Beth Moore's autobiography couldn't have been any better. I'm certain. I had an issue with my amazon book order and it was returned (before I even saw it!) so I listened to the audiobook. Oh my goodness - I think it was even better. Beth Moore reading her book...with her accent, inflections and emotions? And the fact that she hates Miracle Whip like I do just endeared her to me even more.
Thank you so much for sharing the Endel information. Lordy I have been going to dang fast and all over the place lately. I saw it on your IG story and was like "oh i like it" and then kept on scrolling. Starting Monday Endel and I will get to one another. I spent 2 days this week tuned into the Murdaugh trial, that was a mess but I could not turn away. And Erin that Apple Bottom song on your story took me out LOL!!!!
I would like to sleep for the next month, but I have too much to do. I found a house, it's cute and fine, and I hate renting so much. I expect to be nickel-and-dimed by property management companies, but it gets worse every time I have to do it. I also didn't expect to find a house in the first batch I looked at, so I have done zero packing and am ostensibly supposed to get the keys tomorrow. In better news, my grandma is still in the hospital, but she's improved enough that the medical team has put a pin in the dialysis plan for now. I have a dr appointment on Tuesday to go over some labwork that's mostly routine, but partly "we don't think this is a big deal, but we're adding some tests to rule out some scary stuff". Just a real raining/pouring situation out here.
Congratulations on finding a house and best of luck with the packing! Glad to hear the news about your grandmother and I hope everything goes well on Tuesday.
I tried that app last night and I truly can't believe how I slept so deeply and had the weirdest and most fun dreams. I usually wake up around 2 and then again at 4 and just get up. I woke up at 2 but went right back to sleep and then slept until 7! SEVEN!!!! What a gift!
This was beautiful and I def appreciate the reminder to treat yourself for the small things. It helped remind me I had bought a bag of gummy worms as a reward for cleaning my basement. <3
I have a new part-time job as a substitute preschool teacher and have been spending the last couple weeks observing and doing paperwork etc. It’s a change and that is always hard for me, but so far it’s been fun!
I cannot wait to read Beth Moore’s book. I’m so far down the library list. It’s funny because I’ve been deconstructing for years, but she’s one teacher from before that I still feel really connected to.
I’m also considering two different certificate programs (I have my bachelor’s degree in psychology but do not want to pursue anything in that field). Copyediting vs Digital Marketing. There’s some overlap, but if you do either, please let me know your thoughts as to pros and cons!
Thanks for the Endel recommendation, it's been so useful today!
📚Like basically everyone else, I read (listened to) Beth Moore's autobiography this week and it was so, so good. And I just love her accent(s) so much, I'd like her to narrate everything!
🌻 The birds are back! It's still dreary and cold here in northern England, but being woken up by birds at 4am is the first sign that spring is on its way. Before long I'll want to shoot them, Phoebe's boyfriend style, for waking me up but until then, hurrah.
More 📚 A treasure for tomorrow - my husband is running cross country in Alnwick, so I'm spending the whole afternoon at Barter Books, a huge and gorgeous second-hand bookshop. Wierdly, it's where the original 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster which was everywhere in the 00s was found. I'm unreasonably excited for an afternoon of wandering around with the scent of old books in the air, then buying too many of them.
🥳 Y’all know my #1 treasure is that it’s my birthday today. I know there’s at least one birthday card waiting in my mailbox, and I’ve been told to expect a few more throughout the month. That alone is a celebration (THANK YOU!). But I think we can all agree the greatest gift is just that I am still intact and only slightly disabled after the stroke. I don’t take that for granted in the least. [P.S. it’s largely because of your generosity and support]
Today’s plans are to pick up a selection of freebies from various restaurants around town and to enjoy some locally-made tamales with queso for dinner. Tamales are my absolute favorite food so it’s a no brainer every year. There’s also some new TV to enjoy: my beloved Mandalorian is back, and Daisy Jones has arrived!🤘🏻 I also have a box of individually wrapped gifts from my best good friend (slash 23 year pen pal) waiting for me. I opened one of the packages last night and giggled for an extended time; it was a box of Frankenberry cereal and another box of Count Chocula. 😂 Favorites indeed! It’s that kind of joy that I’m looking for in this 54th year.
