March Coffee Date

We’re already coming to the top of March which suggests…

A) SUMMER IS SO CLOSE I CAN LITERALLY TASTE IT!!!

B) It’s been a minute! We ought to catch up! Coffee Date fashion.

Spring drinks of selection have been mango kale smoothies (I’m hopping again on the practice!), iced crafted press-es from Caribou, inexperienced tea lemonades, and iced royal tea lattes from Sencha however let’s be sincere, that by no means modifications. I even had a rogue WATERMELON juice the opposite day that was so good and so summery it nearly made me cry.

But at the moment, for this “coffee date,” I’m really ingesting an enormous ol jug of minty cucumber water! Um, yeah. It’s taking my total life up a couple of notches. More on that in a second.

Let’s chat about March.

I Switched To Beautycounter And I Wasn’t SUper Impressed.

SAY WHAT? I do know. Call me loopy, however particularly for the skincare, I don’t assume I might spend the cash once more. I simply didn’t love the merchandise sufficient to justify the additional value, particularly once I really feel like I can discover different clear skincare alternate options that work simply as properly at extra of a drugstore-level worth. The lotion by no means actually hydrated my face and the cleansers didn’t really feel like something particular to me.

The excellent news is that even when my Beautycounter skincare spree was sort of a bust, I’ve discovered loads of clear magnificence merchandise over the previous few years that I can strongly suggest:

• Burt’s Bees Sensitive Face Wash – Clean, simple to seek out, and inexpensive.
• Burt’s Bees Milk and Honey Body Lotion – Ditto.
• 100% Pure Potent PM Serum
• 100% Pure Fruit Pigmented 2nd Skin Foundation – Okay, I LOVE THIS STUFF. I solely lately began sporting basis in the previous few years and it has been a game-changer. This one is so light-weight and it feels so significantly better and extra pure than anything I’ve tried. I take advantage of Shade 4.
• 100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Long Last Concealer in Peach Bisque
• 100% Pure Long Last Brows in Blonde
• 100% Pure Creamy Long Last Liner in Blackest
• 100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Pretty Naked II Palette
• Pacifica Mascara – Annoying, as a result of I might have actually most well-liked to maintain all of it within the 100% Pure household, however the 100% Pure mascara stung in my eyes.
• Beautycounter Mattifying Powder – LOVE as a result of I’ve very oily pores and skin.
• Beautycounter Bronzer

Also value mentioning that final yr I used the Vintner’s Daughter Active Botanical Serum as my night-time moisturizer and I actually appreciated it. If you need a skincare splurge and also you’re into oils, it’s luxurious and wonderful.

Okay, are you a clear make-up / skincare fanatic? What are your favourite merchandise? Does anybody have a great clear shampoo suggestion? That’s one I haven’t discovered but.

Also, inform me what you concentrate on Beautycounter. Are you a fan? I like their different stuff (listed above), and if I didn’t thoughts dropping $50 each month, I might completely purchase their lemon sugar scrub on the common. It was simply the skincare that wasn’t proper for me.

1A. Eyelash Extension Update

I didn’t maintain them up. They’re gone. Too costly. Too time-consuming. Very fairly, however not value it for me. End of story.

I Need To Drink More Water.

Like, we most likely all do. So I’m attempting a couple of hacks.

1. Adding mint, cucumber, lemon, and different yummies to my water every day. Kind of apparent, however for me it’s a great place to begin.
2. Drinking out of a peppy 20 ounce tumbler with a straw. Just extra nice, IMHO.
3. Only refilling once I’m completed with my current water so I can observe how a lot I’m really ingesting.

My aim is three of these guys per day (plus further water from juice, espresso, soups, fruit/veg, and so on.), which most likely isn’t all that lofty of a aim, however to me it feels sort of epic.

Anyone received another get-yourself-to-drink-more-water-hacks that I ought to find out about?

Bullet Journal Is Life.

I’ve gone forwards and backwards and again once more on each sort of calendar on the market, and I feel the Bullet Journal has had extra endurance for me than all the opposite strategies mixed. Here’s why: it’s customizable. You could make it’s what you want / need it to be. If you want particular time slots, add particular time slots. If you want it unfastened, simply maintain it unfastened.

Here’s what mine seems to be like at the start of the week, once I put in my scheduled occasions with slightly circle and go away house for the remainder of the week to refill as wanted:

And on the finish of the week:

I take advantage of a modified model of this Bullet Journaling shortcode to maintain observe of what I’ve carried out, what must nonetheless get carried out, what I made a decision to not do, and so on. Bullet Journals are good for individuals who prefer to sort of construct their very own factor. It is mainly a next-level to-do record that’s extremely private and doubles as a calendar and/or a journal.

How do you retain your life organized? Do you employ a bodily planner / journal / calendar?

I Made Myself a Mini-Jungle-SPa In My Office And It Makes Me Feel Happy.

Chair, diffuser on facet desk, and plant cabinets over high. That’s all you have to make a jungle spa in your very own residence. This nook of my workplace is my favourite place EVER! It’s the place I sit within the morning to only sort of middle myself earlier than the day begins. Music, journal, pray, meditate, learn, keep away from e mail, all the above.

It’s additionally the place I pile the junk that I don’t know what to do with. Very useful for that.

What’s your happiest place in your house?

We Got a TV!

We didn’t have one (2009-2013), then we had one (2013-2014), then we didn’t have one once more (2014-2018), and now we’ve got one once more (2018)! This is our battle. Thank you for understanding.

What is your TV arrange? Any no-TV-ers in the home?!?!

That’s all from me!

But that’s not all from Sage.

She wish to look into your eyes and say HEY! You’re gettin’ it carried out! You’re working onerous! You’re rising above! YOU ARE AWESOME!

She would additionally such as you to know that even whenever you make errors, you may all the time attempt once more.

And she will likely be attempting once more in April.

Sage loves you guys.

Cheers to an ideal espresso (tea / latte / cucumber water) date! See you subsequent month.

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