For the past ~3 years, I've been in a bit of a slump, much like everyone else. Life became super destabilized and a bit out of control. But I think I'm beginning to see a new peak on the horizon and I'm super excited and, dare I say, cautiously optimistic about the future.

Lately, I've had a run of really amazing, special days, and I really would like some more friends to share all the great things (and bad, I suppose) that seem to be happening around me. Please note that I am not currently looking for anything romantic or sexual.

Here are some random blurbs about me:

• My younger sister says that I'm on the Pisces-Aries cusp and that explains *everything* about me.
• I'm surprisingly close with my neighbors. They call me the "plant/cat lady" and I fucking love it.
• My main hobbies are straight up geriatric: quilting, birdwatching, and gardening. I also enjoy watching hockey, golf, tennis, and F1.
• I'm currently raising my first batch of monarch butterflies and it's amazing.
• My favorite flowers: peonies, hydrangeas, gardenias, magnolias, lantana, snapdragons, orchids, ranunculus, and foxglove.
• My favorite birds: chimney swifts, common grackles, cardinals, boat tailed grackles, indigo buntings, painted buntings, purple martins, red winged blackbirds, crows, and house finches.
• My favorite ducks: wood ducks, blue winged teal, mallards, muscovies, and mandarins.
• I'm also pretty amazing in the kitchen.
• I just finished building out my front garden, including these amazing potted arrangements to attract butterflies, dragonflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Now I'm focusing on building out my back garden and I'm going for a goth girlfriend theme.
• My Clearly Canadian flavor is Mountain Blackberry.
• The Taylor Swift lyrics that speak most to my soul are: "I'm the wind in our free-flowing sails and the liquor in our cocktails."
• I'm staunchly team Ariana. #fuckmeinthistshirt
• Politically, I'm a walking contradiction. I want to be able to see my gay friends get married, grow my own weed, and shoot my suppressed AR-15 while paying enough in taxes to support a strong safety social net.
• Religiously, I'm a reformed former Catholic and now I worship satan.
• My music tastes are pretty eclectic and broad.
• When I'm quilting or gardening, I listen to almost exclusively death metal.
• I'm extremely overeducated and decently traveled.
• I'm currently reading "What is Called Thinking?" by Martin Heiddeger.
• My favorite book of all time is "Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
• I'm a big fan of better living through chemistry.
  Let's talk about anything and everything. I'm an open book.
  Tell me something fun about you or your life.