Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by—I’m so glad you’re here! 😁

This is actually my last post for a little bit because my bffl is coming to town! She lives in CA, and we haven’t seen each other in almost 10 years. But in college, she used to stay with us for the shorter holiday breaks, and she was basically my family’s adopted other child. 🫶

Things have been a little chaotic trying to prep for her visit, but every time I freak out about all the cleaning I still haven’t done, I try to remind myself that our house was in rough shape the first time she ever came over in college. At least we now have all the amenities of a normal house—like ceilings and sinks! (True story! 🙈🙈)

On that note, let’s see what brought the sparkle this week!

Easter! I hope you had a lovely Easter, Passover, or Ramadan last week—wild how they all converged this year. Once again, I had to document the rare occasion of making An Effort™️. Miraculously, I actually got my lion’s mane to stay up in a jaw clip (after watching only one YouTube video!), and I like the look! Sophisticated from the front and god-knows-what from the back—I can live with that! 😂👏

You know what Easter also means: time to take down the Christmas decorations. Except that we FAILED this year, ugh. It’s always that dang Christmas tablecloth! We did take it off on Easter Monday, though, so maybe that counts for something.

Signs of spring! I’m hoping to drag take my bffl to the botanical garden next week since she’ll be here during Peak Spring Majesty. 🌷🌸🌺🌻

Picture quality would have been better, but I was getting dive-bombed by bees and jumping out of my skin. 😰

Love me a new planner/planning system. (Keeping the chaos organized always feels juuust out of reach, haha.) Thanks to those stupid, spot-on IG ads, I ordered the “Dashboard Deskpad” from Ink + Volt. I already use Asana, so I have tasks sorted by “projects” on there, and I wonder if it will be helpful to organize things similarly on paper. (I always have a paper planner, in addition to any apps, because, sure. 🤷🏼‍♀️) Work tasks and non-work tasks always felt jumbled in my old planner… and in most planners… so I’m curious to see how this goes!