The puppy and I don’t live in Long Beach, so I guess we can’t technically staycation there. But given that it’s basically Orange County, I think we’re still good on calling what we did last weekend a staycation. Basically, we escaped the motel we’ve been living in (I guess also technically a staycation of sorts…)…
I wasn’t nervous to hike 23 miles, 10,000+ feet of vert, and for 10.5 hours, although it was something I’d never done before. No, as we set off into the Grand Canyon, I was most nervous that I’d miss out on spectacular views because we’d be too busy hiking. Thankfully, this didn’t turn out to…
Happy Memorial Day weekend! I’m somewhere on my way to hiking the Grand Canyon, with some friends I am very grateful for, but today I want to talk about being grateful for Game of Thrones. And Silicon Valley. Because I watch these two shows with a very important friend of mine, and I am grateful…
I love the rain. I love the contrast to the sunny California days, I love the excuse to snuggle up with a good book or a thousand TV shows, I love the feeling of rain on my body. I LOVE the rain on the beach. It’s been a rainy few days in Newport, and I couldn’t…
A most perfect trip. From start to finish, everything was perfect. Once-in-a-lifetime. The Kentucky Derby crew: THE. 141st. KENTUCKY. DERBY. The Derby Outfit (shoedazzle came in at the last min with killer stupid comfortable wedges): The day before the Derby, we had a girls day at Kentucky Oaks, where I wore my Derby hat I…
And she’s here! Helping me get ready to move/be homeless/drink wine. [live blogging] This is why my mom is the best:
Heh. I’m writing this too early on Monday morning as a Feel Good Friday because I was indeed taking a break—a much-needed girls weekend in Portland, Oregon. My bestie/facebook girlfriend picked me up around noon on Wednesday after a painless flight before which a stranger bought me a coffee because “you’re hot.” By Thursday morning as…
Today is International Day of Happiness—and it’s weird for me to not be promoting that through DailyHap. So I write about it here instead, for Feel Good Friday! There’s an article I wrote pretty early on in DailyHap’s existence called Always Happy. There’s this myth that some people (me) are always happy, and that’s just not…
The story of my first time off-roading in the jeep (named Ginger Lynn for the top pornstar name in her birth year, also fitting her coloring) with the best co-pilot I could have imagined—even though she unbuckled before the first hill “in case I need to bail” … TDS 2015 or bust! Literally. Obviously I’m…
I declared 2015 the year of openness, but so far I haven’t been all that good at making space. Sometimes it’s hard, because there’s so much we want to DO, that we pack it all in and forget that we can’t enjoy all the things without some breathing room around them. Earlier this week, we announced a…