A Love List for Monday
Good Morning!
I hope you had a beautiful weekend. My sister and I spent the entire weekend treating my mom like the queen she is! After not seeing her for so long due to the pandemic it was nice being altogether again!
Today’s love list is all about the simple things to love on an early Monday morning!
I Love Stupid O’Clock Wake Up Calls
People call me insane for waking up so early but I’m up at 4:45am to start my day every weekday. I am not a morning person. I am an utter zombie in the morning. If I could I’d sleep all day and stay up all night I would do just that. But there are benefits to dragging my butt out of bed at stupid o’clock. For one thing I like getting all my blog posts done early in the morning. Another thing I love about early morning wake up calls is not having to rush. I can get my workout in, do my morning tasks, and take a long hot shower without rushing around like a chicken without a head! So, yeah, waking up early in the morning makes my love list even as a non-morning person.
Smartly Summertime Shaving Foam
Just a buck (well, a buck nineteen) and oh so awesome. I’m obsessed with the happy, citrus scent of anything in the Summertime range from Smartly! The shaving cream is thick, rich, and a great budget pick for shaving legs.
Makeup Revolution Conceal & Hydrate Foundation
I feel like I’ve spent so much of life changing and switching up foundations but I’ve finally settled on the fact that I really love Makeup Revolution Conceal & Hydrate Foundation. It’s light, it’s creamy, it brightens my complexion, it’s perfect and I realized I can just stick with it and have great coverage everyday versus always trying something new.
Exercise
I seriously groaned and moaned and whine all the way to the basement this morning to hop on the treadmill. It’s raining out so I couldn’t do my normal two mile power walk outside. The combination of too much weekend, rain, and wanting to sleep a little while longer made it hard to hop on the treadmill this morning but I did it and I’m happy I did because I felt so much better for it not to mention it woke me up (especially the steep uphill at the end)! Sometimes we gotta do things we don’t want to but really should because we know they’ll make us feel great.
Brown Cow Maple Yogurt
I’m not a breakfast person but this morning I wanted to have something in my tummy before heading to a meeting (Yeah, a real live meeting! I posted about the scariness of that on Instagram if you wanna have a read). Brown Cow makes the best yogurt in the world. So creamy!
My Boyfriend
For pumping me up today and reminding me he can’t always be there for me to hide behind! I was really worried about having my first in person meeting in over a year today but he was there to hold me this morning and tell me it’ll be fine and I’ll do great and I’m not going to die simply by meeting someone in person! When it’s time for him to head back to campus I’m not really sure how I’m going to handle it. As some of you know he works in Cupertino and travels back and fourth but this past year and a half he’s been working from home. It’s a novelty having him home!
I hope whatever you have to do today you do it with a brave face and plenty of confidence.
I know you got this and so do I.
I have hopes you’ll have a great, productive Monday.
Be well, be a good human, wear your sunscreen, and drink plenty of water (your skin will thank you for it)!
And if you have time go ahead and share your Monday love list.