thank u, next This Ariana Grande song really resonates with me: it catalogues where gratitude becomes peace, no matter what the past looked like. Today is my last day at Alorica, and it’s incredibly bittersweet. What an opportunity for learning and growth in just three short—and long!—years, across multiple departments and locations. The notes from…
This gratitude list was meant to be about my Marriage Certificate Trio visit—for which I am still obviously exceptionally grateful for—but this week contained so much more… How is it possible only 7 days have passed since the last Feel Good Friday? Last weekend was a marathon, epic Austin weekend (sans ANY visits to bars—hooray!).…
Over the weekend, my dad and I engaged in what I lovingly call “prison labor”, where we move stones around my backyard. This time, we were moving half of my limestone patio to the other side of the yard to claim more grass and build a patio from my house out my giant sliding glass…
As the tagline fo this site is ‘Glitz, Glam & the Gym’, it seems only fair that we touch base on The Gym. Going to the gym is truly playtime for me. Following programming and not having to think up my own workouts makes it even more like play, especially because I’m always learning new…
I’m in Aspen and so happy. This is so very much my happy place. This past week and weekend were a lesson—time—not quite a struggle but a place of learning—in the spaces between, in truly honoring the space and time that I need. Alone, mostly. I didn’t do things I didn’t want to do, and…
It’s the second-to-last Friday of 2018 and my heart is so full. I am just so happy and grateful and lucky and life is fun and crazy. One of my Sunday texts from a friend put it best: “Insanity turned to normalcy pretty quickly, eh?” And so it did. Last weekend’s adventures were easy—so much…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS GUY! Cha, you are the very definition of love—loving and beloved, thank you for being the best lil’ bro in the world! I am so excited for our next (door) adventure as neighbors! I’m incredibly grateful for an amazing family with the absolute best cousins and baby cousins in the whole…
Thanksgiving is the day for gratitude. I get to be with my awesome family for five days! I’m sure you’ll hear more about it next Friday in the weekly gratitude list / recap of allll the amazing things I have to be grateful for, so we’re just gonna move along to … Unexpected New Orleans…
I’m on a plane to New Orleans, that I was supposed to be on yesterday. But I had hopped on a plane Monday for two meetings in 48 hours in OC, and when I got back to Austin just couldn’t get everything done in time to take off again. Though I agonized over the change…
I’m doing BFree Yoga‘s Happy Body Happy Mind 21 Day Challenge, and it’s pretty lax—do some yoga, meditate, feel good, boom. But I wanted to do all 21 days of yoga in a row as part of it. Well, per yogic tradition, the universe has other plans. Great plans! Fun plans! But not yoga-every-day plans. So…