Poppy's Garden

07/11/2024

Thank you for being the man I have waited so long for. Loving you has been the happiest season of life yet. You make me smile, laugh, cry happy tears, give me butterflies, and make me feel so loved. I can’t wait to go on all the journeys life has in store for us, I know we’ll conquer them all together. 🩵

06/25/2024

Find the bride that bounces. Find the bride that can’t stop smiling from ear to ear, find the bride that jumps for joy, find the bride that can’t help but bounce up and down from pure happiness. From someone in this crazy event industry I can whole heartedly say, when you find a bride like that it reminds you that every struggle, that every bit of the blood, sweat, and tears you’ve shed is worth it a thousand times over.
rhoades I can’t begin to tell you how much it means to look back and see captured moments of you so happy that you were literally bouncing. Those captured moments will forever hold a special place in my heart and be a core memory for me. Thank you Hanna for reminding me why I continue to do what I do. You truly have a heart of gold (and blue and white 😘)!!!

06/06/2024

A memory came across my newsfeed, reminding me it's been 8 years since I finished floral design school. I remember the long drive home from Portland. My car loaded out with Millie, too many clothes, my moped, hopes and dreams. I remember the feeling of accomplishment I felt. After so many years trying to find my niche in college and failing, to finally finding what I knew I was meant to do in life. I can't describe the weight that was lifted from me during that time of my life. I didn't quite know what the future held, I just knew I wanted to start my journey with flowers.

Dreams are a funny thing. In the early moments of realizing your dreams it’s exciting, like a fire you think will never burn out. No one tells you how hard you will have to fight to keep living and chasing your dreams. How you will go through seasons where that fire you once had quite literally burns out and every fiber of your being questions whether or not to keep doing it. I guess that's what makes your dreams worth it in the end, if there wasn't a little fight and grit in the game would it really be worth it? Probably not.

This life with flowers has taken so many twists and turns. I've had opportunities I never dreamed I'd have and accomplished goals I never knew I'd reach.

This journey has taught me so much. It's taught me what's important and what I need to prioritize in life, when to trust my gut and say no, and when it's time to walk away from people or dreams that in reality were only meant to be temporary. It's given me the confidence to say yes to challenges, to know it's okay to change my mind, to feel right with my decisions, and most importantly the confidence to not take so much stock in what others think. I'm thankful for every single lesson I've learned along the way, every win and loss carried a lesson with it.

I'm not sure I would call myself a veteran floral designer at this point, but the experience I've gained throughout this journey has given me a priceless amount of perspective and knowledge I am grateful to carry with me as I continue this crazy flower journey.

So here I am, still dreaming, still learning, and still crossing off goals only to make new ones.

03/28/2024

Last year was my Meme’s 90th birthday and we had the honor of celebrating her with a surprise birthday party. It was the absolute best day, filled with the best memories that I will carry with me forever. It was so fun to see her relish in her celebration with her family and friends that loved her.

This year her birthday celebration looks and feels quite different with her up in heaven. It feels very strange to not be wishing her happy birthday, going to dinner with her, or giving her a hug. My Meme passed away in July and our world still feels so strange without her in it. My family and I are still in “the year of firsts” without her - the first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, now her first birthday without her, soon it will be the first Mother’s Day, and soon after will be the first year without her. Experiencing my first birthday without her here to wish me happy birthday was the worst. I’m not someone that cares too much about my own birthday or the acknowledgment of it, but not hearing her tell me happy birthday was not something I realized would hit so hard. It’s very hard to beleive it’s already been 8 months without her. I miss her more than I can even begin to describe. While I still have moments of sadness from time to time when I think of her being gone, I have more moments of thinking of her with so much happiness. I’m so lucky to have so many amazing memories of her that I will cherish forever.

Happy Birthday Meme! I’m sure you are celebrating with Papa and your friends and family up in heaven! I’m sure you are up there telling us not to be sad. I’m sure you’ve still been keeping up with us, like you always have. I love and miss you so much! 🩷

02/17/2024

Some people soft launch their boyfriend, which seems a little silly to me, and some people soft launch their return to social media. Although, I suppose both are a little silly 😂

Either way, I’ve missed you all!

03/17/2023

Alright, this is the last time I’m going to use my breakup as a business ploy to drive sales…it’s fine, you gotta do what you gotta do in this economy.

