Hello everyone and welcome back! It’s been a while since last I posted, but that’s life happening.

Kim Ove and I was talking about some wishes we have for the future and how far we have come already in our separate personal life. For those of you who are wondering what I mean about that I will give you an answer. We are defining our life in two or three categories, one is for us as a couple, one is for our separate life and the last one is for work. We are big on the fact that we need to maintain our individual lives as well as our life as a couple. And yes of course they often get mixed together, that is completely normal after 5 and a half years together, especially since we have lived together for the last three years.

But back to the topic. When we first started to see each other I was living with my stepmother and my siblings while I waited for one of my friends to be finished renovating her and her boyfriend’s new house so I could take over her apartment. I was very much living paycheck to paycheck hoping to get more work as I was only working as a substitute in different nursery’s/kindergarten at the time, and I was definitively not good with money. I did still struggle with math so I lacked that subject for me to get into university. My grandmother was sick and I didn’t really listen to my health.

Five years later I am living pretty comfortably with Kim Ove in a big house, I have a steady job, I have studied history at the university, and going for a personal trainer next. I may not be as good with money as I want to be, but I am so much better at it now than I was. I am taking my health so seriously that I have been to my doctor to get help with my eating problems. I train at the gym several days a week. I take care of my skin. I stay at home relaxing when I need it, and I socialize when I need that outside of work and school. I dress the way I want to instead of how everyone else thinks I should dress because of where I live. My confidence is amazing. I am sure of who I am, who I want to be, and how I want to show up for myself, those I love, and the world.

I still have things that I will work on, and I believe that all of us can always work to be better than we were yesterday. I do have days where I would rather lay in bed all day instead of going to work and dealing with my head. But as soon as I get to work and I chat a bit with our regulars I feel amazing and so glad that I went to work.

One example of how far I have come and changed is with flowers. I thought that flowers needed to be outside, that I never wanted flowers inside, and that if a man ever bought flowers for me I would run in the other direction and cut all contact with him. Now I have several plants around our living room, I have one in our bedroom and I decorate our entrance and porch each summer with flowers.

This is it for today. I do hope that it won’t be too long until next time.

Emilie Cathrin ❤