RTT got a bit bloated this week, so I am breaking it into two posts! Today’s is beauty, travel, and random categories, tomorrow’s is fitness, physical health, and mental health categories.
- Mani update from last week!
- Both of the German friends I’m meeting up with on our Europe trip have said their kids really want to meet me, and I am absolutely honored! How sweet that a child thinks I would be a fun hang. Not sure that is accurate, but very sweet (and I’d love to meet them!).
- I’m getting my balayage updated today! Since I’m such a n00b I had no idea what to book and booked the whole process then realized I only need something called a “single process” for touchups. Always learning. Sometimes retaining.
- I didn’t realize the tumbler I got at the WWM holiday party was a knockoff Stanley. I didn’t even know Stanleys were a thing until I’d had it for a few weeks! Then I kind of felt like a weird poser having one, and didn’t want people to think I was someone who had to have a Stanley (I have legit been using the same style of Rubbermaid water bottle for YEARS until I got this) but I really like using it. So whatever. And feeling weird didn’t stop me from getting a cute nameplate for mine when I saw the other ladies at the gym do it! Much better than the washi tape I’d put on the handle to distinguish mine.
- My brain no worky. I asked for new towels for Christmas and received them, then realized I didn’t ask for enough, so ordered more, then realized I didn’t ask for bath mats, then ordered those, then washed the ones new ones I had and went to put them in the bathroom and realized the color only goes with one of our bathrooms and I need to order a different color for the other one. So I have to exchange a lot of what I ordered. Oops.
- Also, I had to call and rework some of our Europe flights and got confused and messed up one of them and now we are stuck with a four hour layover (I wanted a shorter one) because I was confused on the phone. It costs $1000 each to shorten the layover by 1.5 hours. No thanks.
- I am absolutely loving Nathan Hill’s book Wellness but did not realize it’s sooooooooooo long! Over 600 pages! It’s taking me forever to read! My loan expired and I had to turn off the wifi on my Kindle to keep going. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Gotta love it when a week is so action packed that it’s bigger than one blog post.
– I approve of your knockoff Stanley cup and your cute name tag – for the reason that you love it! There are people who follow trends and people who start them, and I think that you can claim “using a water bottle that was given to me that I love” as starting a trend.
– Oh brains. Sometimes they work and sometimes they are comical.
– There’s no shame in the “turn off the wifi on your Kindle” game.
Looking forward to part 2!
Aww, thank you for your approval and reframing. That’s exactly what it is so I appreciate your POV!
Mine is mostly comical lately. Ha!
Ha! Thanks for the validation! I am almost done reading it! I am hurrying!!!!!!!!!!!
Amber was telling me about your flight issues! Ugh, so annoying.
I really want a Stanley, lol. I like the fact that they have a handle AND I can get an adorable nameplate for it?!?! Dang. Must buy.
Gah. She was so so helpful, too. Then I messed up. She is probably over there like “SMH” (jk, she is great and would never SHH at me).
OOOO! Did you get one?!
I actually don’t mind a 4-hour layover. Is that controversial? I feel like it leaves time for inevitable delays, especially when traveling internationally. Look at it as a way to be able to be super flexible when you’re traveling!
I love that perspective! Thank you! It gives us plenty of time to explore the Frankfurt airport or just sit and chill!
I completely agree with NGS. Better to have a longer layover (albeit a later arrival time) than to be trying to race through the Frankfurt airport, go through customs/passport control (did you get your visas?), and make the next flight. You’ll be able to breathe, hopefully eat some real food, and (if all goes well) make the next flight without issues.
I don’t want or need a Stanley or a knock-off, but will fully support your use of such. 😉
Yeah, I think it will turn out for the better! I don’t think I need a visa for the duration of our trip!
Ha, thanks!