There are few things in life that instantly put me in a good mood --- Spring season is one of them.

Despite I spend 70% of my day every day sneezing my soul out. 

And even though my allergies are awful in the Spring (though to be fair they're just as bad in Fall which is also my favorite season).

But also my birthday is in the Spring!

I love how you get super excited for your birthdays until you hit like 25 then it's like shit, I'm hella close to 30. I'm turning 33 this year which means I'm inching closer and closer to 40 and I'm not sure how I fuckin feel about that. 

There's so much I want to DO and SEE and EXPERIENCE. There's so much I'm not ready for. There's so much I want to be ready for but I don't know how. And as always, I feel like I'm running out of time. Then again I've felt like that since I was 13.

However this is my first real Spring in Texas and my first birthday here. Every time I live somewhere I come up with a new tradition, on accident. I'm a little worried since I don't know what to do for my bday since I don't know much about Texas but I'm also really curious to see what I'll stumble on.

Though I have thought of creating a tradition with this super cute bakery in Dallas called Sweet Daze. But we'll see.

Today is also this sweet girl's THIRD ADOPTAVERSARY!

Today 3 years ago I got to finally take Sophie home! In the last 3 years we've moved FIVE times to FOUR different cities and to TWO states. She's been my cuddle buddy, my nap buddy, my alarm clock, my time-to-go-to-bed clock, my guard cat and my best friend. 

She's licked my tears while I've cried. She's swatted my arm to get extra loves and she's woken me up with kisses. She is the sweetest soul I've ever encountered and the most laid back cat. She doesn't get mad. She doesn't get attitudes. Sometimes she talks back and sometimes she just talks. But she's never bit anyone out of anger or annoyance. She's patient with everything except loves. And she loves attention. She also loves cheese. And sea salt kettle chips. And coconut ice cream.

Everyone advised I didn't adopt her when I found her because she was 10 and only weighed 5 pounds but I'm glad I didn't listen and held on to her until I could take her home. I don't regret any of it one bit.

Happy 3 years baby girl, I hope you'll stick around for another 3. And maybe 3 more after that?

I probably should had posted this yesterday or last night but we got home late so naturally I'm posting it today! Still debating on if I should skip a weekly recap post. 

So first off Happy Birthday to one of the most amazing, caring, compassionate, sweetest, brutally honest, adorable and frustrating person I know. Thank you for everything you do for Sophie and I. Your care does not go unnoticed. We are both very thankful for you babes. Thank you for caring about me as intensely as you do, for always making sure I'm okay and I'm completely stress free even if you're holding the weight of the world on your shoulders you never fail to put me first. I'm glad you had a good birthday babe, I didn't get to spoil you as much as I wanted to (you should be scared when Christmas rolls by) but I'm still feeling rather accomplished. I love you so much, never forget that! Here's to many more years of frustration, adventures and love.

Yesterday was pretty busy.

The day before babes went to a wedding and came home a bit tipsy with way too much energy and started his birthday off with an epic pillow fight with me (seriously the most random thing ever) then we fell asleep while watching anime. This one particular one always puts me to sleep. It's insane. I'm trying so hard to pay attention and I always end up falling asleep! It's not that it's even boring. I don't know what it is, it's strange how that happens lol.

I feel like I've been away in some other universe for like, a month. At least that what it feels like. But it's been a really really great month.

Started Dating Nick 

Yeah, that happened. That's a thing now and I don't mind as much as I thought I would. Yeah divorce sucks and it's something super emotionally heavy but the moment you realize you deserve better and don't back down... there's no turning back from that. What he did? There's no turning back for either. I can not give him an ounce of forgiveness no matter what moment of clarity he randomly had after his whore left. I wasn't expecting to date anyone. That's why I got Sophie. I was gonna move into my own place; just me and Sophie. Then Nick comes along and just messes all of that up.

Our first date lasted about 10 hours and we had lunch at Rainforest Cafe (with a real thunderstorm) and we were walking by Basin on our way to World of Disney sharing an umbrella and he goes "I really want to kiss you right now." and I was like "go for it." so he kisses me and it's like instant boost of attraction I just couldn't get enough of his kisses! We ended the date at Universal City Walk and I got Cinnabon!! Seriously, dreams. Came. True. Spent the rest of the week with Nick as much as possible. He lives an hour away so it's sort of a long distance relationship. Sort of. I don't have a car. So...

Sophie 

Sophie is doing a lot better now than when we got her. She loves to play and cuddle and bother you lol. She's always crawling all over my lap and smacking me with her tail. Silly girl. But she's gaining weight and she looks a lot healthier now. So that's good and she loves playing this chasing game we do at night. She's so silly. But she's my adorable silly!

Adventures 

Nick and I have this thing where we like to go on adventures. Basically any random place we go to even if we've been there before is considered an adventure. A trip to a new organic grocery store is an adventure and I love how down he is to just be like "yeah okay, let's go!" or when he suggests stuff we should do. So it's been pretty fun and exciting being around him cause you never know where he's going to go. But I've started compiling a list of places we should go or places we should check out to eat. So I'm pretty excited to finally have an adventure/foodie partner!

Like I said, I feel like I've been gone for awhile so sorry if this post sounded a little scatterbrained.