While brainstorming topics to talk about for my blog, I made a discovery that is either really interesting or everyone will think, "Jackie, should you be living alone?" Since moving to Chicago in 2018, I babysit for 7 families. I have my full time family and 6 other families that hit me up for date nights, random errands or when their normal babysitter has a schedule conflict, etc... Since graduating from college in 2013, I've been a bridesmaid in 7 different weddings. For 3

The summer of 2020, it was day 3 of living on my own for the first time in my adult life and my mom made me purchase a $100,000 life insurance policy. She gave me the task of how I will set my single life death up for success. This is what I came up with. First of all, let's pretend the government forgives student loan debt, WOOT! I'm debt free! Current plan is to be cremated but if I wind up married, I would like to be buried with my husband. If I die first, bury him right t

Hobbies come and go just like my past relationships, one boyfriend introduced me to metal music, couldn't make out the lyrics 95% of the time but I still enjoy the occasional pig squeal bass drop. A different boyfriend introduced me to hiking and video games, clearly we didn't get too far (symbol crash). The last boyfriend... Oh geez... What did we even do? I honestly think we just drank... Ope... Okay, I remember we watched a lot of movies and we would drink our own bottles

HOW FUCKING FITTING. HOW FUCKING FITTING THAT THIS WEEK'S BLOG IS GOING TO BE ABOUT AN EXTRA SHITTY GUY. GET READY FOLKS, I'M TYPING WITH MY EMOTIONS TONIGHT BECAUSE MY MOM TOLD ME TO. (Grandma, you may want to stop reading this.) 6:00am: Monday, February 1st, 2021. I'm awake and I'm having my first sip of coffee. It is Black History Month and it's a Hallmark holiday month, Valentine's Day. After my usual morning app routine, I open Facebook. I see that I have a notification