Hello friends, and happy summer! I haven’t written a blog post in almost two months now, which has only been adding to my own inner anxiety battle since I knew I should be posting but had no idea what to post, and the more time that went by the more I felt guilty about abandoning my blog, thus causing more time to pass. Either way, whether this is interesting to you or not, I figured I would give a little life update and follow up with my plans for this blog going forward.

Longest story short, as if it wasn’t obvious enough, I basically took a well needed hiatus from blogging and from a lot of the internet in general to really focus on my own happiness.

2017 has been a pretty rough year for me. Basically, losing my grandmother earlier this year has probably been the most traumatic thing I have ever been through and I am still learning to deal with it ever day. It has affected everything from my friendships, to school, to doing what I love and I really needed time at the end of this last semester to process it all and get everything in my life in order, which is why as soon as school finished up I gave myself a much needed emotional break from basically everything in my life.

Today, I feel okay, and moving forward I feel I’ll be okay.

Besides emotions, I went through a little move that was more stressful than I thought it would be, but if you’ve been following me on instagram you’ll have seen that is all done now and bonus: I have a gorgeous new beauty room which I love and is my total happy place now! I’ve made sure to put lots of things that remind me of my grandma in it, as well ❤

Finally, right after my move I went back to work full time. During the school year I don’t work a steady job (I do independent tarot readings here and there instead), but in the summer I work for the state park service and basically have absolutely no free time for myself. On top of that, my full time schedule (basically a 9 to 5) drastically conflicts with my partner’s schedule (an afternoon/night shift) so I end up coming home, eating dinner, falling asleep, then waking up around midnight to spend time with him before bed just to wake up to an alarm a few hours later (seriously unhealthy of me and I am constantly tired because of it).

Probably going to get a nap right after I post this to be honest…..

Obviously, this leaves very little time for things to get done besides on my “weekends” (currently Wednesdays and Thursdays, though I have asked to have a four day work week every once in a while to give myself a bigger breather here and there).

So where does this leave my blog? Honestly, I don’t know. It was actually easier for me to have a legitimate blogging schedule (that I could barely keep to) when I was super busy with school because I was already planning everything else out anyway. I would really like to go back to blogging at least once a week, which will probably require me to work on one post throughout the entire week to have it ready by the actual weekend. Because of the amount of effort and detail I like to put into my posts, I don’t just want to get onto the computer the second I’m free and spew out garbage, because why would I expect anyone to read this then, ya know?

Also, I am honestly considering moving to YouTube and starting a real makeup and beauty channel, but I don’t have a camera or a set up with lighting or know anything about editing so that is just a wishful thought (for now).

Anyway! All that aside, the wrap-up thought is that I am going to try to get better. My first “real” post back is most likely going to be my summer makeup suggestions, since I work an outdoor job basically on the beach with a full face of makeup on every day, and it has been interesting to see what makeup has been holding up in the heat and humidity and wind and what hasn’t. Also really want to do an anti-haul!

I hope you all are having a great summer, and I hope you stick around to see what I have to say in the future, and I REALLY hope I haven’t let anyone down in any way. Please let me know if there are any specific posts, tutorials, or product reviews you would like to see from me (check out my instagram to see the latest additions to my makeup collections)! Much love, thanks for sticking with me!

-Lacie ❤︎❤︎❤︎