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September 18, 2016

Sunday Lately, 90

September 18, 2016

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 feel like I’m really good at Sunday Lately for a week or two and then I skip a week, then I come back. Bad Blogger Tribe Leader.

Completing

Today I’m completing the NOCC (National Ovarian Cancer Coalition) 5k walk at a park here in Pittsburgh. I’ve done it for the past few years in honor of my grandmother.

Visiting

In an effort not to mention Pilates classes for 3 out of the 5 prompts…. Seriously, though, all I do is drive to Shadyside. I did get to meet up with Amanda from North Ave Candles at The Vandal the other day and that was definitely fun to connect. It’s great when you find someone that has a similar flavor and energy.

Yes, we ate all these fries. And it was glorious.

Amazing fries and mac and cheese at The Vandal in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA

Repeating

Pilates classes. I’m doing a Fall30 Challenge with the studio I go to (Dragonfly Pilates – it’s wonderful!). For 25 days, we’re challenged to attend 30 classes. It runs from September 6 to September 30, though I didn’t start my classes until September 8th. I have everything scheduled out until the end of the month and in my 23 days, I will have attended 35 classes and only missed 3 days. Most days, I’m there for 2 classes (AKA: 2 hours), but the time goes by so fast, you don’t really notice.

I can feel muscles develop, but they’re still being protected by a layer of fat. Of course.

Morning sun coming through the window at Dragonfly Pilates in Shadyside, Pittsburgh, PA

Writing

I’m trying to write some blog posts for my content marketing site, AngelicaRoss.co. I’m definitely falling into the Pinterest trap of “all the topics I want to discuss are already covered.” Does that happen to anyone else? Anyway, I’m thinking short bites that are easy to take action on (not long, verbose posts that take forever + a day to read) that slightly expand on the emails that I’m sending out.

Scheduling

Pilates classes! Ooh a two-fer.

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September 4, 2016

Sunday Lately, 88

September 4, 2016

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

Creating

The other day, I decided to tear my office apart and rearrange it. I call it procrastidecorating. It’s my favorite, after procaffeinating and procrastibaking. So I decided to create new landing places for to-do lists and art prints with some old, ugly-ass clip boards because really, I could not just donate them or throw them away. I mean, not when I had spray paint burning a hole in my garage! (*Not literally. That would be terrifying.)

A little taste of the before and after..

Spray paint is magical. Transform old and dated clipboards into the perfect backing for art prints and to-do lists!

Finding

Finally (finally) I’m finding my groove again. I blame part of it on the medication I’m taking, but I also was in a super-funky, dark mood and it sucked. I have to say, even though working for and by myself has been a challenge (I really do like people–and talking to people–despite my best efforts to fool y’all), I’m so glad I escaped my office job when I did. I was miserable with a capital I Will Cut Your Face Off If You Look At Me The Wrong Way.

Switching

I am switching back to good coffee. I tried coffee from Aldi (it was the dark roast if you’re wondering) and my god. Did. It. Suck. It was made slightly better with the use of a French press, but ain’t nobody got time for that. Gotta wait for water to boil and shit. No. I’m like Lorelai Gilmore. I need it strong, I need it good, I need it now.

Number 4 was basically me when I tried that mud that Aldi packaged and sold for $3.50. Thank you, BuzzFeed, for the Lorelai gifs.

Lorelai Gilmore is my spirit animalThe WB / CW / Via goldenstories.tumblr.com / Buzzfeed

Forgetting

I am a hard-core summer person. I love summer. I claw at it for as long as I can. I wear bright nail polish and sandals way past the fashionally acceptable time. However, we’ve had a few days of cooler weather here (read: not suffocatingly humid) and I forgot how nice it is to stand outside and not begin to sweat immediately. I swear, I have purchased so much deodorant this summer, Dove and Secret need to give me a kick-back. #ItalianProblems

Craving

All. The. Things. Here’s what’s happening. In an effort to save money, I have been trying to work from home without as many frequent trips to coffee shops/bars to work. And every day, the siren song of the Oreos in my cabinet grows louder and louder. Same with the chips. And the chocolate. Basically anything that isn’t healthy (although since I treated my body like a garbage can last weekend, I did eat a salad the size of a mixing bowl in an effort to make my body like me again.) I even went so far as to buy a grapefruit in the hopes that I would eat it and magically want fruit. Guess what? Grapefruit sucks. I’m sorry for anyone that likes it, but blech..!

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August 21, 2016

Sunday Lately, 86

August 21, 2016

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

This was a totally dead week for me. Aside from a few things, nothing was planned. I notice that I get really squirrely when that happens. Like, I need plans to feel like I’m doing something worthwhile and being a contributing factor to society.

Loving

Pilates! I honestly never thought I’d say that because I was always more of a yoga person. I wasn’t into that whole “Hold a crunch and do other with your arms and legs for 5 minutes” thing. But I’m working on it. I can feel myself getting stronger, which is awesome.

