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Hey all you beautiful humans! It sure has been a while. Literally years! I just randomly decided that I reallyyyy missed my SG community and wanted to start being active on here again! I think I kind of dropped off the face of the planet (or the SG world at least) when blogging became important because I was a pretty private person, and the idea of opening up on here scared me. But over the past few years, I've really grown, opened up, and come out of my shell so much and I'm not so afraid of that idea anymore. Actually, quite the opposite. Now, I'm pretty excited at the thought of getting close to others by opening up. I've moved around quite a bit over the past few years and am longing for the kind of friendships that SG brought into my life when I first became a member. My health has been pretty poor, as I suffer from severe endometriosis and have gone through almost 20 operations, I'm currently going through my third round of a form of chemotherapy that is used to eliminate all hormones from your body to prepare me for a pretty major surgery in a few more months. I'm handling it the best I can but it doesn't make it too easy for me to make friends right now which I could really use probably now more than ever.

I really don't want to talk too much about that because I'm not just a sick girl.

I'm also a fun girl.

I'm a goofy girl.

I'm a musical girl. Singer/songwriter. I play acoustic,electric, bass and ukulele.

I'm a creative girl.

I'm a loyal girl.

I'm a loving girl.

I'm a super dog-mom.

I'm a craft beer (sours especially) food loving girl.

I'm a spontaneous girl.

There's so much more to me, the point is, being pretty sick MAY be a big part of my life currently, however it is not the ONLY part of my life.

So let's get to know each other, let's be friends. It would mean the world to me and I would love that more than anything right now.

XO Apollo

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hewn:
Though I’m generally an IPA guy, I love *all* beers, including sours. There’s some seriously good sours done by some breweries here in Virginia (The Answer Brewpub, Three Notch’d Brewing, Adroit Theory Brewing, and The Veil Brewing just to make a few), so if your future travels ever put you through Richmond and the DC area, you must make stops by these places. On the other thing, as someone that has health problems, I commend your optimism in the face of the struggle that is chronic illness. It’s important to have a positive attitude, and stout mental strength, because it’s generally hard to find others that genuinely understand and “get it”, so having that positive attitude is key to getting a leg up on beating it, or at least living with it. So, to me especially, anyone with an illness that really is just willing to expose herself to opening up, is not only impressive to me, but genuinely inspiring in some ways.
apollo:
@hewn I will absolutely keep those breweries in mind if I'm in the area! As someone who will totally make a little weekend trip out of going to check out breweries that peak my interest- no matter how far from me- getting suggestions from locals is the best! I really reallyyyy appreciate your sweet thoughts, and even more so knowing that you deal with some health issues yourself. It really means a lot to me. I have been dealing with this disease for almost 17 years now, and I definitely wasn't always so positive and optimistic (actually quite the opposite when I was young), but several years ago I just started pretending like I was one day and really sticking with that act... Until one day, it was no longer an act and I actually was. "Fake it 'till you make it!" haha.. I'm older, maybe a bit wiser, and definitely more mature, and I just realize that this is my life. This is the hand I was dealt. There's not a damn thing I can do to change that fact. I would live a prettyyy miserable, sad existance if I just spent all of my time being resentful and mad about it. I didn't choose to have an incurable disease.. But I CAN choose how I handle/carry myself in spite of it! And when you live a life where so much is out of your control, it makes you really value the things you can control.

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