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.
Well guys, I did it. I survived my first wildfire season here in the southwest, working as a Public Information Officer on a National Forest in Arizona.
It was a bit busy.
