Weekly Series

Sunday Summary #23: What’s on the Internet

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016TrishLeave a comment

Articles

1| Blasphemy can be a good thing! The former Archbishop of Canterbury says so, and I like his style.

2| Yikes! I’ve seen a lot of bad reviews of Batman vs. Superman, but this one is the most scathingly intelligent.

BVS is an unerring pastiche of who we are at this moment in time: scared, angry, violent, disjointed, poisoned by hiraeth (Batman keeps a Joker-defiled batsuit in a Plexiglas display case like a mad hobbyist), driven by emotion rather than logic, by ideologies rather than reason. It’s polarized, xenophobic, hyper-sexualized, hyper-desensitized, and, in the final analysis, more than a little psychotic.

Videos

1| Two bros test girl products, and watching them try to figure out how tampons work is SUPER ADORABLE. Boys take notes.

2| Because I spent one hour of my life watching Seth Meyers perform in person, I am inappropriately proud of the fact that he’s now a father!

Letters Between Friends: SPRING BREAK

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016TrishLeave a comment

Okay, I either misread my Greece Scavenger Hunt OR I am wrong about what kind of tree I found. We’ll count this as half a point??

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Dear Tricia,

How come when we take Spring Break it’s not really spring break at all?!

I’m supposed to be sleeping in and the girls and I are supposed to be watching movies all day being LAZY and do NOTHING! But, HANDS DOWN, this is one of the busiest weeks so far this spring!!!!

The weather here is on the brink of nice. As you enjoy your 70 degree days (you suck), our weather is like…(And I can hear it talking), “Oh, you like this, well I’m going to pour down rain so as soon as you get your daughter in clothes to go outside, I’m going to sprinkle and make all the equipment wet and muddy! HA Ha HAA!” Continue reading →

Workout Week #13

March 27, 2016April 10, 2016TrishLeave a comment

THIS WEEK’S GOAL:
Workout 20 minutes at least 4 times this week.

GOAL MET!!

Workout Note

I did it! Mostly because I now have real workout shoes (aka sneakers aka an item I haven’t bought in at least five years)! And because I found Ashley Horner’s Full-Body Circuit Workout on Pinterest. As I’ve mentioned numerous times before, the thing most likely to kill my workout drive is BOREDOM so finding new combinations of exercises is key to keeping me interested. I’ve been combining one day (around 10 minutes) with a 10-minute cardio workout on my Sworkit app, and by the end I am SWEATING. More than other weeks, so I think this is a good combination.

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I made sure to get my four workouts in early this week because I spent the weekend at a conference…and unexpectedly walked over 10,000 steps both Friday and Saturday!

Food Notes

That conference I mentioned? Had € 18 buffets for every meal, free with our room, and I was NOT ABOUT TO WASTE THAT OPPORTUNITY. What I mean is, I ate a lot. But before that, I was really good all week about keeping track of calories…and therefore eating a meal of one apple + two pieces of chocolate cake. I blame PMS and also this article about how it doesn’t really matter what you eat so long as you restrict calories. I don’t super believe that, but for one glorious night I went along with the idea.

Tomorrow it’s back to healthier habits.

NEXT WEEK’S GOAL:
Workout 20 minutes at least 5 times this week.

Sunday Summary #22: What’s on the Internet

March 27, 2016March 25, 2016TrishLeave a comment

Happy Easter to those in the States! Happy regular Sunday to those in Greece! Happy Whatever Today Is to everyone else!

Articles

1| These 11 Cocktails for Crazy Cat Ladies would be perfect for a cat-themed party!

2| A list of things book lovers think on the regular.

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Videos

It’s Easter in the States, so what better time to watch this old video of Stephen Colbert dancing and singing to “King of Glory” during, I assume, his time as a Sunday School teacher.

Letters Between Friends: HOW A DAYDREAMER LEARNS GREEK

March 24, 2016TrishLeave a comment

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Head over to Wild Ginger Blog to read my letter to Lindsay about the super fancy resort I’m visiting this weekend!

Sunday Summary #21: What’s on the Internet

March 20, 2016March 19, 2016TrishLeave a comment

Articles

1| Reading Between the Texts are conversations between Katie and her friends as they try to decipher texts with guys…and the results are shockingly accurate and painfully hilarious. (p.s. it’s a series!)

K: Why don’t you just keep his number so that you can choose not to respond when you see that the text is from him?
B: Impossible. If I have his number in my phone, I WILL do something terrible. Like, for instance, text him at 2 a.m. to ask him if he thinks I’m pretty.
K: … Maybe it’s just better if you don’t have a phone. Maybe we could get you a carrier pigeon.
B: I feel like I’d probably just end up training it to go coo outside his window when I’m drunk.

Videos

1| Emma Watson beat-boxes while Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyles about gender quality. What a gift from God.

A Week in Greece #10: New Friends, Clean Monday, and My 28th Birthday!

March 19, 2016July 11, 2016Trish1 Comment

My Greek classes downtown are over, the friends I made there have scattered to other cities and countries, and my visitors are all gone. This week has felt a little like starting over again, settling into a life in Pikermi. I’m making friends, but (especially at the beginning of the week) I was kind of mad about it? Mad that I have to start over, even though everyone I’m hanging out with is lovely. I could go into a lot of detail about the emotional side of all this, but…that would take up an entire blog post, and that’s not what A Week in Greece is for!

Last Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Argyris called and said, “This is not a drill! I will pick you up in fifty minutes!”

“Okay??” I said, glancing down at the pajamas I had already changed into. I hurried to look like a human being again, then met Argyris, Dina, and Mark in the parking lot. We picked up Erik along the way, but Argyris refused to tell us where we were going, only that it was a late birthday present for Dina. We wound up going to an old Oriental Express train that’s been converted into a restaurant. A live band played jazz versions of old movie songs, and it was really lovely.

On Sunday, Dina and Argyris went away, so Mark took me to church with some other girls from the school. It was nice to get to know them a little better, and then we all went out for burgers after the service. I shouldn’t have eaten one, because at 2:00 I went to Anthi’s house to meet her friends and eat a feast prepared by her chef mother. Next weekend I’m going to a conference retreat with all these girls, so Anthi thought it’d be good for me to meet them before we go.

On Monday, Continue reading →

Letters Between Friends: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING

March 17, 2016March 17, 2016Trish1 Comment

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Dear Sweet and wonderful and ONE YEAR OLDER (Tomorrow) Tricia!

Happy-Birthday-Darling

I want to fill this letter with so many wonderful things…that you would enjoy on your birthday (tomorrow)! So here is my attempt…

PICTURE #1

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Photo creds to your mom. She helped me with this one. Your cat misses you, but because cats are so intelligent, he knows how important it is that you are there, so he completely understands. He sits on the piano bench and only leaves to eat, drink, and use the litter box. He’s doing great.

PICTURE #2 Continue reading →