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🖼️ OMG @oldmadegood is my new favorite follow. I love art made from found things! And making it snarky or sarcastic is always a win. Have y’all seen @phaedrapeer? https://instagram.com/phaedrapeer
🥤 Yes, I have a cup roster. It’s a series of favorites in rotation throughout the week. I see a future Instagram post in the works!
🎸 I came of age during the Nirvana years and Foo Fighters has been in the background of my adulthood, but I was never a huge fan of either so I can’t tell you more than the basics of the music. But in the last few years I’ve come to learn that, yes, Dave Grohl is absolutely in charge. He just seems to be a really awesome guy! I need to mention that to my 20-year-old self next time I see her.
🏆 This whole year is about giving myself ribbons for small wins, but what a perfect motto for this time (and for life!): “Your brain doesn’t even have arms so stop letting it push you into stuff or hold you back.” 🙌🏻
Happy birthday! ✨️👑✨️ Have fun with your treats, tamales, packages, and cards! So happy for the physical progress you are making. Wishing you a wonderful new year!
Thank you so much, Dawn! I’ve been very pleased with my recovery and the therapists I’m working with. This week I even managed to drive again! The OT suggested I give it a try, just to see if my body could manage the mechanics, and it worked perfectly. I have a little one-handed assistive device for the steering wheel and really don’t need my right hand for the task. It’s amazing how the body can learn to compensate.
Thank you so much! I’ve felt very loved today, and I love that it will last all month. The mail guy never came today so I’ll have to wait for cards till later in the weekend. 🙄
At the moment most of my stuff is boxed up and in storage while I'm trying to find an apartment but you better believe a brought a few cups with me to my parents' house. If I don't have my morning tea in my morning tea mug my whole day is thrown off 😂
🏠 Moving out ended up going surprisingly well. I got some great help and everything went smoothly. The most surprising part was that even though I really loved my old apartment, I wasn't sad to leave.
Glad the move went smoothly and that you didn't have to carry sadness about the apartment along with everything else. Your restoration recipe sounds amazing! Enjoy enjoy enjoy! 🌞
"Your brain doesn't even have arms!" I'm gonna use that all the time now.
Good morning Swipes. Somehow, through client deadlines and tax prep and continuing to wait for biopsy results for our beloved dog 😟 and holding a variety of surgeries, broken bones, lost jobs, a disastrous case of long covid for my friends son (his Jr year and his brain literally doesnt function anymore), a surprise court case, and other disasters for friends and family in prayer (what on Earth is going on?) - I made it through this week.
📚 I finished The Lost and Found Bookshop, which did not end the way I thought it would. And finished The Light is Winning, which my favorite parts were references to Walter Brueggemann, so my tbr just got bigger.
📺 I'm on a PBS kick (those shows are soothing during a hectic week) and watched three documentaries (about blue jeans and about monopoly and about Zora Neal Hurston - Holy smokes I learned so much about her. Wow what a dame!) And finished All Creatures Great and Small and the entire season (so far) of Finding Your Roots (which I've never seen before).
📽I was so tired that my husband picked our movies this week. The History of the World Part I (in preparation for possibly watching Part II, but my husband came up to me yesterday, "I don't think we'll do Part 2. I remembered Part 1 as being funnier, but it's really dumb." "Yeah, honey you watched it when you were in, like junior high. Of course it was funnier then.") We also watched Uncharted, which was fun and Indiana Jonesy.
I'm off socials for the most part so I only get what people send me. All my people were run over this week (see above) so I only got this one goofy video from my mother in law: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tL_zvi0ltzI&feature=shares
✨️The real treasure is that I'm almost done with taxes and my client deadlines. And I'm looking forward to the next round of rain, to snuggle up with my husband and dogs. We have a random extra turkey in the freezer and may roast that up. Thanksgiving in March!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend, Swipes. See you in the comments.
