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Sunday Lately, 70

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Completing, Visiting, Repeating, Writing, Scheduling

I’ve skipped a few Sunday Lately posts…ahem…but there’s no time like the present to jump back in. Here we go.

Completing

Awkward: I finally did laundry after about 3 weeks…I wasn’t running out of clothes or underwear, but I was running out of the stuff that looks good on me. Maybe a sign to do some cleaning…

Awesome: Thanks to the miracle that is post scheduling, I’ll be probably about 8 miles into my 5th Pittsburgh Marathon half. So I’m completing that today and a beer and a nap. Amen. Yesterday was 5k day.

Pittsburgh Marathon 5k 2016 shirts

Visiting

Awkward: I don’t think any awkward visits have happened this past week. Which is good. Awesome: I’ll be visiting my mom for Mother’s Day. She and my step father were coming back to Pittsburgh just about every other week a few months back, but I haven’t seen her since the end of March.

Repeating

Awkward: I’ve been repeating shows on Netflix. I use it as background noise in my house, but if anyone saw my viewing history, they’d be like “wow this girl does NOTHING but watch bad sitcoms. Awesome: Season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It took me a while to get into it, but I love Tina Fey as the therapist. Tina Fey as anything is just amazing.

Writing

Awkward: My 5,000th comeback post aka: this post.

Awesome: If you don’t know, I write for a beer blog in Pittsburgh (which explains the running) and I have always wanted to do a “style” tasting of sorts — compare and contrast one style of beer from the same brewery. Most times, I can’t do that because…well, when was the last time you saw 5 IPAs on tap in a small, local brewery? Enter: Insurrection. Really excited to get this post going. PS: Have you seen this post about pairing beers and food that I collaborated with Jaelan at Making Mrs. M a few months ago?

Scheduling

Awkward: Well I already spilled the beans about scheduling this post…

Awesome: Time off for a tonsillectomy. Not sure if that’s really awesome, but it’s awesome that my benefits at work let me do that. Especially since I talk on the phone for my job. I’m scared!


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PS: Have you seen Thread and Grain? It’s Katy’s new (like, NEW just launched today!) business. You may see a familiar face….right here!

Sunday Lately, 66

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Planning, Loving, Reading, Wishing, Feeling

Planning

So I painted my living room this weekend and I totally don’t love it. I’m planning to jazz it up with some new curtains and some art. I already custom-made something with leftover samples. I have one wall that looks dark and sad and I may just take a paintbrush to it and see what I come up with. The rest of the room doesn’t look like an adult lives there, why should my walls be super serious?

Loving

Aside from the fact that I feel like I’m living in an Eiffel 65 song, I really do like what I created as art. I used to have records hung on the wall, but I was worried about the paint peeling off it I put them back, so I’ll find another place for them.

Custom art made from leftover paint samples for the room. Perfectly coordinates!

Reading

All the Better Homes and Gardens. Ever since I was a kid, I loved magazines like that. I used to pour over them at my grandma’s house and dream about the lovely, airy, old-but-packed-with-charm house that I’d live in some day with my 500 dogs.

Wishing

Well it’s April 3 and Mother Nature decided she didn’t like that we were feeling happy and warm and she dumped some snow on us. And I’m wishing for the warm weather to come back!

Feeling

I’m feeling all the frustration about my living room. I affectionately referred to it before as “Mexican Restaurant Yellow” but it was warm and inviting. And all of the colors in my house are warm tones. I have no idea why I thought I could dump a fish tank room into it and it would magically work.


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Sunday Lately, 61

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Planning, Loving, Reading, Wishing, Feeling

Planning

Awesome and awkward: I saw a cute little place to rent today that I absolutely love and would put down a deposit on just seconds after seeing it….and there’s someone else in line in front of me. I know, I keep complaining about this. And even wrote a pretty accurate description of how looking for a place to rent is like online dating. I’ll shut up soon.

Loving

Awesome: This cuff that I found for my aunt’s birthday from KLoRebel Art. It’s so unique and definitely her. I also got a cute print called Bubbly.

KLoRebel Art Wine Cuff

Reading

Awesome: I just finished up Big Magic (finally!) and am jumping back into where I left of re-reading Yes Please. Then on to Kayla Hollatz’s Brave Little Bones.

