This is what the past week looked like.
Finding beauty in the mundane.
My coworker is lazy. ;)
May 18th was my first swim of the year and May 19th was my first float of the year!
I threw together a chicken stir-fry, and it turned out pretty darn good.
Worked a library community event and it was giving major Hallmark movie vibes.
Still on my egg bite kick.
A rainbow on a perfectly sunny day, is this a glitch in the matrix?
Sleeping beauty.
Sushi at sunset.
Fortune is quickly becoming one of my go-to summer authors these days.
Favorite quotes:
"I've found that going back to the beginning is sometimes the only way to move forward."
"No one is going to give me a trophy for how I live my life. There's no winning - there's only life."
"I can't predict what will happen. That's one of life's biggest frustrations and greatest gifts."
My little town is getting bigger.
As kids, my parents used to serve my brothers and I pop mixed with milk on special occasions, and we fully believed this was a totally normal drink everyone had...
It wasn't until we mentioned it to friends that we discovered our parents had invented the whole thing.
Now that pop and milk is trending it has become a running joke in the family chat.
First mate Manny.
Dusted off Ticket to Ride and forgot how much fun it is.
Made cucumber bites for a family fun day.
Rainy morning walk.
Benny recommends adding cheese to the cucumber bites.
10/10 recommend this beer.
My mom has turned Ella and Benny into quite the cookie decorators.
First row seat to a music concert.
She's so good, right?!
These kiddos crack me up.
We celebrated Brad's birthday with his meal of choice and it was all delicious.
Stopped at a cute Greek restaurant to pick up dinner.
This book was so sad, but so good.
Favorite quotes:
"You never know when you might need kindness from people."
"Some people are meant to read great works and others are meant to write them. Often, these are not the same people."
"Time quickens the older you get, as if the universe is trying to push you toward the finish line, to make room for the younger, the stronger, to mark your brief place in history and move on."
"Anger is exhausting. Holding on to it will drain the life out of you."
Periwinkle.
M kept trying to make his way to the back of the boat where the fishing rods were, so G used a pool noodle as a barricade to stop him.
Quintessential Memorial Day weekend food.
The tail around his nose though.
Creamsicle skies.
I haven't been able to stop talking about this podcast.
Key takeaways:
Tolerance for the unknown is like a muscle. The more you practice sitting with uncertainty instead of resisting it, the more your world expands and new possibilities open up.
When you feel stuck between two choices, shift the question. Instead of asking “Which is better?” ask, “Which one helps me become more of the person I want to be?” That reframe makes decisions feel more aligned and meaningful.
Trust your future self. Future you will have more context, more experience, and more clarity than you do right now. They’ll be able to make decisions you can’t even fully conceptualize yet. And importantly, future you also wants present you to slow down and actually live—because they know how quickly this moment will pass.
Waiting for certainty can become a trap. The life you want often requires moving forward before everything is fully clear. You don’t get the full map - you get the next step.
Action is the antidote to anxiety. Movement, even imperfect movement, creates momentum and breaks the cycle of overthinking
Perspective shift.
Pretty much.
Good reminder.
Freedom. Isn't. Free.
Yes to it all.
God bless America.
I'm so ready for these days.
Bahaha.
The struggle is real.
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