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Give me ALL the rewards for getting stuff done please and thank you! After 10 weeks we (finally!) got a start date for husbands cancer treatment (seriously tho, it shouldn't take 10 weeks to go from diagnosis, initial consultation, 2nd opinion and insurance approvals!) - on the schedule? I get a reward. Having to change a 2 week London/Paris trip because of said 10 week delay because this whole process literally moves slower than a glacier? Yep, give me that glass of wine at 4:00 after I spent all day redoing itinerary, changing flights, cancelling hotels, re-bookings not going through, forget it, I'll do it tomorrow. Got dinner cooked? Reward please. Finished the 3rd season of Succession? Reward please. Just give me all the rewards for every little thing because we are so beaten down by this whole medical process that we're barely functioning please and thank you!
The Lent study has been good for me with this journey currently going through. Thank you for it!
All rewards for you!! And your hubby! How can us swipes help? Pray? Would be homored to! And navigating the jealth care system is so incredibly exhausting!!!
Yes, pray! Thank you! Pray that he tolerates the radiation well, that side effects are minimal to none, that we would just get it moving and get it scheduled so we can start the recovery journey on the other side of this. We are so beaten down by this whole process and beyond mentally tired and our functioning level most days is "barely".
Sure will pray right now, Chris. I used to work for an organization called “Believe Big” that helps people navigate the cancer journey. Take a look at their website when you’re up to it & see if they might be helpful to you & your hubby. Be good to yourself … seening someone you love go through this is tough.
We booked this trip way back in October (for April) when we had the money we saved for it. Then cancer diagnosis hit at Christmas and thankfully we insured everything and switching flights and dealing with hotels, it looks like we're going to be okay and it's just switching dates so far with no price changes cuz we have zero idea what the cancer treatment is going to cost at this point after insurance but we don't really have a choice at this point either. It sucks.
Endel app might just save me? I am in a new role and have SO much freedom, but it's almost too much some days where I don't know what to do next. I'm in my first 20 minute Endel sesh and I have gotten so much done. THANK YOU!
🎁Treasure one: I got a new tattoo. I love tattoes. I never thought I would have one, let alone two and planning for a half sleeve but here we are. They feel like quiet and beautiful rebellions that make me feel more alive.
🎁Treasure two: After years of financial discipline, it feels like this is the year we get to start having every day fun instead of every once in awhile fun
😢 Opposite of treasure- junk? crap? of the week: Found out this week my former boss's 7 year old has cancer. If you are a praying person, her surgery to remove the tumor is this morning and all the prayers would be so appreciated. Her name is Isla.
I gave up social media (specifically FB, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok) for Lent, so I’m thankful for the “Cliff Notes” (“Spark Notes” for you younger folk) here in the newsletter and in the comments!
Love hearing about Dave Grohl! I may have to look for a bio on him - any recommendations?
And the cup thing? So intrigued - I may have to have my hubby look at the link and describe what is going on!
My treasure this week has been Erin’s Lent daily readings. My first year observing Lent, and it really has been amazing. Difficult in a good way, but so needed for my soul. Realizing the church trauma runs deep, and Erin’s gentle voice has been what I needed.
Dave Grohl’s mom also has a book about parenting rock stars, featuring stories from several famous people: “From Cradle To Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked And Raised Rock Stars”
I am absolutely going to save the "everything's made up" TikTok to my rotation of "watch when sad" items. That woman got my weekend off to the best start. Well, that and my beloved little sister texting me the link to the newest "Can it Kirkland" on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok, so she sends me all the new reels in that series as they come out, and they absolutely delight me! (If you haven't seen it, here it is: https://www.tiktok.com/@neverendingfall/video/7205373060579642670?_t=8aJRYS9USVS&_r=1)
The cups are so real. I have a Simple Modern tumbler exclusively for Liquid IV, an Owala bottle for water, nice rocks glasses for grapefruit juice (yep, only grapefruit juice...and sometimes cocktails), and numerous handmade pottery mugs for coffee and tea (handmade pottery is my favorite souvenir to pick up on vacations).
I'm very much looking forward to this weekend: going out for Indian food tonight at a new place, tomorrow I'm celebrating a dear friend's swearing in as a naturalized US citizen (officially happened Thursday, the surprise party is on Saturday), and on Sunday my boyfriend and I will be supervising the pack up and loading process of most of his things because the floors are FINALLY getting replaced on Monday!!! His condo flooded back at the end of December and the prospect of work finally beginning is thrilling!
Other treasures:
-Currently reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson and y'all it is SO good! I live for debut novels.
