, so it's staying.
My life is hardly above average so don't expect to read anything crazy, just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Talk to you soon,
Kylie
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