Sorry that I haven’t posted in awhile, folks–I am officially on spring break. Although you’d never know by looking at what Matt and I have done this week…basically our week has just been one crazy-long wedding to-do list. People keep telling us to enjoy all the stress of it, but I personally won’t mind when …
Change It Up Challenge – Journal Writing Prompts
I still remember my first journal–a hot pink binder with my name written in calligraphy, given to me by my dad, who always taught me that I should record down my thoughts. I was six. I’ve been keeping a journal ever since. Through the years, I’ve gone through journal phases–times when I wrote every day, …
Book #6 – Peony in Love
Title: Peony in LoveAuthor: Lisa SeePages: 284 Peony in Love is a story set deep in 17th-century China, where tradition, folklore, and superstition rule the upper and lower classes alike. Peony is sixteen years old and obsessed with the famous opera The Peony Pavilion, which is based around two lovers who are destined to meet …
The Present
Last night I remarked in my journal that I’ve been working on becoming more present lately, a habit that yoga is helping me a lot with. So much of my life is go, go, go that it becomes easy to just scurry around and think about whatever task looms in my near future instead of …
WIOSI Challenge Item #4
I’m feeling a little down tonight, so this post might not be as detailed as it could be. This last piece I wore for the WIOSI Challenge got mixed reviews even in person–some people (strangers, actually) gave me some nice compliments on it, but other people (who I know better) said that it wasn’t their …
Change It Up Challenge #3 – Food Log
I have learned from sad experience that diets do not work for me. Well, actually they do…for the week or so that I can handle being on them. Then I counter all the good effects it might have had the next week when I go the opposite direction and stuff my face with all the …
WIOSI Challenge, Item #3
The Wear It Or Share It Challenge might be doing the opposite of what I thought it would–instead of making me want to get rid of some of my stuff (finally), it’s reminding me of why I fell in love with or bought certain items in the first place. Take this lace shirt, for instance. …
Book #5 – Fires in the Bathroom
Title: Fires in the Bathroom (aff link) Author: Kathleen Cushman Pages: 190 It’s a good thing I can count books I read for school, because I’m a bit behind on my 50-Book Challenge (but not too much–if I managed to pop out 3 more books by the end of this month, I’d be about right …