luluving

bff arm bling.

Money can buy happiness. It can buy ::

Treasure. The best treasure.

& because I am so altruistic I am sharing the details of my treasure. 

One day I was perusing Saucy Glossie and saw the awesomest bracelets (and thought, how nice more shiz I cannot afford nor will I ever remember to purchase... #firstworldprobz).

Serendipitiously I found myself in the SOWA Market in Boston that Sunday and saw a little booth with the *same* bracelets... no joke, same brand! There I met Lana and her mother and bought one, and it was love (especially the magnetic metal clasp and tiny logo charm)!!!

I even bought more cheap-o friendship bracelets to complete my look!

Lo and behold I lost it in Lake George.  Then I bought another at Flock... another water victim, this time to the Jaw's bridge in Martha's Vineyard. Damn my bridge jumping vanity!

Luckily, Lana reached out to me and we connected. The icing on the cake was an invite to her awesome workshop in South Boston & meeting her precious little Fiona <3

xoxo thanks Lana!

there is no contest.

It's pretty easy to play the comparison game because there is always someone better/more qualified/prettier/younger/wiser/more correct/at peace... Always. At some point you need to take a deep breath and let that all go. It's you v. you and the only obstacles are complacency & distraction from your big picture.

How to avoid those distractions? Umm I dunno?!?! But recently (and after some catastrophically dumb decisions) I made the conscious decision to *try to* avoid toxic connections, I guess I was drawn to them for excitement to escape boredom. Some examples:

• the girl that slept with athletes
• the drug dealer guy
• the married guy (found out after/during the fact when she walked in)
• the girl who was paranoid
• the loudmouth funny rude guy
• the depressed girl
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.

As with any lifestyle change it's felt unnatural at times on top of a pretty ongoing level of second-guessing, but ultimately not without some seriously awesome benefits.

1. Give up disaster guys? End up dating a thoughtful & sweet guy who keeps me smiling
2. Take a step back from *the scene*? Discover some awesome people who were already over it that are already in my life
3. Decide when enough is enough in a work environment that wasn't working anymore? Get a call from my dream job within hours
4. (this may seem stupid but it has parallels in my mind) When Olive was sick again a few weeks ago, the vet urged a ton of extensive extra tests ($$$), I pulled myself back a bit mentally and told her I would monitor Olive but that we weren't going that route... Olive rebounded in a couple days, and if she is dying she is pretty frisky and stoked about it

All this being said, I've made my mistakes and some people have walked away from me for the right reasons, but at the end of the day (as in this day, right here, right now) I am calm and happy and excited about the direction things are going in. Oh and by the wayyyy now that I have that work/life balance that I was dying for I have time for important things, like painting my nails, yeah that's right 2 sizes of sparkles&dark plum in 1 polish (Scandalous/Revlon) :: 

 

 

resolutions, sequins & glitter

I've finely tuned my goals already this month so I don't necessarily need Resolutions, but it's always fun to feel as though you are starting fresh on January 1st ::

Losing weight is great, but being a healthy/hot shape (you know, like a rhombus) is nothing new in terms of goals and I am not beating myself up over body image... probably/hopefully ever again (although per my last post I deny myself olfactory delights on a daily basis).  If I live in the image that I designed in my goals then:

Rightttttt??? One can only hope.

On another note, what is this season without sparkles? Which is why my Christmas wrapping has consisted only of sparkly items - bows, paper, ribbons, markers... Afterwards I chase the man in my life around his apartment with sparkly hands and then he becomes a sparkling Christmas elf as well!! And of course Olive gets plenty on her. The Christmas spirit gets on everything... Everything bro ::