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book review: the guest list

The Guest List (Lucy Foley)

“The rage is growing inside me, overtaking the shock and grief. I can feel it blossoming up behind my ribs. It’s almost a relief, how it obliterates every other feeling in its path.”

Jules has spent years crafting her perfect life. Her wedding is no exception. It’s an occasion fit for any celebrity- not shocking what with her being a magazine publisher and her…

4 binge-worthy shows for this summer

We all have that one show- the one we ALWAYS go back to. Maybe you pick it because it’s comforting, maybe it’s easy to have on as background noise (even though we all know using something as “background noise” only works 10% of the time…the rest of the time we’re totally watching). No matter why we pick it, there’s always one. For me, it’s NCIS.

Since it can be fun to try some new shows, I…

some happy things from this past week

Things have been trending towards the rougher side as of late. In light of this, I’ve chosen to pick out a few things from this past week that made me especially happy. I’m very fortunate to not have to be worried about my job, my home, or my health during this difficult time and I believe that it’s important to look for the good times whenever possible (especially on hard days). Here’s a small…

2020 animal spirit reading

Tarot readings are something that I’ve always found fascinating. About a year ago, I purchased The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck and I’ve loved it since day one. Recently, I decided to do a modified year reading for 2020 (as it’s currently April) and I thought I would share it! Do you like these kinds of readings? Do you have a favorite deck? Let me know!

April: Swan(effortless creativity,…

why i’m running a half-marathon

I’ve decided to run a half-marathon. I’ve been thinking about running some sort of race for a while now. Up until recently, I had “run a 10k” on my bucket list. So then there’s the question of why I decided to run a half-marathon instead of just the 10k. Here’s my answer:

One day, I woke up and thought what if I ran a marathon?

But then I realized that might be too ambitious. Also, running…

Every year, it seems that I plan to read so many books and then I hardly finish a handful of them. I planned to read 12 books in 2019 but I only got to ______. This year, I am going to set a goal to read 10 books, however, I have below a collection of 18 books that I would love to be able to read. Several of them have transferred from my 2019 tbr or even my 2018 tbr(it’s a little embarrassing, I…

Last year, I did a 2019 bucket list…admittedly I didn’t cross off as many things as I would like to, but it was still fun and here I am doing it again!

Do a food log.

Learn to do the splits.

Grow my hair out.

Participate in a color run.

Harry Potter marathon.

Go to a waterpark.

Finish a ‘wreck this journal’.

Learn to do a handstand.

Go to a farmers market.

Get my double piercing.

Run a 10k.

Study abroad.

my best of 2019

It turns out that I have really been slacking off on my monthly favorites, but that seemed to work out in my favor this year as I have now found a reason to create a “Best of 2019” for myself.

JANUARY (CABIN TRIP)

Since my college has a January term, I spent the month at home with my family. My parents and I chose to…

Hello! I hope you’re all having a great week. This summer, my family and I sold my beloved Mini Cooper. I am now driving a Subaru. This switch, in my opinion, called for a new car essentials kit. For me, a car essentials kit is part emergency kit but it also includes several more everyday products. Below, I have broken down the items in my personal car kit into three categories- emergency,…

three sweet summer smoothie recipies

Hello!! I hope you all had a wonderful start to your week. Today I am going to be sharing three super simple smoothie recipes that I have been making in the Dash Sports BlenderI purchased for my dorm last year. The thing that I’ve really loved about the Dash blender is the blending bottle. The bottle comes with a travel lid as well as the mixing lid which makes it perfect for taking with me to…

a brief guide to essential oils

Over the past few months, I’ve started getting into using essential oils. Stupidly, I did zero research and jumped right into it instead. However, since I’ve become more interested, I decided it was probably well past time for me to do my research so I decided to share what I’ve learned with all of you!

For anyone reading this who is just starting to learn about essential oils, they are…

book review: highly illogical behavior

Highly Illogical Behavior John Whaley

“That’s what we do sometimes. We let people disappear. We want them to. If everyone just stays quiet and out of the way, then the rest of us can pretend everything’s fine. But everything is not fine.” 

Solomon Reed has not stepped outside of his home in over three years. Lisa Praytor has not had a spare minute in her schedule since she was eleven. In…

travel diary – california

Tuesday, June 4, was mostly a travel day. Mary and I flew from Milwaukee to Las Vegas to Sacramento to meet her father so he could drive us back up to their ranch in northern California. After settling in, I met the cats– Annie and Arlo (mostly Arlo though since Annie hid the whole night) and, later, the horses– Leftie and Will. Between the time zone changes and day of traveling, we were pretty…

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing all the links I could find for the items I shared in my summer clothing haul video (also linked below). Since I was shopping at an outlet mall, sometimes items have been discontinued elsewhere. However, I tried my best to find similar items for you all! Hopefully this helps- enjoy!

OLD…

Hello!! I hope that your February is off to a good start! Today I thought I would share my 2019 tbr list. For those of you who don’t know what that is, ‘tbr’ stands for ‘to be read’. I did a 2018 tbr last year but it had SO many books on it. I barely got any read! My 2018 reading challenge results were pretty sad looking…

However, I decided to do another reading challenge this year! I’m…

the difficulty of falling out of love

Let me start off by saying this: I fall in love very easily.

Too easily? Possibly. But I would prefer to have this issue than the opposite– not falling in love at all. I have a natural tendency to want to see the light in everything and prove my instincts wrong about people. I never want to believe that someone is an inherently bad person. I believe that there are circumstances and reasons for…

a brief life update

Wow. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been on here. To be honest, I lost a bit of motivation when I got caught up in YouTube and college prep. I still have yet to publish a video that I created during my final week in Wisconsin. Maybe I’ll get there this week? You’ll be the first ones to know about it, I promise.

I’ve been at college for almost a month now. I’ve gone through field hockey…