New Beginnings

After an almost 12-month hiatus, I have decided to return to the blog. This decision is wrapped in a desire to create more content, a surplus of free time, and the new feeling of self-discovery that makes one want to begin her blog- and her life, again.

Let's start with an update, speed run!

• I have a dog now! Her name is Honey. She's a 1.5-year-old Chow Chow/Husky mix. She was rescued by PJ's rescue, and fostered by my dear friend Natalie, <3 Honey's Instagram is @Living_Like_Honey. You should definitely give it a follow. :)

• I graduated, got into dental school, and moved to the big city! My degree is in Biology and I minored in Deaf Studies- I would really love to utilize my sign language skills now that I live in a bigger city. I am attending the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry!! I'll go more into dental things later, frankly that was part of the fall-out of this blog. I fear my mental sanity was not sane during that application cycle.

• My foot still hates to run fast BUT I ran a marathon. On less than a month of training, I had so much fun running Grandma's Marathon in Duluth and do see more marathons in my future. My track season did not end the way I wanted to, but I think the lessons I learned from Cross Country and Track will last a lifetime, and I'm excited to find joy in running.

• I had a really awful relationship. I'm still (very much) healing from it, but I do think that the boy-crazy was simply kicked right out of my system, because I am no longer afraid of being alone. I'm afraid of loving someone so hard and thinking that I knew them, and then being hurt in a way I never expected. And I feel like I typically expect the worst! It was raw, brutal, and so painful. The worst, or maybe best part, is that I don't wish that he would burn in hell, quite the opposite actually- I hope he can heal from whatever hurt made him hurt me that horribly. I hope there's a God strong enough to heal that man, and I hope he never hurts a woman in the ways he hurt me.

  
  

  Wow, enough with the sad drama! Back to happiness:))))

• I start dental school in just two weeks and I am trying to soak in every moment of freedom before my life is flying by and I'm a little dandelion in the wind. I'm unemployed (AHH). I did apply for a few scholarships that I hope to hear from in September, but for now it's me and my loans against the world.

• I've started making crafts like I used to as a child. Jewelry, embroidery, crocheting, reading- I love it all. I recently started vlogging/making videos on TikTok, and I do enjoy it. I hope to balance all these hobbies when I get to dental school, but I want to prioritize content creation so I have something to look back on when I am a dentist.

• I'm a brand ambassador for a toothpaste company that really values science and oral health and I could not be more proud to rep CariFree :) More to come?? My email's open..

Okay, those are the important updates that I can think of. I'm sure there's so much more that has happened, but I need to get this sleep schedule back on track!

As I begin to prepare my schedule for the semester, I hope to have consistent days of blogging, starting with 1-2 a week? We shall see. I only promise to do my best.

Lots of love, lots of smiles.

xx

Beka