For and from one of my best friends, a strong, headstrong, resilient mother of dragons. From facebook: Former University of Georgia standout and NFL defensive back Paul Oliver died by suicide seven years ago today at age 29. For years before his death, Oliver battled near constant headaches and depression. His brain was later diagnosed…
I Love My Yard | Feel Good Friday 091820
Y’all, I think I forgot to mention my edger. I got an edger fo my birthday, marking two years in a row my parents have given me yard tools, and I could not be happier about it. This is an honest-to-god-edger, that rolls alongside the lawn and cuts deep. I love it. I love taking…
Checklist 27
Things to do, check out, and buy this week! Workouts Simultaneously impressed and frustrated: this badass Brazilian surfed the biggest wave this year at 73.5 FEET TALL and it took the WSL 8 month to “verify” it … which they don’t do with men’s waves. WTF. To Do Listen to the new Sacks and the City…
Labor (Day) and (Work) | Feel Good Friday 091120
Laboring is hard. Labor Day weekend is not hard. Especially not when you have a Permanent Adult Kiddie Cowgirl Pool with a rosé floatie and temps in the 100s. AND you get a last-minute invite on a boat, so that’s a fabulous Saturday. AND THEN your childhood bestie comes into town for adult kiddie pool…
Checklist Week 26
I can’t keep up with ANYTHING this week. How is a four-day work week not actually a break, just cramming the work of five days into four? (Also this supports my proven theory—as I worked them for three years—that four-day work weeks are just as productive if not more so than five-day works weeks, but…
Sacks and the City: A Football and Dating Podcast
For those of you who missed hearing your favorite faux celeb laugh perhaps inappropriately, always raucously, and someone said “too often” on my radio show* (RIP), have I got news for you … There’s a new podcast in town, and I’m its co-host! My girl Nikki and I dropped two episodes of our brand new…
Research List: A List of Things to Buy
I’ve been keeping this list for a lot of months now, and here’s something I learned: if you wait long enough, during a pandemic, whatever you wanted will be sold out anyway so you don’t have to decide if you really want to buy it at all! Y’know what I need absolutely zero of but…
The Happiest Birthday | Feel Good Friday 090420
All of the people I love, loved on me on Tuesday, and before and after. It was awesome. If you’re reading this, you probably loved on me, so thank you thank you thank you. >>> there was a pool, a P6, a Better Half, there were so many laughs and flowers and A BARBELL and…
Checklist Week 25
Just Checklist. Because this blog is returning to its roots of collecting the best things to do and it doesn’t have anything to do with the other thing. Workouts I GOT A BARBELL. I LOVE IT. I need bumper plates now. To Do This. Sounds. Insane. I kind of love it. Shoal Creek Conservancy is…
3-7 Before 37 List
Because no one cares about a faux celeb turning 36 and I can do whatever I want and it’s a pandemic so no one has any idea what the next year will look like … 3 BIG THINGS Kick ass at new job Unfurl this heart Save $$ for Tahoe condo 7 lil things Make…