me!

  Hello and welcome to my new blog! I am fully making this for fun. I've always loved writing and was inspired by a tiktok (sugarplumblondie - check out her blog!) to make my own blog.

I truly have no idea what I am doing, this is a fun little experiment. As an eldest daughter I am very stubborn and like to figure things out on my own. I'm one of those people who gets annoyed when people can't figure out how to do things themselves (I'll admit, not my best trait). So, I'm challenging myself not to just give up on this because I don't instantly understand.

I've been journaling for years and thought it could be fun to publish some of those entries. My writing needs some work for sure, and what a great way to practice! Please never expect proper grammar though, this isn't a professional published work so I'm just gonna write the same way I think. I also despise AI so when you see me using the em-dash or whatever it's called, just know this is NOTTTT written by ChatGPT! I don't have a set "theme" for this blog and I don't think I ever will. I'll be writing whatever I feel like writing at the time. And since I'm doing this for fun, I don't expect that anyone will be reading this at all. If you are, I'm so glad you're here!!

I'll tell you a bit about me so you have an idea of what to expect from my blog posts. I made my username "cherryapostate" which is pretty random. Cherry is my pseudonym for reasons unknown. Apostate = "a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle," which would be me :) I grew up mormon, and am now an ex-mormon. You'll notice I don't capitalize words related to religion (ex. god, jesus, mormon) and that is intentional. Capitalizing those things gives power to them and makes them more "real". I won't go on a whole tangent about that (yet) but I am very passionate about that topic. Deconstructing religion takes over your whole life, and I have certainly realized that my religious upbringing still impacts me today. Despite my efforts to move on lol. 

I'm a university student and love to complain, so I'm sure I'll write about that. As I mentioned I'm an eldest daughter. My parents are also divorced and I like to think that makes me funny. I'm trying not to give too much away, not because I'm afraid of strangers finding me, but I'm afraid of people I know IRL finding me! If you think you know me, no you don't. I feel like I have a lot of lore so I'll have to figure out how I can tell my stories without anyone being able to figure me out. Although lets be real, who do I know that reads blogs. Especially this random one. 

What else... I hate sharing fun facts (like most people). I love being creative but I am severely ADHD so I jump from hobby to hobby like nobodies business. I've journaled since I was like 8 years old (a mormon thing, sadly) and have tried it all. Daily journaling, prompts, bullet journal, and now junk journaling. I loveee junk journaling, although I do it in more of a scrapbooking way. I can't even think of any other hobbies I've had, but know that there are many more. 

I guess that's all for now. If you somehow happened upon this blog I hope you stay a while! I'm excited to start this journey :)