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How is it already Winter?! Wasn't it just Fall?! Time passes so much more faster as an adult and the fact that this is literally a fact blows my mind. How unfair. Wish someone had told me this was another side effect of adult hood lol.
Texas weather is crazy; we've gone from 30's and next week we're going back up to 80's. Clearly Texas doesn't play by seasonal themes. At all. Which wouldn't be so wild if it at least didn't make it Winter and Summer in one week.
I attempted to do holiday photos yesterday and it went... not as I expected what so ever. But at least I attempted, I guess? It's super difficult with kids who like to randomly just run off for any given reason. Like, this is why parents have those leash bags. Crazy kids.
drink hot cocoa
Okay this one I already did at The Dallas Farmers Market. And we had a Hot Cocoa night with the girls. I do want to go somewhere and get one more cup of Hot Cocoa from somewhere. Maybe a bakery or something, I haven't decided yet but somewhere possibly fancy. But a nice cup of Hot Cocoa sounds super festive and cozy. Throw in reading the last few books of the year in there!
see holiday lights
We drove around the higher end of Dallas and saw some amazing lit up houses along the way. Like, big ass houses that just had a whole light up display. I don't do this as often as I use to, so I'm glad I got to this year. I've always wanted to do those drive up light displays but now I can't seem to find any of them!
go ice skating
I would go ice skating with friends every year when I still lived in The Bay Area and we'd go to San Francisco and spend the afternoon ice skating before spending the rest of the afternoon playing DDR. It's been years since I last went ice skating and I know my oldest has been asking to go lately. I really want to take her but she's still at that age where she gets really upset if she can't do something she's never done perfectly on the first try. Soooo, I'm not entirely convinced I should take her but it would be fun to let her try it. Or it could be the worst idea ever, but hey, that can apply to any choice lol.
bake holiday cookies
I've had a KitchenAid for like, 4 years now, no joke. And normal pre babies me would be super excited about that but just thinking about baking anything already got me tired. Just thinking about it. Shame since I went to culinary school for baking & pastry and I haven't done shit in a really long time.
That said, I actually got cookie cutters and all kinds of other shit so I wouldn't have any excuse to not bake cookies this holiday season. We'll see how that goes.
refresh my gaming set up
Since getting my new upgraded gaming pc, I've been wanting to redo my whole desk. The problem is that it's an L shaped desk but it's pretty small. So instead of feeling like I have more desk space, I end up running into the longer part with my chair a lot. I even have it placed the opposite way I had it in the last place because I kept banging my knee/leg getting in and out of my chair and ended up with bruises everywhere. Like yo, this shouldn't be so damn difficult!
Other than that, I want to redecorate the whole area itself. I have my floating shelves up but I need to organize what exactly I want displayed up there. As well as on my monitor shelf. I'm wondering if having an actual sound bar was a good or bad idea. It does take up some space but I don't really want separate speakers either. And of course, you can't have enough RGB items... despite my gaming chair, my sound bar, and my extension tower all light up. Oh and of course the side of my pc that's open and the front. Still doesn't feel like enough lmao.
make one cocktail drink
Typically my husband is the one who makes me drinks. Which is fascinating since he doesn't drink. He's never had a drink and he doesn't really believe in it. He's one of those straight edgers or whatever. I don't know, nor would I know lmao. But for someone who doesn't test drink what he makes me nor knows what alcohol tastes like other than my off the wall ass descriptions, there are some drinks he's made that I've loveeeeeeeeeeed.
And while I'm not trying to take that job from him, I do want to learn how to make my own drinks and mix something up that I like. My brother (as in my real biological one) is/was a bartender for a very well known club in San Francisco for a few years and I'd run into him in the living room or kitchen or wherever he decided to practice his drink mixing and he'd usually be mixing drinks during our holiday parties.
Just something new I'd like to try. Honestly I'm more into mocktails now that I'm older but this also sounds like it could be fun.
re-evaluate my shops & businesses for 2026
Re-eval as in have a better idea of what I want to accomplish for each shop and each stream of income. While having a vague idea has been working, I feel like it's just contributing to my brain fog even more, if that makes sense. Not just that but I want to start a test shop to test a potential shop idea, but even that, I need to have a much more clear idea of what exactly I'm trying to test.
I'd love for all of this to be a bit more organized.
That includes writing down and planning new launches, self. This also includes idea's and rebranding concepts, thanks.
do a deep in my soul purge of non joyful things
I hesitate like a mf to get this one done. I want to let things go, but I don't want to feel like I'm abandoning those parts of me or my life, which I get that I'm not, but as someone who constantly had the things they held close and dear either be broken in front of them (on purpose) or taken away from them growing up -- it can be hard.
