Hello, I am now Lyssa Myska Zotlen.
I wrote about the name change on LinkedIn, but I just can’t express enough gratitude for my Handsome Helpful Humanitarian Warrior Husband, who is on this ride with me. I am so grateful and impressed by his willingness to change our names to a family name.
It’s weird. To have a new identity after forty years in one. To be in transition/flux as licenses and passports and accounts change names. To have changed my first (formally dropping the A) and last. To just do something new. I love it, and it’s weird as f*ck.
It’s all for the fam. We’re so close. I am this:
But I am grateful(ish) for the journey…
In things I am really, really grateful(FUL) for, we have:
- Lake Travis boat! Great catching up with friends and sitting in water for hours on end 🙂
- Austin Yoga Lounge
- COWBOY POOL AFTERNOONS.
- Poeta double date – $65 5-course pre fixe was amazing overall even if the last course wasn’t great.
- Canje collab for Friends in Town – super fun choose-your-own-adventure pre fixe; I am always impressed by Canje—the food, the vibe, the people, all great.
- Solo weekend
- The blinds (like for windows) drama unfolded and is resolved with a mere $22.50!
- B&B Room is *almost*ready … just needs a little less of one of the Bs 😉
- Crafting, painting, mimicking … finding time for little creative pursuits in the midst of everything else
- Purple sunflower (ack! can you believe I’m liking a sunflower?!)
- Magic Spoon cereal … cannot stop eating it for breakfast
- Refrigerator lattes <3
- Nature’s gatorade and cucumber special drink FOR US!
- The Work Like a Girl community
- Bubba Girl birthday
- Long phone calls with my mama even though we live two miles apart
- My aunts and other friends and fam who keep checking on me 🙂
- My roast pup supporting me during garage gym workouts
This upcoming weekend is the first Fourth of July in a long time that I haven’t hosted Beer Olympics or ventured off to Colorado, and as such it’s a bit anticlimactic. I’m a little bummed, but we’ll get wet and weightless in some water and watch fireworks from my parents’ porch, a preview of life changes to come.