03/28/2025
Today is the last official day of business operations for Pawsitive Vibes Only. I am full of a lot of feelings but if I had to pick three - gratitude, peace and exhaustion.
Heavy on the tiredness, lol.
What began as a side hustle to make some extra cash since the beer industry was shifting into relative oblivion ended up becoming the foundation upon which I laid ✨the rest of my life.✨ Although the business is closing, the value system that I built for myself and for my family through its operation is perhaps the best gift I have ever received.
Do you have a moment in your life when you remember specifically thinking that you were “OFFICIALLY” an adult? Like, YOU were the adult in the room and you couldn’t call your Mom or a friend? Mine was when I was standing in the ER on 11/7/22, my husband half-dead on the hospital bed with tubes in his throat and I *technically didn’t have a job.* I had quit Stickman Brews just twelve days prior to focus on the business full time. We were living with family. He carried our health insurance. There was something so, so surreal about those moments - standing amidst the chaos of that morning, his medical team buzzing around me in fast forward trying to save his life, and me with the rising tingling sensation in my toes that no matter which way this went, we were kind of fu**ed.
Please don’t misunderstand me - sometimes, the most AMAZING transformations come out of those moments of intense “uh oh.” That is exactly what happened to us. Over the course of roughly the next two and a half years, the universe would systemically break down our entire life and everything we knew about it to help us find something better for ourselves.
(Cont’d in comments because I am a long-winded bitch!)…
