MERYN MADE

Category: lifestyle

  • CURRENTLY // MARCH 2021

    Reading Planning Logistics of quitting our jobs in July, our 10 week, cross country, Great American Road Trip starting in August (blogs to come) Watching Chef’s Table with Ana Roš (season 2, episode 5), movie I Care a Lot starring Rosamund Pike, March Madness basketball games Cooking Homemade meatballs, chicken…

  • CURRENTLY // FEBRUARY 2021

    Reading Planning To quit our jobs, move out of our apartment, road trip across the US for 4-6 weeks, and then move to Cleveland or Ann Arbor Watching Super Bowl LV Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated Kansas City Chiefs 31–9, Noelle Gallagher of booktube channel (link), Sabine’s Book Nook booktube channel…

  • WHY I RUN: FEBRUARY 2021 UPDATE

    It’s February 24th and over 40 degrees in Ohio with beautiful, blue skies overhead, melting snow piles, and lots of puddles. Let’s run: While running the same thought kept coming to me: I feel alive for the first time In a long time That’s what running does for me It…

  • INVESTMENT JOURNEY + WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSONAL POP CULTURE INVESTOR

    Disclaimer: the opinions expressed are for general informational purposes only and are not to be taken as financial advice I have, by no means, any business writing a blogpost about investing, but here we go. In March 2020, at the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, I started investing in the…

  • CURRENTLY // JANUARY 2021

    Reading Planning For the year of 2021, scheduling time off for weddings, weekend getaways, short trip to Nebraska in October, purchasing our first home, financial successes Watching News coverage regarding the attack on The Capitol, Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Booktube’s favorite books of 2020, beauty Youtube’s 2020…

  • CURRENTLY // DECEMBER 2020

    Reading // Planning // reading plans for Kayla’s #buzzwordathon 2021 (blogpost linked here), goals and intentions for 2021, TBR list for 2021 Watching // marathoning booktube content from Kayla of BooksandLala (youtube channel linked here), dipping my toes in fellow Canadian booktuber Ariel Bissett (youtube channel linked here), The Bachelorette…

  • SMALL BUSINESSES TO SUPPORT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON

    In this post you’ll find a collection of small and local businesses, mostly female founded, that I support and love year round! Home Goods // Art, Fragrance, Decor Paige Poppe, artistshop webpageinstagram In my collection:“Wild Poppies” Watercolor Art Print“The Sonoran Sketchbook” 2021 Wall Calendar“We Stick Together” Printable Coloring Book Phoenix,…

  • CURRENTLY // NOVEMBER 2020

    Reading // Watching // Regan of PeruseProject on youtube, Tik Tok creatives collaborating on the fictional Ratatouille the Musical, Cleveland Browns 8-3 baby! Cooking // homemade cornbread, Buck Naked Kitchen Thanksgiving turkey meatballs, Half Baked Harvest beer bread, Half Baked Harvest carnitas, homemade meatloaf and mashed potatoes Eating // traditional…

  • WHY I RUN

    I’m inundated with these thoughts after I’ve ran, they won’t let me be. So here it is, to live forever on the internet, out of my brain. Why I Run: Because it’s therapeutic Because it’s uninterrupted time with myself Because I know it is good for me Physically Emotionally Because…

  • CURRENTLY // OCTOBER 2020

    Reading // The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle, Urban Jungle by Igor Josifovic, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard Planning…