Tattoos: DO NOT ASK

I was inspired to write a personal post on our station's sites yesterday after my colleague Matt Sparx wrote this awesome piece about not wanting to have kids. 

I have three tattoos-- nothing too intricate, no sleeves, pretty simple art in hidden places on my body-- and yet I am constantly getting judgement from others about my ink.

I won't rewrite the whole article, but I will link it at the bottom of this post and share a little piece of it here:

1. What does it mean?

 

 

This question may seem totally harmless, and I will be honest– it’s definitely not the worst of the bunch.  However, for me, only one of my tattoos actually has meaning behind it, and that’s the fawn– the rest are just things I love, like the daisy and a horseshoe.

People never fail to make me feel terrible for having a ‘meaningless’ tattoo.  ‘Well, why did you get it, then?’ is the question that always seems to follow the one above.  MAYBE BECAUSE I LIKE IT.  MAYBE BECAUSE IT’S PRETTY.  Maybe….maybe it’s none of your business."

You can read the whole article here. 

OH EHM GEE.

It has been almost a year since my last blog...that is CRAZY!

I have come to terms with the fact that I am terrible at blogging.  I'm going to stop apologizing for it.  You already know this about me and (hopefully?) find it endearing.

Or not. (Insert my signature goat laugh here)

I feel like I'm not going to do a 'year in review' or anything...I mean, maybe down the line I'll do that with a video.  I think that's a good idea because Molly, my sister, and I have always wanted to start vlogging again.

I still have 700 subscribers sitting pretty on my YouTube channel (which is a lot to me!!) and I feel a bit like I'm neglecting them by just leaving them be on that channel with no updates.  HOWEVER, I live with roommates right now-- great people, but not people I feel comfortable vlogging around.  In a few months-- June, to be precise-- I will be moving out into a new place on my own and then I think I'll have plenty of time to vlog again.  FINALLY!

SO while you wait patiently for a 'year in review' video, I'll just give you a few updates since you last saw me in Washington D.C. freaking out about my new big-girl job.

1. I'm blonde now. 

This is actually fairly recent, and I honestly don't know how long it will last. BUT, I'm loving it right now.  Everyone told me I would look terrible as a blonde but I just thought, 'you know what? Life's too short.' And I did it.  And I LOVE it.

2. I'm the digital girl for four radio stations.

You've seen the last post-- I was crazy nervous about my new job as a Digital Managing Editor for Townsquare Media.  Now, I love it.  It's a ton of work and it's very challenging, which is kind of the stock answer so I'll try to make it more interesting....

I just learn new things every day!  I learn things about social media, what works and what doesn't, the best YouTube practices, all sorts of stuff.  There's stuff I'm good at and stuff I'm not, stuff I love and stuff I hate.  Being in this position is like being in a...marriage, I guess.  Hahaha (GOAT LAUGH!). 

Sometimes it's hard, because I feel like I deal with people who don't really respect my position.  And that's kind of standard when you're 22 and in a super cool position-- but it gets hard.  Otherwise, though, this job is awesome.

(The photo is of me at the Colorado Broadcasting Association Awards of Excellence, by the way, which was my first-ever awards show)

I'm not going to go too much more into detail, because I want to kind of just let my life unfold in this blog again like I used to.  Hopefully I'll be better about blogging, but if not, I'll try to at least do one a week and make it a little more cohesive before I can finally vlog again. YAHOO!

It's been crazy.

Over the past few weeks, a lot of crazy stuff has happened.  For one, I went to D.C. and had an amazing spring break with my roommate, who's been interning there since February.

Another thing that happened to me is that I got a job.  A real-person, big-kid job.

So, all in all, things have been crazy around here. 

OH-- and I saw Whiplash. Twice.  Did I ever talk about how I saw Whiplash twice?

(here's a tweet from me to show you how obsessed I got over this movie)

I wanted to update things on here just because I am notoriously bad at being consistent as a blogger and also because I am about to get really, really busy in the next few weeks.  I feel like I've never really fully dedicated a lot of time and work to a job in the past-- I've either had normal internships or flexible hours from fully part-time gigs.  Now, I'm a necessary cog in a machine.  It's a strange-- and overwhelming-- feeling. 

Some happy news, though-- I am perilously close to graduating.  I use the word perilous because it sort of feels like I'm about to fall headlong off of a cliff, into the unknown.  I have a lot to learn about life not in college...or school in general, I guess.  I've never lived in a world where I didn't have to worry about homework or balancing grades and a social life/a sleeping schedule/a normal person's diet.  This is going to be an amazing next step for me. 

Let's hope it's a good one!