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OOO | Feel Good Friday 021822

Written from here on Friday: But published back home on Monday because my blog issues persist and apparently this website is not safe. OK, JustHost, ok. Pics here. Point is, when you have to cancel three ski trips and one of your bests comes up with a Mexico beach vacation in vez, you say !sí…

What It’s Like Having an Old Dawg

Nali is 15.25 years old. She has slowed down quite a bit, though she still gets the zoomies almost every morning. The most dramatic change, however, has been in her incontinence. This is a dog who could, in years past, hold her pee a whole 24-hour day. Now, she can’t even hold it overnight. My…

Free Range | Feel Good Friday 020422

**I am publishing this as written on Friday even though it’s Monday …** I’m free range! Off crutches! Allowed to start trying a shoe with heel lifts! Life is amazing! Hahaha perspective changes are crazy right? Like two months ago I’m angling for squatting gainz and sprint speeds, and now I’m stoked on the goal…

Checklist 71

ERMAHGARD it might snow again overnight/tomorrow morning and the entire city is shutting down preemptively. Post-traumatic snowpocalypse disorder is real and Austin needs to calm down. But let’s publish this checklist a day early, like everyone else, yeah? Re: Spotify: Free speech is really important. Period. Mike Solana discusses it here with nuance and humor…

Checklist 70 [updated]

I guess I just keep doing these until Covid isn’t a thing? Home (bc I’m most obsessed right now) / Buy All The Things! Really loving PreFix, which is essentially a home maintenance subscription ($40/mo) with twice-yearly preventative maintenance (shit you will literally never do like sanitize your washing machine) plus access to a handyman…

Porch Sitting | Feel Good Friday 012121

Things I love and am grateful for in no particular order: Whiskey Business … I may have torn my achilles for that team but damn do I love them Surprise flowers Thursdays Cold front! Tailgating a photo shoot = picnic in the park Football-watching After parties Fires in the fireplace Great red wine Close family…

Checklist 69

It’s possible I’m obsessing over house changes because I’m, well, in my house a lot. Should I paint the cabinets? Greywash them? I need more art. I should move the art I do have… Feed Me As someone who loves shrimp, this article and its accompanying photo is epic: How to Cook Shrimp. Three I…

THE FREAKIN’ COW | Feel Good Friday 011421

People are amazing. My best friend surprised me last week, driving in from out of town with the fixins for venison chili, a bottle of special pinot, and (what I thought was) the coup de grâce: a hilarious box of letters and pictures from our childhood through college, complete with countless mentions of boys we…