June!! Is long over now. As you can see by the (many) pics I selected above, the main focus of June was our trip to Zion National Park + Las Vegas. (See all the recaps here.) However, we were home for the whole beginning of the month. The focus of that half was Sectionals and… Continue reading June 2026 Recap
Today is day 84 with no soda. Not one single sip! I'm truly very proud of myself. Overall, it's going well. I can't tell if I actually miss IT, or I just miss the dopamine hit that came along with it. I believe that I mostly miss having that thing to really look forward to,… Continue reading Quitting soda update #5
Just popping in to say a quick hello. The last couple of days have been BUSY - my parents "officially" moved in yesterday!! I cut out of work early by around 3 on Thursday and drove to their old house and we spent the whole evening packing and carting things out of the basement. I… Continue reading They’re here!
I’ve been feeling a teeny bit twitchy lately because this “extroverted introvert” has been camped pretty solidly on the “slightly too much togetherness time” side of the aisle for weeks now. NOT actually complaining, because obviously on our wonderful vacation, there was naturally a lot of togetherness time! And that’s a great thing. It’s just… Continue reading Lately
It feels good to be home. I already told you how I launched myself right from vacation -> back into work mode. Ivan and I both felt pretty sleep deprived for a few days due to the red eye flight, obviously, but also I'm sure just the time change (2 hours earlier on Vegas time)… Continue reading Some good things + resuming a skincare routine….
You guys know by now that I STRUGGLE with packing. I have felt like in the last couple of years I've actually gotten worse with it, not better, too. Due to both cost increases and space reasons, we've shifted to being pretty much exclusively carry-on only travelers now. We also frequently take fairly long trips,… Continue reading Packing tips for an indecisive traveler
Ahhh, the Garth Brooks concert was SO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤩 I'm so glad I went. I rode with my volleyball friend and her mom (who was super nice and even insisted on paying for my dinner!!). We went out for dinner at Wicked Hop in Milwaukee's Third Ward before the concert, a fun brewery about 3/4… Continue reading Garth Brooks concert recap! 🤠
A quick check-in to say howdy and share a few miscellany: Today's the day, Garth Brooks concert day! I'm excited! I can't remember if I mentioned here that although I bought my ticket to go alone, it turns out a volleyball friend and her mom also had tickets for tonight. So I'm catching a ride… Continue reading Tuesday misc. and GARTH DAY!
Looking back at what I wrote in last Sunday's post, I feel like I can basically say "ditto". As evidenced by my lack of posting, this past week also felt rather hectic. Again, on paper it sort of wasn't, really? So, I don't know. I think it was mostly just that my work days were… Continue reading Sunday Style Scenes #3 + the week in review
This past week flew by. I felt a bit scattered, too. It's not like I had an objectively hard week. Actually, on paper it looks like mostly all I did was fun stuff in my free time. For some reason it didn't really feel like that, though? Maybe because work was intense last week. There's… Continue reading Sunday style scenes #2 and the week
GRATEFUL KAE 