My blog. This is my story.

Amilee Palmer

Hi. My name is Amilee Palmer and this is my blog!

I am just now starting out on my blog and hoping to make this truly successful.

I’ve tried many different avenues to try to make money, be successful, and really get the ball going in my life. I made necklaces at one point. Bought crystals to try to resale. Even tried to make crossword puzzles to sell on etsy. But I either quit too soon or just lost interest after a few months.

This is where I refuse to give up. I aim to be a story my parents can tell their friends and the rest of the family about how their middle child finally got it together and made enough money to move out of the house.

July 1988 – I came into the picture.

I was a planned baby; the third child born to my parents in North Carolina. I can’t tell you anything I remember before my younger sister was born in 1990.

This demoted me from youngest sister, to middle child.

After that, my first memories either include her or all three of my sisters. Whether it was playing little league ball (which we all did), trying to make glue out of flour and water, playing what we called “hit-ball” or badminton in the front yard of the house we grew up in. We did a lot together.

Graduating high school and going to college: 2006.

In 2006, my graduating class and I crossed the stage, diplomas in hand. High school was over, and college awaited.

At 18, I moved into a dorm with a high school acquaintance. My freshman year was a blur of loneliness, poor eating habits, and academic struggles. I’d planned to major in computer science but failed my Java class.

Sophomore year brought a new roommate and few friends. I toyed with majoring in languages but struggled with French and Spanish.

In 2008, I moved into on-campus apartments with friends from French class. However, I spent much of the year isolated, crying, and struggling academically, with my GPA plummeting to 1.9.

In 2009, I realized I wasn’t going to finish college. I told my parents, packed my things, and returned home for the summer. After working in a restaurant for a few years, I decided to go back to college and earn my degree.

In 2014 I finally finished my degree.

In 2012, I researched local colleges and discovered Salem College’s Fleer Program, designed for nontraditional students. Balancing work and school, I earned my degree in May 2014.

Every job I’ve ever quit.

I’ve been fired from a job once in my life and that was in 2020 and they fired me right before I was going to quit anyway, so no big deal.

I’ve spent my life waiting tables in various restaurants starting when I was 17 years old. In my life I have worked at 5 restaurants, including the one I work in now, for various years at a time. I worked for 4 years at US Airways/American Airlines. I worked maybe 1 month at a Pharmaceutical company (this is where I was “let go“). I’ve bounced around from place to place. If I was a normal, healthy 36 year old woman, I wouldn’t be worried too much about my future.

But I’m not a normal, healthy 36 year old.

Being in my mid thirties, having multiple sclerosis, and realizing I’m only getting older and possibly could become more disabled as I get older, I’ve decided that I need to start working now on figuring things out before I don’t have the opportunity to do it anymore.

Here I am. Opening up to the world. Sharing my life living with multiple sclerosis, my travel experiences, and sharing any recipes I create or make, or any food I experience and even some of my favorite products.

I hope you enjoy my blog.

Connect with me on Instagram if you’d like.

Amilee