Thoughts on a Monday
Thoughts on a Monday October 02, 2023 at 11:23AM Hi friends! How are you? I hope you had an amazing weekend! I’m sorry I disappeared on ya for Friday Faves. We got our stair railing replaced (it looks amazing!) but they had to spray the clear coat as the final step. We left the house because I didn’t want everyone to breathe in the fumes. I had Maisey with me all day and we went to juice with a friend, picked up the girls at school, and spent the rest of the afternoon at madre’s house. Thankfully by dinnertime, the smell was gone, and the stair upgrade has made a huge difference in our entryway. What were you up to this weekend? Any fun fall activities? I’m feeling a little all over the place today, so just thought I’d share some random thoughts on a Monday. – Fall candle season is officially here! This is one I picked up recently and it smells like a dream: – We also decorated for Halloween and have this 13-ft Jack Skellington to greet delivery drivers and eventually trick-or-treaters. 😉 – I took a hot yoga class the other day and was thinking about the Bikram yoga days of yore, which was my original intro to hot yoga. When we lived in Valdosta, I’d occasionally drive two hours with a friend to take Bikram classes in Jacksonville, and loved taking them when we would visit Orlando or Atlanta. While Bikram the person has a pretty icky backstory – the Netflix documentary is wild, and unfortunately not super surprising – the Bikram yoga method also has me raising my eyebrows two decades later. It makes me cringe to think that the rooms were CARPETED (hi mold and germ city), and during one of my first classes, I was publicly shamed for drinking water before Eagle pose. Also, an instructor once told me that if I breathed through my mouth during class, it would turn my teeth yellow. And I believed her lol. – I started this book on Audible and it’s everything I’d been hoping it would be and more. LOVE Cody. – 21 day detox is officially over, and I celebrated at Ventana brunch with friends yesterday, quite a few desserts, and flute of magically-refilling mimosas. (dress is here) I’ll share a full post on my experience, but I’m so, so glad I did it, and proud of myself for making the commitment. I didn’t have sugar, processed foods, or alcohol for 3 solid weeks, I focused on more veggie-forward meals, my sleep improved, my skin improved, and I feel less inflamed overall. You can really see it in my cheeks/face. One of my best friends also did the detox with me, and she’s had incredible results.
