2024 update

Hi 

I know I said I was back a couple times but I’m planning this time it’s for keeps. 

It’s 2024. 

I took a 5 (yikes) year break. I hate that I did. But it was necessary. 

In 2019 I had a friend who experienced a very heavy loss and I wanted to be there for them during that difficult time. My focus shifted during that time. It’s as simple as that. It needed to be done. I needed to invest in other things. 

I think God guided me away for a time for a reason, but I think I’m still uncovering that whole reason. 

In 2020 I was excited to get back into the blog but then the political and social upheaval really hit and I couldn’t find a good enough reason to come back. Sure I’d have humor but my well of creativity had run dry during those difficult times. Not to mention I was getting DM’s on instagram shaming me for “not using [my] platform to speak out against (insert one of five hot button topics on rotation at any given month.)” I was exhausted. I didn’t see the value in chiming into an already deafening noise of voices that were all parroting one side or another. Everything was divisive, everything was heavy, everything was loud. I had to disconnect and that began here. I’m sorry you didn’t get a warning. 

And while the work I know and love on this blog is very real to me, the internet is not real life. And I don’t mean that in the “we all fake something for social media’ way but I mean if it disappeared tomorrow what would I have to show for it? Nothing. I’d have a few meaningful friendships but nothing that I could hang my hat on as tangible. So I continued my hiatus. 

And well… here we are. 

So what’s happened in my life since?
Well lets see…  

I got a promotion 

I got a second job during the pandemic 

I lost that job 

I learned more about myself and my healing 

I healed a lot more 

I had a lot more important conversations with my sister 

My sister and I mended our relationship further

I dated

I fell in love 

I got engaged 

I moved to a new state

I paid off my car

I eloped

I’m living happily ever after

I have a new family (no babies yet, just a mess of new sisters and brothers)

I have healed even more 

I got a new job 

I became an aunt

I did a lot of soul searching for this platform and what I want to do with it 

I refocused my energies 

I leaned into my peace and wellness

I’m looking for the right things to keep adding to this platform right now. I feel I don’t know where my audience is best served and how I can be too. I haven’t given up. But I am hunting for that window of illumination. 

I used to really hate it when a great dating meme account dried up because its owner got married. It really used to grind my gears. What about the memes? Were we singles now just cut loose and sent adrift once again? Yes. Every damn time. 

Mild Millennial IG is on the back burner for now. 

I’ve thought so much about this blog and I can’t wait to bring it into this new phase of life with me. 

Narcissism and healing from its effects is still at the forefront of my vision. I’ll still talk about relationships and dating. Probaby adding bits of my life now. 

I have a lot of work to do here yet, and I hope you’ll stick around. 

Oh yeah, that friend who suffered a heavy loss? Well I married him. 😉 #noregrets

Love & Hugs, 

The Mild Millennial