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| Asheville, NC (May 2015) |
Listening To: all things youtube. I've been busy putting together baby shower invitations for my brother, his woman, and my little nephew. While listening to music or watching movies can be distracting if I am doing something that requires concentration or actual thought (I get distracted easily!), it's occasionally nice to have some sort of background noise when I am doing something mindless like gluing invitations or coming up with textual design.
Remembering: what it was like making my wedding invitations, save the dates, and programs and how stressed out I got. It's so much easier 1) having Justin's help and design insight and 2) having someone else pick the colors and theme!
Planning: to take an Ultimate Coconut cake up to my grandparent's house this weekend to celebrate my grandfather's birthday. We get to start the cake-making process tonight because it's a 3-day task. UGH! Wish us well! :)
Anxiously Awaiting: our trip to NYC! Right now I'm trying to decide whether or not to use this promo code for the app Navigate to receive 2 free months of assistance as I figure out where we should go and what we should do in the big apple. I could see it being useful, but I don't want to fritter my promo time away on a city like NYC when I could be using it to plan for a destination overseas… Then again, the only plans I have for going overseas are dreams at this point, so I might as well get some use out of the code, right?
Interested to Know: whether Ant-Man will be any good. We're going to see it in theatres this weekend. It looks good, but you can never tell…
Keeping A Secret: that we are buying stuffed elephants for the baby shower. Mama-to-be doesn't know yet. I think she will really like using them in the baby's room. :) Her colors are mint green and grey with elephants being the theme.
DIY'ing: cake and baby shower invitations! I'm also going through things and organizing. Ugh. So time-consuming!
Reading: Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise.
Here's a look back at the books I have read so far in 2015:
January
• the After series by Anna Todd
• A Lion In Paris by Beatrice Alemagna
• I Sold My Soul to the Devil For Vinyls … Pitiful, I Know on Wattpad
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Refinery 29 by Piere Gelardi and Christene Barberich
• Frites by Anne de la Forest
February
• Summer Rain on Wattpad
• Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer
• How to Travel the World on $50 A Day by Matt Kepnes
• Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
March
• No Capes on Wattpad
• The Bro Code on Wattpad
• He Wanted the Moon by Mimi Baird
April
• Cookie Love by Mindy Segal
• Sweetapolita by Rosie Alyeah
May
• Everything You Ever Wanted by Jillian Lauren
• Salsas & Moles by Deborah Schneider
• Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
• Seven Spoons by Tara O'Brady
June
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
July
• Fatal Vision by Joseph McGinnis
What have you been up to recently? Have you read any good books or listened to anything particularly interesting? Are you working on a DIY you are proud of? Share! I'd love to hear! :)
I went to NYC several years ago and it wasn't as slummy as I thought it was going to be. The one thing I did notice is that the driving is horrible. It is bumper to bumper ion the whole city.
ReplyDeleteDriving in NYC is awful. :( We usually take the metro when we are there and do lots of walking. Last time I was there they were experiencing a heat wave in the upper 90s and it was miserable. I'm hoping this time it will be cooler. Did you do anything while there that you would recommend?
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