Different Hats

A woman who wears different hats in her everyday life.

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Artist, Mother, Student, Blogger.
  • World of Warcraft Woman

    World of Warcraft Woman

    It’s time for a nerdy gamer girl post!

    Back in like 2006 I was hanging out with some friends doing regular teenager things when all of a sudden the person who’s house we were at fires up his computer and a game begins to load.

    The game loads and the character selection screen appears and I see for the first time a Tauren – a Horde Race. Instantly captivated by the giant looking buffalo dude, I began to watch this person running around and like getting the bad guys and solving quests. I sat and watched for hours and asked so many questions about this cool game.

    I can’t even remember where I went to purchase the game. At that point in time, you had to buy the game and download via discs. Used to take FOREVER. Sometimes it would complete the download and it still would crash after launching the software.

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  • Favorite albums

    Favorite albums

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s your all-time favorite album?
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    More than one!

    Dookie – Green Day

    American Idiot – Green Day

    Insomniac – Green Day

    Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra

    Face the Music – Electric Light Orchestra

    Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan

    Desire – Bob Dylan

    Rumours – Fleetwood Mac

    Toto IV – Toto

    Astro Lounge – Smash Mouth

  • Best piece of advice I’ve ever received

    Best piece of advice I’ve ever received

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
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    Don’t ever give up, keep moving forward, learn from past mistakes and failures and do better.

  • A New Hat

    A New Hat

    About a few months ago I decided that I wanted a new hat for my collection and I wanted to do something that I’ve never really experimented with before – making videos of my artwork.

    So after all these years of watching YouTube videos, clips from TikTok, I finally joined the platforms.

    I know it’s not really that big of a deal, but it is for me because I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and to film the things I create and then to put my face along with it makes me feel a bit nauseous and dizzy.

    But each time I post a video the fear gradually fades away and I start to feel better about it.

    My videos are all about my artwork and the things that I’ve created in the past and current projects that I’m focused on now.

    Right now I’m just messing around with acrylic paints on canvas, but I’m planning to expand on this art journey and get into things like woodworking, pottery, and resin/epoxy tables when the time is right and I can afford it. Having art as a hobby is incredibly expensive.

    It’s been quite the experience so far and I’ve had better luck posting on TikTok and gaining followers, more than I’ve ever had on any type of social platform so that’s pretty cool!

    Link for YouTube:

    https://www.youtube.com/@CraftyLadyArt

    Link for TikTok:

    @craftyladyart
  • The College Mommy

    The College Mommy

    Once upon a time I used to hate school. All of it. Middle into high school just sucked for me and eventually, a month before graduation day, I quit. I had already been set up with my first job and so I made this decision to just give up and work as a professional house cleaner for the next ten years or so. You know what, probably even longer than that.

    Eventually I got a GED after passing the high school equivalency test. About a year or so after I dropped out. Then two years later I decided that I wanted to be a bartender, out of the blue. I went to this place where they teach you how to make fancy drinks and cocktails, shake a shaker, tap a keg, customer service loving, and etc. I got a license to tend the bar and I was pretty proud of myself for something so small. It made me believe that maybe I can finish the things I’ve started, instead of just giving up like a baby.

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  • Life without music

    Life without music

    Daily writing prompt
    What would your life be like without music?
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    Without music, life would just plain suck. It gives me a boost of energy and inspiration while painting. It puts a smile on my children’s faces. It brings back old memories from days of being young and careless.

    Music has such a power that can connect us to our deepest thoughts and desires, with a touch of healing our souls.

    Imagine a life without music, how dull our existence would be.

  • Favorite word

    Favorite word

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s your favorite word?
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    FOOD. I love eating. I like making homemade foods too. I just made 12 pizzas the other day first time homemade and it was so much fun, and delicious! I made plain, pepperoni, pineapple & ham, and margherita pizzas.

  • How I celebrate the holidays

    How I celebrate the holidays

    Daily writing prompt
    How do you celebrate holidays?
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    I love all holidays! Especially Halloween, Christmas, even Thanksgiving. These three I go all out for.

    For Halloween, we decorate outside and of course inside. I have a nice collection of Halloween items. I make my kids costumes by hand when requested.

    For Christmas, I put up four fake trees around the house and decorate them in different styles. I also make homemade cookies such as sugar, gingerbread, and peanut butter. Sometimes I will make my kids handmade gifts as well.

    For Thanksgiving, I make a big meal which includes turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, candied carrots, cranberry sauce, gravy, coleslaw, celery with cream cheese, baked bread, and some other stuff. All homemade.

    🙂

  • A lesson I wish I had learned earlier in life

    A lesson I wish I had learned earlier in life

    Daily writing prompt
    Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
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    Something I wish I had learned earlier in life would be how friends come and go for all different reasons.

  • Electric Shock Meghan

    Electric Shock Meghan

    I am a very open person and I like to share my own personal stories and experiences. I don’t know why but for some reason it’s just programmed into my DNA.

    With that being said, here’s a shocking story to talk about…

    Electroconvulsive therapy, sometimes referred to as “shock treatment” or just ECT, is a medical procedure that involves inducing a brief seizure in the brain using controlled electrical currents for a variety of reasons.

