The Unhappy Waitress

Hello steam! I am the Unhappy Waitress.

I feel like I should explain myself a little, I am about to turn thirty and I’ve finally reached that point where i can’t be a waitress anymore. The weird, sometimes overwhelmingly long hours have caught up to me and I’ve decided that this is not how I want to live my life. People can be soul sucking, each day I go to work and I have to become this person that I created, just to pay my rent. I’m caged indoors most of the time, looking out the window like a dog, spending time and money on things I don’t like, just because this is how things are now. There is a better way to live.
I am like other women in many ways, I like to style my hair

I take my son out for long walks in the sunshine.
I like to create
I am working on making my own bath products

In many ways I’m not like everyone else, I am constantly studying and hunting edible and medicinal plants to forage

This year I started mushroom hunting

Eveyonce in awhile I get to thinking too much, I think about how this isn’t the lifestyle I want for myself and my family and the only way to get through it is my random hobbies. Archery is one of my latest, I plan to be able to craft my own bow, with nothing but a knife one day, but for now still learning the basics.

I’m not a total hippe, I think cryptocurrency is the way of the future and I’ll always have a phone and a computer. I defiantly think most of us lack balance when we don’t spend time in nature.
I was a medic in Iraq, did some college, but I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. My goal is to eventually live self sufficienctly off grid in a cabin in the woods, hunting and foraging for my food. This is a lofty goal, defiantly not gonna happen overnight and as much as I’d like to throw my apron in the rotisserie chicken wood fire at my work, I can’t just quit. I am a real person with a son and bills, so just from right now I am embracing the suck and getting through each day, one project at a time.

Follow me on my journey on distracting myself from the daily grind as I work towards my cabin in the woods.