It's hard for me to let go of anything because of that reason. I cling to my things even more because that's how me and my stuff were treated my entire life until I moved out and even then, the boys I lived with always felt like they had a right to throw my stuff away. And some without even telling me. How anyone thinks that's their right, their choice to make or think it's even okay is way fuckin beyond me. You don't touch someone else's stuff, period.
But over the years I've let go of a lot of people I thought I'd have in my life for life. I've realized that we outgrow people and things. We outgrow memories. And that's okay, as long as it's within our timeline. Not someone else's.
I know why I'm like this. And I know why it's hard for me to even think of letting my stuff go, but I also know that I have to let go of older stuff, stuff that doesn't even serve me anymore, to make room for new stuff and stuff that just might.
And I'm hoping to do the majority of this before New Years Eve... that's the goal anyway.
What are some things on your winter bucket list?
I honestly can't believe I'm 35 half the time. I feel like my mind is still stuck at 28. Though thinking back, a lot has happened SINCE I was 28. And that just makes me feel even older.
I'm a firm believer that age has a lot to do with your comprehension skills and that experience teaches you the hard stuff. Without venturing out of your own comfort zone, you're doing yourself a disservice by rejecting growth. People need to push their boundaries and to figure out who they are in uncomfortable situations in order to grow.
And in my opinion, I've seen way too many adults who didn't do that and honestly, when it comes to certain things I need from someone, it shows. I'm not saying I know everything but I've experienced a lot. A lot of dark and a lot of light. And I'm always going to be thankful for both because they both played a part in building who I am today.
5 Things I Learned at 35;
I know I'm not the only one who can't believe it's already August so I'm not even gonna say it! But what I will say is: I can't believe this pandemic has been going on for about 4-5 months in the US now and we're still nowhere near getting better. If anything we're getting worse and that's insane. But then I run my weekly errands and I see WHY we're getting worse.
Everything is bigger in Texas.
Even the bullshit.
For the first time in ever I managed to wait until the end of July to start Fall. I usually start mid July but I really want to get the Spring/Summer content I missed out on out of the way before I go on full Fall mode. I know it doesn't matter in reality but I just like things to be in chronological order. So let's hope I get all of that other stuff up before August is over, yeah?
It's mostly for me and my archive purposes tbh.
Things I hope to get done in August;
Why yes, this was meant to be a monthly goals post but uh, I tend to talk too much. I wish there was a check list option for bullet points. Come on Blogspot it's 2020!
It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?
Pregnancy caught up with me and then so did postpartum depression. And then I lost my dad. So blogging and social media took a huge back burner in 2019.
I obviously didn’t get to post all the recap posts I wanted to do so I’ll be doing that through out January.
Most of my resolutions this year have to do with wellness so that’s what I picked for my {onelittleword} this year.
A few other resolutions include;
↠ Finish school
↠ Create a space for PPD
↠ Cook more
↠ Financial health
↠ Purchase with purpose
↠ Read 20 books
↠ Project pan
↠ Work on myself — internally
↠ Ignore drama + people’s opinions
↠ Be So confident in my own perception of myself that I won’t believe anything less
↠ Eat better
↠ Create content
↠ Become a Disney content creator
↠ Write reviews
↠ Learn Spanish
↠ Take steps to the 3yr plan everyday
↠ Get back to meditation
↠ Get back to Yoga
↠ Travel 3 times
↠ Do one big act of self care every month
I’m hoping to stop by more often, especially with me wanting to go back to writing reviews.
Here’s to a productive and healthy 2020 ✨!
This is possibly the first time I'm ever writing a Fall Bucket List.
And the third year I'm missing Halloween at Disney World -- life changes are always hard and having something you love so much that you can't go back to is always hard.
I'm enjoying actually being able to feel Fall here in Texas, something that Florida couldn't grant you no matter how much wishing you do!
You can find magic anywhere. If you look hard enough.
This pregnancy delayed my plans to deck my apartment out in Fall decor (it's the 11th and nothing is up yet! I know, fuckin crazy right?) so to get myself in the Fall mood I figure I'd make a list of things I hope to see/do this Fall season!
- Go to a Pumpkin Patch
I honestly don't remember the last time I actually went to a Pumpkin Patch! Maybe when I was in grade school and we would take school trips to one? And the only reason why I even remember that is because of pictures I've seen!
- Complete my October Reading Challenge
I look forward to this challenge every year because I always end up finding 1 or 2 books I absolutely fall in love with because of it! So I'm hoping I get a good amount of books read this year because so far this year I've only fallen in love with one book and it makes my soul restless!
- Work on taking Fall aesthetic photos
I love love LOVE seeing Fall aesthetic photos on Pinterest and on Instagram! Photos always have a way of inspiring me and I love how aesthetic photos make me feel.
