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someone posted somewhere that no one blogs, then someone tagged me. the thing is, i don't blog...i write blogs. welcome to my weekly retro. first thing on monday i had a dentist follow up. for the time being, teeth are good and no work is necessary!

this week was so weird. i got a lot done and experienced and felt a lot, but i also did not melt a single ounce of wax. it's almost like life is more than work, ok, i guess!

happy november!

yesterday i finally caved and turned the heat on, started this retro, and then abandoned it as i suddenly had the urge and momentum (the edible hit) to design some candles for the holiday season. it's just crossed over from monday morning into monday afte…

huge news, jenn nation: this is just one studio, my "main studio". i actually started my aerial yoga journey in manhattan in 2017 where there is a great studio, it's just inconveniently located for me. also a bit pricy. anyway, the majority of these 150 c…

this past week felt like 3, because it started with me headed by train to boston, where the nor'easter rudely followed me. i came up here for a consulting that i did a good job at. the weather was awful though, raining in all different directions and cold.

it's sunday evening and i shot up after nearly spending all day horizontal on the couch and realized - i need to write a retro!

i was wondering how to intro this retro of the past week and was thinking about how it's a new month and i never went over my september goals or wrote goals for october. that's about where i'm at in relation to the ellipse of time, about a third of a radi…

happy monday. i come to you all $23.46 richer, one click away from spending it all entirely on shipping for a 10-lb bag of wax - better than spending it on some dumb shit, right?

one thing i did not get to do until i was in my mid-thirties was buy dumb shit all the time. dumb shit used to be more expensive and better quality than the dumb shit you can buy today, but it's so much more easy and everyone and everything is or has an a…

today my body and brain seemed to go on strike, it's been such a hectic week with my dad's health taking a bad turn. he's in the best possible position for what he's going through, and my brother and i have been in a good rhythm of being helpful in the si…

it's been over five years since i blogged about what candles i've been burning. shortly after that post i started making my own candles, so many and so often that i was able to start giving them away to friends and coworkers. and then five years after that

i've been in a perpetual state of being 48 hours behind the rest of the world, and so is nearly the case with this retro. my week started out with me being really stressed about how i was going to do a good job at the 5 events i was responsible for being…

it's pretty late into the night as i type this. after 3 trips to the laundry room there was finally a machine available. i only cried once. i'm post menstrual and my thyroid hormones are abnormal again. thank god for edibles (legal) and ring dings out of…

i just got home, full of veggie burger, from one of our favorite spots to go with a couple of local pals. the weather is fantastic, my edible is about to hit, here's a gif of a cup that took me an hour to convert from .mov last night: this cup is a souven…

the latter half of august is so weird because it's so hot but the fall season is being rolled out in the form of schools going back into session, autumnal merchandise being set on shelves, and the holiday season for candle-makers has gone into effect. mea…

welcome to my weekly retro, the 28th one. get a load of this hibiscus flower: this is a light mode version of the hibiscus i shared a couple weeks ago. i'm being for real right now when i say that i had no idea what a hibiscus looked like until a month ag…

too many people are doing a great disservice to their writing by garnishing it with generative-ai (artificial intelligence) - ethics and values aside (lol), it looks tacky and it cheapens the words around it. there are so many human-created, realistic, and

this was one of the first weeks where i felt normal in awhile. i wrote a lot, finally put out my monthly newsletter, was active, and was getting stuff done. something clicked in my mind today when i realized my thyroid probably, finally adjusted to my new…

i wrote last week's retro after dental work that monday morning. i'm happy to report that this monday did not cost me thousands of dollars or involve any needles or blood. just coffee and typing. also, i enumerated all of the weekly retro post titles. wel…

this morning i concluded the two-week dental crown journey (saga?

my week started with getting up early to go to the dentist and get a crown removed and the cavity under it taken care of. it was long, painful and very expensive!

i'm writing this earlier than usual because monday morning i'm doing the first session of getting my crown replaced - when they they mold, remove and then put in a temporary tooth. the second session in a week or two is when they will be replacing the tem…

one of my aerial yoga instructors likes to start the class by setting an intention for us, often it's abstract but helpful reminders like "forgiveness" or "strength". i went into last week with the intention "do not be a big baby about the heat". giving m…

we are less than a week away from fastly shutting down glitch.com. while i haven't worked there in 10 months, i'm still as much a glitch power user as i've been since i helped launch it in 2017, so i have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, and wi…

a brutal heat wave hit the city last week and i spent most of my time indoors, sluggish from the heat but restless from the confinement of my apartment walls. my new walking shoes sat on my table in its box, waiting with me for the relief of below 90 F te…