Wishing

Awesome and Awkward: For an apartment that is everything I want. An old building with charm, dog friendly, nice kitchen, big windows, hardwood floors, a nice bathroom. All in a safe part of town that is in my budget. Am I reaching for the stars here, people?

Feeling

Awkward: Still vertigo-y. I’m used to moving really fast and whirling all over the place. I can’t do that because if I move too fast, I literally make myself sick. I guess this is nature’s way of telling me to slow down.
Awesome: I went for a run this week for the first time in ages and I felt amazing. I so missed those endorphins.


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Sunday Lately, 60

Sunday Lately is a weekly link up brought to you by the Blogger Tribe. Link up and see what's been happening lately!Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup hosted by the Blogger Tribe (which is being fearlessly lead by Meghan, Nicole, Katy, and myself). We e-hang out every Sunday, sharing a small glimpse into the last week of life in our own worlds. We’d love if you could join us!
This week’s themes: Completing, Visiting, Repeating, Writing, Scheduling

 

Completing

Awkward: I’m wrapping up the time in my house. Like I mentioned last week, I don’t have to move out when my mom and stepfather moves back in, but it’s a small house and it doesn’t have rubber walls. Makes me sad to move twice in the space of a year.

Awesome: This will give me a chance to tackle some organizational things I guess!

Visiting

Awkward: I was in the hospital on Friday, so I guess you could say I was visiting the hospital this week. I’m fine, I just have problems that stemmed from that sinus infection I had at the beginning of the month. I did get to learn some fun baseball facts while I was there.

Awesome: I had a great mastermind session with a couple of friends yesterday. I volunteered my house before I knew I’d be moving and before I knew I had vertigo and couldn’t drive and it all kinda worked out. So they visited me. It was awesome.

Repeating

Awkward: Banging my head against the wall. Ugh I don’t want to move, and again, I’m not getting kicked out, but I either pack up all of my stuff, pay to store it, and live in my old, tiny bedroom that’s still painted purple from middle school or pack it up and have a little more space to myself. I’ll stop sounding like a broken record soon.

Awesome: To-do lists. I write lists when I get worked up.

Writing

Awkward: See above. Stress writing lists.

Awesome: #100DaysBlogging is a challenge that Emily Levenson came up with – writing something (anything) for 100 days in a row. Today is Day 6 for me. I’m trying to let go of judgement and needed a special topic and just write.

Scheduling

Awkward: I should get my tonsils removed, so I have to schedule the surgery soon. Yay for me.

Awesome: Marissa and Kristin and I got together on Monday just to catch up. No blog talk. It was fantastic to have a break. This new food pyramid is something that Kristin put together that we’d like to submit to the FDA.

Possible food pyramid change via My Life as a Teacup



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6/100 — #100DaysBlogging

Baseball Riots and Vertigo

I’m giving myself a pass on yesterday’s #100DaysBlogging post, so today is counting for days 4 and 5. I had every intention to write this, but then I came home and feel asleep on the couch. Give me a break, I was in the ER, okay?

I was sitting on the ER bed and my dad was to my left. Every time I moved my head to look at him, it felt like my vision was trailing behind and would catch up after a few seconds. He said it reminded him of the “glowing puck.”

Apparently in the 90s, Fox had a contract with the NHL to include glowing electrodes in the puck that would “make it easier” for home viewers to see the puck because it glowed.

It was called FoxTrax. I wish they were punnier with the name and somehow worked in “trot” instead of “trax.”

Other things I learned yesterday:

  • There were three major league baseball games that ended in riots.
    • 10 Cent Beer Night at a Cleveland Indians game — can you imagine where that went wrong? Nope, me neither.
    • Disco Demolition Night — because who wouldn’t think that blowing up a box of disco records would do irreparable damage to the field?
    • Washington Senators’ final game at RFK Stadium. Fans were angered and the impending move to Texas and stormed the field looking for souvenirs. Oh and the security staff had already walked out — I know when I’m mad about something, my first reaction is to cause mayhem, too.
  • The 70s were a weird time for baseball.
  • I have vertigo. And not the Hitchcock movie.
4-5/100 — #100DaysBlogging

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