I posted about my breakup during Valentine’s Day and at the time I was handling it quite gracefully, if I do say so myself. I’ve moved on in the grieving process from sad to down right sassy. The sassiness set in a few days ago when I was supposed to be getting on a plane for a two week trip to Ireland and London…

I was supposed to be waking up in Ireland today, and spending St. Patrick’s Day wondering the streets of Dublin with my boyfriend, now EX-boyfriend. But no, here I am in good ole Muskogee, Oklahoma USA, waking up at 6:30am to schlep flowers. Luckily I do love my job and I’m thankful for that! But still, Ireland ⚖️Muskogee…I’m sassy about it to say the least. 😂😂😂

So come see me at the shop today and tomorrow, buy my sh🍀t, and help distract me from the fact that I was supposed to be out of the country…ice cream, queso & chips, and Diet Pepsi from Beacon Drive Inn are also accepted as forms of payment today and tomorrow.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀☘️🍀

03/03/2023

Here’s to the first Friday we’ve been open with our new store hours! It’s been a busy day at the shop and we’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone out shopping downtown.

We’ll be open tomorrow from 10am to 4pm, so come see us!

Thank you all for being so supportive of our new hours! We’ve really enjoyed the change and can already feel that it was the right decision for our team. We appreciate all the kind words, support, and understanding you’ve shown us. Please let us know if you have any questions about our recent change, we are always happy to help!

03/01/2023

Happy March 1st everybody! Which lets be honest, is actually a florist’s New Years Day - since from the holiday season to Valentine’s Day is usually a complete blur and I don’t know a florist that isn’t excited about the beginning of Spring flower season.

So Happy New Year everybody!

02/28/2023

You all are really outdoing yourselves with our caption contest! Some of the captions have us cackling 😂😂😂

There are 6 hours left in the contest, go to our stories to submit your caption. We’ll choose a winner tonight and announce tomorrow. We may even have a couple winners, it’s going to be hard to choose our favorite.

02/28/2023

Our announcement may have been a little shocking. Some of you may not understand this change, I know it doesn't seem conventional or normal, but do any of us even know what normal is anymore. Look at this insane world we live in right now. Nothing is normal anymore, we can't go on doing business as if it's normal.

At the end of the day, I want to feel like I am accomplishing something. I want to proactively approach my tasks, my business, and my goals. I want to start my day with a plan and be able to check things off the list by the end of the day. I may not finish the list each day, but I want to check things off knowing I did them to the best of my abilities. I can't continue to work as hard as I am and feel like I've accomplished nothing at all by the end of the week. It makes me feel like a failure and I know I’m not a failure. So, while this may not be a normal way of doing business for a retail flower shop, it is the necessary change myself and my business needs right now.

A friend of mine recently made the decision to see a therapist, we were talking about how her first appointment went. She told me something her therapist said that stopped me dead in my tracks. Her therapist said, and get a pen & paper for this golden nugget of knowledge we could all use in today's not normal world - "You can't problem solve, because you are only putting out fires. And that's all you can do right now." Her therapist went on to tell her the solution everyone thinks is the easy and logical thing to do, is to take things off your plate - but, when all the things on your plate are important, how do you take them off your plate? The answer is you can't, the answer is you need to problem solve, but how can you do that if all you are doing is putting out fires, often everyone else's fires.

I can't tell you how much her words resonated with me. The past two years I feel like I start the day with a plan and am hijacked by fires, and I have to stop and deal with the fire roaring the loudest. It's not productive, doesn't serve my business well, certainly doesn't serve myself well. So, I'm giving myself permission to make a change. I’m giving myself permission to trust my gut.

02/27/2023

Coming in hot with our announcement we promised you this evening, even better we’re closer to the 6ish timeframe, rather than 8ish 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We’ve unpacked quite a bit of important information for you. Please do me a solid and read through all 9 slides of my PowerPoint presentation 😂 We tried our best to anticipate any questions you all might have, but please let us know if you have any additional questions you’d like us to answer. This is a change for all of us, so I’m sure there will be an adjustment process. We will do our very best to make this an easy transition for our customers and our team.

Thank you all for continuing to support us and love us through the changes and growing pains we’ve gone through over the past few years. We love our customers and we hope you all understand that we are making this adjustment so we can better serve you. 💗

02/25/2023

We have an announcement coming tomorrow evening, sometime between 6-8pmISH 📣📣📣

It’s nothing bad, nothing over the top exciting, just some news and changes that we need to fill you all in on! Keep an eye on our social media tomorrow!

