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! ASPEN. I am currently in Aspen, and happy as a clam in snow. Wait, what? I have been excited all week. Anticipation increases travel…
More: at Home
As I prepare to trek back to Aspen for my last weekend of skiing during the 2012-2013 season (goodbye, unlimited ski pass), it reinforces the notion that Newport Beach is now home. I’m just visiting a place I used to love being called a local. As my actual home comes together more and more, it…
F*CK DANDELIONS
When I was a kid, I remember my parents telling me that dandelions were a weed, and that blowing all the white fluffy things around was helping spread weeds. “I don’t care!” kid Lyssa thought, “It’s making all my wishes come true!” Well, Kid Lyssa, you’re an idiot. Every single one of those wishes has…
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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! Mama is here! But … she’s a girl on vacation, not just my mom. Lattes lattes lattes! Mara and Ryan were here! On a…
Puppy in Paradise
Though she loved the snow, lil’ Nali is finding plenty to love about the beach too … she is, after all, playing in the world’s greatest dog park.
About My Deracination / Irony
Last edited by Lyssa on September 22, 2012 at 7:07 pm: deracinate [dɪˈræsɪˌneɪt] vb (tr) 1. to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate 2. to remove, as from a natural environment [from Old French desraciner, from des- dis-1 + racine root, from Late Latin rādīcīna a little root, from Latin…
Vodka Taste Training
“She’s my little whiskey girl …” No, that song wasn’t written about me, but were I an actual celeb, maybe? Point is I am decidedly not a vodka person. I’ve said before that if you see me drinking a vodka soda, you know I’m trying to be drunk (that night) and skinny (in life, not…
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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! Epic Saturday. 24 hours and 5 minutes later, we recovered. Yep. CrossFit. Even at 6am. Yes, I voluntarily showed up at 6am to work…
Only in SoCal … [sneaky compliment or insult edition]
People. Despite my sad real talk about moving, which is real, I’m also ridiculously happy here. So happy that I’m going to Compliment-or-Insult my new home … wait, let’s not lie. I’m going to insult it. There is craziness going down in Southern California, and it deserves to be called out, made fun of, and insulted.…
Can I Really Make It Here?
When I moved to Aspen, failure was not an option. Sure, I did the whole trying-it-out-for-a-month thing, but that was a trial run for what I knew was inevitable: that I was moving to Aspen with the Vermonster, who was living out a dream. So failure wasn’t an option so long as I wanted to…