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Sunday Lately, 71 — on Thursday

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

Awkward: A tonsillectomy. Ugh I don’t want to do this. But I have to. I snore like a lumberjack. And I want to reduce my chance of future sinus infections and subsequent bouts of vertigo.

Awesome: My mom will be here to help out while I recover. And I traveled to see her for Mother’s Day (hence why this wasn’t written on Sunday).

Loving

Awkward: Is it weird that I like grocery shopping? Well I do. And I went to the store for the first time in weeks. It’s amazing how having groceries in your fridge makes you feel like an adult again.

Awesome: I went for a run today. It was the first one after the marathon. It was hot. It was super humid. I was sweating like a truck driver in August. But I did it and it was good.

Reading

Awesome: Orange is the New Black. Yes, kids, it was a memoir first.

Awkward: My aunt passed that book along to me. And there’s some racy stuff there. It’s always weird to think that a family member read that before you.

Wishing

Awkward: I got nothing here, guys.

Awesome: For summer. Because summer parties are the best.

Feeling

Awkward: I’ve been battling with some depressive tendencies and I’m finally admitting it to myself and seeing what I need to do to stop this. I’m sure you can’t tell because I’m always a ray of sunshine on here (insert eye roll emoji here).

Awesome: Now that I know that things aren’t right, I’m working to identify what’s wrong and how I can get myself back on a healthy and happy track.


What have you been up to lately?

Sunday Lately, 58

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: Creating, Finding, Switching, Forgetting, Craving

 

If you’ve been following my ongoing battle with my sinuses, you know I’ve been down and out the past few weeks. I ended up going to Med Express on Thursday and receiving antibiotics for a nasty sinus infection. Yay! Also, did you see my post with Jaelan about craft beer and food pairings? Might come in handy if you’re watching a football game today. Just saying..

Creating

I picked up canvases for some wall art. I’m planning on adding scrapbook paper and making a collage. I hand-lettered an Emily-ism on one of the pages. Focus your energy on what brings you joy.

Focus your energy on what brings you joy.

Finding

I’m trying to find some furniture that matches. And finding how to rearrange what I currently have.

Switching

I’m switching my shampoo and conditioner from the little samples I’ve been trying to use up to a Suave Biotin version I received in an Influenster Vox Box. I’ll report back.

Forgetting

Right now I’m forgetting the awkward/awesome I’ve been doing this year in my Sunday Lately posts. It still kinda hurts to look at a computer screen.

Craving

Food. Sinus infections and colds mean you can’t breathe which means you can’t taste. So I’ve been eating out of necessity instead of enjoyment. As someone who enjoys food, this has been completely depressing.

What’s been going on with you lately?


Sunday Lately, 25

I don’t know what the weather is like in your little neck of the woods, but in Pittsburgh, it is rain.  Constant rain.  That’s the only thing on the menu.  Sometimes we get a fun side order of  oppressive humidity to go along with it.  So that’s been fun.

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Jackmanii Clematis

Completing

I’m working towards completing Molly Mahar’s The Joy Equation and Propelle’s Summer Camp assignments for the week.  It isn’t going to be too bad.  I hope.  I’m just not in the mood for writing and reflection.  After I get home from a day at work, I just want to be quiet and not really think too much.  I’m the kind of person who needs to sit and be alone after a large output of time spent with people.

Propelle Summer Camp is underway and it's just what you need for a summery business breakthrough.

Visiting

I don’t know if I’m doing much visiting.  On Tuesday, I got together with Marissa from Ampersand Creative, so I’d call that a visit.  It was great to catch up and hopefully next time we can talk a little bit more about blog things.

Repeating

I feel like I’m repeating myself a lot lately.  I’m sure I’ve said this before and probably will say it again, but it seems like there’s a pocket of people I deal with at work who don’t listen, so I repeat myself over and over and over.  I like routine, but repetition is just not a fun time.

Applauding

The cast of Mary Poppins yesterday.  I haven’t seen the musical before, by Jonathan’s mother loves it and sees it when it comes through Pittsburgh.  I was lucky enough to get to join them and I loved it.  Mary Poppins requires suspension of disbelief, naturally, but I love how easily it was to get sucked into the show.  It was very well done – the costumes, music, cast..all of it was great.  See it if you ever get the chance!

Scheduling

I need to schedule in summer plans with Jonathan.  We have a bucket list of what we want to do, and we both know we won’t do it unless we have set plans, so I really need to jump on that bandwagon.