-I made two new recipes this week. They weren't my favorites but I love trying new things in the kitchen.
-My favorite local winery released a collection of delicious red wines bundled with a nice discount, so my boyfriend and I got it and we're having fun trying them!
Beth Moore's autobiography couldn't have been any better. I'm certain. I had an issue with my amazon book order and it was returned (before I even saw it!) so I listened to the audiobook. Oh my goodness - I think it was even better. Beth Moore reading her book...with her accent, inflections and emotions? And the fact that she hates Miracle Whip like I do just endeared her to me even more.
Miracle Whip defamation was worth the book. Real mayo or go home.
and the disaster that was twitter this week made me quit it, again. BUT on the plus side, we all learned that Dave Grohl is an amazing human.
And I need to remember Endel. OMG if my brain hasn't been over&under stimulated all week. it's been a lot
nice! good for you. And yay to eating and brushing comfortably again. Its worth it once its over. ;)
Thank you so much for sharing the Endel information. Lordy I have been going to dang fast and all over the place lately. I saw it on your IG story and was like "oh i like it" and then kept on scrolling. Starting Monday Endel and I will get to one another. I spent 2 days this week tuned into the Murdaugh trial, that was a mess but I could not turn away. And Erin that Apple Bottom song on your story took me out LOL!!!!
I would like to sleep for the next month, but I have too much to do. I found a house, it's cute and fine, and I hate renting so much. I expect to be nickel-and-dimed by property management companies, but it gets worse every time I have to do it. I also didn't expect to find a house in the first batch I looked at, so I have done zero packing and am ostensibly supposed to get the keys tomorrow. In better news, my grandma is still in the hospital, but she's improved enough that the medical team has put a pin in the dialysis plan for now. I have a dr appointment on Tuesday to go over some labwork that's mostly routine, but partly "we don't think this is a big deal, but we're adding some tests to rule out some scary stuff". Just a real raining/pouring situation out here.
Congratulations on finding a house and best of luck with the packing! Glad to hear the news about your grandmother and I hope everything goes well on Tuesday.
Thank you!
I tried that app last night and I truly can't believe how I slept so deeply and had the weirdest and most fun dreams. I usually wake up around 2 and then again at 4 and just get up. I woke up at 2 but went right back to sleep and then slept until 7! SEVEN!!!! What a gift!
Hmm I gotta try this app. Off meds for a complicated list of reasons and need something to help. The brains are overloaded out here
This was beautiful and I def appreciate the reminder to treat yourself for the small things. It helped remind me I had bought a bag of gummy worms as a reward for cleaning my basement. <3
Hi, Swipes! I hope everyone is doing well.
I have a new part-time job as a substitute preschool teacher and have been spending the last couple weeks observing and doing paperwork etc. It’s a change and that is always hard for me, but so far it’s been fun!
I cannot wait to read Beth Moore’s book. I’m so far down the library list. It’s funny because I’ve been deconstructing for years, but she’s one teacher from before that I still feel really connected to.
I’m also considering two different certificate programs (I have my bachelor’s degree in psychology but do not want to pursue anything in that field). Copyediting vs Digital Marketing. There’s some overlap, but if you do either, please let me know your thoughts as to pros and cons!
Thanks for the Endel recommendation, it's been so useful today!
📚Like basically everyone else, I read (listened to) Beth Moore's autobiography this week and it was so, so good. And I just love her accent(s) so much, I'd like her to narrate everything!
🌻 The birds are back! It's still dreary and cold here in northern England, but being woken up by birds at 4am is the first sign that spring is on its way. Before long I'll want to shoot them, Phoebe's boyfriend style, for waking me up but until then, hurrah.
More 📚 A treasure for tomorrow - my husband is running cross country in Alnwick, so I'm spending the whole afternoon at Barter Books, a huge and gorgeous second-hand bookshop. Wierdly, it's where the original 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster which was everywhere in the 00s was found. I'm unreasonably excited for an afternoon of wandering around with the scent of old books in the air, then buying too many of them.
Poking around a book shop is a wonderful way to spend a 10k/marathon! 😆 Enjoy!