02/23/2023

With events like these I often think of my Papa. If you’re new here, I named my business after my Papa. The last few years of his life I started calling him Poppy. He passed in January 2015 and my life took a drastic turn that year. I lovingly refer to it as “the year of suck.” While I was picking up the pieces of my life, I believe my Papa somehow lead me to flowers.

He had an incredible attention to detail. He loved gardening with my Meme and took pride in making the yard perfect. My Papa was a veteran and chose to never take advantage of his veterans benefits throughout his life, but the last few years of his life he decided he wanted he and Meme to be buried at the National Cemetery. I believe it was for no other reason than he knew the grounds would always be pristinely cared for. He had a plot at another cemetery, he even bought the rest of us plots, so we could all be buried together - but he ditched us heathens for the better lawn. That always makes me giggle!!! He would’ve loved Harweldon Mansion, the craftsmanship, the history, and mostly how pristinely the mansion is taken care of.

While we were designing I held back the buckets of poppies, I knew we wanted to use them, just wasn’t sure what for quite yet. In the dining room we planned on centerpieces, but the tables were narrow, plus we didn’t need heavy floral on those tables since they were surrounded by flowers. One of the many things I enjoy about working with Annie is her willingness to not stay rigid to the design plan. We always seem to stumble upon the best option at the last minute or in the midst of a problem. When I realized my centerpieces were too big for the tables, the poppies and moss centerpieces came on the scene. The poppies dancing around the dining room tables in all their delicate unruliness was exactly what the tables needed.

While we were making our final walk through the event, our teammate Nicole mentioned the poppies on the tables, it wasn’t apart of the original plan so it was a nice surprise - she said it literally is like Poppy’s Garden in here. The comment made my heart skip a beat, and I realized it was as if we made a garden for my Papa, we made Poppy’s Garden.

02/23/2023

Go check out our reel on instagram of our amazing memories from last year’s wedding on 2/22/22!

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02/21/2023

We’ve decided to be closed today! So sorry for the inconvenience.

I think we need one more day to recoup from the busyness of last week, before we dive back into normalcy.

I went by the shop this morning to take care of a funeral order. After I got that out the door, I looked around at the shop and saw the tornado of what remains from Valentine’s Day, turned off the lights, and said not today✌🏻

We’ll be back at the shop with our mess and normal shenanigans tomorrow!

02/16/2023

Thank you all for helping us spread a little happiness the last couple days and ending our Valentine’s Day week on the best note it ever could’ve been ended on!

We are closing up a little early because we are down to the last little bit of greenery.

We’ll be closed for the next few days to rest and we’ll be back in the shop on Tuesday. All orders that have already been scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday will be fulfilled as planned. See you all next week! Thank you!

02/16/2023

If you haven’t seen my Dad’s stories this morning it’s worth a watch.

I didn’t know that my Dad would be the one making us all cry today. I had a message from a customer about my Dad’s stories and I thought, oh gosh what is he up to now. I was not expecting to find myself crying after his stories, usually his stories leave me either 🤦🏻‍♀️ or 😂.

I’ve seen my Dad cry a handful of times in my life. One of the things I know about my Dad is that there are two main things he cares about the most and it’s my Mom first and then me. He’s one of the good ones. I’ve never been married, come close, but haven’t found the one yet. I often blame my Dad, because I still haven’t found someone that can hold a candle to him. Sure my dad and I bicker, sure he drives me nuttier than a fruitcake, but he’s my best friend too, and I’m so glad I get to have him around everyday. I’m so glad I get to have our goofy stories to look back on one day, I know how much I will cherish them. So thank you Dad for being you, for making us all cry today, and for usually making us laugh so hard we cry.

02/16/2023

Today was pretty amazing! Thank you all so much for coming by the shop.

I was messaging with a customer that came by and got flowers today. She shared with me why she came and got flowers and what a difference they made for her. She mentioned that it may be painful for me as a business owner to see the flowers go for free, but that they made a difference for her. So many others shared with me why they were there today and one customer even got emotional while sharing her story.

If some of you are scratching your heads wondering why I did what I did today, why a business owner would give away hundreds if not thousands of free flowers instead of figure out a way to make a profit off of them, THIS is the reason. This is what the purpose was today. To bring joy and happiness to others. There was no pain today. It would’ve been painful to throw them away and know they wouldn’t have been shared with others.

