I've been using a bullet journal for about two years now. I started bullet journaling when I was getting ready to study for the bar because I needed a way to track my assignments and a planner wasn't working for me. I'd heard and seen a lot about bullet journals but I didn't really know how to get started. Enter (as usual) the internet. I found this Buzzfeed piece that was super helpful and that I still send people to when they tell me they're ... Read the Post...
Books
I love to read, especially novels. While I was in law school I didn't have much time to read for fun--when you're reading hundreds of pages of cases each night the last thing you want to do after you've finished your homework is pick up another book--and when I graduated I just wasn't in the habit of reading anymore. So last year I decided to set a goal for myself to read 52 books over the course of the year. That's a book each week. I thought ... Read the Post...
Morning Routine (or how I’m tricking myself into being a morning person)
If you've ever lived with me or seen me early in the morning you can probably attest to the fact that I am definitely not a morning person. I have trouble falling asleep so I never want to wake up earlier than I have to. But when I started to work out more consistently I decided to try to force myself to become at least a little bit more of a morning person and get my workouts done early. I'm going to apologize right now because, unfortunately, ... Read the Post...
TITM (Throw It Together Meal)
In the most recent Girl's Night In Newsletter (my favorite weekly newsletter that you can subscribe to here) they mentioned the importance of having a go-to throw it together meal (TITM). This is a meal that you know how to make by heart, can shop for without thinking, and can easily throw together on a weeknight. Ideally it's a meal that tastes great and doesn't take too long to make because the entire point is that it takes some of the stress ... Read the Post...