Dragonfly Pilates in Shadyside, Pittsburgh, PA is an awesome work out!

Reading

I finished up Daring Greatly by Brene Brown and I’m slowly getting into Gifts of Imperfection, but I borrowed 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal from my dad at least a year ago and I have yet to crack the spine and it’s just sitting there begging me to read it.

Wishing

I am so wishing I switched to Squarespace earlier. I was absolutely hating my other site on WordPress to the point where I didn’t want to tell people about it because I was that embarrassed by it. But when you kind of need to tell people about what you do so you can eat and pay rent, being embarrassed by whatcha got isn’t the best strategy. Shocking, I know.

Let me illustrate how much I love the new site on SS: 24 hours after I started it, I remapped AngelicaRoss.co to point there, even though it was still being worked on. I like it that much that I’m totally cool with people seeing it while I’m still adding to it because it finally looks sooo much better.

Feeling

I’m still feeling in a funk, but it’s getting better. It really helps when you just own up to what’s right, wrong, and totally icky. Of course, I don’t want to just emotionally vomit all over everyone, but keeping things holed up really isn’t good. Wondering what I’m talking about? This will clear it up.

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July 31, 2016

Sunday Lately, 83

July 31, 2016

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

 

I went to Juju in Pittsburgh for an intuitive tarot reading and omg was it so amazing. Highly recommend if you’re in the area.

Juju shop and boutique in Point Breeze in Pittsburgh. A MUST visit!

This week has been……awkward and awesome. Find out why.

Creating

Awkward: I still feel so awkward about AngelicaRoss.co and I know I shouldn’t write about that here because I’m pretty open about one being connected to the other and I don’t want to thrash my credibility…but transparency time… I feel so awkward creating in that space because I’m like “Ahhhhhh I have to be this big authority.” I had no problem blogging about blogging here last summer. So why can’t I do it there? I should be on Impostercast, I swear.

Finding

Awesome: I’m finding it hard to write this because I’m at Grist House and there are adorable dogs all over. I call this awesome because, hello, dogs. So of course I had to go on Animal Friend’s website and get distracted and heart broken over all the adorable pups that are there. I miss Clipper. I should have dognapped him when I had the chance.

Switching

Awkward: It was so hot in Virginia. Like 100+ degrees. And I’m starting to wear dresses/shorts more often. I’ve done it so much, my father is has commented on it. And my mother. And my step-father. This is coming from the person who would wear jeans 365 days a year, so I guess it’s a little weird to embrace shorts so much. But it’s hot, yo.

Awesome: I’m wearing dresses a lot more. Because no pants. And that is awesome just by itself.

Forgetting

Awesome: I forgot how awesome it was to go somewhere and just be alone. I’m not going to pretend like I didn’t ask people to meet up with me tonight, but I’m kinda glad it didn’t work so I had the chance to just focus 100% on what I wanted to.

Craving

Awkward: I have been wanting a physical change. But I don’t want to cut my hair any shorter than it is. And I really don’t want to dye it.. #virginhair. I’d get a new piercing, but I have to let me ear heal (update from last week: the end was embedded in my ear! But Six16 knew exactly what to do and, good news, I still have my ear. #winning). So what to do…

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Also, Katy and I are co-hosting an August Photo a Day linkup with the Blogger Tribe. It starts tomorrow! Join in!

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July 17, 2016

Sunday Lately, 81

July 17, 2016

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

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We’re doing Sunday LATEly around here today. And we’re doing it fast.

Planning

I bought a new Happy Planner for the rest of 2016 and 2017. It was half off at Pat Catan’s, so for $14, how could I not? I really do want the new rose gold horizontal layout, though I went with the Sugar & Type style since they didn’t have the rose gold (and won’t for a while since Hobby Lobby has exclusivity.)

I also really want a Get to Work Book for 2017, so who knows what planner I’m planning to stay with.

Loving

I turned on the air conditioning in my house yesterday for a mastermind group (normally I just sweat it out) and I was loving not sweating in my house. I had it on for a bit today, too, but the weather doesn’t seem to be as humid as other days here. I do like that the weather has been making my flowers thrive. How pretty are my violas?

Pretty violas! Great potted flowers for summer in such vibrant shades!

Reading

I should get started with Doing Good Is Simple by Chris Marlow. I was sent it for review. I’m in the middle of Daring Greatly by Brene Brown (it’s the Create Lounge book club book this month) and I’ve been stuck on a Netflix kick so reading isn’t happening much.

Wishing

I wish for just a little bit more mild weather. At least for the humidity to back off a bit. Today felt really nice not to deal with it.

Feeling

I’ve been feeling a little off. I’ve also been feeling the pressure to come up with an awesome (and easy to DIY since I’m broke) nail art look for an event I’ve been invited to on Wednesday. It’s called Gemstones and Gelato. I want an opal-ish mani so I can try on some opals and eat some pastel ice cream and I can entirely match.

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