Something I rarely get to see is the joy on your faces when you receive flowers. Sometimes I don’t even get to see brides on their wedding days. I don’t get to make the deliveries, I’m back at the shop working on orders or still making sure all the flowers are done in time for the wedding. Can you imagine working that hard and not getting to see the very reason of why you’re doing it in the first place. It’s not for the recognition, I couldn’t care less about that. That’s the part of social media that makes me uncomfortable, because at times it almost feels like showing off and boastful. I understand that I’m talented and I don’t need to post a picture to know that. It makes me happy to make others happy. I think that’s why I’ve come to share so much and be an open book, because it’s more about the sharing in it for me than it is about the “look what I did.”

So doing this today was exactly what I needed to see after Valentine’s Day. It was the celebration my team and I needed. I’m grateful my Mom and Dad were able to experience this with me today, there is no one else more deserving of happiness, joy, and appreciation than them. They’ve worked so hard to support me in this crazy business and it felt good to see them share in this with me.

Thank you 💗

02/15/2023

Here’s the deal, I’ll go ahead and share something that most flower shops won’t. I know I’m not the only one with this issue and I’ve decided to make the best of it!

We have a ton of left over flowers, in buckets and arrangements.

I joked to the team that they might find me in the streets auctioning off my flowers today. Well I’m damn near doing that 😂

Throwing away flowers is part of the job - unfortunately there is a lot of waste in the floral industry.

I just can’t throw away a single flower this time. I can’t do it. I don’t have it in me to throw beautiful arrangements away. And keeping them in buckets only to watch them slowly die doesn’t sound appealing either.

We are planning to take a significant amount to a local nursing home that we work with frequently. But there will still be flowers remaining after that.

So listen, here’s what’s going to go down. Today I’ll be there from 2pm to 6pm, and Thursday our hours will be noon to 6pm. Friday & Saturday, the team and I need a long weekend so I would like to be closed.

During the hours above, we will be at the shop and you are welcome to come get these flowers. Yes, FREE flowers.

I would love if our customers that constantly show us support come and get flowers. I would love if my family, friends, and team members that constantly support me come get flowers. I would love if you are someone that is going through a hard time to get flowers. I would love if you have a family member that needs their day brightened to have flowers. I would love for people that need flowers to have flowers. I would like this to be something good to make other people happy.

I would NOT like this to become a free for all, and these flowers be ravaged just because they are free flowers. There is nothing that icks me out more than, for flowers to be taken in a greedy way just because they are free flowers or for no purpose other than that they are free.

The flowers have to serve a purpose and the purpose here is happiness. That is the purpose of doing what I’m doing. That is the purpose of why I’m a florist. So come take my flowers if they will bring you or others happiness. 💗

BYO VASE, free flowers not vases 😂

02/15/2023

Cheers to another Valentine’s Day in the books ❤️ To all of our amazing customers, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!!

Huge thank you to our amazing team and family. I’m lucky to have the most incredible humans around me, who sacrifice time away their lives and families to help me succeed. I love and appreciate them more than they will ever know and I’m grateful to have them by my side.

And a big shoutout to our shop neighbors Creative Soul and Lola’s Living for letting us take over their studios the last few days! I can’t even tell you what a life saver it was to be able to work out of both of their spaces. 💗💗

Thank you all for helping make this Valentine’s Day a success!!

We’re planning to be at the shop today to deliver a few orders going out today. We won’t be taking any new orders the rest of the week. BUT, and this is a BIG but, I’ve got a plan up my sleeve to deal with all our left over flowers and I’ll be posting about that here shortly, so keep an eye out for that.

02/14/2023

We’ve had our deliveries in progress all day and are continuing to get them out the door. Seems like we are clipping along nicely, so yay for that!

We are currently stocking the front of the shop for walk in customers! So please come see us! We are fully stocked and have all our flowers ready for you to walk out the door with it.

Please come see us, buy our flowers (remember I’m heartbroken 😂 and will shamelessly be milking that until all these flowers are gone), we’ve got a ton of plants! We couldn’t be more ready for you!!!!

02/14/2023

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

Thank you all so much for always being the best customers and showing us your support. We told you all that me needed more orders and you heard us! We saw a big push in orders yesterday! Our computer system chimes every time we receive an online order, every single time it went off yesterday we all cheered!! Thank you so much!

We cannot wait to deliver your arrangements! (No seriously, we want these flowers out of here ASAP 😉)

That being said, 95% of our Valentine’s orders were placed for today, so PLEASE be patient with us! As a reminder, we cannot guarantee any timed deliveries during Valentine’s Day. We try our very best to get them where they need to be, when they need to be there, and take all time constraints into consideration. We have lots of delivery drivers lined up and will be getting your orders out the door as fast as we can, but we appreciate all the grace we can get, especially .

