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  • Outdoors
  • Flagstaff
  • Travel
    • Travel
    • India (Yoga Teacher Training)
    • Peace Corps Ukraine
  • Lifestyle
    • Forestry + wildfire (my day job)
    • Yoga (my night job)
    • Our house + renovation work
    • Wedding planning
    • Our huskies
    • Sustainability
    • Books + movies + music
    • Skincare + haircare + physical self-care
    • DIY + decor
    • Odds and Ends
  • Stuff I like
  • About
    • About Randi
    • Contact
    • Professional ish (AKA: portfolio)
    • Disclosure and privacy policy

Our new home, almost three weeks in (aka: ripping things out and finding hidden dick drawings)

October 24, 2025 October 22, 2025 Randi

Well, we’re three weeks into home ownership.

And so far all we’ve done is break a bunch of stuff and find a bunch of dicks drawn in our walls.

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We got older, (When We Were Young)… A weekend in Las Vegas for WWWY festival featuring Panic! At The Disco & Blink-182 (among many more)

October 20, 2025 October 20, 2025 Randi

I finally got to make my much-anticipated return to the annual When We Were Young music festival in Vegas after a two-year hiatus.

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Meet our new house (aka: Step into the 1980s with us and see our “before” photos!)

October 17, 2025 October 15, 2025 Randi

Well, we’re less than two weeks into home ownership and our house is already chaos. We’ve been ripping walls out, adding walls in, scraping down popcorn ceilings, rewiring, tossing appliances and cabinets to the curb and undoing several of the “aesthetic” choices our home’s previous owners made.

I wanted to share a few of our house’s “before” photos (the few I was able to take before Ryan just went straight for the walls with a hammer) so you can see what we’re working with.

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Hello, homeownership! WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

October 7, 2025 December 19, 2025 Randi

Ryan and I are homeowners!

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September odds and ends: Thrifting, 2000s night and brown butter honey pistachio cookies

October 3, 2025 October 2, 2025 Randi

9/12.

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What I read: September 2025

October 1, 2025 September 28, 2025 Randi

It’s been an unusually rainy and stormy late summer, but I’m not mad about it because it’s been perfect reading weather.

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Introducing… our wedding venue!

September 12, 2025 September 1, 2025 Randi

So it turns out all that (air quotes here) “wedding planning” I’ve been doing for the past several months is actually coming to fruition.

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RIP Pela Lomi composter… and hello to our latest at-home trash shenanigans

September 8, 2025 September 1, 2025 Randi

Well, the great Pela Lomi composter experiment has come to an end.

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August odds and ends: A surprise proposal (not mine!), chickpea shawarma dip and house hunting (!!!)

September 5, 2025 September 5, 2025 Randi

8/12.

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What I read: August 2025

September 1, 2025 August 30, 2025 Randi

August was (no surprise) a busy month, but I found time for a few books.

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Randi with an i

Randi M. Shaffer

Hi! I'm Randi. I spend my days working in forestry and wildfire, my nights instructing yoga and my weekends exploring northern Arizona (and beyond). I'm a former journalist, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a Midwest native. Welcome!

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