This post is a helpful explainer as to why I still blog, however many years (decades??) later. Thanks for reading thisislifeinaustin/aspen/youaremycelebrity/xlyssa/all the iterations this blog has been! Read Em’ History major here. Fascinated by the concept that North America is truly 11 nations shaped by their cultures and backgrounds. Rings very true. May need to…
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duck feet | Feel Good Friday 092322
I’m not sure I’ve ever needed a Friday so much. Last weekend in Las Vegas feels like a lifetime ago and it’s been a mere four days since I left the state of Nevada. The week has been super, super intense. There’s so much to do, so much still up in there. There’s so much…
SUAVE MARI MAGNO
“It is a delightful thing, while the great sea rages, to watch from the land another struggling with the waves: not because this is in itself a delight; yet it is a delight to watch calamities from which you feel yourself safe. So to look on a battle from some safe point of view. But nothing is more delightful than, from some serene stronghold of knowledge, to look down upon the wanderings and errors of other men, and their efforts after mere wealth and power, rather than knowledge and a quiet mind.” The first words of the opening of the second book of the Latin poet Lucretius, De Rerum Nalura. We found these words on the wall of a cantina called Tropico 56 in Merida, Mexico, where the driver we hired for the day on the recommendation of a man we met outside of a bathroom who said I look like I spoke English used to be the manager, en…
Boy Do I Hate Vegas | Feel Good Friday 091622
But I love Megs & P!! I planned to post this from the ridiculous beer garden they told me was laid back on a Friday afternoon in Vegas BUT alas I got swept away and only now at midnight in Vegas can I post … I came here for work and stayed for fun. I’ve…
A Long Short Week | Feel Good Friday 090922
It feels at once long and short, how is it already Friday and yet so much was jam-packed into these four days since I last published a feel good whateverday gratitude list. So, so grateful for my friends and framily and family. The people around me are just the best! Grateful for my PT at…
lololol i tried | thirty eight | feel good thursday 090122 / tuesday 090622
Aaaaaand I wrote last Thursday: It is almost certain I will forget to post FGF from Merida, Mexico, where I will be tomorrow on the eponymous Friday, so let’s post on my birthday Thursday, shall we? I’m prepping for a small bday party at my parents’ house, casual wine and pizza I keep saying, but…
rain | Feel Good Friday 081922
9 hours of volleyball! 11 games! And my achilles felt good. Made it to the semi-finals in random-draw tournament. Couldn’t jump as high as I expected sometimes, but otherwise am definitely almost back! My body? Not so good. I physically could not peel myself off of the couch once we got home; it is no…
Too Tired | Feel Good Friday 081222
Too many fights to fight, too few hours from flight to flight, too many questions about what’s right or right. I love my job, I really do, but right now I need the Wicked Dolphin mojito made with rum from Cape Coral and mint from my front yard to do its work while I don’t…
Mini Refresh | Feel Good Friday 080522
Mesa Verde. Pagosa Springs. Santa Fe. Maria’s margarita hands down the best marg I’ve ever had, and salsa. Gruet. Tiny towns in Texas where all coffee shops on the map were no longer in business. My five-day reset, refresh road trip to pick up Lady Tabitha White Top, the new-to-me hybrid electric MINI I picked…
my team | feel good weekend 071822
I love my team so much… last week two of my newest hires were in town for a photo shoot and they are just as awesome as I expected (granted, I already knew one of them). We had SO much fun taking tons of stock photos and videos, and celebrating one of their birthdays at…