4/28/26 - Some Life Updates

- One of my best friends is getting married on Saturday 😱 I'm going over to help him zest 300 lemons tomorrow, as he's making all the cocktails from scratch (besides the booze) - he crazy 💕

- On Sunday, celebrated a friend's bday party with a potluck at her and her partner's house. It was me, the bday friend, the bday friend's partner (also a friend), two friends I haven't seen in a while, and a bunch of the bday friends' coworkers. I was a bit nervous about meeting new people, but they turned out to be lovely human beans. We enjoyed the nice spring day, did a vegan cookout, made a vegan orange olive oil cake for the bday friend (her favorite dessert), and played this Donkey-Konga-kinda game on their Switch, and I made smoothies.

- Yesterday, I was feeling a bit stagnant, and I decided to go to a west-coast swing dancing class. I was having a real hard time getting myself out the door, so I did an exposure-therapy-type approach - I told myself that all I was going to do was drive there, walk to the front door of the bar where it was happening, and then come home. Once I got there, I got curious and went in, and when I saw that it was a bunch of nice-seeming people, I did the class. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I exchanged numbers with someone who goes to a lot of dancing things - I'm gonna text her on nights when I don't have anything planned to see if there's another class that I could go to. Hooray for not isolating so much at home! 😋

- The weather's been so so lovely recently. It's the final bit of cool spring before summer murders me. Lots of driving with the windows down, taking deep breaths, and savoring it as much as I am able to :)

- Some new music listens: Rob Aurajo's Nakama, Tiny Moving Parts' Deep In the Blue, and Butcher Brown's Letters From the Atlantic