Today’s Mood Ingredients: Pensive, Caffeinated, Excited.

I decided to try a new way of battling insomnia; and if you’re reading this, then thanks & welcome to my whirlwind! Champagne & cookie dough. Is there a better combination to be had? Well, maybe, but I don’t think so & this is my blog so I win.

I came up with this title while I was hungry, obviously, but I managed to put two meanings behind it so I validated myself. Champagne & cookie dough is a lifestyle. And champagne & cookie dough is a woman. Deep, I know.

People have oft come up to me and said they would like to travel to places I’ve been or live the way I live, mostly because they only know what I allow them to see on social media. Granted, I’ve been very lucky to do many things in my life, but let’s be clear; I try to live a champagne life on a cookie dough budget. And I’m pretty sure that’s how it is for most average people out there. Not that I aspire to be average, that’s actually my greatest fear in life. Nameless, faceless, dead. But you’re not my therapists so let me not digress. This blog is going to be a space where I’m honest about how I live, and how I think many of us live. I like the Louboutins & Birkins as much as the next person (except my brother, I think he thinks those are my friends’ last names or something), but at this point in time, all I can do is double tap the CL & Hermès Instagrams and then go to Aldo & Forever 21. For now, I’m okay with it because in the poetic words of Jessie J., “It’s not about the money, money, money..we don’t need your money, money, money” (we obviously do to survive, but let’s just roll with this for the moment).

The other aspect to champagne & cookie dough is the kind of girl (I still like using girl, “woman” makes me feel geriatric) that I think I am/want to be (chime in if you think otherwise), and the kind of girl that I think just gets it all. The class of champagne, the relatability of cookie dough. You’ll see more elaboration in the types of posts here, but that’s the general idea.

Hope you’re comin’ along for this weird ride.

Today’s Interlude: Ellie Goulding, “Burn”