Love the Friends reference! 😄 I'm in Maine and the whole bird/spring thing seems so far off
🥳 Y’all know my #1 treasure is that it’s my birthday today. I know there’s at least one birthday card waiting in my mailbox, and I’ve been told to expect a few more throughout the month. That alone is a celebration (THANK YOU!). But I think we can all agree the greatest gift is just that I am still intact and only slightly disabled after the stroke. I don’t take that for granted in the least. [P.S. it’s largely because of your generosity and support]
Today’s plans are to pick up a selection of freebies from various restaurants around town and to enjoy some locally-made tamales with queso for dinner. Tamales are my absolute favorite food so it’s a no brainer every year. There’s also some new TV to enjoy: my beloved Mandalorian is back, and Daisy Jones has arrived!🤘🏻 I also have a box of individually wrapped gifts from my best good friend (slash 23 year pen pal) waiting for me. I opened one of the packages last night and giggled for an extended time; it was a box of Frankenberry cereal and another box of Count Chocula. 😂 Favorites indeed! It’s that kind of joy that I’m looking for in this 54th year.
Newsletter Thoughts
🖼️ OMG @oldmadegood is my new favorite follow. I love art made from found things! And making it snarky or sarcastic is always a win. Have y’all seen @phaedrapeer? https://instagram.com/phaedrapeer
🥤 Yes, I have a cup roster. It’s a series of favorites in rotation throughout the week. I see a future Instagram post in the works!
🎸 I came of age during the Nirvana years and Foo Fighters has been in the background of my adulthood, but I was never a huge fan of either so I can’t tell you more than the basics of the music. But in the last few years I’ve come to learn that, yes, Dave Grohl is absolutely in charge. He just seems to be a really awesome guy! I need to mention that to my 20-year-old self next time I see her.
🏆 This whole year is about giving myself ribbons for small wins, but what a perfect motto for this time (and for life!): “Your brain doesn’t even have arms so stop letting it push you into stuff or hold you back.” 🙌🏻
Happy Happy Birthday!! Hope it’s a fabulous weekend & a happy healthy year!! Tamales all around!!
Happy birthday! ✨️👑✨️ Have fun with your treats, tamales, packages, and cards! So happy for the physical progress you are making. Wishing you a wonderful new year!
Thank you so much, Dawn! I’ve been very pleased with my recovery and the therapists I’m working with. This week I even managed to drive again! The OT suggested I give it a try, just to see if my body could manage the mechanics, and it worked perfectly. I have a little one-handed assistive device for the steering wheel and really don’t need my right hand for the task. It’s amazing how the body can learn to compensate.
Happy birthday! I mailed your card today as celebrating all month is the way to do it!
It’s the only way to do a birthday! 💗
The happiest of birthdays to you, Jules! You are awesome and deserve all the ribbons and awards. I'm so glad to have met you here. 🤗
I love that you got lots of good TV as a birthday present.
Thank you so much! I’ve felt very loved today, and I love that it will last all month. The mail guy never came today so I’ll have to wait for cards till later in the weekend. 🙄
I hope you'll feel even more loved when they arrive.
Happy birthday Jules! You bring such love and warmth to the Swipe Up! I am so grateful for you! ❤️
☺️☺️☺️
Currently watching Daisy and thank you for reminding me about The Mandalorian! Did you get my card?!
The USPS app shows me it’ll arrive today. 😍
I LOVE the USPS app, that makes me happy!
Hi friends!
At the moment most of my stuff is boxed up and in storage while I'm trying to find an apartment but you better believe a brought a few cups with me to my parents' house. If I don't have my morning tea in my morning tea mug my whole day is thrown off 😂
🏠 Moving out ended up going surprisingly well. I got some great help and everything went smoothly. The most surprising part was that even though I really loved my old apartment, I wasn't sad to leave.
🍲 This soup was really easy to make and it was good too. https://www.wgbh.org/dining-in/2021/03/25/a-simple-yet-robust-recipe-for-turkish-red-lentil-soup
🛁 Long baths, good books and sunshine is slowly restoring me after the horror that was January and February. Thank the Lord.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Glad the move went smoothly and that you didn't have to carry sadness about the apartment along with everything else. Your restoration recipe sounds amazing! Enjoy enjoy enjoy! 🌞
Thank you, Dawn!
