Tea Time with Hil

I just realized we are already almost through the month of January, which is insane! I feel that I've gotten off to a good start this month, I had a few rough patches but who doesn't! With that being said, there have been a few things that have made this month even more worth while and sparked joy for me that I thought I'd share. Nurse Jackie  - This is a Showtime Series that came out a decade ago but man it's good. It is currently on Netflix. Think about a Register Nurse, who is secretly addicted to pills... but seems to be holding it all together, at least most of the time. I started watching this last week and I am already on season 6. Episodes are only 22 minutes or so, so it's a quick watch.  Heartstrings - The new Dolly Parton series on Netflix, which happens to be amazing! I loved this series so much. Basically Dolly took her songs and created an hour episode based on the lyrics. I'm hoping she makes more episodes for this series, because she has a LO...

Happy Tuesday! Last week I finally did something I've been debating for months. I kept going back and forth in my mind. Should I do this? Do I really want to close that door for good? Is this super petty? The truth is, I'm big on closure and when I don't have any type of closure, I struggle moving on completely . My former friend of 4 years randomly walked out of my life over a year ago now. Yes, I was ghosted. And no, nothing happened to cause the ghosting. I really don't get how to you do that someone, especially after nothing happened? So again, back to closure. I deleted said-ghosted friend off of all social media platforms. I NEEDED closure and this was about the only way I was going to get any from her. I think the icing on the cake was her post 2-3 weeks ago that said something along the lines of "it's great having TRUE friends" . My thought was, as if the friends you had weren't "TRUE" enough, apparently you have moved on and now...

So, in the spirit of it being a New Year and a New Decade I've been thinking about what word I hope defines this year for me. What feeling do I want to get out of 2020? Granted, I've never done a word of the year before but I've seen posts on social media and thought the concept was interesting. Let's be real, anything that will spark some type of inspiration, I'm interested (within limits of course). I attempted to do this last year, but by the time it came back to my mind, the year was half way over and I felt the tone had already been set. Which it hadn't, you can always change the tone but that's what I thought at the time. So here I am, 7 days into 2020, ready to pick my word of the year. In my last post, I talked a lot about not sweating the small stuff this year (okay, I actually said not giving a fuck but I was a little sassy when I wrote that) and doing what makes me happy! This gets lost in translation a lot for me, because life happens. I t...

Well, here we are, a week into 2020. Wow. New Year, New Decade. A whole new blank slate to have a bigger, better year than the one before. I left 2019 feeling a bit, done. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted and on top of that I got my first cold in 5 years, yes, FIVE! Luckily, I work for a school, so we got 2 weeks off and I was able to rest. Resting is not my thing, so this was hard. The only downfall is, there's nothing like having time off work and having to get back into a routine after sleeping in til 10am for 2 weeks. I feel like I've been waiting for 2020 for a while now, being that this is the year I get married and move into my new home! Lots of big, wonderful changes are coming my way. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous, not to get married but just hoping everything falls into place and all the things we've been planning for the last two years (like our wedding) goes smoothly and stress free. DID YOU HEAR THAT UNIVERSE, STRESS FREE....