Alys in Real Life

My week will be summed up in one picture: With my friends doing this: And me leaving this: With a midweek like this: And my eye did this: And driving 45 minuets for a burrito looked like this: and I ended the work week like this: Fun right? One night I decided I needed some cookies. And what better way than convincing a teenager to do so? I happend to have a Tupperware that belonged to the Johanson's so I sent a spapchat to the oldest Johanson with a ransom for cookies. With in 2 hours, at 10:15 at night, while I'm laying in bed in my underwear, I get cookies. Man, that girl is good! It was that easy to convince her mom I needed cookies too. When they move away I need to find someone who will make me cookies on demand. Any takers? My cookie addiction gets so bad that I stoop down and get cookies at maverick  Saturday was a busy one. It was Chris's Grandma's birthday, so the family went out to Ihop to celeb

About 6 months ago I wrote a blog post about my PTSD. It was very hard for me to write but it was good to get out, and I also had so many caring friends who love me and care about me who were concerned for me. I also had people contact me and open up to be about their experience with PTSD. I feel like that post opened lots of windows for me and others. If you are new in my life and don't know, please read this: MY PTSD STORY before reading this blog post. I wanted to do an update on my PTSD because I think I am doing fantastic! Most of you know from being my friend or reading my blog that I proudly take antidepressants that amazingly saved my life. Last year I was really depressed and I wanted kill myself. The stress of life, infertility treatments, dealing with the pain in my mind everyday got to be too much. Its now been almost a year  since I started taking my anti-depressants. I feel so happy, and so great. In my last post I talked about how I was terrified of shooting becau

Do you ever see childhood pictures of yourself and think aw, I was so little, or aw, I was so cute. Well, my twin cousin Josh in Rhode Island sent me pictures he found from when we were kids.                                             Josh and I. Men usually have that look around me hahaha Here is this lovely Halloween picture of my sister Erin and I. WTF mom? Was I a stripper for Halloween? I know I was a "flapper girl" But that is with that pose? If you have ever seen me breakout in dance, this picture is understandable. Especially if you work in my office and you happen to walk behind me and I start twerking. We all have our special talents.... On to the free stuff. I entered a contest on Instagram to win a free lipstick from the company  Beauty Ignited  . I have been eyeing their lipsticks for a while now. It is a pink tube that resembles a 12 gauge shotgun shell. Guns AND makeup? That's a winner.  I entered this contest, and they picked me! I choose th