Copa

I was bummed I didn’t like the Madewell jeans enough to pull the trigger. The fit was otherwise great but I thought I’d be uncomfortable sitting down or bending over in a pair of jeans that are so hit well above my belly button. Maybe I should’ve taken a pair home to wear around the house for an afternoon to see.

I need new sunglasses in a terrible way. I always buy cheaper ones because I used to lose or break them constantly. I’d go to TJMaxx or a similar store and try pairs on until I found an inexpensive pair that fit well, and that’d be it. My current go-to pair are very scratched up. I might even buy a “nice” pair from a real glasses store this time because I’ve had my current pair for years now, so I think I’m past the losing/breaking phase. I also just don’t feel comfortable at this point going into a store like TJMaxx and putting glasses on my face without knowing if they’ve been sanitized.

Also, I got a free travel sized BADgal BANG! mascara at Sephora last week and whoa! I really like this one.

Got many compliments on my hair at the baby shower. 🙂

I haven’t tried Prose and to my knowledge don’t know anyone who has. I’ve tried high- and low-end shampoos and I have never tried a pricier shampoo that felt worth the money to me, so I just use Kirkland brand from Costco. Ha! Anyway, I say treat yo-self and go for it. If it’s not worth the hype or the money, don’t repurchase.

My hair is pretty thick. I used the round brush and the left half looked great, the right half looked… not bad but not quite right. Ha. It’s raining today and I’m not on camera for work, so doesn’t matter.

I’ve never heard of the Wonder Water but I’ll look into it!

I also found it curious that you stopped speaking to a therapist because you stopped dating. That kind of internal self-work isn’t quick and you seem to be treating it like something you can do in June or July to be “fixed” to date successfully by August. Yes, dating is discouraging, but you still don’t understand why women might hop on one call or go on one or two dates and say no thank you — because you still don’t see women as people with their own dating criteria. This is an example of something you could’ve been working through in therapy. It took me about a year of regular sessions to really feel like I’d made progress and take a step back from going as often.

Well, we just had a town hall-style meeting at work. Still no updates on going back to the office. I thought they might announce our HQ going back (restrictions/reopening plans have been different in the city our HQ is in vs. where I live, so I assumed they’d go back first), but they didn’t. My company typically holds events fairly regularly and sounds like they’re currently tentatively planning an in-person outdoor event in September. We’ll see how that goes. I noticed on the call that one of my coworkers, our office manager who I think goes into our regional office a couple times/week, was using my office, which I was surprised to find kinda bugged me. She has the entire place to herself and there were/are a couple vacant offices.

We actually came SO CLOSE to doing the limo thing for that wedding! We took the Metra out there and figured a Lyft back wouldn’t be a huge deal. And it wasn’t a HUGE deal, but… we were all three sheets to the wind by the end of the night and the wait was longer than any of us would’ve guessed.

Another wedding I went to was at a massive resort on Lake Michigan that, during daytime hours, shuttles guests around in golf carts. That was another venue where I felt like some kind of transportation option would’ve been nice. My boyfriend and I drove to the welcome party on the resort and on the way back noticed that other guests who had arrived by golf cart had to walk back to their lodges/rooms on a pitch black road in the dark (there were no sidewalks). It’s a quiet vacation area so traffic was light, but… eh, I felt like that wasn’t a great situation for the pedestrians.