And if you haven’t placed your order yet, please place your order now! We will probably stop taking phone and online orders around noon, at that point we will make all remaining inventory available at the shop for pickup - by noon our deliveries for the day will be routed and in progress, if we take on any more after that, we run the risk of deliveries being late. We cannot take anymore orders for Tulsa or the surrounding areas, as those orders have already been placed on multiple routes.

We are very limited on what we have left, so check our remaining options at poppys-garden.com. There are items that we have ready in the cooler waiting for you to purchase, those items will be able to go out the door faster than an item we need to make.
Currently ready and in the cooler:
5 Petites
10 Smalls
10 Mediums
3 Larges
2 Faithful Roses
Budvases
Love Bugs

I’d also like to remind you all…please buy my flowers, I’m going through a breakup 😂

We are open today from 9am to 7pm, or until we’re sold out, or until the door stops opening! We’ll keep you all updated! 💗

02/14/2023

❤️BACK IN STOCK & ON THE WEBSITE ❤️
Earlier today we sold out of our Blushing Budvases and Love Bug arrangements. So we went and raided our black hole of a storage unit…well units, and found more 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We just need to make a slight adjustment, but we think you’ll still be happy! We were able to find quite a few more blush vases, but some orders will now be designed with white or light grey vases in the same style. The white and light grey will still look wonderful with our color palette!

We felt like it was more important to be able to offer you all these arrangements than get picky over the vase color. We hope you all understand, thank you 💗

02/13/2023

We are open today and tomorrow from 9am to 7pm! We are still taking orders, in fact we really NEED more orders, so please keep them coming!

We’ll be here taking orders, slinging flowers, and swooning over all the new plant babies. However, I can’t promise we will look quite as cute as we did in these pics. We might be looking a little tired, possibly delirious at this point, but I can promise that we are all still having fun!!

Reminder! We deliver to Muskogee, Fort Gibson, Tulsa, and their surrounding areas. Please help us keep busy! We haven’t had much for him to do the last couple days and he’s becoming quite sassy 😂😂😂

02/13/2023

Hey fellas! While y’all are cozied up on the couch eating all the yummy snacks your significant other so sweetly whipped up for you, so you could watch the game, you should hop over to our website and order her some Valentine’s Day flowers! Just an idea…might keep you out of trouble!

poppys-garden.com

The flower shop that keeps men out of trouble, one delivery at a time! 💗🏈🍻

02/12/2023

Hey guys! WE’RE OPEN TODAY! While you’re out and about running all your last minute Super Bowl party errands, stop by the shop and place your last minute Valentine’s Day order.

✅ Snacks
✅ Beverages
✅ Flowers

Snacks, beverages🍺, and flowers sounds like a productive afternoon to me!

02/12/2023

We are open today from 10am to 6pm! Come see us! We just got a new plant and air plant shipment yesterday!

It’s still not too late to get your order in for Valentine’s Day! Call the shop at 918-537-2304, order online at poppys-garden.com, or come by the shop! 💗

02/11/2023

It’s not too late to get your Valentine’s Day order placed. We still have all of our Valentine’s Day offerings available! So hurry and get your order in. We’ll be at the shop all day today, until 6 or 7pm (we’ll basically be camped out at the shop the next few days 🤪).

Come by and see us, call the shop 918-537-2304, or order online at poppys-garden.com, and we’ll get you taken care of!

02/10/2023

Sorry we haven't posted in a couple days, if you've been following our stories you've noticed we've been up to our normal shenanigans prepping for Valentine's Day.

We have organized every inch of the shop and then some, SO WE ARE READY for all the Valentine's Day orders!! (Although if you saw our stories yesterday we clearly have our work cut out for us in the storage units after Valentine's Day, LOL!)

We got our flowers in today and are getting all the pretties processed and ready to start rolling on orders! We can't wait! I think this is going to be a fun Valentine's Day, hopefully our best yet!

Before things get too crazy I want to tell you all THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! I've received the sweetest, most heartfealt messages, texts, and phone calls from you all about my post on Tuesday. I've read every single one and my goodness you all are amazing. I'm so grateful for your love and support!

As a small business owner, it's always a fine line between being a professional, while also sharing my life with you all. I became a business owner so I can make a difference in the lives of others through the beauty and art of flowers. I believe I was brought on this earth to be creative and share my creativity with others, I never knew a part of that would be sharing my life with you all or that sharing my stories would help or inspire others. I'm beyond grateful you all give me the opportunity to share so much of my life. I'm constantly in awe of the amount of people and relationships this career has brought into my life.

