Linking up for High Five on Friday!
Weather
While the midwest was getting horrendous double digit negative degree weather I was down here in Austin hanging out outside in a light jacket and feeling the sun on my face. I’m a jerk, I know. That is why I was sending screenshots of the weather report to my family. But honestly. One of the top 5 reasons I wanted to leave Chicago was weather. I suffer from SAD and those winter months are brutal on my mental health. Its even so bad that during that stretch of Oct/Nov that it rained almost daily I started to feel it. We did get a nasty cold front earlier this week though (high of 28, I was not happy)
Cooking
AJS and I have been doing so good with cooking! We try to make a meal or have leftovers Sun-Thurs and for the month of January we did pretty well!! Some of the meals from the past week: Steak sandwiches, honey garlic chicken & rice, apple stuffing with pork chops and potato salad
Book Club
Ive talked all about Girly Book Club and using meetup to make friends. I hosted my first Book Club meetup of 2019 in January (and ever) and we had 15 girls total! How exciting is that? We sat around a firepit since there wasn’t enough space for all of us inside and we hung out, talked about the book “The Wife Between Us” and made new friends. I loved that most of us were in agreement about the book, plus quite a few of us exchanged phone numbers after! Unfortunately, we asked a stranger to get a photo of us so it came out kind of blurry and a mess.
Spring Break
We are only 8 days out till vacation!! And only 5 school days till we get there. Yes!!!
Social Media Growth
I really started focusing on the blog more over the past few months which led me to starting a new instagram. While it is definitely slow going I passed the 300 follower mark this week and I am super excited about that! I’ve been paying attention to the kinds of posts that are causing spikes in followers and also my hashtags and it is paying off!
Favorite Links!
I wanted to show some love to some fellow bloggers that I love this week too!
- The Nueva Latina : Thank you next: To all the boys Ive ever loved
- Steph @ Not Entirely Perfect: Ways to Save this Month
- Karly @ What Karly Said: How I use my Fitbit Versa
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