"Your brain doesn't even have arms!" I'm gonna use that all the time now.
Good morning Swipes. Somehow, through client deadlines and tax prep and continuing to wait for biopsy results for our beloved dog 😟 and holding a variety of surgeries, broken bones, lost jobs, a disastrous case of long covid for my friends son (his Jr year and his brain literally doesnt function anymore), a surprise court case, and other disasters for friends and family in prayer (what on Earth is going on?) - I made it through this week.
📚 I finished The Lost and Found Bookshop, which did not end the way I thought it would. And finished The Light is Winning, which my favorite parts were references to Walter Brueggemann, so my tbr just got bigger.
📺 I'm on a PBS kick (those shows are soothing during a hectic week) and watched three documentaries (about blue jeans and about monopoly and about Zora Neal Hurston - Holy smokes I learned so much about her. Wow what a dame!) And finished All Creatures Great and Small and the entire season (so far) of Finding Your Roots (which I've never seen before).
📽I was so tired that my husband picked our movies this week. The History of the World Part I (in preparation for possibly watching Part II, but my husband came up to me yesterday, "I don't think we'll do Part 2. I remembered Part 1 as being funnier, but it's really dumb." "Yeah, honey you watched it when you were in, like junior high. Of course it was funnier then.") We also watched Uncharted, which was fun and Indiana Jonesy.
I'm off socials for the most part so I only get what people send me. All my people were run over this week (see above) so I only got this one goofy video from my mother in law: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tL_zvi0ltzI&feature=shares
✨️The real treasure is that I'm almost done with taxes and my client deadlines. And I'm looking forward to the next round of rain, to snuggle up with my husband and dogs. We have a random extra turkey in the freezer and may roast that up. Thanksgiving in March!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend, Swipes. See you in the comments.
What was the Zora Neal Hurston doc called? I found out through Ancestry.com that she is my great aunt and I would love to know more about her life!
Wow! That is so rad! It was one of the American Experience shows called "Zora Neal Hurston Claiming a Space".
Whew, it's been quite a week for you! I'm glad you made it and hope you get some downtime this weekend!
Thabk you, Eliza!
What a week, Dawn. I hope you get lots of rest and snuggles this weekend!
Thank you, Rebecka!
PBS is truly the most underrated network in television! It always delivers.
Right? I'm making myself a PBS hype woman. Softly, though. With measured words and gentle reminders. 😆
Agreed! Puzzles + Antiques Roadshow is a delectable combo
Totally! It makes my heart rate slow just to read those words. Good stuff!
Give me ALL the rewards for getting stuff done please and thank you! After 10 weeks we (finally!) got a start date for husbands cancer treatment (seriously tho, it shouldn't take 10 weeks to go from diagnosis, initial consultation, 2nd opinion and insurance approvals!) - on the schedule? I get a reward. Having to change a 2 week London/Paris trip because of said 10 week delay because this whole process literally moves slower than a glacier? Yep, give me that glass of wine at 4:00 after I spent all day redoing itinerary, changing flights, cancelling hotels, re-bookings not going through, forget it, I'll do it tomorrow. Got dinner cooked? Reward please. Finished the 3rd season of Succession? Reward please. Just give me all the rewards for every little thing because we are so beaten down by this whole medical process that we're barely functioning please and thank you!
The Lent study has been good for me with this journey currently going through. Thank you for it!
All rewards for you!! And your hubby! How can us swipes help? Pray? Would be homored to! And navigating the jealth care system is so incredibly exhausting!!!
Yes, pray! Thank you! Pray that he tolerates the radiation well, that side effects are minimal to none, that we would just get it moving and get it scheduled so we can start the recovery journey on the other side of this. We are so beaten down by this whole process and beyond mentally tired and our functioning level most days is "barely".
Sure will pray right now, Chris. I used to work for an organization called “Believe Big” that helps people navigate the cancer journey. Take a look at their website when you’re up to it & see if they might be helpful to you & your hubby. Be good to yourself … seening someone you love go through this is tough.
Praying for you.
Oh man. I am so sorry about the awful ordeal. Yes, ma'am you Do deserve all the rewards.
