Refverie - Skincare

 I’ve started doing a skincare routine with *~sErUmS~* and honestly my skin feels So Good. For the first time since... ever? I don’t have any blackheads or zits on my nose?????????? Amazing. I follow Nicole Cliff on twitter and she said someone told her we care about skincare because we are afraid to die and tbh it’s true, but ima do it anyway. My face feels great. (I don’t have a “routine” in that I do the same thing every morning and night, I just kinda mix and match. But The Ordinary is like super cheap and Super Great and you can get it at Sephora.)

Refverie - Cooking Growth

 I think I like cooking now??? This fall/winter I’ve been cooking more meals and I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. Probably it is a result of my extra time from not coaching swimming, coupled with a light grading load this semester. The part of cooking that was the most stressful was the planning and grocery shopping. I’ve conquered this by choosing a default grocery store - Food Lion off 55/I40 - that has a good selection of produce and whose aisles I have learned pretty well. I have also utilized some cookbooks I’ve had for ages to search for easy and hopefully healthy meals that are within my skill set. Now I find that I don’t mind coming home to cook, and I enjoy what we eat! Slowly I am learning some instincts, but I still definitely need a recipe. (I’m a true baker at heart.) It only took me 30 years to get here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Refverie - SMART Resolutions

 I love new beginnings. This upcoming year will hold such huge things and I’m excited, nervous, and ready. My SMART goal resolutions are both daily resolutions: read one poem and go on one walk each day. My broader goal is to soak in all the goodness of my interpersonal relationships this year. I’ve always loved the way weddings are huge, fun reunions, and I’m excited that one wedding I get to go to this year will be mine!!! Could be overwhelming, but I’m trying some positive framing. I just know I’ll be reconnected to so many cool people and I want to pay attention and soak it all in!! 🦋 🦄 🐳 I know last year was kinda butts for lots of reasons, but I enjoyed the new and challenging conversations I engaged in, and I felt like I payed even more attention to the media I was taking in. I feel so much more enriched, but also like a million times more existentially stressed, so who’s to say really.