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Two Week Sandwich | Feel Good Friday 071524

If I could outline the last two weeks of my life, it’d basically be a sandwich of INCREDIBLY INTENSE WORK DAYS and SUPER FUN WEEKENDS before an incredibly intense workday crashed into a super fun weekend and I was on a conference call at 9am on a Saturday getting made fun of for a voice…

Bad Patient | Feel Good Friday 062824

My handsome helpful humanitarian warrior had surgery earlier this week, and he is a bad patient. He is bad at resting, bad at chilling, very bad at doing nothing. Very bad, 0/10, does not respect couch arrest. And he’s still in a lot of pain, and I think it’s because his lack of rest is…

Research Announcement: Shorts

Occasionally I publish Research Lists wherein I am looking for some fashion item for myself and either need your help or to share my work with the class. Today, we are doing something different. Today, you must go purchase these shorts: AE Dreamy Drape Stretch Short My husband wears what I would consider “real” shorts…

Best Laid Plans | Feel Good Friday 062124

The whole fam is headed up to Colorado for my mom’s belated 70th birthday celebration, and our flights are delayed—on two different airlines! Summer in the mountains. But! I’m grateful we’re going, and this is just an inevitable part of travel. In a short week with a weird Wednesday holiday from work, nothing has gone…

Cough | Feel Good Monday 061024

Can I be grateful for a cough? A person certainly could, but can I? Me, Lyssa? Maybe. I had this terrible cough for a full 10 days. I hit the infrared sauna, got cupped, spent time outside in the sun for my vitamin D, mucinex-ed, even started a course of ivermectin (the “FLiRT” variant of…

Checklist 93: The Story of a Sandal

This question represents the absolute saddest state of our society: Choosing the Man or Bear? On a lighter note, let’s: Pack Our Bags Buy Alllll The Things STORY TIME: I have a pair of Target sandals that I have worn TO DEATH. The (probably fake) leather is peeling, but I can’t stop wearing them because…

Feel Good Momsday 051423

Happy belated mother’s day to my amazing mama, who is just the best. We unofficially celebrated early Saturday when I spontaneously walked over to her house, had a latte at ye olde Latte Link, and we chatted for a bit. We officially celebrated on Sunday too, but with my brother, husband, and two kiddos under…