Welcome!

Welcome to my first blog post! Thanks for stopping by! Let me just introduce myself, since first impressions are everything. I’m Miranda! A couple of snapshots about me –

I’m 26 years old.

I live in southeast Wisconsin, a little west of Milwaukee.

I currently work in customer service at a wound care supply company (exciting, I know).

I love everything related to makeup and fashion.

I will never turn down an iced coffee.

I have an unhealthy obsession with Disney World.

My favorite restaurant is Chili’s. Those chips & salsa cannot be beat!

I am currently single.

My dream job is being a full-time fashion, travel & lifestyle blogger, and stay at home mom someday.

Hmm, what else?

Oh I LOVE holidays, and being super extra for them.

I have spent more money at Bath & Body Works than I probably have anywhere else.

I’m currently trying the Keto diet and overall just trying to lose weight and get healthier.

I prefer fall to summer and not so secretly love chilly weather.

I love having dance parties in my car.

I have a list a mile long of places I want to travel to someday.

As much as I love dogs, I’m 100% more a cat person.

I prefer savory to sweet (but I will almost always demand an ice cream stop).

Is that enough? Haha I could go on, but I’m really not that interesting. Anyway, hopefully that gives you a little glimpse of who I am and what I’m about!

Now as far as this blog goes, it’s kind of a journey thing. I want to share my health & fitness/weight loss journey through this blog, but my transformation as a person as well. Hence the blog name, Brunette Butterfly. Get it? Yeaaaah, I’m going there. It most definitely is one of those cocoon to wings situations which may sound super cheesy to a lot of you, which I totally get. But, it really feels right for me.

Seriously though, I’ve spent the majority of my life feeling as though I’ve been an ugly little caterpillar that no one takes a second look at. And the other more recent half has been spent feeling like I’ve just been stuck in a dark, tight, suffocating cocoon. Not my favorite place to be, so I’m looking to change that. If I went into the whole story right now, we’d be here for days and I know you guys have more important stuff to get to so I think it’d be better to share it in smaller increments as we go.

This blog, it’s a scary thing to start and open up to the world. It’s exciting, but nerve-wracking AF. Opening yourself up to people and being vulnerable is NEVER easy, I know you guys get that. Nevertheless, I’m here. I want to share my life, my passions, my journey, and my heart on here. We’re really getting cliche as hell here aren’t we? Yeah well. Buckle up, we’re just getting started! Seriously, thank you so much for checking this out. I hope you’re entertained or intrigued enough to come back and continue following along. It means the world, truly.

Until next time.