Times are good Megs
31 May 2011 10 Comments
in me
Dear Megs,
I want to blog my current state of affairs because one day you might forget this time in your life. I think it bears blogging/open letter writing as I believe this is an extraordinary time for you and I want you to always remember this time when you were being a legit bad ass.
Right now you’re working three jobs at once: writing and managing content for Offbeat Bride, guest posting for MyWedding.com and working on MFP shoots.
At this particular moment in time, while you are working your butt off, you are also in Texas (where you’ve been for the past two weeks) taking care of your father who is recovering from a surgery. You’re seriously getting up, walking his dog, fixing and fetching all his meals, running his errands, and dressing his wound. And while taking care of someone isn’t easy for you, and it’s even less easy for your father to have to be taken care of, but you’re super happy and feel lucky as hell to be able to do so. Your dad thanks you every day for everything you do. But more than his thanks, you appreciate the time you guys get to spend together. The bonding’s been nice.
Oh yeah!
You’re supporting your family (which is Aaron, the pets and you). Remember when you didn’t have a job and Aaron was supporting you and you couldn’t even afford to buy the groceries? Remember how you told Aaron, “one day I’ll be doing this for you” every time he got frustrated by your lack of funds? Well that day is now. Ariel also recently reminded you about when, a couple years ago, your parents finally cut you off and you and she were scheming ways for you to make more money from the site. And now, here you are, with enough money to pay ALL the bills, your credit card is paid off, your even saving money with the hope of purchasing a house sometime in the future. (I’m guessing 5 to 10 years from now.)
You just found out today that you’ve made more money this last month than you’ve EVER made in any one month in your life. It feels GOOOOD. (This is all the money from OBB, MyWedding, MFP, and Amazon affiliates: $6218.00)
Your little sister is pregnant and you’re totally freaked out by this. Not surprisingly you STILL don’t want to be a mother and you still don’t like kids and particularly can’t stand babies. So you’re not thrilled about welcoming one into your immediate family. You’re hoping you’ll get over it.
The rest of the family is going through some drama. You promised your dad you wouldn’t post details, but you think you can get away with saying that you’re super proud of BOTH of your parents. They’re doing something that is extremely difficult and that doesn’t come naturally to them, but it’s gotta be done. Ain’t that just what parenting is all about!? (Yet another reason not to do it Megan! wink wink)
You dyed your hair back to red and you really miss your pink hair. But you have a plan to get it back! Just in a different way because, let’s face it, you aren’t good when it comes to upkeep. But, yup, you miss something about pinkness.
You’re two months shy of your 30th birthday and though things aren’t where you thought they’d be when you turned 30 … they’re better. Though that doesn’t mean you’re ready to turn 30.
Anyway, today you spent the day working and, in a fit of nostalgia you looked back on the entirety of this blog and realized how far you’ve come, from lost and often love-struck college student to an almost 30-year-old bad ass. Good on ya’ girl. When shit starts to go south, like things are want to do now and then, hopefully you can come back to this and remember that time when you were kicking ass and taking names and had a LOT to be proud of.
Cheers,
Megs
Aloha there, I'm Megan Finley. I'm a 30-something girl, living in Los Angeles with that guy I married and our rescued pets. I work online (a LOT) for the 
Jun 01, 2011 @ 21:20:20
Loves it. But it makes me miss you more, damn it!
Jun 01, 2011 @ 21:33:04
It makes me miss you more too. Because OF COURSE when I think about how awesome my life is right now, I think about how amazing my best girl is.
Jun 02, 2011 @ 00:53:03
This is amazing I am so stoked for you. What a beautiful and perfect life! AND I MEAN THAT.
(BTW I posted this on your about page because I am INSANE SORRY. I couldn’t delete it.)
Jun 02, 2011 @ 08:50:29
No worries, I deleted. You are silly and wonderful Ashley.
Jun 04, 2011 @ 13:45:04
hahaha I hope you get over welcoming a baby into our immediate family too =) I’ll try to not have you meet him until he’s 18 =)
Jun 05, 2011 @ 08:20:02
Cool, I’d appreciate that.
Jun 20, 2011 @ 19:25:46
I just found your blog! ( From Ariel’s roll call post.) Can’t believe I never found it before!
I loved the pink hair but the red hair is FUCKING AWESOME. It looks so good –shiny and delicious.
Jun 21, 2011 @ 11:12:10
Hey there! YAY for finding my blog!
Sep 11, 2011 @ 00:12:01
Schmez,
This Blog post is a lie. You are totally unfulfilled and miserable and you hate everything. Ok so maybe it’s not quite that bad, but you are missing a few key ingredients for perfection. Two to be exact, or tu-tu bee if you are a little girl in a bee costume. Two things you say? Two things that are both compound words. (you really should have paid attention in english class at USC… a compound word is a word made up of two smaller words…you know like back-yard or wolf-hound.
So back to the two things that would make you a super nerd force to be reckoned with? I forgot…
There are, however, a few messages to your self that you have forgotten to write in this post. How much have you impressed jackson in the past year? Since you have been married Jackson and the Woogs are often found having a cigar and a scotch out on the balcony talking about how far you’ve come. You are a beacon of hope for those dudes. They say things like…. “I can’t believe how Megan always manages to get closer and closer to the things she wants. It is her will, but she doesn’t even notice it!” There are other quotes from Peezu like “i like to lickses her face, but shez haz to draw the line somewherez, so I totally understandz”
Then there is the bears…
The bears are the mostest proudest bears that ever beared. They are all like “How did I fall ass backwards in to this amazing love and friendship” and “WTF, How come she makes everything look so easy?” I think if the bears could give you all the bear love inside at once it would probably kill you in a rainbow explosion… That is the kind of love we are talking… Then it would rain lucky charms and toast that has been perfectly buttered for a hundred years.
Anyway, Mega-low-mart, there are things about you that make you unique and they aren’t even the things about you that you like that are unique. You are a weird freak of space-age technology rolled up inside the body of a sexy muppet with a million weird phobias! You are the Jessica Rabbit of nerdy. Stubborn, yes,
snarky, check, adorable, yaw, smart as a whip, most likely, and seriously valued as a friend and co-cosmonaut in this crazy space capsule of life… Infinity plus a google infinities YES! Cheers to the fact that you can lie in bed once in a while and do absolutely nothing, but still you are being amazing!
Also you have a very cold butt in the winter.
Ted F. A.
P.S. People Love You (didn’t you get that yet?)
Sep 11, 2011 @ 00:13:37
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