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Stormy Beach | Feel Good Friday 112720
I love a stormy beach—the rain, thunder, and weather with crashing waves is just as gorgeous as a 70-and-sunny blue-sky day, in its own way. Particularly in contrast. Fitting, then, that as I reflect on the past week as I compose this gratitude list, we’re sitting at a stormy beach in Texas. First, it should…
Life in … Retrospective | A Gratitude Post
2020 was hard for me in ways completely unrelated to the global pandemic we all faced. In fact, if anything the pandemic helped me—gave me space and time to process the traumas in my life that came with the first two months of 2020. The first trauma was a dramatic shift in my career; an…
Checklist 37
37 weeks?? How is that for real, and how is much of the country/globe going back into lockdown? We’re headed for a Thanksgiving quarantine family getaway in Galveston, which isn’t all that exciting except that it isn’t here. And a beach is a beach, right? Entertainment Planning on finishing Sin in the Second City, which…
Jogger Mania
Senita kicks off this week off with Black Friday deals, where they release new collections at 7am every morning and a new discount—20% off sitewide including sale—until Cyber Monday. Here’s my jogger rundown [I had promised pics but alas! never took them, and think it’s better to post this now than wait for pics], and…
Friendsgiving | Feel Good Friday 112020
Not a single picture was taken at Friendsgiving, but it was a wonderful night of laughs, delicious homemade food, and loads of wine! Things I’m grateful for: Hot pool! Sunday football dude dance party Podcast recording Old friends who talk like no time has passed at all My weights Dispatches from Vegas Work work work…
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The weather here in Austin is sublime. Chilly mornings, perfect afternoons. It makes everything better. Plant Update My string of pearls plant is blooming! Who knew that was a thing? I bought it at Austin Flower Company early in the pandemic and it is thriving. Time to learn how to propogate! Entertainment Episode 12 of…
So Many Good Things | Feel Good Friday 111320
I think this is a lucky Friday the Thirteenth. Working backawards, it’s been an awesome, insane, busy week but there are so many good things I am grateful for: Nali’s health!! A infection revealed another cancer scare, but after a few worrisome days, thankfully no cancer. Girls Night Disguised as Book Club … man I…
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WHAT A WEEK. Support Yo Friends (or my friends) HeartSupport’s new veteran initiative Workout I said I was deleting this section, but then Power Athlete published a stellar post on simple training rules. And then I hit a workout at very cool new gym Hit Athletic in Austin! It won’t be my all-time gym, but…
Cowgirl Pool = Backyard Badass
My dad clipped an article out of the newspaper and brought it over to my house when Cowboy Pools launched during the early months of the pandemic this year. A few months later, they released the Cowgirl Pool, the polyurethane version with slightly sloped sides (way more comfy for sitting), and I had my pool…