A Childfree City

This is a quick post to jot down my concerns about wanting and not wanting to combine my personal (friends & family) Twitter feed with my freely childfree one. Advice?

Why I want to combine 2 Twitter accounts

• Easier to pay attention, respond & update these similar combined accounts
• You childfree people are just so awesome I think you’d like everything I get myself into

Why I don’t want to combine 2 Twitter accounts:

• You understand, friends & family will judge, preach, and all that!
• Where else am I going to talk about my friends & family?! hahahahahaaa
• Can’t decide on a Twitter handle

So really it comes down to friends & family is OK to share with childfreecity BUT childfreecity is not always the best thing to share with friends & family.

What should I do?

Yesterday, I went to the beach with a few colleagues and we talked about work and our own life aspirations. It was amazing how different we all were even though we all graduated with the same Business and Marketing degrees.

The gal is living at home and wants to buy a house in a few years and rent a room out to her parents. She got a corporation job right out of college and she is very unhappy with how she is being treated and paid. But I see she buys all of these expensive items like: Couch purse, Yves Saint Laurent sun glasses and Lactose polos.

The guy is living in a nice yuppie apartment community with another one of our college friends. He worked his way up to this corporation job and is not happy with his management or the way the business treats his division. Since he doesn’t have to pay off college loans he has a lot of disposable income that he just seems to spend on gadgets and seasonal outdoor equipment.

Me, on the on the other hand, rents a small condo right across the street from my work and rents the second bedroom to a fun chick. I work in a small start up business and I really enjoy my work and the culture there. I am very easily discouraged by all of the loans I have to pay off while I’m getting paid the least, but I still manage to save up some money for traveling.

With this small comparison, I would like to think that I am better off because I am happy with my job. Since that is 1/3rd of my life, shouldn’t that be worth more than the amount of money I make or the stuff that I buy? What do you think? I am obviously a bit biased but I’d like to hear what you think.

-Jess

As I was strolling through the popular YouTube videos today, I found one that I was pleasantly surprised by.

7 steps of making a baby – “In fact, I would argue that whether you find babies cute is not necessarily relevant to whether you’ll enjoy having a baby.”

I hope you find this as refreshing as I did. :o)

-Jess

As a birthday present to myself I was able to get the birth control contraceptive of my dreams – the ParaGard copper IUD.

Before I went into the procedure I took a quick video of my thoughts about the non-hormonal IUD and the troubles I went through just to get it. Since I’ve use numerous birth control methods, I am so glad I was finally able to get this IUD as an alternative to female sterilization!

Please let me know what you think about my first vlog or your thoughts about the IUD contraceptive in the comments. I’d love to know your troubles with getting an IUD as a childfree person. :o)

-Jess