I decided to give myself the best gift I could this year, investing in myself. I had a small amount of extra money lately. So, I put aside just a small portion of it into my savings account, fun money fund, HSA, & IRA. Don't know what 2026 will bring career or income wise, but it's better than $0.

Joined Alyssa @alyssam-infosec.com for #HackerFit mode. I did a half mile loop this morning walking at the park even with a bum back this week. Also hoping my stride returns as well. I miss the long trek hike/walking life.

My mom, granny, & eldest pup (now gone this year) were my biggest pillars to lean on in life prior to 2020. I lost all 3 in 6.5 years. That was my support system. For so long. Knowing their time was limited has been my biggest fears come to fruition. So TY those around this year. Love ya'll, always.

On this winter solstice eve, I want to thank many of you for being a part of my life in your own way. How you entered my life is my best view of you. This year has proven to be one of the worst of my life. I wouldn't have made it without many of you. Sincerely. Thank you for existing in my life. 💚

Someone just referred to this admin as basically the cast of Reno 911. I feel that's just downright offensive to the actual cast of Reno 911.

The sheer amount of people I have seen IRL questioning their religious beliefs lately is equivalent to a massive amount of kids discovering how Santa isn't real. Ultra religious neighbors attempted to put up their nativity scene last week only to take it back down the next day like nah nevermind.

All I have on the agenda today is to just ✨ exist.✨ So you know it's going to be a great day.

People today have given me my 13th reason... ....to delete Facebook vs. myself. If I'm too much to be friends with, just tell me. Don't ghost. If you secretly hate me, just tell me. I'd rather be told I need to see myself out of their lives than assume. I may overthink, but can also take a hint.

I have over a dozen interviews over the next week. 👀🫢

Not me wanting to buy a pair of Uggs this year. Did I time travel back to 2009 or something?!

If anyone everrrrrr wants to even attempt to accuse me of AI slop in any of my writing, just know this... I don't stay up until 1:30 in the morning for my fucking health when trying to finish these projects so I can somewhat enjoy the weekend.

Interviewing for a marketing manager role next week. I always research each company I entertain an interview or a consult with. Majority of employees on LinkedIn are men... The probability of this going beyond 1 or 2 interviews is very low. However, I always welcome the universe to prove me wrong.

I do this to myself every single time because it's apparent that hate myself deep down... What is it? I procrastinate to the point of backing myself into a corner where I have to do double the amount of work in only the 24 hours available in a day. Maybe in 2026 I'll stop being my own worst enemy.

First decent snow of the year happened overnight. It's so quiet and peaceful outside right now. I love it.

They are still essential heroes in my eyes. Thank you to our healthcare workers!

Don't know what I did to deserve some of you all but many have shown up for us this week both near & far. Friends having the time of their lives in Europe currently, others hours from us, some that live close, & yet many still took the time to send even just a funny meme to make us laugh. Thank you.

I will be ghost mode for a while. I've hit the angry stage of it all. Best if I just keep to myself because I am mean when angry. Had a friend say to me "you should be well used to death and grief by now." As if this is easy for me?! Each day I proven that no has empathy anymore. So why bother?

This astrology and tarot bullshit needs to get the fuck out of my TikTok algorithm. I don't fucking care. Shut up with your delulu and get the hell off my fyp already. Go on.... GET!

I'm looking for an entry level pentest gig if anyone knows of any openings. Please let me know.

I need someone to explain to my broken heart and brain as to why 10 years 7 months and 11 days went by so damn quickly. So much of it feels like yesterday, last week, or last year. But it just flew by for me. Not sure I'll stop crying on and off for a while.

Had to say goodbye to my best friend and furry soulmate this morning. It feels like 10+ years came and went so quickly. I'm going to be a bit lost without my guardian angel to protect me. 💔🌈🌉🐶

While I do sometimes say, "what I wouldn't give for another moment with them," but this is not it! Grieving is an emotional process that this would significantly stunt people from healing with things like this. No one would ever truly learn how to let go and honor the time together in memory.

Sim4 is worse. WTF did they do to this game. Please make it stop.

Got more rough news about my furry soulmate today. Something still hadn't been sitting right with me for weeks. So we went to the vet again. They found a tumor on her urethra. I am glad to finally have more answers, but I am heartbroken at the fact we have even less time now... 💔

I don't care what you think, but the Sims 3 is absolutely trash. Uninstalled it.

Happy divorciversary to myself. All those years ago I didn't know how life would look the next year, 5 or even more for me. After being told repeated I wouldn't make it without them, I think I am not only surviving but thriving without them. No matter what life threw at me since then!

