Sweet beautiful people! I'm peacing out for a few days... My parents and husband heard me loud and clear on my desire to ring in my 30th birthday on a deserted beach clutching a margarita in one hand and a pile of tacos in the other, and we're off to Mexico for a long weekend. I won't actually be dragged kicking and screaming into a new decade until March 17th, but "School of Rock" premieres March 12th and the next few weeks will be really busy for Tony. So, we're celebrating early and I'm planning to either drink enough tequila this weekend that I'll still be drunk when March 17th rolls around, or pack my suitcase full of enough booze to numb the pain when my birthday inevitably arrives. I'm taking the next few days off to enjoy the time with my family, but follow me on Instagram for lots of photos of Tony working out on the beach, me eating buckets of guacamole in bikinis and my mom Purelling herself while hiding in the shade in her SPF 100+ sunshirts. I'll be back blogging regularly on Tuesday! In the meantime, here are the things that have brought me joy thus far this week...View Article
Monthly Archives: February 2016
I'm addicted to everything that's bad for me when it comes to food (I'm pretty straight-edge when it comes to everything else, but any fried, salty, cheesy, chocolately goodness that will clog my arteries is my crack.) Tony and I had a few friends over for dinner last weekend, and I decided to make something deliciously indulgent. Averie Cooks is my go-to blog for dessert, and I trolled her recipes until I found one that made my heart and stomach sing: Fudgy Nutella brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting. She was kind enough to let me share the recipe here, and I guarantee your money back if you do not dream about it. (*This is an easy guarantee to make, since you're reading this blog for free! But no joke, these brownies will haunt your dreams in the most magical way.) I'll leave you with this: Our lactose-intolerant friend, who peeled the cheese off his pizza at this very same dinner party, ate THREE and took a container to go. BON APPETIT LOVERS!View Article
My sweet, sweet husband got me this dress for Christmas AND photographed me in it with the new iPhone camera lenses he got me for Valentine's Day. It's made of a super soft and stretchy T-shirt material, and is comfy enough to sleep in. (*Full disclosure: I drank so much champagne on Valentine's Day, I think I did sleep in it. I don't remember.) It's also currently on sale for $19.99. I bought the boots at a clearance sale on a trip to Colorado almost a decade ago, and justify my hoarding by still wearing all of the stuff I hang onto. Here I am, posing awkwardly in my backyard because I love attention. I didn't wear Spanx because I like to be comfs and let it all hang out, but I'm regretting that now because I ate half a pan of brownies before we took these pics. Oh well. Sharing anyway BECAUSE I'M A REAL GIRL with a brownie belly when I'm not sucking in sosososo hard. Happy Monday!View Article
My sweet, sweet bestie Barbara King – actress, writer and Mom of the Century – is back with the latest of her series on motherhood in Los Angeles. She wrote this rebuttal to a post I shared a few months ago about my fear of motherhood and everything that comes with it. FULL DISCLAIMER, MOM: I’M (STILL) NOT PREGNANT. I had three delicious cocktails last night, and plan to continue pretending my dogs are my children for just a little while longer. But here’s why Barbara thinks I should throw that plan out the window… Get ready to laugh AND have your heart ripped open with love and ALL THE FEELINGS.View Article
Things I have done today: Take a workout class while it was still dark outside that had me grunting like a bear in labor/dying. Attend a nutrition seminar and learn that all the things I like to eat are bad for me (I knew this already, so I don't know why I subjected myself to it). Eat more leftover brownies from our Valentine's Day weekend binge. Chase my dogs around trying to get them to snuggle me. Troll the internet. Here is my favorite of what I found on the worldwide web this week... HAPPY HUMP DAY!View Article
This weekend, Tony and I celebrated our first Valentine's Day as a married couple! (One of the many fun aspects of being a newlywed is you get to call every mundane thing a "first," annoying EVERYONE). Since it fell on a long weekend, we decided to drag the celebration out over three days. To us, the word "celebrate" means eating too much in sweatpants, which is exactly how we rocked our 3-day-V-Day... I'm keeping it going, inhaling a leftover brownie as I write this. And because Tony is the most romantic person I've ever met, he woke me up with a gift every morning. In general, I think taking Valentine's Day too seriously is silly; trying to make it the most ROMANTIC.DAY.EVER. puts too much pressure on everyone. But, I like any excuse to focus on love, whatever that means to you - and to us, it meant low-key time spent together with our dogs and friends, eating and laughing.View Article
HAPPY HEART DAY LONG WEEKEND, LOVERS! I'm so excited for a 3-day bender of sleeping, eating and time with the hubs and our besties. We've packed our weekend with the best things in life: I'm hiking and brunching with an old friend I haven't seen since our wedding, we're catching "Zoolander 2" on a triple date, having friends over for a pizza night so we can hear all about the honeymoon they just got home from, and hosting a Valentine's Day double date. We're grilling out and cooking dinner at home in our fanciest sweats, then parking ourselves in front of the TV to catch the mid-season premiere of "The Walking Dead." Here's what I'm grateful for right now, in this unseasonably warm February week in LA LA Land...View Article