Brawley's Beautiful Mess

I have always admired Tom Petty, big shout out to the rents on that one, and basically all my favorite artists, but I love Tom.  I love how he always put on a great show, I love how much he genuinely appreciated music and I love his lyrics, I could always relate to to them it seemed like.  My favorite Tom lyrics are "most things I worry about never happen anyway" which being the anxious, sometimes impatient and over-thinker that I am; I would worry about the littlest things to things I absolutely could not and cannot control.  So I decided that I would get that tattoo and every time I found myself worrying I would look down and read it, most of the time it worked and was right, until it wasn't.... I remember it like it was yesterday, it was probably early March of 2021, I can't remember the exact date because turns out, when I drank too much, I couldn't remember what week it was, shocker!  Anyway, I had also just split from my boyfriend right as we were going to a...

Sunday's were always one of my favorite days of the week because it was perfectly acceptable to have Bottomless Mimosas or Bloody Mary's on a Sunny patio, stylin with those favorite pair of shades, at 10 am without any judgement. Where it gets tricky is once you start this routine, it's hard to stop, soon, you're planning your weekend brunch drink menu along with whether you should make blueberry pancakes or breakfast burritos.  But, always with a side of fruit because hey, we care about our health.  Now this almost never ended after brunch, as we all know, because once you have one, the second is easier to order and after 4 you just quit paying attention; coming to terms with the fact that tomorrow is going to be one hell of a day to get through! Today is different, it's Sunday, football is on, playoff football, so tomorrow would have almost been a guaranteed vacation day because I hated working on Mondays.  I hated being hungover, period.  But at work it's alm...

Happy Rock Chalkin Saturday! It's been almost a year since my Friday nights were filled with wine, my Saturday morning hangover routines and of course Sunday Funday's.   I just turned 38 on the 27th, I have spent almost every Birthday in my 30's at my favorite local dive, Harry's.  Someone once told me it was like I lived in "Cheer's" because let's be honest, if you've experienced being a regular, anywhere, "everybody knows your name" when you walk in. This year was different, instead of taking Friday off to consume a hearty liquid breakfast to get through my box wine hangover, I got up, and went to work!  Now I never said I didn't go to Harry's, I did, but I ordered a VP no vodka; which is just soda water and sprite with a lemon wedge, very refreshing, highly recommend it!  If you prefer lime, hey, we all like what we like!  Now 6 months ago I would not have dreamed of being able to walk into Harry's, sit at the bar, and poli...