Weekly Newsletter (thanksgiving edition) 💌🍁 (11.24-11.30)

Happy Thanksgiving (week) everyone! I’m hoping this week has been kind and you all had a chance to eat your weight in food as I have so gracefully done. This time of the year warrants reflection as we gather round and share what we’re thankful for. I’m the type of person to take weeks to think of what I’m going to tell my family I’m thankful for because it is important for me to have a sincere answer. Conveniently I wasn’t even asked what I was thankful for this year so I have no one to share this with but you. My answer may come off self-centered but I want to preface this by saying I am always grateful for my wonderful friends and family so that answer feels very surface level. This year I am thankful for the growth I’ve experienced this year (and I’m not talking about my 😏). I’ve seen many different regurgitations of “handling situations better than past me would’ve” recently and it’s been stimulating the thought process that has lead me to this conclusion. Last year was embarrassingly hard time for me. I was a freshman in college (online mind you….), losing touch with friends, feeling horrible about my body and trying but failing to change it, and felt so isolated in my own experience. There’s a different type of loneliness that comes with experiencing something alone. There was a part of me that thought maybe this was just my new phase of life and I would never shed the pain I felt. Truthfully, It wasn’t until about June that I actually started to feel better about my life. I had to let a lot of things go and shed hopes along the way,  but if it wasn’t for those uncomfortable experiences I wouldn’t be as prepared and tough as I am now. I’m still very much working through things but I trust that everything will find its way to me in divine timing and when it is right for me. 

🥗this weeks eats:

I don’t have any pictures because my thanksgiving plate looked so gross with the amount of food that was on it but trust it was yummy. Some highlights were the sweet potato casserole and green chile creamed corn (both made by me 🤤). I also indulged in some salad from my favorite salad place while having some wine and watching Heated Rivalry and wow 🤤.

🌹recently watched:

Strap in because this is about to be a lot…..

Wake Up Dead Man:

Really funny but felt kinda long. Saw this with bestie and the only showing with seats was at 10:45 pm. I was so tired so that didn’t help with the way the pacing felt. Josh O’Conner as a priest LORD HAVE MERCY wow. Missing challengers season BAD. Andrew Scott’s character was so jarring for me because 1. The American accent and 2. He was an incel LOOOOL. Twas a fun movie 🤷‍♀️.

Eternity:

This movie was set out to kill me actually. It’s been hitting me a little hard recently that I don’t have anyone and seeing Elizabeth Olson with TWO men all up on her was a test of my mental fortitude. Callum Turner really took me out the whole movie and that one sex scene and me feeling faint. Miles Teller’s character was really sweet and so old man coded still which I found a great attention to detail. There were plenty of points throughout the movie I just resorted to sobbing because I just couldn’t handle the thought of being loved so deeply.

Zootopia 2:

ZOO OOO OOO. I loooooved this movie and all the characters. The casting really nailed it for me. Nick Wilde is as hot as ever (I said what I said). Fortune Feimster in this movie was SOOO FUNNY “it takes a four way to bust your door way” 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️. Feeling the weight of getting older because half of the kids in the theater weren’t even born when the first movie came out and I really can’t handle that. 

Heated Rivalry: 

• These gay boys have me in a trance dude. Those sex scenes don’t PLAY. I knew nothing of the book before this series came out and I am so sorry I haven’t read it sooner. Already feeling emotionally devastated with the ending of episode 2 and only living to see episode 3 at this point. Both main actors are so good that it really makes this show click and I am just so obsessed. Also as a hockey fan if this helps to grow the game im all here for it but I don’t know how comfortable I feel if the NHL actually acknowledges it. The hockey spaces are barley safe for women so….

🌷bumpin’ that:

 Don’t call a well-fair check on me but lately I have been bumping Couldn’t Be Happier from the Wicked For Good sound track and the “there are bridges you cross you didn’t know until you cross” has really been hitting me. So much so that I damn near wrote an essay on some messy friendship stuff I went through earlier this year and I cried my eyes out when she sang it in the movie. I have also been bumping Slut Era Interlude by ROLE MODEL 🫩. That song is so good just like musically but the actual lyrics of the song make me feel a little sick. There’s a very messy part of me that loves it though and it kinda terrifies me 😀. 

🪷grievances & gratitudes:

I am trying to not put too many grievances because it’s thanksgiving (week) after all but with the amount of trips to the movie theater this weekend I have to say something. People that don’t have basic theater etiquette awaken a different type of anger in me and I get so close to being a a full blown bitch. I love big movie weekends when everyone goes to the theater don’t get me wrong but when my movie going experience is fucked with I get cranky. I don’t mind a little (quiet) chatter or a really loud laugh but getting up constantly and FARTING really loud is unacceptable dude. There are kids that are better behaved than these fucking adults. 

My gratitude’s this week are getting to spend time with family/ getting time off work for the holidays, going to the movies, and going on early morning walks. Very simple I know but that’s literally all I did this week alright. The holidays would not be the same without my family and I really appreciate that Im at an age where I can actually appreciate spending time with them. Im grateful for going to the movies because they really are such a great escape from reality that’s very needed. Lastly, I went on this amazing walk on Thanksgiving so I could get my cardio in for the day and it was so fucking good. I listened to the latest ride episode and frozen my butt off (so worth it).

🌺brain food:

Trying something new this week so I’d really appreciate the participation. I would like to know what you guys are thankful for this year. Make it as genuine, funny, or dumb as you want. 🦃🍁 (p.s. very thankful for the 3 other people who have liked my newsletter so far besides my best friend so thanks 💖)

💌 With Thanks,

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Thanksgiving: A day to give thanks for all we have.

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