I am truly thankful for each and every one of you, and I hope you stick around to see (or maybe even become inspired) by all future life ventures and/or shenanigans 🫶🏼

02/07/2023

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I know some people aren’t too fond of this holiday. It has a history of bringing up some bad feelings or heartache. So, I’m going to share a little story with you all, maybe putting it out into the universe will help me and hopefully help someone else.

The weekend my boyfriend and I broke up the new Miley Cyrus song “Flowers”came out. It was so fitting that I seriously looked up at God with some sass & side eye and said, “really?!?”

Yes, I had a boyfriend. Yes, I’m very private about stuff like that. Yes, it was serious. Yes, I thought this person could have been a part of the rest of my life. Yes, flower dad met him. Yes, the family liked him and still like him. No, I don’t have anything bad to say about him or the breakup. Yes, it sucks. Now you’re caught up, no questions necessary, nor will I be answering any 😂

Right after we finally had the post-breakup closure discussion, I hopped in the car and drove (auto piloted) to Tulsa, turned on Country breakup songs, and got any tears out of me that needed to be shed. I decided I needed an evening to myself to do whatever I wanted to do, to think or not think, to talk or not talk, and distract myself with pretty things. So, I went and got a coffee and then headed to the mall. I don’t think I had been to the mall in YEARS. If I go to the mall I stay within the boundaries of Dillard’s, but I usually don't venture off to the whole mall. If I leave Dillard’s it’s usually for a quick hop over to J.Crew and back. I ALWAYS park at the Dillard’s shoe department, I learned that from my Meme at an early age. Well actually, she taught me all of her shopping knowledge 💁🏻‍♀️ I mean who wouldn’t want to start out their shopping with shoes, right!! I really thought I’d go to Abercrombie & Fitch to try on jeans 😂 according to the kids on TikTok (and girls my age 😂😂), A&F jeans are where it's at, but then I realized we don’t even have an A&F in the mall anymore, then I realized I shopped there like 20 years ago, and then I realized I’m too damn old to be shopping there in the first place 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 case in point, this is why I stay within the boundaries and safety of Dillard’s with a touch of J.Crew. Anyway, I wondered around the mall aimlessly, bought myself one cute outfit at J.Crew 😂, went back to Dillard’s to grab makeup I’ve had on my to do list to get for months, took one more spin around the shoe department, and then took myself to dinner. I went to Bull in the Alley, sat at the bar, ordered a filthy dirty martini and caviar, people watched, and listened to the piano. It’s something he and I used to do together. I guess I needed a reminder that I can take myself there anytime I want, sometimes I may only be able to afford a martini, but that’s neither here nor there. I was going to order some pasta or the creme brulee, which would’ve actually been even better now that I think about it, coping with a breakup to a whole pie plate of creme brulee. If you’ve never been to Bull in the Alley, their creme brulee is only served in a 9” pie plate, there are no other size options, and it’s fantastic! It sure would’ve been something out of a movie….girl sitting at a bar post breakup and polishes off a creme brulee that would normally feed 4+ people 😂 But anyway, I was content with my caviar and martini, so I sat there until the piano man stopped playing.

Finally, I took myself home and thought alright I’m good, I can move forward.

That doesn’t mean I’m not going to have sad days here and there, doesn’t mean I’m not going to think about him from time to time, doesn’t mean I don’t miss him, but I’m fine, I’ll be fine, I’m not going to let it derail me or everything else going on in my life, and I can move forward, the moving forward might look a little bumpy at times, but I can move forward.

I say all this to say, ladies & gentlemen if you find yourself in a similar situation or have been hit with a period of heart break, listen to Miley! Go buy yourself flowers, go buy yourself the damn caviar, go buy yourself the f-ing disco balls! Just go do whatever you need to do to make yourself happy. You’re the only one in control of your happiness.

Don’t let a little thing like Valentine’s Day get you down! 💗💗💗

P.S. — The only thing I'll say about the breakup is that we were supposed to have mini highland cows one day. Mini, fluffy, baby cows….and now I constantly have the cutest fluffy cows popping up all over my feed, it's a constant reminder of the breakup, it's real annoying and I'm sour about it. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to get myself the freaking fluffy cows some day.

Also please buy my flowers, I'm going through a breakup 😂😂😂

Today’s story time should really be sponsored by , , , , , , Bull in the Alley, and (cute sweater in this picture).