#61: I hit my goal
theres over 100 of you here and I couldnt be happier
hi hi hi sisters ♡ hope you have some fun plans for thanksgiving, or at least have a couple of days off work!!
my family landed today and my sister and brother in law get in tomorrow, i’m stressed and excited !! will be a busy week
keeping the recommendations section to recommendations for different substacks that I read. I find it to be really important to support small “businesses” (that sounds odd to use here, but maybe influencers is another word I can use?) and one way I can do that is by sharing about them!
this week im shouting out another news-based substack called
by . she’s your gen-z bestie sharing news about business and culture and trends happening all around us!
movies: went to the movies by myself this week and saw a real pain, kieran culkin was phenomenal and I really liked jesse einseburg as well. it’s a good story about grief and how humans can be so fickle. I also watched the barbie rapunzel movie, incredibly nostalgic, I loved it. and then I watched blitz, it’s a WWII movie starring saoirse ronan and it was good. I probably won’t watch it again but i’m glad I watched it.
podcasts: loved this interview with florence pugh talking about women’s health issues and how important it is to be an advocate for yourself, I will say there were parts of the interview that kinda bugged me, I feel like florence wasnt given a lot of time to speak, but also maybe they only had a short time for the interview idk
in my mind: everything emma chamberlain touches is gold
always trying to improve my sleep to be honest, so this article was interesting to me
its easy to be bogged down by what is going wrong in the world: lets focus on what i’m grateful for
I think we all have a lot we can and could complain about. I am incredibly disappointed that just over half the people that voted, voted for a convicted felon who is also a rapist and sexual offender. like WTF!?!? I will be complaining about him and be disgruntled for the next 4 years, HOWEVER, if there is anything i’ve learned in life, it is that we can hold multiple and complex emotions in our hearts and souls at the same time. which means, despite me feeling lots of feelings about the United States and the future of our country, I can still feel so incredibly grateful. I am grateful for the people fighting to uphold women’s reproductive rights, for the organizations like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU that are working hard to make sure that women across the country have safe and accessible means to birth control and abortions. I am grateful for leaders in our country that do want to see the country be a place for everyone. I am grateful for immigration lawyers who are going to be working overtime these next 4 years to keep citizens safe.
I am grateful for dogs. Like holy hell you guys, dogs give me such immense joy to a point its almost pathetic. like I cry if I think too much about having my own dog one day. seeing pictures of dogs and seeing dogs in public boost me up so much each day. I LOVE DOGS and I am SO SO SO grateful for them.
I am grateful for social media. I think a lot of times social media can be harmful, and I do think that youth in particular are incredibly vulnerable to the outcomes of social media. cyber-bullying is real, over-consumerism and consumption and comparison are lethal to people who’s brains are not fully developed. BUT I am grateful to be able to be up to date and feel connected to my friends and loved ones that I don’t live near. I am grateful for my online friends who i’ve never met in real life but they teach me new things and feel just as important to me as some people I know in real life. I’m grateful for the ability to create and share, I have felt such a strong sense of sharing what I create for most of my life. I remember being in high school and feeling called to share about life experiences, not because I think i’m the final word and say in how life should be lived or how to get through hard days, but because I have unique life experiences that can relate to others. I think we all have so much to learn from one another and social media allows us to connect.
on the flip side, i’m grateful for my community. my group of friends, the girls in my life I can hang out with, my cross-country friends I can call and chat to for hours, my sister and brother in law, my grandparents, my boyfriend, my movie church group. I am grateful for tangible human connection and the ability to feel like I have a support system.
I am grateful for a couple of niche websites and apps: letterboxd, substack, and indyx. I love substack because it allows me to connect to other creators. I love seeing what people are passionate about and the way they decide to share their creativity. letterboxd and I have a love affair, i’ve been using letterboxd since 2021, I don’t even remember how I found it, but man oh man i’m so glad I did. the reviews crack me up and being me so much joy. lastly I love the indyx app, it’s so fun having a digital catalog of my closet, it feels like I am living a little video game life with my clothes. like a barbie closet or something that’s in clueless.
i’m grateful for a chosen family. I was watching a tiktok the other day and this guy was talking about his stitch made him cry because stitch said “this is my family. I found it, all on my own. it’s little and broken, but still good” OH. okay little guy. same here. my chosen family are the friends i’ve made in this life. I love them so much. sometimes we are broken and disjointed but they are good and perfect to me. my chosen family of movie church people and my girls here and my friend group from BYU and my friends across the country and globe. my chosen family spans quite far and wide and I love them.
i’m grateful for new york. this city has changed my life in so many ways. i’ve become someone I really like here. i’ve learned to live on my own and to stand on my own two feet. i’ve made lifelong friends and have had monumental impacts and moments here. i’ve met bjørn, and I love bjørn. i’m so grateful for bjørn, and so grateful for new york for connecting us.
and lastly i’m grateful for you guys. for all 100 of you who have decided to subscribe to this newsletter. i’m grateful for a space to share. I love sharing. I love having a place to do so. I love writing, I haven’t been the best at keeping a journal lately, but this feels like a journal, and I love that.
so so so grateful for you all !!!
tiktok: lizzy x little women (ty jayne); ahhh nyc living
pinterest: anyone else watch this movie; a major mood in life
instagram: ICONIC; I cant get over these film photos, the nail polish and butterfly ones !!!
low key feel like I’m tapping into my inner elder utchdorf1 in here about talking about being grateful in every circumstance grateful in any circumstance lol, but I hope you can all reflect on why you are grateful this holiday season too!!
I have always been fond of him and I do still feel tenderness for most of the general authorities, I feel incredibly angry at the institution of the church, but I do feel some fondness for the leaders who I do think are just doing their best, idk its incredibly convoluted and layered and complicated and I know I feel different than a lot of my friends who have also stepped away from the church
You are a lovely ray of sunshine ☀️ look forward to reading more. 🧡✔️
thanks for the shoutout!