011720 // Aspen: 1, Lyssa: 0
I returned from last weekend’s Aspen trip fulfilled with friendship, exhausted, and sicker than I’ve been in a long, long time. Like, sick enough that I fell asleep on the DEN>AUS flight in a middle seat without a neck pillow. Sick enough that I still haven’t eaten solid food, though today I ate a (free!) banana (why was Natural Grocers giving away bananas? IDK).
The week has been simply recovery, which maybe it would have been anyway, with sleep, netflix, and sweatin’ it out at yoga the only things on the agenda.
But, Aspen was awesome and (too) full of friends and fun and great food and skiiiiiiing! When you’re picked up at the airport and iced in the car, you know the weekend is gonna be good.
Unrelated, but: Eminem’s new album is awesome, and his gun violence awareness song is so intelligent.
011020 // At Least I Arted
… And am headed to Aspen today!
To say it’s been a rough week would be an understatement. It’s been a soul-challenging, who-am-I-pondering, oh-fuck week the likes of which I haven’t much experienced before.
Or maybe I have, when I was given the choice to take half my already paltry salary at a beauty startup or … it wasn’t really a choice. But instead, I left. And had to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life, which was launch DailyHap.com, supported by a bartending and personal training career on the side (the two are not a great mix, do not recommend), in Aspen, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Perhaps, then, it’s appropriate that I head back there to celebrate a friend’s birthday, to do some of the type of soul searching that isn’t inquisitive but simply listens, to figure out what the HELL I’m gonna do with my life, but with patience and grace and ease.
Right?
Also: last night was opening night/today is opening day for JUST MERCY. Y’all remember when I wrote about reading the book and seeing Bryan Stevenson? Michael B. Jordan is a GREAT Bryan Stevenson, and Jamie Foxx is great as Walter McMillian. The movie is long but very, very good.