Hi everyone! Thanks so much for stopping by our very new and exciting group blog!

Brief introductions may be in order. My blogger moniker is Princess Pointful, which is also known as the most embarrassing name ever to have to introduce yourself as in real life. I’m 26 years old, which I am frightened may make the The Old One in this crew. I have, due to some naive reasoning when I was 17 and idealistic, been in school for many, many years, and am currently working on my PhD in Psychology. I live in a large Canadian city, and thus have a propensity for adding random “u”s into words. I reside with my boyfriend, The Duke, who is cute and scruffy and smart. I like bare feet, dill pickles, blowing bubbles, tacky mushroom paraphernalia, creating my own words which I then say with a straight face, and making up bad movie scripts about people on the street.

Given that this blog’s theme is life as a 20-something, I thought I may kick off with some lessons I have learned while making my way through this particular life-decade…

Your parents are real people. They are not just the perpetual icon of Mom and Dad. And, yes, this means with some very real, and very petty, flaws.

… but my mom still knows a lot more about my life than I would have ever expected. Like the times I thought I had really convinced her I was sober, or that my boyfriend had slept on the pull-out couch. She always knew the truth, but just let me get away with things sometimes.

Going to a movie alone is nowhere near as intimidating as you would expect.

Neither is living alone.

Neither is being single. Especially when the alternative is to stay in a lackluster relationship.

Nothing reveals who your true friends are quicker than an unexpected catastrophe.

More can be discovered about a new city by wandering aimlessly with yourself than by following a guidebook.

It is never worth it to try to save an alcoholic.

Wait as long as you can to get a credit card. I miraculously waited until I’d graduated from college, and am really glad my 20 year old self didn’t have access to “unlimited” funds.

Just go ahead and do the very thing you are hesitant to do. This is how I ended up in my current job, which scared the crap out of me when I initially heard about it, but has been one of the best challenges I’ve ever taken.

You will gain weight in your early 20s. Even if you aren’t eating bad cafeteria food– it’s not just the ‘Freshman 15′

Live music is the world’s best distraction.

It is always a good idea to have a unique signature dish. You never know when you will need to impress someone over dinner, and spaghetti and tomato sauce don’t always cut it. Mine? Balsamic beef stir fry or peanut curried chicken.

Everybody says it would be a great idea to move it together. Don’t always believe them.

It isn’t worth it to take on other people’s timelines.

A lot of girls like sex as much as, if not more than, boys. Myself included.

You always wait too long to quit a bad job or end a bad relationship.

It always takes double the amount of time to prepare food as it claims on the recipe.

Just because he knows you have a boyfriend doesn’t mean he won’t try to kiss you after a few drinks.

The impossible decisions of today are merely the taken for granted facts of tomorrow.

You are the only constant in every relationship problem you have. … although it always easier to blame the series of other people.

The boy who tells you that you are sexy when you talk about something smart is worth a million boys who tell you that you look sexy in a bikini.

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