What a freakin’ week. So many super awesome things happened. Last weekend was a million years ago. July flew by. This weekend is going to be awesome. Grateful for a Friday night “one drink” with new friends until 2am Grateful for pickup flag football, even on no sleep still makes me incredibly happy Grateful for…
Tag: texas
Convo 51: The Mask and Personal Responsibility
Governor Abbott’s opening of Texas 100% and removal of mask mandate has caused a lot of reaction and opinion across the country. Hell, probably the world. Here’s the official summary of the announcement, and the PDF of the Executive Order. “… Today’s announcement does not abandon safe practices that Texans have mastered over the past…
5 Things on a Late Christmas List
It’s sunny and 65 here, so it hardly feels like Christmas. But I’m pretty sure my parents called every member of my family from Costco or some other shopping destination today, asking us questions about what the others wanted. Don’t worry, mom and dad, no one has bought anyone anything yet—and what I have bought,…
I Can’t Even Describe | Feel Good Friday (Saturday) 121120
To try to put into words what it feels like to be welcomed into a whole other family, as part of it, as if I was never not, is impossible. My brother, his fiancee, and I are a bit of a family unit already, and going to Rio and being welcomed into her family as…
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…
Not-Fall Fall | Feel Good Friday 101620
It’s that ridiculous time of year in Austin where you WANT it to be fall and it’s just not … you might get some cool mornings, but then we’re back up in the high 90s in the middle of the day. Nonetheless, I’m making pumpkin centerpieces to keep it fall in my house, while updating…
Last Week of Semi-Freedom | Feel Good Friday 082120
One word, many weeks, a whole lot of wire-brushing: WHEELBARROW. Friends, the before and after of this gem is astounding. Found this wheelbarrow in my great-grandpa’s homestead, and spent a lot of hours soaking, spraying, rubbing, wirebrushing the steel to restore it to its pre-rusty shape; didn’t really touch the wood other than to seal…
BEEEEEACH | Feel Good Friday 080720 LOLZ it’s Monday
Welp, alongside accidentally ghosting a really important email opportunity (it’s FINE), I also ghosted myself apparently in not publishing my feel good friday. Suffice it to say, the beach was fun… Remember when I lived at the beach? Sigh. Now I drive to it. But in the most hilarious Spirit-airlines inspired back seat, squished between…
I’m OK | Feel Good Friday 030620
The events of the past two months have been traumatic. The past two months of my life have absolutely rocked my confidence (irony) and sense of self. Despite my calling 2019 the year of vulnerability, figuring out how to be vulnerable has absolutely carried over into 2020 or I wouldn’t have made it this far.…
A Big Damn Week | Feel Good Friday 030119
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!).…