Also, I’m already dreaming of next year’s planner.  Get To Work Book looks amazing and I want one right now, but I don’t want to go middle of the year to middle of the year; I’d like one calendar year in one book.  She’ll be doing that, but not just yet.  Patience is not my strong suit.

Climbing Jackmanii Clematis

What have you been doing lately?  Link up with Meghan, Katy, and Nicole and share!

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Sunday Lately, 23

Man, what a week.  Today is part two of my father’s moving yard sale.  Yesterday went pretty well but the weather wasn’t our friend.  It was cloudy and windy.  Only just as we were wrapping up for the day did the weather get better.  Oh of course.  Thanks to Jonathan, I had company and laughter throughout the day, though.  I’m a lucky gal.

Today is also the end of the first week of Be A Better Blogger with myself, Katy, and Meghan.  Check out next week’s posts and link up with us!

21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon

Dwelling

Actually, I don’t know what I’ve been dwelling on.  It’s been a busy week and I don’t think I have time to dwell on anything.  It’s been quite a roller coaster this week at work which leaves little time to focus on anything at home aside from eating dinner and sleeping.

Helping

I want to keep up with commenting more on the Be A Better Blogger posts, but damn you guys are just doing so great, I can’t keep up.  But I’m still going to be helping any way I can for supporting and uplifting other bloggers in this community.

I’m also helping with a yard sale.  Yay for helping.

Forgetting

I really need to keep up with my garden better.  Like I was saying before, It’s been quite a ride this week and I’m totally using that as an excuse for not weeding my garden.  Plus, weeding is the worst.  If anyone wants to help me, I’ll gladly share the harvest with you!

Switching

I’m trying to work on rotating my skincare masks.  I have quite a bit of Cupcake (from Lush) that I have to use up, but I want to use my other masks.  One of my favorites, Steep Clean, is getting lonely waiting for me to work through Lush products!  I really have too much makeup.I need to sell off some makeup.RelyingMy family has been relying on me a lot lately and I in turn have been relying on my friends.  I’m very thankful for the group of people I have in my life, especially the ones who stick around through the screwed up moments, the late night freak outs, the wonderful highs, and the general life-ness of everything.

What have you been up to lately?

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Sunday Lately, 22

I have been hit with crazy allergies this week.  Ever since I got back from Virginia, I’ve had a sore throat, aching ears, sinuses draining, and fits of sneezing.  Mostly the sneezing fits come when I’m carrying a cup of coffee.  Yup.  It also makes it hard to sleep when I’m exhausted yet I can’t stop the coughing and the draining.  Thanks for that, body.

But despite the allergies, I’ve manged to blog every day with Katy and Meghan for Blogger, May I.  I’m so proud we made it!  This is the last day that I’ll be a semi-cohost with those two and Nicole for Sunday Lately.

Huge beautiful white peony!

Doing

Preparing for a yard sale.  It’s been years since I participated in a yard sale.  It wasn’t even hosted at my house, it was at my uncle’s house.  I’m woefully unprepared for this.

Appreciating

The peony flowers in my yard.  I love the way they look and how they smell so wonderful in my house.  The only downfall of fresh peonies in the house are fresh ants in the house.  It’s kind of annoying.  But, I’ll gladly take some ants if I means I’m surrounded with beautiful, fresh flowers.  I’m sure there’s an adage in there somewhere.

Purple peony

White peony bloom

Designing

Because I have fresh peonies, I took some new shots to use for desk photos here and maybe an image on a home page.  I’m excited at the prospect of seeing where I can go with this little blog of mine.  I’ve been energized by photos of flowers, which I want to share more of here, and late-night wine, and early mornings waking up gently and getting some things done.  The late nights and early mornings don’t happen back-to-back.

Humming

Taylor Swift songs.  One of the companies that I do social media posting for is going a TSwizzle concert ticket giveaway.  In the posts, I’ve been trying to get punny with song titles.  And after I write it, I get the song stuck in my head.  Guess I’m just gonna have to shake it off.

Expecting

To be busy in June.  There’s the yard sale all next weekend.  I want to keep going writing a post per day in a continuation of Blogger, May I – I want to call it #GoBlogGo, but we’ll have to see what the group decides on!  And I’m also going to be participating in Emily Levenson’s Project:Food Budget.  And like I said, I want to share garden updates and photos of the progress there.

What have you been up to lately?


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