daily diary – MeeshyD

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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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.

Image via.

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Day 1

August 28, 2021

Hello! I’m back and it’s for real this time.

As I journey through my life, the thing I come back to over and over and over again is that I want to blog. I want to have a space online where I can share my life and my thoughts. Why is it so hard to accept this truth of what I want so badly? It’s not even that big of a life dream, to write a blog. Why do I run away from the very thing I want more than anything?

It’s fear. I’m afraid that I’ll say the wrong thing and offend someone. I truly fear hurting people with my words, with my truth. What if I inadvertently say something to harm someone and I end up a mockery? This fear stopped me for a long time. Now? I still have it, but I’m pushing through it. I realized that I am most certainly going to do something to offend someone if I share my truth. I promise to keep an open heart and apologize when I make mistakes, but I’m giving up the need to be perfect before I share. It’s not possible, so I’m doing my best to let it go.

I’m also afraid that it will actually work. Perhaps that’s the scariest fear of all? What if I actually DO reach people with my words, by sharing my truth? Will I crumble under the pressure of that? Will achieving this thing I say I want so badly actually be something I find fulfilling? It feels safer to want it from afar because then I can find comfort in the thing I want but don’t have, instead of doing the work and finding out what’s on the other side of it.

Now that I recognize this fear, I can look it in the face and laugh at it. That’s not the way I want to play out my life, holding myself apart from the thing I actually want for fear that I might not like it. If that happens, I’ll collect myself and move on. Onward and upward. I’ve decided I want a big life. I don’t want to stand on the sidelines of my own dreams. So, I’m throwing myself into the fray and trying. I’m doing it! I’m a blogger and a writer, today and always until such time I decide to change my mind!

I think that’s the best way to approach these roles we put on in this life. Just tell yourself: I’ll do this until I don’t want to anymore, but I’ll never back down from taking on a role I find compelling out of fear.

So, here I am. I’m committed to writing in this space every.single.day. and sharing my life. My hopes, my dreams, my NUMEROUS projects, my mundane day-to-day. I hope my writing will reach other women out there in the world who want to connect with women who are ready to set their lives on fire, to live out their dreams, whatever shape they take. The building of who we are meant to be happens in the liminal moments of the day-to-day. We build ourselves brick by brick. Welcome to my construction project!

I really want to commit to writing every day for the rest of my life, but I’m starting small. I VOW to write here and repost on my social media every day for the next thirty days. Then, I’ll reassess and hopefully sign up for another month, on and on for the rest of my life. 🙂

My hope is to post in the morning with a little recap of the day prior or whatever is on my mind in the moment. I truly don’t know what’s going to come out! That’s the fun of it.

Day 1

Last night, I went to the Oakland A’s game with Keith’s mom Von and her bestie Patty and Patty’s sister. I know, I’m really going to write about a baseball game on my first day back writing! Could I be any more basic?

But, look at that photo, friends. It was the most perfect Summer evening. The temperature was just right. Our seats were awesome. We were all together watching the Yankees absolutely spank the A’s. Patty and her sister are Yankee fans so they were losing their minds. We ate sub sandwiches and talked and it was just beautiful in the most commonplace way. These moments are truly the nectar of it all, don’t you think?

I also took this selfie with Von.

I didn’t like it, so I put a filter on it and then I liked it more.

And that sort of freaked me out because I realized that I am photoshopping my own self. We got the power back from the media to tell our own stories and then with all this power of self-expression, we’ve emulated their tactics and started to photoshop our own lives. It’s a sickness, I tell ya!

But, seriously. How cute are we?!?

See you tomorrow!

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