five good things

1. My first full week at home since we moved into this house, during which time I completed important domestic tasks such as taking out the trash and paying the overdue cable bill as well as buying a dining room table like an adult, except not like an adult really because the real reason I did it was because the kitchen table was so covered in crap that it actually felt easier to BUY ANOTHER TABLE instead of cleaning it off. (It’s clean now, though. Really. I swear. Ish.)

2. Iced coffee season, which is happily also drinking Sam Summers on patios season, which is happily also flip-flop season, which is happily also the best season of the year.

3. It’s also time to put my summer capsule together, which meant I spent this week looking at jumpsuits on the J.Crew Factory website and feeling generally delighted as I imagined all the places I might wear them. I was talking to my friend Julie the other day about how I think the capsule–and capsule-type-thinking– has actually helped my anxiety in a lot of ways. There’s a blog post in me about this, probably. We’ll discuss.

4. Sarah Dessen’s Saint Anything, which came out this week and which I am really enjoying. Sarah Dessen was my YA gateway drug and it is always, always nice to visit with her, plus this book makes you want to eat pizza and listen to bluegrass music, both of which I intend to do later today.

5. I finished grad school this week on the heels of a bunch of scary professional decisions I frankly did not feel at all qualified to make and two weeks in advance of my 30th birthday. I don’t know, you guys. It feels like a new chapter. It feels really, really good.

Happy weekend. Love you.