Today I am T H I R T Y 😱🥳🥳 True story: when
#13GoingOn30 came out in 2004, I never imagined that my version of
#ThirtyFlirtyAndThriving would involve being suddenly single, jobless, losing my house and moving back in with my parents during a pandemic. In fact, I imagined
#ThirtyFlirtyAndThriving would look a lot more like being married with at least two kids... literally, that's it. Maybe I would have a job, a hobby, or a career... but what I wanted to actually *do* with my life was rarely the focus of my "where-will-I-be-at-age-30"-fantasies, because of course, those things would be dependent upon who I married and when I had kids. Funny how society makes you think like that, namely, how easy it is for young girls to envision their own futures first in the context of a hypothetical relationship, and only second with respect to themselves and their own wants, needs and desires. When I was a girl, if I saw where I am now I would have viewed myself as a failure. Lots of people re...