this is my 20th weekly retro, and i've not missed a week. it's but one more streak along with my not having missed my meds. every morning i wake up at 8, take my thyroid hormone, feed pumagreg his "wet breakfast" and then go back to sleep. today, i'm star…

weeks can go in like a lion and out like a lamb, and not just in the month of may. if i could (and i will) describe the first half of last week in a photo, it would be this: the throes of a hashimotos flareup and my period starting was enough of a test of…

i always blamed my preference for cold weather on my norwegian maternal side, everything just feels harder when it's hot. by the time i got to the lab to get my bloodwork done, i was drenched in sweat. who would have thought the results of the blood test…

i'm coming to you and this retro with one vial less of blood and having been up since the crack of dawn to have said vial taken. this kicks off the bi-annual celebration of seeing if my thyroid has finally joined me on the quest to be hotter and smarter or

in the early spring months of 2020, i began half-jokingly tweeting about my goal of becoming a "lifestyle blogger". it was impulsive, public, and - i think those who were around to witness my process would agree - pretty funny performance art. i learned a…

it's a new week, although the "holiday weekend" still if you're in the states. during my workaholic corporate era, these holidays were more like a working vacation where i still logged on to get stuff done, but didn't have to talk to or answer to anyone (…

today the news is out that glitch is shutting down project hosting and user profiles. i knew this was coming in some form because gossip has always been fastly’s greatest export - with speedy and non-vague communication usually coming in at, generously, 1…

i just got back from a dentist appointment where i found out, unfortunately but not surprisingly, that i'm going to have to spend about 5 billion dollars to take care of a tooth infection. enough about this week, though, let's talk about last week. we were

this week's retro is late because i was out of town for the weekend and am, today, finally able to Go On The Computer™ and Blog™ - you know, the two things i was born to do. the week started off chill and typical. i did my usual treadmilling, aerial yogai…

happy may, may the slog be with us all. after a week and a half of weird joint paint, i was starting to accept that this was perhaps the moment every person who has sat for 4 hours in an endocrinologist's waiting room is told may happen (rheumatoid arthri…

this week was one of those week where i made a point to not do much outside of my scheduled obligations, so to give my body a rest. my knees were SCREAMING in a voice i never heard before, but joint pain is a pretty common symptom of hashimotos. this is t…

last week i went back to jc print room for a live model figure drawing session. this time the model was male. we don't know what kind of models we are going to get until we show up which keeps the experience fresh. i get super bored drawing the same body…

my upstairs neighbors are doing construction and it sounds like they tore out all the floors and/or they filled their pockets and boots with heavy weights, so i've had to take about seven (7) breaks as i try to write this. i spent a lot of time outside la…

this was a week of processing the blues of my prior week and trying to push myself through the discomfort by saying "yes" to opportunities that get me outside and away from screens and even wax. i started feeling a creative block coming, but i believe it…

if i had one piece of advice for everyone, but that i need to take myself, it's "you can acknowledge your weaknesses while also being kind to yourself". when i started writing this retro, i was not being kind to myself at all; there was a lot of "i need to

i went to my first live model figure drawing session in over 5 years last night!

ah, it's the last weekly retro of march. it went in like a lion and out like the trailing cough i've had for the past two weeks. april should have fewer coughs and more spreadsheets as i prepare to launch bugs rock. i went into the week with the intention…

coming off of being pretty sick last week and then continuing to heal from that whilst starting my period - yes, that keeps happening for some reason - i was starting to doubt that i had anything to even write about this week. that's when it's time to just

in my last retro, which i posted on time unlike this one I KNOW, i said that the coming week would be a busy one. boy, was it. for the latter half of it i was like this: let's rewind to monday. jamie and i were back at wonderville for robot karaoke that n…

happy 311 day. let's (breathtakingly unrelatedly) talk about markers. the first set of markers i ever remember owning and loving were the "bold" crayola marker 8 count. i was reminded of them this week as i was trying out some markers that came in the lat…

i'm just coming down now from a heightened state of agitation, caused by only just realizing at 5pm that daylight saving time ended while we were asleep. imagine the clock saying 5pm and your cat is not screaming for food and treats, it's terrifying lol!

one of my favorite parts of buying from artisans directly is that there's always some surprise, personal touch added to the package - like a free sticker, candy, or a handwritten note. to me, it's proof of care and craft, and that's very important in this…

i had a small, belated birthday gathering last night so, of course, so we split a cannoli at breakfast at 2pm and now i'm Ready To Blog™. or i thought i was until i started editing photos for this retro. while pumagreg eats his daily spinch, i need to vent

i'm sitting here groggy, swollen and sore after a very poorly-slept night - a signal of my period starting any second. but it's hard not to feel invigorated about this week after seeing the next few days' forecasts having temperature highs in the low-50s…