Hi there, welcome to Pretty Rounded!

I’m Cheyenne. If you want to learn a little more about me personally, check out my “About Cheyenne” page. If you’re intrigued by the origin of this little ol’ blog called Pretty Rounded, then you, my friend, are in the right place.

Living the Dream…

As I neared my mid-twenties, I often had the nagging feeling that I was not “living my best life”. On paper, I was doing many of the things that I grew up believing were the right (and best) actions to take in life. I graduated college, got a full-time 9-5 job in an office mere months later (with benefits, PTO, higher than minimum wage pay—the whole shebang), had a serious long-term boyfriend, a step-son, a new car, and a roof over my head. As far as the formulaic life path embedded into our brains by society, I was KILLING IT at this whole life thing. But, I wasn’t happy. Yes, I’ll say it louder for those of you in the back. I WAS NOT HAPPY.

I felt like my day-to-day life revolved around a job that I was very much indifferent to rather than growing as a person and spending my time on the things that ignited a fire within me. Day by day, I lost my joy. Even worse, I lost myself. As what I would consider a deeply creative thinker, my creative output had become the bare minimum and my spirit had taken a beating as a result.

Am I Crazy?

I wondered every single day if I was crazy. I had some great things going for me, but this recipe for a perfect life that everyone always seemed to be raving about had fallen flat. I dreamed of days that weren’t spent looking forward to a few measly hours in the evenings. I imagined weeks where I wasn’t counting down to a weekend that always sped by too fast. I longed for more adventure and the most substantial part of my day not to be spent in a windowless office. I wanted more creative projects and to live rather than simply exist.

Pretty Rounded is Born

Pretty Rounded, for me, is a medium for all the creative outputs and things that I love most. All the things that have sat dormant for far too long. It ignites a spark in my life by giving me something tangible to put my efforts into. Putting focus on things that bring me joy, helps me lean more into the me that I want to be.

I’m no longer at that original job I hated. I can’t tell you that I quit on a whim and went galivanting through life afterwards in an Instagram-worthy fashion. Since then, I’ve been through high-stress work I enjoyed, but wasn’t worth the strain. I now have found balance in a lower stress remote-work environment. It gives me more time to focus on life outside of the grind, which is exactly what I crave.

Over the years, this blog has evolved and has featured primarily my travels with a sprinkling of my life. I find that’s what I currently enjoy writing about the most. I’ll never label it one type of blog and put myself in a box. Like me, it evolves as I do. On my Instagram, I share books I’m reading, poetry I’m writing, my pets, my adventures, and whatever tickles my fancy.

If you have a mind to do something different with your own life and have been at a crossroads, dreaming of choosing the path least traveled, then I hope that this blog helps inspire you.

Join me as I learn more, create more, travel more, write more, see more, love more, smile more, and most importantly—live more.

And remember, even though we all may have some rough edges, we can learn to live a pretty rounded life.