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Hi everyone, sorry for not posting for a few days! I'm currently on a little vacation with my sister <3

It honestly feels like I'm reliving my childhood vacations, except now I'm seeing everything through adult eyes. It's so different, yet somehow so familiar. I haven't been on a resort vacation since I was a child, so this is taking me wayyy back.

The only difference is that I can drink now, I have no curfew, and I can stay up as late as I want. Sweet!

I wanted to give you a little update, share some pictures and memories, and have this post to look back on in the future <3

25th

So... I'm officially not a young adult anymore. 

I celebrated my 25th last week ... and, to be frank, it was kind of underwhelming.

I usually love celebrating things, but for some reason, this year it just didn't hit the same anymore.

These past few months, I've been overwhelmed with law school, my job, responsibilities, and just life in general. Even on my birthday, I felt like I'd lost the ability to simply switch gears and enjoy things as they come. It feels like my brain is constantly overworking itself, and I'm somehow unable to do anything about it.

I decided to throw a birthday party for myself and invited my close family (which is still approximately 14 people) and  it was genuienly probably the worst idea I've ever had.

so… what did law school actually teach me?

what . . . like it's hard?

It's been almost half a year since I graduated from law school. It still feels a little surreal not having to worry about exams, being cold called in class, or trying to memorize hundreds and hundreds of pages.

But what did law school actually teach me?

I mean, the obvious answer would be law... and to some degree, it did teach me that. Although, if I'm being fair, I feel like a lot of the time it was me teaching myself the law.

So instead, I wanted to write about some of the lessons law school taught me that might not be quite so obvious at first glance. And here they are:

1. Public speaking 

I'm innately an introverted person. Especially when it comes to speaking in front of larger groups. But law school has a way of forcing you out of that shell and pushing you way past your comfort zone. It was genuienly nerve wracking the first few times I got cold called in class. 

I get chills down my spine just remembering how I used to stutter when answering . . . 

being a horse girl without a horse

I’m like deathly allergic to horses.

When I was younger, I begged and begged my parents to let me take riding lessons. They were a teensy bit overprotective and worried I’d get trampled (which looking back, was honestly a pretty reasonable concern, I was an incredibly clumsy child).

Eventually though all that begging paid off and my mom took me to a local pony ranch. I was ecstatic. 

Unfortunately it took approximately five minutes before I started sneezing. Then wheezing. Then slowly suffocating. Was it the hay? The horses?  Not sure, but I've never went riding ever again.

Naturally, I compensated for this cruel twist of fate by becoming completely obsessed with horse media.

Horse movies. Horse books. Horse comics. Horse games. Horse magazines. If there was a horse on the cover, I probably wanted it. I was trying my best to retain the essence of being a horse girl through media consumption.

So here’s some of the horse media from my childhood that I still remember vividly:

digital pet wishlist

As you may or may not know, I've been obsessed with digital pets for a long time. Something about taking care of a bunch of pixels on a tiny screen just does it for me.

Although I never actually owned a tamagotchi growing up, I did have two LPS digital pets. One was a small cat keychain, much less tamagotchi-esque and much more about exploring a tiny pixelated world and playing minigames. 

The second one was a little bit bigger, a diary style digital pet that came with a stylus. It even had a touchscreen (!!), which was lowkey revolutionary to me at the time.

Digital pets have evolved so much since then, so I made a wishlist of the ones I currently have my eye on:

browser games

Ever since my father graciously gave me his old work PC, I’ve been obsessed with online browser games.

​I used to sink hours into staring at my virtual animals in a virtual zoo or watching virtual crops grow (though I'm saddened to admit my attention span has steadily degraded ever since).

​Growing up in a small eastern european country definitely shaped what I played. Games like neopets or club penguin were never really popular here (or at least not at my school, which was my whole world back then) so I ended up playing some relatively niche online games.

Hello, world!

Can you believe it's been about 13 years since I last blogged? Not on this blog, obviously, but on a small, ugly blog my 12 year old self made on a whim during computer class.

I've tried multiple creative outlets ever since, including youtube (yes, I did post strictly about LPS), tiktok , deviantart, musically, tumblr, amino, journaling, etc., etc.

But alas, all roads lead to Rome, as they say. In my case, apparently, all roads lead back to blogging. 

I'm obsessed with the feeling of nostalgia. The older I get, the more I yearn for it, so that will definitely be reflected in this blog as well. I love digital pets, trading cards of all sorts, old magazines, barbie movies, cartoons, video games... the list could go on and on. And I love sharing my love for all of these things with others. 

My name is Teresa (or Tess for short), I like the color pink and purple and in my free time I'm a lawyer. 

Nice to meet you all!