Let’s Catch Up: Stuff & Things
I just used the lush mint juleps lip scrub. The weather isn’t quite reflecting fall as much as I’d like, but apparently my skin and lips are already boycotting. Well, either way, the lip scrub helps. A lot. I’ve had that unsatisfiable chapped lips feeling for three days straight. Nothing, not even my beloved vaseline tubs, sugar balm, or carmex will save me now.
In other news, I spent a good chunk of the morning creating a budget. It’s both liberating and totally terrifying to see all of your money and where it’s actually going it. We operate on a general budget usually, but I wanted to see specifically what was sucking up most of our cash flow. Y’all? It’s eating out. That’s really no surprise to me, but yikes! At least now I know specifics and can make some changes.
We went to the Campbell game at Davidson this weekend. I’ll admit that I was a little unsure. It’s hard going backwards sometimes. But it was so wonderful to see everyone. And honestly? It was good to be back in the stands on a Saturday afternoon. This is the first fall in many, many years my butt hasn’t been glued to a bleacher (well, I had a fancy season ticket chair at Campbell…but specifics).
You should listen to Watsky. Don’t, if cursing offends you or you’re just not into white rappers. But I really, really appreciate his stuff. I think we were still living in Athens when J discovered him, but every so often I remember to visit him on youtube. My two favorites are 4AM and Strong as an OAK. My favorite quote of his is if I get my 15 minutes, I’m going to stay myself, so when that sixteenth minute comes, I won’t hate myself.
I’m the person you hate because I already busted out the Christmas music. I’m really not sorry. Our holiday was stolen from us last year. We spent much of December in a haze, panicked, stressed, scared, and sad. So yeah. I’m already listening to Christmas music, dammit!
I hope you all are having a great week so far! Things have been sort of crazy around these parts with book writing back underway. Many of you have asked if I’m doing nanowrimo, and no, I’m not. It just so happened to coincide with the beginning of my schedule. I adore the community, but that kind of thing puts a kind of pressure on my process that paralyzes me. But it is nice to have some company for the first leg of this ride. I’ll be writing well into February, if all goes according to schedule (it never does). Anyway! Sushi Thursday for the win tonight.
