Mama, Chaos, Cuss words & Coffee

Welp. That escalated quickly. I blinked and it was after the New Year….my last blog was at the end of October…I told you, I’m not great at this whole “blogging” thing.

My ass missed two whole months of sharing the shit show that is my life. Ha.

Here’s a quick update WITHOUT going into story time….yet….

*realizes I need to look back at pictures to remember what all has happened…sweet mom brain Sam.* (Fun fact: three people call me Sam because well that’s not what I prefer to go by: my brother, my old co-worker Nick, and myself…when I talk to myself that is. Anyone else calls me Sam and I correct them. It’s Sammie, or Edna…but that’s another story.)

November:

Honestly not much. Ha! I had a couple bomb ass make up days. (Because obviously those are important.) Look at those pictures…I looked FLAWLESS and that HOT PINK….HOLY BRIGHT BATMAN…that wing is SHARP. Damnit I’m good at makeup sometimes. Also, before you ask, no, I don’t color my hair, yes, it’s natural, yes, it’s that gray, yes, I get it from my daddy, yes, I love it.

My sweet husband turned 37. Poor fella is creepin’ up on that 40. That’s wild to think about. I won’t rub that in too much to him. Ha. However, he has picked up golf…so I feel like he’s creepin’ up on that midlife crisis stage. *As he currently yells at the golf game he’s playing in the back room* Yep. Something like that.

**Full disclosure, I’m actually thrilled he’s picked up golf…it gets him out of the house for some him time and I get out for mine. We all need that mental break as parents.** We’ll let him and his midlife whatever this is, be.

It was a small thanksgiving this year. Every year my siblings and their spouse’s families rotate holidays, this year they were all away. With Sean’s family being back in California we only have my family here so we spend it with them. We have an early dinner over at my aunt’s house with my parents, my aunt and another aunt and uncle. Small, relaxing but nonetheless a good one. Eat good food. Watch football. Take a nap. Name a better way to have thanksgiving…you can’t. Ha.

DECEMBER GOT W I L D.

• Got my nose pierced with my bestie.
• Took the kids & my mom to Disney
• Had our 5th annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. (One of my best friends surprised me all the way from Florida, getting teary eyed just writing that)
• Put my notice in at the bar 3 days before Christmas.
• Couldn’t fulfill my 2 weeks because the liquor licensed was pulled by the previous owners & they shut down. (Not why I put my notice in but furthered the reason I made the right decision.)
• Christmas was so much fun this year. Piper & Declan are at GREAT ages. ugh. So. Dang. Great.
• OSU lost exactly at midnight on New Years Eve to Georgia…I think I can still hear my heartbreak over that. (SHUT IT xICHIGAN FANS, YOUR ASS LOSS TOO)
• The bar caught on fire. Yep, on New Years Day. (no one was inside, thank goodness, but that actually happened)

When I say December got WILD it got W I L D.

I had ZERO plans on leaving the bar when I did…but…shit happens. It’s like going through a breakup I wasn’t ready to leave yet. Some days I cry because I miss it, I miss my friends, I miss my regulars…I miss everything we worked so hard for. It sucks. I’m not going to lie. I’m bitter about it still. I’m still very upset about it. But it is what it is. I won’t go into details on what caused me to leave, I’ll just say this…it is NEVER okay for an end result EVER be physical violence. Maybe one day I’ll share that story, but not today. NOT BEFORE I TELL YOU ABOUT THE MAGIC THAT WAS OUR DISNEY TRIP….

But I’m also not telling you about Disney in this blog….because that deserves it’s own AND I have to get you all caught up before I can get to the fun stuff!

January thus far has been calm…we’re getting back into routine after the holidays, we threw my dad a surprise 65th birthday party -he had NO CLUE, it was great! I’ll share the pictures of the cupcakes & cake I made for him another time, I’ve been reading…A LOT. Like we’re 19 days into the new year and I’m on book 4 for the year…and I read 2 in the week before the new year. Some of these books I just CANNOT put down. I’m currently reading “The Sea Witch” by Katee Robert. Ya’ll, if you like SMUT….with a capital S M U T…these are it. Its part of the Wicked Villains series…(fan fiction)…BDSM…yes ma’am. It is full of SMUT. However, if you don’t….stay away…HAHA! I have a nice growing list of books I want to read, and naturally Colleen Hoover is on there. Her book “It Ends With Us”…BLESS IT, I cried. SUCH A GOOD BOOK. I have to read more of hers. I have “It Starts With Us” on deck. The goal was to read 12 books this year, however, I think I’m gonna crush that.

I don’t know what the future holds for me as far as work goes…I still have Scentsy, which I’ve been putting my energy into. Scentsy brings me joy and I like that I can work from literally anywhere. My customers are just the best so why not pour more energy into them! As far as bartending goes….wherever the wind takes me kittens…maybe I’ll own a bar soon…that’d be the dream…no…that’s the goal…own a dang bar.

That’s enough catching up for meow….next blog post will be ALL ZE DISNEY DEETS!

Until next blog friends….

-Sammie.