Adulting – Page 2 – Nicole Sweeney

Cake for Breakfast

January 24, 2014

Between the fact that I was bursting with love for The Holiday Council and my general babbling about fixing the assorted cracks and fissures in my life, I’ve been on a bit of a life-coach-blog-reading, someone-tell-me-how-to-person, quarter-life-crisis, oh-my-god-when-did-I-become-the-kind-of-person-who-uses-the-term-quarter-life-crisis? kick lately. Enter, Cake For Breakfast. A 45 page workbook, audio sessions, and weekly journal prompts from […]

Calm Disasters

January 22, 2014

Friday was the twentieth anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake. Twenty years ago I was woken up by a dream that our house (in Northridge) was being picked up by a tow truck. I can still see this image in my mind as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I called the tow truck a pickup […]

Handling My Shit

January 11, 2014

Week two and I’m already floundering a bit on my new blogging schedule. Time to re-group, relax that starting goal a bit. Going from two posts in the whole of December to three days a week in January was a bit ambitious. A lot ambitious. In thinking about this, it occurs to me that I […]

They can’t all be winners.

January 6, 2014

“They can’t all be winners,” or, “one of my 2014 goals is honesty and that means I’m going to post even the pointless drafts I should keep to myself.” Those of you lucky enough to be in non-miserable temperatures or those of you with ice in your veins may well have grown tired of hearing […]

home, definition

January 3, 2014

As I suspect I’ve mentioned a time or twenty, I have a complicated relationship with my current residence. It’s only fairly recently that I’ve even been willing to refer to it as my home town. Calling it my “home town” has a weird feeling to it. It sounds like a fictional story I’m telling. Part […]

2013 In Review

January 1, 2014

I spent the month of December doing a lot of big, exciting 2014 planning with The Stratejoy Holiday Council and it was an excellent life choice. I am now in a much better place heading into 2014; I was able to lay a lot of bad, ugly things from 2013 to bed. I got a […]

Dress Up Days

December 18, 2013

Intention

December 15, 2013

This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The new year is just around the corner and one of my major personal goals is to be more purposeful in all the choices that I’m making. I make so many decisions in a […]

Seeds

November 20, 2013

I have always been infinitely better at ideas than follow-through. I would devolve into a hot mess of remorse if I lost sleep over all the thought-seeds I have scattered across the earth without harvesting them. Plant that shit for somebody else. Nobody wants it? Oh well. This is part of why I actively force […]

Thinking Local

November 4, 2013

This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The great divide between my adolescent self and my vague-approximation-of-adulthood self really boils down to money. (Which is part of why there was this phase between the two where I was maturationally ambiguous. Don’t […]