I make stuff pretty.

I’m a chef (kinda)

So the picture this is kinda hard once you start a job.. who knew?

Lately, I’ve been cooking more than usual. It’s weird. I made homemade salsa, then I made a lasagna from scratch, and right now I’m making a cheesy cauliflower bake.  I’m a natural Betty Crocker. Maybe. We’ll see how it turns out.

I’m baaack

Okay, so I haven’t posted in 3 months. Sue me. I’ve been having a wonderful time, but my life hasn’t been anything exciting and worthy of writing about. At least until recently. So I updated my blog, and here I am. I’m going to try to be posting more.. I wanna try that whole picture a day thing, and I think here would be a great place. The last few months, I’ve just been adjusting to New York City. Also, spending time with the boyfriend. I’ve turned another year older. And visited another country (Bermuda). I’ve also started freelancing more, which is always a good thing.

2 Months Ago

If you would have talked to me two months ago (December 17th) and told me where I would be today, I would have laughed in your face.

Two months ago, I imagined by now I’d be living here in New York and I’d have some sort of stable income, preferably a full-time job with benefits. The words “relationship” or “boyfriend” weren’t even in my vocabulary, let alone something I was searching for. I hadn’t even thought about actually being unemployed for longer than a couple of weeks. I mean, that really doesn’t happen, right? I was living in my own world, on that high of graduating college and finally basking in the success that was.

In reality, I have been unemployed since the end of last semester. I have been trying to find more freelance gigs to fill my unemployment, but I haven’t had any luck because all jobs seem to want coders or coder/designer hybrids with amazing coding skills. I actually do have my first full-time position interview tomorrow, which I am crossing my fingers for because it’s a position that would fit me perfectly, I believe. I have been on a master job hunt for the last two months that I believe would leave the average person exhausted.

I came to New York to find a job, however, within my first few weeks here, I found myself in a relationship. I have been with a boy I met for a little over a month now. Even though a relationship really wasn’t what I was looking for when I got here, I welcomed it with open arms- It felt like like it was the right thing to do, and the right time.

A lot has changed in my perception of New York. It’s a lot harder here than it seems!