it’s something you gotta work at and i really like that. not given. you’re more gonna be so obsessed every single second. you have to earn it and trust it. i’ve spent so much time in my head i haven’t even thanked myself yet. i’m so grateful for him. i’m so grateful for the way he sees me and pushes me. he’s so sweet and i’m grateful to be growing with him. i hate that my tendency is to quit. quitting is so appealing to me when in reality i would hate myself for it. i don’t love something until i let it go and i’m learning to resist that this time. get out of your head abby. i need to be spiritually on top of things and professionally more ambitious. it’s not fair tanners getting the grumping, on edge version of myself. he deserves the social, happy, competitive version. i’m very grateful i have the opportunity to see and fix that.
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Busy called she wants her body back.
everything feel so different now. I feel like ive been handed a toolbox of all I could possible want in this life and now I feel paralyzed by it and I dont know what to do with it. This past month has been filled with nothing but fun, fulfilling, exciting, inspiring times yet I dont know what to do with it all. I feel scrambled. I feel ungrateful. I feel at ease. I feel loved. There are almost too many emotions and none to feel all at once. I’m in my head too much. I selfishly catch myself wishing there was drama in my life. This is the first healthy relationship I have ever been in and I can’t help but feel sad that all my others went to waste. I’ve learned so much from them and am so grateful theyre there but similltaneously feel like a fraud. I feel so right with where I am but premature at the same time. I have passionately feelings towards someone but not about myself, my work. I have the train tracks all lined up for me and nowhere to go. The car is all loaded up and fueled but I’d rather go by foot now. I don’t know what the next phase entails but I know how important and theraputic it is for me to jot it all down. In the end when I dont have a canvas to create with, I always always have a place to write my thoughts down. I feel like I want my future kids to know how important it is to write things down. I haven’t ever had a therapist and who knows maybe one day I will but I feel like I am my own sometimes with this page. Maybe it’s the lack of literary outlets I have now without school that is causing my head to catch fire. I would say explode but I don’t want to be too dramatic just yet. I miss things a lot and I allow myself to miss them. I wish they would miss me back sometimes though. It’s somehow always felt like a two way street missing things but lately I feel it’s one sided. It gets heavy up here all day. Breathing helps. Not focusing on myself helps. The scriptures helps. Working out helps. Cooking helps. This busy body just needs her busy back.
my heart is so full. i don’t know how to describe it other than overflowing. i feel like i’ve been colorblind my whole life and i’m just now seeing color. i’ve never felt anything like this. my heart feels like it’s gonna explode all the time. he makes me happier than anything i ever could have imagined. and we are only one month in. i’m looking forward to everything with him. the fall, simple walks, christmas. christmas always always makes me sad but maybe not this year. the timing of everything couldn’t be more perfect it actually scares me. i feel so tune to the spirit in that his hand was so perfectly guided in this. he makes my heart so warm and happy. i get giddy about him all the time. how did i get so lucky. how did no one just snatch him before my eyes. how did i get lucky enough to have him by my side all the time. i don’t know if i’ll ever ever know the answer but it makes me cherish every single second i get to have with him. i finally have someone on my team and it’s never felt better. i’m so grateful.
grand teton-2020, june
it’s his birthday tomorrow.
Our first real day was on his birthday. I was terrified. I already liked him and wanted to get him a gift but didn’t want to over due it.
I’m training my heart to let go. The little things I want to remember I have to let go. I think training your heart is the hardest thing to do. How do you train a wild thing? How do you train your thoughts not to wander? How do you train your mind not to fill in the empty pockets w good moments when you know they were toxic? Why are the replays on highlights? I know we had more bad than good but my mind thinks otherwise.
I hate April 30. I hate it bc it was his password. I hate that the numbers taunt me. I hate that me taunts next. I feel pathetic at this point that he’s still there. Is it only bc I can’t have it? Is it only bc I’m bored? I don’t truly think I’ll ever ever know but that’s what I have to learn from all this. I have to be content w the silence.
I stay busy during this weird time. Despite the new settling anxiety I wish it was because of what’s going on. That’s only the icing. It’s the restlessness of uncertainty that’s driving me insane. I hate that I can’t distinguish my guy anymore. I don’t know if I let it heal or keep picking at it because it means so much to me.
I don’t know what to do.
I’m in a completely dark box and I can’t even start to get out because there’s so sign of an end of start.
No, it’s not trending anymore. Yes I’m still frickin excited that Magic is coming back to the Lakers.
Sunday Service. September 1.

