MHN: April - May Update
Hello, my pretties. I hope you all are doing well. Welcome to my every two months life update. In this post, I detail everything that happened during April and May. Enjoy.
April - Getting into watching Women’s Wrestling, Easter and Spring Break
This month, my class is Culture & Social Justice Issues. In the class, we look at our own culture and learn how to be an excellent therapist to clients whose culture differs from ours. I found this class to be exciting but also super challenging. I had to think about things that I’d never thought of before, and there were a lot of questions that I did not have the answers to. Our final paper was comparing a dominant group and a minority group that we are members of. I wrote about being Christian as my dominant group and being lesbian as my minority group. Though really, being a lesbian and being Christian is a minority itself. I ended up with an A- in the class. So far, I’ve gotten Straight As, which I am proud of. Better than I ever thought I could do. (To me, any A grade, whether an A+, A or A- counts in my straight A tally).
Beginning of the month, one of my childhood best friends slept over. We had a wonderful time. We watched one of my fave movies, Fighting with My Family starring my TV wife, Florence Pugh. The movie, in short, is about a young girl named Saraya who becomes the youngest person to be signed by the WWE. The film, once again, inspired me. I started watching the real Saraya wrestle, leading me to watch other wrestlers like Dr Britt Baker, Thunder Rosa, Bea Priestley and Jamie Hayter. I have a big crush on Thunder Rosa right now, and I flipped out when she followed me back on IG. We’ve messaged back and forth a few times, too, which made me fangirl so much. I also have big crushes on Jamie Hayter and Bea Priestley.
Stupidly, we did not have spring break until after Easter, so we’ve had work/school during Holy Week. I’ve never been one for Holy Week services, but I decided to go this year. Thursday was the Maundy Thursday Communion. During the service, we ate bread and soup like Jesus and his Disciples did. Then we did communion for each other. Friday was the Good Friday service. It was really lovely. Sunday, I worked with the kids during the Egg Hunt and had brunch with my church family congregation. The Easter Sunday service was excellent. I loved setting up the egg hunt for the kids and hanging out with my church family.
The spring break for the school I work at ended up being during the third week of my grad class. Thankfully, all the weeks are structured exactly the same and with the same amount of work, so managing my time has been relatively easy. During the break, I mostly just did schoolwork. On the Thursday of the holiday, I had to go to the city. I met one of my other best friends there; we hung out at the Bookstore and had lunch together. She came over to my house and slept over. My parents weren’t home that day, so it was just me and Haley. We want to be roommates one day, and this was like a mini glimpse into what living together would be like.
May - Dying my hair and starting MMA classes
May started out strong. I celebrated 4 years clean, and it was also Beltane which was cool. The weather got cold, so we had to start our fireplace again. That worked out since Beltane is a fire festival. Most weeks in my life aren’t very eventful. I mostly do schoolwork, subbing, volunteering at church, home workouts and reading.
I dyed my hair the second week of May, I dyed my hair, but this time I went slightly crazy. I dyed half my hair a light golden brown and kept the other half golden blonde. The darker side was brown, closer to my natural hair, but my hair stylist said it would fade to golden brown in a few washes. The contrast is very striking, and I love it so much. When it comes to how I look, I’ve always played it safe, but this time I decided to colour outside the lines and do something no one expected of me. A few friends tried to talk me out of doing a split dye. While I appreciate their concern over me spending so much money on something I may not like, I am happy I didn’t listen to them.
On May 22ed, I started chasing my dream of professional wrestling. I had my first MMA
private class, and it was terrific. I got to learn how to throw punches, kicks and strikes. I also learned how to break out of a hold if a bad guy was trying to drag me somewhere. I also got invited to be part of the MMA Masterclass, so that is what I will be doing biweekly now. In my first masterclass, we focused on judo which is fantastic. I know that judo will be useful when I start wrestling. I got to learn how to put someone in a headlock and how to escape it. A moment that made me so happy was when I was working with one of my classmates, we were trying to put the other person in a headlock, and neither of us could do it. At one point, my coach said to my partner, “She (meaning me) is strong, isn’t she?” I loved hearing that because you’d think as a newbie, you’d get pinned easily. I am overjoyed with this new part of my life and so bloody excited for my classes.
My May class went well; some parts were super stressful because we had to cram for long assignments in one week. I was very stressed out, but somehow I got 100%s on all assignments and an A+ in the class. I am mind blown about this, to be honest. Undergrad me, who struggled so much with her psychology classes at FPU, is over the moon that 25-year-old her, is getting straight fucking As. I am very proud of this.
Bonus - Thoughts on Grad School
I really like this program. Like my undergrad program, it is also reading, essay- and project-based. I’ve always been excellent at projects and writing papers; it’s testing that I’ve always struggled with (and would ultimately lower my grade). Now that I am in a program that is right for me, I am confident that I will thrive in this program because our “test/final” is the essay we have due at the end of class. And so far, I have succeeded in this program, and I am sure I will continue to do so. As of now, my psychology grad classes have been way easier than my undergrad psychology classes. That is definitely due to how the classes are structured (UG was test-based).
And that completes my update for the past two months. I hope you enjoyed hearing about what I’ve been up to. As always, don’t forget to like this post and follow me on all social media (links below). Sending you all the light and love in this world.