Sending so much 💗 to you and your family as both a cancer survivor and someone who works in oncology - 10 weeks is RIDICULOUS!!! Solidarity!!
Rebooking a trip is intense! All the awards!
We booked this trip way back in October (for April) when we had the money we saved for it. Then cancer diagnosis hit at Christmas and thankfully we insured everything and switching flights and dealing with hotels, it looks like we're going to be okay and it's just switching dates so far with no price changes cuz we have zero idea what the cancer treatment is going to cost at this point after insurance but we don't really have a choice at this point either. It sucks.
Endel app might just save me? I am in a new role and have SO much freedom, but it's almost too much some days where I don't know what to do next. I'm in my first 20 minute Endel sesh and I have gotten so much done. THANK YOU!
🎁Treasure one: I got a new tattoo. I love tattoes. I never thought I would have one, let alone two and planning for a half sleeve but here we are. They feel like quiet and beautiful rebellions that make me feel more alive.
🎁Treasure two: After years of financial discipline, it feels like this is the year we get to start having every day fun instead of every once in awhile fun
😢 Opposite of treasure- junk? crap? of the week: Found out this week my former boss's 7 year old has cancer. If you are a praying person, her surgery to remove the tumor is this morning and all the prayers would be so appreciated. Her name is Isla.
Praying for Isla and her parents. 💔
Congrats on the new tattoo!! I feel the same about mine, and would love to hear about yours if you're open to sharing. 😊
Praying for Isla. 🙏 (I go with trash as my opposite, because I like alliteration) 🗑 💰
Prayers for Isla!
Praying for Isla! And you can call them whatever you want, but anti-treasures have always been turds for me! 😆
Praying for Isla ❤
I gave up social media (specifically FB, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok) for Lent, so I’m thankful for the “Cliff Notes” (“Spark Notes” for you younger folk) here in the newsletter and in the comments!
Love hearing about Dave Grohl! I may have to look for a bio on him - any recommendations?
And the cup thing? So intrigued - I may have to have my hubby look at the link and describe what is going on!
My treasure this week has been Erin’s Lent daily readings. My first year observing Lent, and it really has been amazing. Difficult in a good way, but so needed for my soul. Realizing the church trauma runs deep, and Erin’s gentle voice has been what I needed.
Glad your first lent is a good one!
This is so nice, Christina! Thank you! 🖤
I want to read Dave’s “The Storyteller” book. Not sure if it’s a bio but I’ve heard wonderful things!
Dave Grohl’s mom also has a book about parenting rock stars, featuring stories from several famous people: “From Cradle To Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked And Raised Rock Stars”
Ok. That sounds fascinating!
I am absolutely going to save the "everything's made up" TikTok to my rotation of "watch when sad" items. That woman got my weekend off to the best start. Well, that and my beloved little sister texting me the link to the newest "Can it Kirkland" on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok, so she sends me all the new reels in that series as they come out, and they absolutely delight me! (If you haven't seen it, here it is: https://www.tiktok.com/@neverendingfall/video/7205373060579642670?_t=8aJRYS9USVS&_r=1)
The cups are so real. I have a Simple Modern tumbler exclusively for Liquid IV, an Owala bottle for water, nice rocks glasses for grapefruit juice (yep, only grapefruit juice...and sometimes cocktails), and numerous handmade pottery mugs for coffee and tea (handmade pottery is my favorite souvenir to pick up on vacations).
I'm very much looking forward to this weekend: going out for Indian food tonight at a new place, tomorrow I'm celebrating a dear friend's swearing in as a naturalized US citizen (officially happened Thursday, the surprise party is on Saturday), and on Sunday my boyfriend and I will be supervising the pack up and loading process of most of his things because the floors are FINALLY getting replaced on Monday!!! His condo flooded back at the end of December and the prospect of work finally beginning is thrilling!
Other treasures:
-Currently reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson and y'all it is SO good! I live for debut novels.
-I made two new recipes this week. They weren't my favorites but I love trying new things in the kitchen.
-My favorite local winery released a collection of delicious red wines bundled with a nice discount, so my boyfriend and I got it and we're having fun trying them!
Congrats on the floors! So many folks I know are dealing with flood/storm damage, and it takes so long to fix! Enjoy the new wines! 🍷