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I love pretty things

March 28, 2022

This weekend, I had the pleasure to host my friend’s bachelorette party at our house. I went all-out with decorating and I’m so proud of how it turned out.

I love the act of making things pretty, creating things by putting ideas together in my mind and then bringing them to fruition. It’s the best feeling in the entire world, even if it leaves me absolutely freaking exhausted in the end (and I have to spend an entire day in bed recovering). Someday I’ll get better about pacing myself, but for now I am glorying in the beauty of this moment.

I was recently accepted as an Amazon associate, so I’d love to share my sourcing for the products I used for this party. If you click my link and buy something, I’ll make a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🙂

tablecloth, linen napkin, gold flatware

Here are a few more photos from the weekend. Thank you for following along with this fun memory.

Beautiful florals from Trader Joe’s. I can’t believe Baby’s Breath is back in style these days. It’s like the 90s are calling and having their moment in the sun again. What’s old is new, always.

We hired an incredible executive chef to make the meal for the party, Kimo Eats. She did a fabulous job. Can’t wait to hire her again for future events and I highly, highly recommend if you’re looking for a fabulous event caterer. She is just starting her own business and I want to do everything I can to help her succeed.

Our beautiful bride, Jeannie. She is getting married this coming weekend. It was so fun to have this bachelorette moment where she can just revel in her love and forget about the stresses of wedding planning. Love her so much.

You know I had to document my clean house! I actually washed our microfiber couch covers in the washer. It’s a bit of a pain in the butt to remove them, but honestly it’s so worth it. Makes you feel like you have a new couch. Here’s a link to the blankets I use to cover the couch. I love that it gives me that white/neutral vibe without actually having the stress of owning a white couch. If you saw how dirty these blankets get on a weekly basis, you’d know why we’ll probably never have a light couch (even though I love the look!).

I love the way our ladder blanket holders look when properly styled. These were $20/each on Amazon and so worth it.

To prep for the party, I went to the Castro on Friday night to get a certain component of my ‘erotic cake’ at Hot Cookie with Keith. I was reminded of just how incredible my home is. I rarely go to SF, but it feels good to expand my web beyond Oakland from time to time.

Okay, one last little random tidbit. I bought a gel kit on amazon and this is my RIGHT hand of an at-home gel mani. The kit cost $40 and came with everything you need to do an at-home mani. I am excited to own this and save some money on my nails. I have BIG PLANS for this summer and every cent I save is going to go to my new projects (more to come on this!).

That’s it for now. So happy to be back writing here on meeshyd.com. Love y’all.

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Morning Musings

November 21, 2021

I’m having the most wonderful day today. I just got home from a walk in the woods with Jax. The best way to start the day. I still have to push myself to go, but I never ever regret it. Since May, we’ve taken a selfie together on nearly every walk. If we have friends walking with us, they join the photo. They’re shaping up to be some of my most treasured photos. See above. How can you not love the cheese? You can see how happy I am in these photos. I am literally transforming before my very own eyes, unlocking the vibrant me that I pushed down for many years. Oh, there I am.

We’re back home now and I just wolfed down a buttermilk Entenmann’s donut. So incredibly satisfying, but I think I’m going to pop out to Shangri La Vegan for an early lunch once I post this. I need more than a donut to fuel me through a massive cleaning today to prep for our Thanksgiving guests. Zero percent chance I am going to cook and add to the mess.

This morning while journaling, I wrote out in detail what I want my life to feel like. It’s so real, guys. I can reach out and touch it. I encourage you to do the same. I think the key to unlocking our dreams is to make them feel as real as breathing and to know deep in our bones that anything we can conceive is possible. How can we be it if we don’t know what it feels like? I try to make it feel as immediate as possible. I’m not waiting for decades to live my dreams. You?