I have studied each vibe of the most used social media apps. Meta = boomers & politics LinkedIn = fake it till you make it Instagram = fake but aesthetic Pinterest = vision board Twitter/X = complaints HQ Reddit = anon complaints HQ TikTok = funny, messy, opinionated, & cringe Bluesky = semi-chill

Welcome to 2025's job market where it is still possible to make over 80K a year, but you won't get benefits or medical insurance. Are you kidding me? It makes far more sense to freelance for me. At least I can somewhat expense medical insurance premiums on my tax return.

It rained all day yesterday, and this is how I used my free will. 13 year old me would be screaming and crying happy tears. "What do you mean we can play the OG Sims in our own house?! We have a colorful office to get cozy and play it in too?!" Make younger you proud. That's the whole point.

Picking myself up and getting my life back together on a random Monday in October. LFG!

One of the hardest things to face is the reality is that we are all on borrowed time here. It's even more heartbreaking to be told and have to face that I am a lot less borrowed time than I thought I was with my furry soulmate now. I just hope I can make it through it all this time. 💔

Since I never seem to see anyone's posts in my feed half the time, I am gradually just turning on notifications for individual people as I go. So I if start engaging a lot more with your content, then that would be why. I am still specifically curating my feed here. Le sigh.

The tarot people and tin foil hatters are back on my fyp on TikTok. Either there is about to be a collective crash out or it'll just be me. This level of delulu is a lot even for me. Stay tuned...

3 things I have decided on today: 1. I am re-joining Twitter. Why? Because not everyone migrated over. 🙄 2. I am going to just share my thoughts in posts unfiltered. 3. I am going to keep going in the career direction I am currently until the money runs out completely. Why? Can't get an FTE job.

Some of ya'll asked for an all black hoodie since I opened my small boutique within the past month. So, here you go! This black half-zip hoodie should arrive by the 24th of October. I absolutely swear by these hoodies and have for years!! If you want to pre-order one, let me know!

The amount of jobs that have wasted my ever-loving time over the past 7 weeks with their "we want someone with more experience" in marketing is such BS. I've been in-house and external facing. I can confirm that a lot of companies haven't a clue what they are doing. It's all corporate cosplay. 🙄

I have officially been TikTok influenced and bought a mechanical keyboard. The first one was a total fail and got returned. The second one that just arrived this evening has a much more silent and creamy sound to it. Not to mention the rainbow back light is so cool. I'm in love! 😍

Friend: "hey I got free tickets to this event where I live. Want to come for a short visit?" Me: "say less. you don't have to ask me twice." Also me: "train booked. hotel booked. see you in a few weeks!" Do I have the money for it right now? No, not really. Do I care right now? Also, no.

Anyone have recs on low-cost courses & certs to explore to get back into a cybersecurity role? I have a TryHackMe subscription & looking at Practical OSINT with TCM (for security research). I am looking for more options to get back into a direct role in cybersecurity. Drop some of your recs please!

After 5 interviews & waiting over 3 weeks, I didn't get the role at Huntress that I was hoping to land. To say I am already exhausted by job hunting would be an understatement currently. The reality is I want the income and job stability, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards for me now.

Today would have been my 12th wedding anniversary. A few of the rare images left popped up on Facebook. It put me in a somber mood. Why? Because I lost nearly everyone in the divorce except my matron of honor. We're still friends. I feel it's the price I had to pay to choose myself, heal, and leave.

Currently still barely have a voice this week. Feel free to revel in it or provide sympathy. I don't mind either way. But I will remind you all to wash your fucking hands and mask up again this Fall because it's germy out here.

Naturally, a minority of the population out there is like, "omg why is everyone making this a huge joke?" Oh... IDK...Maybe because we have a circus government admin run by clowns., humor is the only way to endure any of it. Let us have this! Now shush, my rapture news update and GRWM is back on.

I just saw a comment earlier on TikTok saying, " Do I need a real ID for this rapture or do I gotta go stand in line at the DMV for one tomorrow?" Now I cannot stop laughing every 5 minutes about it. These comments are giving me life again since I have no voice right now... 🤒🤧😷

"Oh! You thought this was going to continue to be free. Sorry, but it won't be."

Self preservation/isolation era now loading now... 🐚 If it would stop being 90+ degrees outside, that would be even more lovely.

Live your life and conduct yourself so that if you're gunned down in public nobody feels the need to tell others that it's inappropriate to celebrate your death.

I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate. But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.