Reading
Planning
Spring home repairs and projects (exterior, garden, painting living room, house numbers), 2024 goals, dreams, intentions, resolutions, 2024 30 book TBR
Watching
Jeopardy, Cleveland Browns football, Toledo Rockets football, The Golden Bachelor, booktube, far too much tik tok
Cooking
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, French onion soup, experimenting with our new blackstone griddle, annual Christmas morning dutch baby
Eating
Trader joe’s crunchy chili onion, Bombay’s Kitchen, probably Costco pizza
Drinking
Blake’s cider, Saugatuck Brewing IPA, Austin Brothers IPA, Heavy Wheelhouse flight, Green Valley Brewing Co. seasonal, orange cranberry mocktail
Creating
Pressed floral art from my cosmos, ginger beer batched mocktails, annual Christmas card
Housing
Ripped out the cosmos *cries*, tore down and burned the fence along Marvindale, installed cleaning closet in the laundry room, hung the kayak in the garage, added plant shelving and grow lights in the laundry room, installed a lock on the shed, hung Christmas lights
Going
Toledo Walleye games, Oak Openings, murder mystery dinner, MAC Championship game at Ford Field (Toledo Rockets 14, Miami Redhawks 23), Flying Joe’s, 8 mile hike in Allegheny National Forest
Traveling
Winfield Christmas, Winfield Thanksgiving then PA for Thanksgiving’s weekend, Christmas eve in Berea, then Christmas Day in Defiance,
Loving
Huge leaves on my pilea peperomioides, new Karen Kane glasses, plant shelves and grow soft lighting from Christmas decorations and Christmas tree
Dreaming
Of our intimate 10 year anniversary road trip out west IYKYK
Feeling
Inspired and excited for 2024 which should be a very memorable and unforgettable year, nervous to tell my bosses about my 3-4 week vacation/leave of absence
Listening
1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift, exclusively Taylor Swift while running on the treadmill, Guts by Olivia Rodrigo, general Christmas music
Celebrating
Kyle’s 30th birthday with backyard barbeque and yard games, The Golden Bachelor finale, Toledo Rockets bowl game, Michigan bowl game, announcement of J&R pregnancy
Learning
PT license renewal – cervical radiculopathy, domestic violence, organ transplantation, suicide prevention, temporomandibular joint disorders, thoracic outlet syndrome
Buying
Christmas decor, new plants from Meijer and Bensell Greenhouse, floral painting from goodmorninggirl on Etsy, National Park books from used book stores
Bohdi
Bohdi, Bohdi Baby, Sweetums, Bohdi Bologna, King of Bologna, Bohdi Bolognese
mantra
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
Until next time, Meryn
MERYN MADE 
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