Things I am Grateful For that Ultimately Add Up to an Amazing Best Friend Finding the perfect wedding dress! Check that one off the maid of honor list. A freezing cold dip in the adult kiddie pool with champagne The ridiculousness that is trying on wedding dresses Getting caught in a rainstorm and running around…
“Vibrant, yet mellow PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral embraces us with warmth and nourishment to provide comfort and buoyancy in our continually shifting environment.” https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2019 But see, because I’m usually ahead of trends, I already have “living coral” stripes in my bedroom and as accents all over the place. And I have to agree: it is…
I HAVE TO CONFESS. I re-read my 35 Before 35 List. It’s nice. It sounds exactly like me at 30. Or 32. Variations on the same theme: build a startup/side hustle/passion; meet some fitness/wellness goal; do more of a certain type of traveling; learn to cook or eat something; make some shit. At the beginning…
Thanksgiving is the day for gratitude. I get to be with my awesome family for five days! I’m sure you’ll hear more about it next Friday in the weekly gratitude list / recap of allll the amazing things I have to be grateful for, so we’re just gonna move along to … Unexpected New Orleans…
(This was supposed to post yesterday!! Travel is a bear) Let me tell this incredible man, role model, and jokester HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday to the dad who builds benches with me, trims trees with me, excitedly pretends to be killing me with an extension cord after working in the yard, teaches me how to…
I’m on a plane to New Orleans, that I was supposed to be on yesterday. But I had hopped on a plane Monday for two meetings in 48 hours in OC, and when I got back to Austin just couldn’t get everything done in time to take off again. Though I agonized over the change…
I’m doing BFree Yoga‘s Happy Body Happy Mind 21 Day Challenge, and it’s pretty lax—do some yoga, meditate, feel good, boom. But I wanted to do all 21 days of yoga in a row as part of it. Well, per yogic tradition, the universe has other plans. Great plans! Fun plans! But not yoga-every-day plans. So…
Or, the random thing I labeled this FGF long before I sat down to write it. And to be fair, I love bike commuting. To happy hour, to volleyball, to the gym, to anywhere, it makes me so happy to be outside and NOT in a car! I am so grateful for Shoal Creek trail…
Well, I made some new friends and biked around once the weather cleared up and had some awesome dinners with awesome people and it’s beginning to almost feel like I live here in Austin. Which is good because technically I moved here 5 months ago next week (although I long joked that I was moving…
Despite the deluge of rain the past few days weeks month, I managed to squeeze in some much-needed yard work last weekend. I asked my dad to help me—I wanted to tear out some bushes for an herb garden and move some stones around, he decided we should trim all the tree limbs and brought…