Highs and Lows of July

High and Lows of july 2015

The beginning of July wasn’t super-exciting, but it got more interesting in the second half — at the beginning of my “vacation season!”

Highs

1) Took a trip to New York City (haven’t been there for more than 25 years!) and attended my first BlogHer blogging conference. Wrote several blogs posts about it, too (#1, #2 and #3).

Got to meet two women whose blogs I read and like — in real life — and talk to them. That was fun.

It was an outstanding conference and a great experience! (But I’m glad to be back in peaceful, quiet South Carolina instead of the big city with the traffic and noise.)

2) Loved the aerial yoga class I took! It was very different, and it made me feel like I was in the circus.

3)  Am getting prepared for a European cruise with a fun-loving friend, and it should be amazing. Seven days off work will also be great.

4) My son had a couple of really cool accomplishments in grad school. (Am always a proud mom!)

5) I went to my friend Joy’s house for a day of thrift store shopping and she said she was so excited to go that she’d be waiting for me when I got there. I thought she was just kidding, but when I got to her house at 10:03, she was sitting in the driver’s seat of her car, facing out of the driveway, with the motor running — and all I had to do was hop in!

6) Bought 5 tops and one summer skirt at department stores (real stores — not thrift stores!) for an average of $12 each at great July 4th sales — and each item had originally been about $36. Many items were marked down 50 percent, then 50 percent off that price. And when I asked the clerk if she had any coupons, she gave me one for another $10 off the discount prices!

7) We’re kind of getting into the obscure highs here — but I read on Pinterest how to clean the inside of your oven door (mine looked awful and it always bugged me; had no idea you could clean it and how the food got there was a mystery to me). Got out a metal skewer, wrapped fabric around it, reached up from underneath into a slot (who knew it was there?) and cleaned the door to make it look a lot better!

Lows

1) Can’t really think of any!

Hope you had a good month!

—————————————————————————————————————————————

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.


—————————————————————————————————————————————

This entry was posted in BlogHer 2015 conference, highs and lows, life and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Highs and Lows of July

  1. Carolann says:

    Sounds like a good month all is all. I’m sure that cruise will be amazing!
    Carolann recently posted…7 Of My Favorite Cleaning HacksMy Profile

  2. Pingback: Highs and Lows of January — Thoughts, Tips and TalesThoughts, Tips and Tales

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badge