Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARA!!! And on Sunday, Happy Birthday Vermonster! Happy Birthday Ilia!! Friend weekend! I had a friend! Sunday afternoon at The Deck in…
Author: Lyssa
Missing Texas: Crawfish and Texas Country
There are many things I never knew were Texan until I left—saying “fixin’ to”, describing distances in minutes instead of miles, making small talk with grocery store cashiers—but there were others I knew I’d miss: Texas country, crawfish (it may be Cajun but we host Crawfish Boils like no one else, even when it’s 1,000…
The Apartment Search
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of apartments.com. All opinions are 100% mine. Ahhhh, the apartment search. In typical Lyssa-style, I went upside down with this one: I moved from the dorms into a house I bought with my brother, skipping the apartment hunt altogether. Then, upon moving to Aspen I…
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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! LAUNDRY. No, I’m not kidding. I am beyond grateful to have a washing machine and (really fast) dryer IN MY HOUSE. The convenience is…
Incredible New Workout Clothes Line: Ellie
[UPDATE: It’s not just me! A friend came into town, wore the Catch Me If You Can top for two days straight, then flew home with the top to Aspen, promising to send me money and join Ellie … she even said what we’re all thinking and afraid to say … it’s better than that other…
IBM Wants to Know: #MySmarterCommerce
IBM has invited me to participate in a #MySmarterCommerce campaign where I am (and YOU! are) invited to share my story around the role technology and social media play in our lives. The goal is to create conversation around what Smarter Commerce means to all of us. IBM has been exploring the concept internally, and now…
Omega-3 Mania: New Fish Oil from SFH + Discount
You know how there are those things you know you should be doing but you don’t always do? Floss, vacuum more frequently, call a friend back … ok, maybe that’s just me. I’m also exceptionally terrible at taking vitamins, so much so that when I put them out on my counter as a reminder they still…
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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Happy Valentine’s Day! Celebrate love, in all its forms. Training in Indy. My new coworkers are absolutely awesome and I could not be more…
Roses
I don’t always buy into internet memes, but when I do, they’re hilarious. See how I did that? Two memes in one.
Pieces
New place, new decor. Whereas in Aspen I tried to bring the beach into my home with painted driftwood, fun orange and sky blue accents, and flowered pillows, at the beach I’m trying to stick to pretty neutrals with pops of metallic and color in the small space I call home (my lil baby house,…