just alyssa

Somewhere at the point of being in our twenties, most of our friends have graduated college and moved on to the next phase in their life. After months and months of wedding invitations and shopping for wedding gifts, phase 2 quickly interjects itself as invitations to baby showers and birthday parties quickly replace those old invites mantled up on your refrigerator. This seems like the natural sequence of things and is perfectly acceptable for this age.   We graduate high school, go to college, get a job, and the rest just falls into place.   It’s traditional and natural and is a major custom. First, let me just say that my friends have some of the CUTEST kids you have ever seen in your life (and no, I’m not even being biased….okay maybe a little).   I am so excited to help my friends celebrate this joyous part of their lives. Having said that, I have absolutely no freaking clue what your life is like! I’m trying to hang in there. I am. BELIEVE ME! I’ve baby...

Sometimes I crave noodles, like legit- I just make plain noodles and eat them. I also have this habit of buying 8 different kinds of juice so that I have plenty of options in the refrigerator. And my dog is this major skeptic. Anytime I give him his flea medication, I have to first eat peanut butter off a spoon, then hide his pill in a second spoonful, to prove that both the spoon and the peanut butter are okay. I have this irrational fear of touching bloody meat, yet I’d make the worst vegetarian. And sometimes I cry when I’m driving and miss my turn off, simply because I hate having to retrace my steps. What do all of these things have in common? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! That’s how I feel life goes. More importantly, that’s how I feel relationships go! Nothing relates to anything! We have literally NO clue what we’re doing. We just have stacks and stacks of random facts about one another that don’t mean anything. And somehow we try to derive meaning from everything someone ...