First official blog post! wooo!  Get to know me for a sec.. 

So I guess I should start this off by telling everyone a little bit about myself. My name is Stephanie. I am 33 years old, born and raised in South Florida to Colombian and Puerto Rican parents. Parents divorced when I was little, boohoo, and then I was partially raised by my aunts and grandparents. I think that's where I get my dark sense of humor and sarcasm because my abuela was the type of person who said "Miami traffic is so sh*t because Cubans are used to driving rafts and boats." lol She loved to talk her sh*t. After that period of time, I moved to Broward around 13 years old and had a pretty good childhood with my mom and siblings.  I mean, we all have our traumas that resulted in us now having anxiety or PTSD, coupled with ADHD, but that's all for another blog post. I met my husband while working at Mcdonalds shortly after graduating high school. Then, I started my career in hospitality. I know, I know... everyone says "serving isn't a career" or not a "real job" but let me just tell you, I literally thought I accidentally stole money from someone after counting my tips after my first double shift because that amount was insane to me that I had made that much, in cash, my first shift. I had made in one day what I made in one week at Mcdonalds. From serving, I made it into bartending and then supervising. Eventually, I had one GM who convinced me into doing management and I've been doing 50-hour a week managing ever since. During that time, I had my son in 2011 followed by three girls in 2013, 2015 and 2017. I'M DONE. Everyone loves to follow that up with "So when are you having another?" NEVER, KAREN. Thanks for asking now mind ya business. My husband and I have gone through our high ups and wayyy downs but we're pretty happily settled in the ups-area. This year in April 2023, we moved to Jacksonville. I never thought I'd wanna get out of the city and move to the country where people are actually nice and I see more pick-up trucks then when Broward had the annual chili cook off but here we are. People are actually friendly, people use their blinkers in traffic and I don't have to contemplate dancing on a pole just to be able to survive financially so that's nice, right!? I mean, I still find side hustles here and there but that's because I have ADHD and I like to do things like wander Target or HomeGoods to buy things I don't really need so I can get a nice dopamine release. Or atleast, that's what I'm going to continue using as an excuse. lol We live a simple, happy life in this country ass town. I left all my friends back home so I don't know many people but that's okay because now I BLOG! You can make friends like that, right?  I just started a new job as a restaurant manager at an upscale pizza place where a large specialty is like almost $40, little too bougie for my taste but it pays the bills. Mostly. My husband is a butcher at a bougie gourmet grocery store in the same area and our kids go to this little school 3 minutes from home. It's wild because we went from 45 minute drop off time to 7 minutes round trip and I LOVE it. lol Broward could never! 

Anyway, I think you guys now have the basics of me so let's see how this rollercoaster ride goes! We're gonna talk about the frustrations of motherhood, the bullsh*t that goes on in restaurants, the struggles within a family, the effects different mental illnesses can have on you and you as a mom, the hardships being a broke b*tch poses and everything else under the sun.