- Visit the Dallas Arboretum
I recently just discovered this place through an Instagram ad (and they say those things aren't useful)! Last year they themed their Pumpkin Patch for OZ! I'm so sad I missed out on it!! This year it's themed after Neverland! I love gardens and such so I'm pretty excited to see this!
- Go to the Texas State Fair
In Cali our state fair was always in the summer time -- when it was hot and sticky and there were way too many people. Here in Texas it's in October -- thank goodness! It's still pretty warm but it's not hot. There's so much to see/do and eat! I always had "Attend a Texas State Fair" on my bucket list and I never thought I'd see one so it blows my mind that I get to go to them now!
- Bake something
I'm sure I'm not the only one who pins about a million different "Fall recipes" on Pinterest in hopes to spend afternoons in the kitchen baking up pretty pastries and savory dinners. When in reality we probably won't even get to one of those. WELL NO MORE I SAY! I'm hoping this year I'll get to bake something. At least one thing. Even if it's not until November (cause TECHNICALLY that's still "Fall")!
- Stroll through Trader Joe's and pick up a thing or two
You can't say Trader Joe's is not the Fall food aesthetic headquarters. You just can't! Granted I haven't been there in the Fall, I don't think. I know I haven't picked up or tried any of their Pumpkin treats yet! So I'm aiming to change that this year AND WHEN I DO better believe there will be a wholeee blog post about my experience!
- Get my apartment into the zen space I want it to be
This for some reason is really hard for me right now -- I can't figure out why. I know I had missed out on about 3 months of hope to get anything done around my apartment in terms of tidying, sorting and organizing. But now that I feel pretty much better my OCD is what's holding me back most days. I wish I could explain it in more detail than just leaving it like that but I'm really hoping to fight back some day before this month is over and get it at least somewhat to what I can consider zen. Especially with the baby coming soon...
- Play with more dark and vampy makeup looks
I haven't been playing with or wearing much makeup as of late and I know it's because I was feeling really crummy up until recently but now with Fall here and Winter just right around the corner I can finally pull out all my dark makeup looks and my beloved dark lipsticks! Oh how I miss the 90's when dark lip colors were acceptable year round!
What are some things you hope to do this Fall?
I love Tulips.
I'd love if I could afford them right now too, but since I can't. Picture taking will have to do.
It's five days into the new month. Five D A Y S and bills are already fucking me. Ya'll I'm so tired of paying bills. Like it's not even funny how tired I am! I guess that falls back to me and past me and all the dumb shit past me was doing but then again I'm extra mad at past me for not telling those other dudes who were using me to get they own shit!
It's my birth month and I'm never excited about my birthday. I mean I was pretty excited last year since Bubba was spending the week with me at Disney World but generally speaking, I'm never really excited.
I can't do my usual traditions cause I'm not in Florida anymore. Also Bubba started a new job (which I'm really happy about) but he's working on my birthday. I'm trying to be somewhat not a poopy pants about it but let's be real, after I turned 25 without a BA in sight I was just like LORT ANOTHER YEAR OLDER. ANOTHER YEAR FAILED.
And that's definitely NOT the way you should be viewing life.
Granted there's nothing exciting about turning 33, still trying to rebuild your shit and yourself and thinking godammit I should get off FB with all these people and their careers and vacations. Which is why I'm never really on FB anymore. I post what I need to post, stalk who I need to stalk and get off!
This blog post wasn't suppose to be about me, it was suppose to be about my goals for April.
⇢ Read 3 books (and not on the last day of the month)
⇢ Blog more // I know shit can be hard but girl it's your release SO QUIT IT
⇢ EXPLORE more, spend LESS
⇢ Apartment hunting
⇢ Tidy room & closet / purge shit you really don't need
⇢ Sort digital stuff / back up laptop (since it's been like years since you did)
⇢ Get RDM and AST to 60 on FFXIV
⇢ Find something that calms you
⇢ Practice better time management
⇢ Catch up on reviews that need to be written
⇢ Celebrate your birthday... the best you can
I know Bubba puts a lot of effort into everything. And I know it might be killing him that he can't go all out on the day of my birthday this year and that the only thing I asked for was food adventures but I guess when you get older the experiences matter more than getting things. And normally I go on vacation for my birthday --- which I was excited moving closer to the West Coast cause I really wanted to celebrate my birthday in Vegas & Disneyland like I use to when I lived in CA 7 years ago but that didn't work out.
So this year I hope I find a new birthday tradition and I hope I find some enlightenment or motivation to get up and do something MORE. I mean I always want to do more but it's actually doing it lately that's the problem (which was never a problem before, so I'm confused as to why it is now).
So here's to April; my personal restart button.
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