- My journey of escaping an abusive marriage
– The emotional phases I went through
– A timeline sketch of events
– The inner conflict between breaking my commitment by getting a divorce and sacrificing self-respect and wellbeing by remaining in an abusive environment
- Graduating a semester early; skipping senior prom, graduation ceremony, and open house festivities of my own
– The detachment I felt from high school by the time I began my senior year
– Severing high school ties and diving into my first college semester
– How I felt about the decision then and how I feel about it now
- Moving from my 4-season, lifelong home state of Michigan to Texas
– What I miss
– The changes in me brought on by the change of scenery
– Why I’ve not gone back “home”
- My continually empty relationship with my only full sister
– Contributions to the massive trench between us
– The efforts I’ve made to develop the relationship
– Analysis of her—as she has stated she is not interested in developing the relationship
- The precious year with Princeton, a senior kitty that wandered into the garage and stole my heart for a year, breaking my heart when he was greatly suffering and too miserable for it to be humane to keep him alive
– The relationship we shared
– My life while Princeton was in it
– Why the year we had was so significant back then as well as to my life today
- A love I wanted but wasn’t ready for, and neither was he, as our engagement and our whole relationship abruptly dissipated a month before we’d have married
– The beginning, course, and ending to our relationship
– Why we weren’t ready
– How the fast pace ruined any possibility of the relationship lasting
- How pizza soothes me when I’m sad, offers the perfect celebration for an incredible event or happenstance, calms anxiety or worry, complements my nostalgic days as well as days that I’m diving towards some beautiful bit of the future
– Significant moments and memories where pizza played a part, solidifying the positive attachment I formed to it
– My awareness of the silliness of such an obsession in any and every situation
– Favorite pizza places and why (taste, location, memories, etc.)
- Wishing on 11:11 (AM only, as my clocks read 23:11 for PM)
– Types of wishes
– Why I bother
– The times they’re sincere wishes/hopes
- How Doctor Who opened my mind and then also my heart
– Who introduced me
– The falling out with the person who introduced me, and how it did not ruin my interest in what they had shared with me
– Trying moments, coped with by escaping to this environment
How being crippled by credit cards during a situation I was determined to endure and survive without becoming bitter ended up positioning me to see them as a tool and not a hindrance, despite the clear obstacles I faced from the debt incurred with them
– The obstacles keeping me from paying them down
– The tenacity to keep trying anyway
– How my view of credit cards, and credit at all, has swapped ends of the spectrum
