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In 2015

Lauren1 Comment

Happy New Year!

We celebrated by buying beer, going out for sushi (how great it that fortune?), seeing Big Eyes (don’t even bother) and ending the night at Bobby and Becca’s with Cranium, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and a midnight champagne toast.  Gosh, don’t I look excited in that first picture?  And like I have no idea that I’ll be spending the entire next day sleeping on the couch and feeling like absolute shit?  #HangoverFromHell

Luckily, Mom’s New Year’s Day feast cured it all.

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So here we are in 2015 and I’m ready to declare my theme for the year.  And look, I seriously tried so hard to rephrase my theme so that it wasn’t the title of a heinous Disney song, but I couldn’t do it.  So here’s to 2015, the year that I let it go.

I feel like I’m stuck in a rut of being a controlling perfectionist.  I need to learn that not everything is or needs to be in my control and that I need to be okay with that.  That I need to brush it off when things don’t go as planned and just trust that things will turn out as they should.  That it’s okay to let things happen instead of being the one who has to make things happen.

In 2013, I vowed to say “yes” more and I think it really helped to write it down and put it out there.  It kept me accountable.  So I’m hoping the same goes for 2015.  I have a few smaller personal goals that I’m keeping to myself — because let’s face it, I put enough pressure on myself already — but I wanted to share this one.

In true “let it go” fashion, I just brushed it off when our NYE dinner and NYD (I just made that acronym for New Year’s Day up) brunch didn’t go as planned.  It felt good to be a “roll with the punches” type gal.  (FYI, I just accidentally typed “roll with the brunches.”  Is it too late to make that my theme of the year instead?)

Bring it on, 2015!

 

August

Lauren2 Comments

This week I was reading a blog post that mentioned it being “late summer.”  And all of a sudden I was like, “NOOOOOO!”  Then, “Oh my gosh, FALL!” Then back to, “But NOOOOOO!”  So I guess I’m in that August limbo between not wanting to let go of summer and being so so excited for fall.  But before I get too excited about sweaters and chai and crisp apples, I’d like to take advantage of what’s left of summer 🙂

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I wanna make this Grilled Peach, Avocado & Chicken Kale Salad.

And this Santa Fe Summer BBQ Pizza.

I wanna ride my bike and buy local cold brew iced coffee in a growler.

I wanna wear skirts and dresses and crop tops that just barely show any skin because I’m not that brave 🙂

I wanna Happy Hour on patios and drink a Pimm’s Cup.  Or is that just a Southern thing?

I wanna take more evening walks and sip coffee on my front porch.

I wanna put basil on everything and have at least one pineapple make it to the grill before I get too excited and just eat it raw 🙂

I wanna be present to enjoy what’s left of summer and I just want time to slow down already.

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What are you anxious to do before summer ends?

P.S. We got our marriage license this morning!!!!!

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