RPG Mom Quest!

Being a parent is like the ultimate RPG. There are life-or-death quests, random encounters, the potential for XP and treasure (mainly the emotional kind), as well as a whole lot of fun. This idea started as a joke with a geeky coworker, but it's started to take on a life of its own...

Sometimes I Want To Give Advice

I am a pretty happy person. I'm naturally pretty anxious and I am definitely guilty of over thinking things and getting into spirals of negativity, but overall, I take pleasure in my life and have made a series of choices that have worked out for me such that at 20-mumble-something I am where I want to be in life. I'm not an expert in a lot of things, but there are some things that I am actually pretty darn close to being an expert on (hooray for graduate degrees!) and I have a lot of opinion.

I've had a series of conversations recently with friends/acquaintances/coworkers who I think are Doing It Wrong and I find myself wanting to give advice and knowing that it wont actually help. Knowing that all I can do is model what I think they should do and otherwise keep my big mouth shut (because let's face it, no one wants to know what you think they should do unless they ask you specifically for your opinion). Even though I know that they don't care, I am going to give all of my advice here in an open letter to the world because this is my blog and I can. If you think that this advice is aimed at you, maybe it is... but, it's possible that it isn't, I have had very similar conversations with a lot of people recently.