A few other thoughts:

  • Shangri La Vegan does a new menu everyday that includes a bean, vegetable, soup and grain. Endless possibilities exist within those four options. After Thanksgiving, I might start doing that more for our daily cooking. Last week I made us bowls using rotiserrie chicken, leftover rice that I heated in a skillet with a little butter, a baked portobello mushroom with cheese and jalapenos and cut up avocado. It was one of the best things I’ve eaten in a long time. Simplicity.
  • I’m getting excited about decorating our bedroom. That’s my next project. I’m thinking about doing a blog post of what I’m envisioning. Would you want to see that?
  • I’m so excited for Thanksgiving I could burst. We are going to have a baby in the house. I can’t wait to love on her. I love kids. I decided not to have my own, but I love having them in my life.
  • When Keith and I got married (we eloped to Vegas in September!), I felt an immediate shift inside of myself about officially being the boy’s stepmom. What a responsibility! I can’t play around anymore about the life I’m living. I want to leave them a legacy. I want to be successful so I can help them live out their dreams. Of course, I felt like this before, but it feels more urgent now. I am their stepmom. I am a stepmom. Holy shit!! I want them to be happy in life and the best thing I can do for them is model what that looks like and build a safety net for them. It’s deep.
  • I learned how to tie a tie this morning. Keith has a new job and he has to wear a tie. He had done it himself and did a great job except the skinny piece was longer than the top piece, so I insisted on redoing it for him before he left. All these years of not knowing and it was the easiest thing ever. Thank God for Youtube. You can learn how to do anything in the entire world these days.

What are you up to today? I have a cleaning list a mile long and I am honestly excited to tackle it. The feeling of a clean house is the best feeling in the entire world.

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A New Direction

November 20, 2021

I’m reclaiming and reinventing this space. This is my writing home. I promise to write about my life and to commit myself to living the biggest, boldest, bravest life I possibly can so that the story is pretty epic.

In this crazy world of personal brands and narratives and lies, I don’t know about you, but I’m craving authenticity. I promise to bring it from here on out. I hope you’ll read along.

Welcome to the new MeeshyD. It’s going to be great.

A few random things:

-This year for Thanksgiving, I’m doing a proper tablescape for the first time ever. I have spent the last few weeks gathering my materials and I think it’s going to be epic. I’ll try to take a picture and post it here for you all.

-I’m super into Neville Goddard lately. I bought a book on Amazon that compiles all ten of his books into one and have been working my way through. It’s legit. Read it if you want to change your entire life. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

-I’m still walking in the woods and it’s my favorite thing in the entire world. I’ve started going in the mornings and I might never look back. I think I’m turning into a morning person and honestly, I’m really happy about it. Turns out, there’s something to putting your own needs first. I love it. Today I went to the grocery store in the 7am hour and it was gloriously empty. Now I know that these morning birds have been singing about all these years.

-I think I’m almost ready to get a puppy. I still miss Boomer every day, but my heart is opening more and more about adding another pup to the mix. Stay tuned.

-I’m rewatching season 18 of the Kardashians. Poor Kourtney. She was really going through it. When she said she didn’t want to be a celebrity anymore, you could really feel how deeply she was struggling. Also: the fight between her and Kim was epic. They were really slapping each other. I can’t believe they flew to Armenia together a week later. I’d need more time and space from my sister after a fight like that, even if we were flying private.

-Today is the start of Sagitarrius season and I feel it in my bones. I really feel like I’m coming into my own as a person as I look to kick off my 36th year, like I’ve finally dealt with my past and I know what I want out of life and I know that it will happen for me. It’s been a journey to get here, but I’m honestly just getting started. Can’t wait to see what this next year brings. It’s looking promising.

-I bought this pillbox on Amazon and I love it. Makes me feel much chicer than my old CVS eyesore that constantly popped open in my purse, spilling my pills everywhere. Yay for good design!

-I’m in the market for a shacket. Do you have one you recommend?

What’s new with you? I want to know one thing you bought recently that you love.

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