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LIFE LATELY // Q2 2024
reading Planning 3 week honeymoon – road trip to Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota, camping weekends for summer/fall, soft sunroom renovation Watching backyard birding (gold finch, Baltimore orioles, northern flicker, rose breasted grosbeak, white crowed sparrow), solar eclipse (April 8, 2024) Cooking halal cart hala style chicken, orecchiette in…
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SPRING BOOK STACK
The collection of books I’ve picked up from the library – audio, physical, and ebooks Until next time, Meryn
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LIFE LATELY // Q1 2024
reading Planning spring gardening, courthouse wedding, Grand Teton elopement and honeymoon, house Watching Jeopardy, University of Michigan football culminating in a national championship, many hours of Tik Tok per week e.g. color analysis, Mediterranean meal prep, hair tutorials, make up product recommendations Cooking pork carnitas, glazed apple dutch babies, lasagna…
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LIFE LATELY // Q4 2023
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…
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2024 VISION BOARDS
In other terms: goals, intentions, resolutions, wants, dreams, schemes, aspirations, inspirations, to-do lists Inspired by Jen Warnes tik tok content reviewing her 2023 vision board (linked here) Until next time, Meryn
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2023 IN REVIEW
And just like that, another year has come and gone. 2023 was our first full year of home ownership which brought us challenges and surprises. After a somber winter with the passing of my dear aunt, the spring surprised us with beautiful white and pink blooms from the lilac bush…
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LIFE LATELY // Q3 2023
Reading Planning Perennial garden for spring 2024, home exterior revamp, shed exterior (siding) renovation, 10 year anniversary trip in 2024 (Grand Teton NP, Yellowstone NP, Theodore Roosevelt NP, Badlands NP, Wind Cave NP) Watching College football, professional football, Taylor Swift’s Eras tour content on tik tok, Golden Bachelor premiere Cooking…
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THIS COULD BE HALF WAY
This month I turn 30 years old This could be my half way point Ever since my Aunt died earlier this year at 60 years old I haven’t been able to stop thinking That my life could be half over Likely? Unlikely But hard to know I have no reason…
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NEW HOUSE, NEW LIFE
Less than 2 weeks until we move into our first home. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of everything I’m excited for, and the idyllic, perfect life I think homeownership will bring I’m excited to: → just listen to and have music playing[ can’t tell you the last time I’ve listen to…
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LIFE UPDATE: WE BOUGHT A HOUSE
The last week of June 2021, we announced our resignations from our full time jobs with a plan to travel the US for 3 months, embarking on what affectionately became known as our National Park road trip One year later, during the last week of June 2022, we closed on…
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