    In my particular case it was used for treatment-resistant depression.

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  • 5 Glorious Years

    5 Glorious Years

    Warning: This post mentions prescription drug abuse so please be advised that it could potentially be triggering.

    I’m a little late on this small celebration because I’ve been busy.

    July 5, 2025 – my 5 year anniversary of giving up my benzodiazepines addiction which included Xanax, Klonopin, and Ativan. Oh, and mixing alcohol with them too.

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  • What I love about living in New Jersey

    What I love about living in New Jersey

    Daily writing prompt
    What do you love about where you live?
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    I have lived in New Jersey my whole life, it’s been my home forever and I’ll probably never leave the Garden State.

    And this is why I love it here –

    1. We have all four seasons like the old Pelican pool commercial – winter, spring, summer, and fall.
    2. We are surrounded by beautiful trees, flowers, and endless woods.
    3. We do not pump our own gas.
    4. The food! Especially pizza shops, they’re all over the place.
    5. Going down the shore – Seaside Heights, Long Beach Island, The Wildwoods, it’s all so beautiful.
    6. The middle finger is very popular here.
    7. We really do grow the best tomatoes.
    8. The farms and all the seasonal activities are so much fun, especially apple and pumpkin picking.
    9. Driving the winding back roads and blasting music with the windows down.
    10. The winter season here is not as bad as they used to be when I was growing up.
    11. The weather really does change throughout the day – sweaters in the morning and shorts in the afternoon.
    12. The diners here are very good and plenty to choose from.
    13. We are all divided on pork roll/Taylor ham, personally I don’t go crazy over it.
    14. The bagel shops are so good and most of the time the everything bagel is sold out.
    15. NYC is very close by so that’s a whole new world to explore too.
    16. We are fighters here and the fists really do pump up.
    17. This is a great place to raise a family.
    18. We never stop. This is a fast-paced state and everyone seems to be in a hurry for no reason.
    19. Nature is amazing here and you’ll definitely encounter black bears.
    20. You can be anything you want here if you work hard.
  • What I would sell If I opened up a shop

    What I would sell If I opened up a shop

    Daily writing prompt
    If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
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    If I had the opportunity of opening a shop to sell stuff, I would sell my artwork. This would include paintings, sculptures, mixed media art, woodwork, pottery, resin, epoxy, and whatever else I like to mess around with.

    Maybe someday!

  • The Honker Burger Painting

    The Honker Burger Painting

    It’s been obvious on how much I love the 90s and especially the old Nickelodeon cartoons, like Rocko’s Modern Life.

    This time I decided to paint the famous Honker Burger from the show Doug.

    If this was a real place I would make reservations to eat here in a heartbeat.

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  • The Wildwoods in New Jersey

    The Wildwoods in New Jersey

    My family and I just had our first family vacation together down the shore in Wildwood, New Jersey.

    It was sunny and hot, the sand felt like walking on silky sheets, the seagulls screamed and fought over scraps – it was perfect.

    One of the best feelings in the world is traveling down the parkway and smelling the salty sea air and looking at the wondrous ocean.

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  • What am I curious about?

    What am I curious about?

    Daily writing prompt
    What are you curious about?
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    Lots of stuff, lol.

    Some things that I’m actually curious about –

    Why do men have nipples and do they have a purpose?

    Who came up with naming objects and every day items like toilet paper or nail clippers, or plunger?

    How did the planets form, why are we humans on planet Earth and what is our real goal?

    Is there another existence of life somewhere else?

    Why can’t they make a word that rhymes with orange?

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  • Rocko’s Modern Life Picasso Painting

    Rocko’s Modern Life Picasso Painting

    I was born in the 1990s and grew up on all the Nickelodeon classics – Rugrats, Hey Arnold, All That, Clarissa Explains It All, Doug, and the rest of them, but one of my favorites is Rocko’s Modern Life.

    I used to love watching this show and sometimes I still watch it when I get the chance, and now that I’m an adult it’s even funnier with all the adult jokes I missed as a kid.

    One day while watching a clip of the show, I was watching the episode where Heffer and Rocko travel on a plane and I think the episode is called Jet Scream. During the episode, the two characters morph into a Picasso-like painting and suddenly I had an idea!

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  • Most memorable vacation

    Most memorable vacation

    Daily writing prompt
    Describe your most memorable vacation.
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    This year in about 20 days my family and I are going on our first family vacation ever! We are going to Wildwood, New Jersey for a few days to relax, have fun, and celebrate. This is a major milestone for us as we have been working hard to make this happen, it’s a small trip but I am so grateful and excited for this opportunity. 🙂

  • I spend the most time with

    I spend the most time with

    Daily writing prompt
    Who do you spend the most time with?
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    I spend all of my time with my family. I have two kids and as a mom I don’t go out very often. My focus is always centered around them and their needs come first over mine. That’s just how it goes and I wouldn’t do it another way. 🙂

  • The Frog At Night Painting

    The Frog At Night Painting

    I just finished this painting about two weeks ago and it’s one of my new favorites for now until the next creation.

    This painting is of a frog who is wearing striped pajamas and holding a candle looking out of a windowsill. I have no idea where the inspiration or idea came from, but I do love amphibians!

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