Love, From Austin {Food Blog • Ashlyn The Austonaut}

Howdy Ya'll! It's ya girl Ashlyn here checking in again with another "Ashlyn the Austonaut" update! We have successfully lived in our cozy little place for a month now which means I've been in Austin for two whole months already on the 4th! Can anyone else believe it's already OCTOBER!? This past month has been...

Turmoil in Texas {Ashlyn the Austonaut Update}

Greetings from Austin, everybody! The past two weeks sure haven't been all rainbows, butterflies, and sunshine down here. (Well, actually there has been plennnnntyyy of sunshine. With temperatures most days exceeding 105 degrees, but that's beside the point.) A few days after signing off on my last post my boyfriend and I found ourselves in...

Ashlyn Becoming an Austonaut

I can't wait to get out of Kansas! If you have known me for any length of time then you have heard those words come out of my mouth on almost a daily occasion. So often, in fact, that I was even beginning to make myself irritated by how repetitive I was sounding. It was...

Sometimes It’s NOT All About The Benjamins.

As a waitress my income relies on people tipping appropriately. Across the United States a standard tip for a "job well done" is 15% of the total of your bill. Typically people are pretty generous tippers where I work and I always strive to excel at my serving job in hopes that it'll reflect on...

Girl, What’s Your Summer Secret?

Towards the end of 2016 I had my first run in with the big scary "C" word cancer. Luckily for me I was able to recognize that my skin was looking abnormal near my belly button fairly quickly and had the growth removed within a few weeks of first noticing it. Although I joke about...

Defending the Dreads

I've seen countless stories on Facebook regarding the discrimination that people who have dreads face. As much as it has angered, confused, or saddened me in the past NOTHING (absolutely nothing) gets my feelings all jumbled up the way they do when I witness my boyfriend experience discrimination firsthand. Most people, whether they want to...

It’s Not About You, It’s About Love

T-minus eight hours (give or take) until our timelines across social media platforms will be flooded with Valentine's Day posts. Every year, without fail, I could bet money on seeing handfuls of statuses, snap stories, tweets... etc. filled with posts that condemn the holiday followed with whiny, self-pity parties thrown by single people across the...

Stylin’ Secrets Straight From LA

It is no secret that Los Angeles is known for it's entertainment scene, however, the metropolis is also gaining fast attraction in the fashion industry. I stumbled upon the online boutique Gone Fashion and instantly was able to tell that they were working with the latest designers to stay two steps ahead of the fashion...

Is It Too Late To Say “Me Too?”

Like most sixteen year olds all I cared about when it came to my job was whether or not I got scheduled to work at the same time as my best friend, that I got Friday nights off to go to football games, and that I had fun whenever I was on the clock. I...

Shut Your Mouth. Open Your Heart.

Today while at work I was helping a customer who knew very little English. I was helping him to the best of my abilities and my limited Spanish speaking skills came out to play. During our interaction we were both laughing; him at my broken Spanish and me at myself because I knew I sounded...