Well, I’m three weeks into my new temporary gig on the Tahoe National Forest…
…and I’m alive!
I’m also back in Arizona for the next few weeks.
I’m working remotely from Flagstaff until my longer-term rental in California is available, and I wanted to take a second to catch my breath and share a few highlights from my first few weeks on the Tahoe.
Wheeeew. After a bit of a drive (and a stop at Yosemite National Park!) I made it to my new home on the Tahoe National Forest earlier this week!
Well, the last few weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind!
Between moving to a new apartment and hosting friends and preparing to relocate for my new work assignment (which, oh hey! By the way! Relocating for a new work assignment — more on that later!) I feel like I’ve been moving nonstop for the last several weeks.
Luckily I had a chance to take a “break” (is it really a “break” if it involves hiking multiple miles?) and check out Yosemite National Park this past weekend.
I only had a few hours to explore, but it was still totally worth it.
I am one more year into my thirties, and I gotta say: I don’t hate it!
Update your address books! We moved!
The boxes are packed, the trucks are loaded and I’m completely moved out of my first Flagstaff apartment.
I kind of teased it a little bit way way back, but I snapped a few photos of my unit right before I moved out and I wanted to share them, because as much as I hated my leasing office and property management group, I did love the way I decorated this cookie cutter unit and made it totally my own.
I’d been trying to get ALL of my friends together for a weekend camping trip for months now (before I was rudely interrupted by fire season), and it finally happened!
Several of my local Flag friends and I spent this past weekend camping at Ashurst Lake.
Yukon had his first National Park adventure this past weekend!
I’m kind of on a mission to stay at every campground on my forest.
I mean, it makes sense. I want to know as much about my forest (the Coconino National Forest) as possible, and that means… visiting as much of my forest as possible.
When I first started, my boss was cool enough to take me on field trips across the forest, which was dope! But, given that I have weekends? Cue the camping trips!
This past weekend’s trip? Manzanita.
Hi! It’s been a hot second since I shared my skincare routine.
By hot second, I mean almost five years, which is honestly kind of a lifetime when it comes to 20s/30s skincare.
Within the past few years, I moved from Chicago to overseas (where my fancy Korean skincare products weren’t available) to Michigan (where I was unemployed for six months and not about to spend my COVID-relief checks at Sephora) to northern Arizona (desert weather!) and I’ve been switching up my skincare routine accordingly.
I figured it was due time for an update — especially now that I’m living in an entirely new climate.
