Category: Daily Life

One of my “favorite” things is when other bloggers make these kinds of lists.

I’m only a moderate consumer of stuff physical and digital, but I’ll see what I can dig up. Here’s a few goodies:

This Rainbow Sweater – which my bff linked me. It’s perfectly perfect.

Beachbody 30-day Breakaway – an outdoor running program from BOD?! YES! I’m not even sure when this drops, I was so excited by the news I forgot to watch the video. This might be what it takes to break my treadmill addiction. Speaking of which,

Peloton – has some fun group challenges this summer. I don’t have a branded tread, but the app and my watch are enough to make the runs really fun and challenging to PR.

Homemade Crunchwrap Supremes – lest those workout links make your think I’m virtuous. I made these a few weeks ago and they came out AMAZING. All I’ll say is

a. that the recipe says it makes 4, but it made closer to 6 for us, with a bucket of leftover queso (don’t worry, we ate it with tortilla chips a few days later)

b. I like a big dinner and even 1.5 of those babies was too much for me. Proceed at will.

c. Watch the YouTube video, because Farideh is adorable and it actually helped me make sense of how it all comes together.

And last, I’ll mention YouTube itself. We’ve had a few household projects and I love that are so many experts who make awesome videos that teach you so much more than you could learn mucking up a project multiple times. It’s nice when technology actively brings good into the world.

Happy Friday, friends!

I discovered this catstagram ( @waffleon_moon ) today and since it’s been the highlight of my week, I thought I’d make it the highlight of whole post for today.

and that previous post was the lamest white girl shit ever.

Join me in making a donation, supporting a black-owned business, and calling yourself out when you’re lazy and awful af.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

My BLM garden flag came today and I love it. Yes, I also need to pressure wash our porch and one day the xeriscape will be installed.

That’s all for tonight.

Writing daily is tough stuff.

I finished In the Dream House. (spoiler alert I loved it crazy hard and gave it 5/5)

I bought a ridiculous inflatable pool.

I started counting calories (again again again – I hate it in theory but I feel better about it in practice).

I’m trying to read less news.

I’m trying to be less anxious.

I’m trying to tamp down my penchant to turn my every fleeting thought into an action item.

I got engrossed in reading In The Dream House: A Memoir this evening and lost track of time. This used to happen so often when I was a younger reader but not so much these adult-filled days. It’s fabulous when it does. Also, I can’t recommend this book strongly enough – it scratches all my itches: lbgtq+, a dark underbelly, coming of age, Iowa, English major themes referenced with footnotes. The works, I tell you.

I’ve only got a tiny bit left of the evening, so I’m off to squeeze in a few more chapters.

Not much to say tonight. I’ve got the Sunday, heat wave, cabin fever, missing dinner with a friend because of covid, ready to shake up my life but not sure how blues.

I’m also currently convinced that the perfect new bag will solve all these problems so I’ve done nothing but virtually window shop all day.

It was ridiculously hot out today, so we hid inside and watched both parts of Twilight: Breaking Dawn. They were both so ridiculous and imminently forgettable but watchable in that mockable way. Great discussions on the best vampire series followed and for the first time ever I rue not being an English teacher who can make my students sit through all these movies and discuss the themes of Mormonism through the lens of this whole series.

I was going to rant/complain about how much I miss being able to do things outside due to the increased number of people in my formerly favorite places (the trail, the river, etc), but it’s currently in the realm of 100º at 9:00PM, I’ll refrain!

I had an amazing run with Peloton digital earlier, so I’ll just mention how grateful I am for our awesome treadmill. I had no idea what the years would unfold when we bought it, but it’s been such a key part of keeping me fit and is really dang nice for temperature controlled runs!

Yep. I stopped watching Hamilton in favor of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. ABBA > historical hiphop, says this aged American History major. (Film at 11)

I haven’t given up on Hamilton. I just need time and space and not 2.5 consecutive hours of it.

I’m sorry for being an old.