And Just Like That, I Got Busy
Leave it to me to make a 12-credit schedule feel like a 20-credit schedule. I feel like the busyness dial went from 1 to 100 in the past week, but I cannot complain. I don’t have that much time to...
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How ’bout them Patriots!? If we’re being 100% honest, I left to study anatomy after Lady Gaga’s (EPIC) halftime show. #WorstBostonian. Megan and I got live updates via our screaming neighbors though....
View ArticleI’m Happier Without Instagram
SNOW DAY!!! It’s been two years since our last snow day here at BU. The last time this happened, we were experiencing snowpocalypse and had 5 snow days on almost every Monday of the week from...
View ArticleBig Kids in the Big City
I just finished one of the best smoothie bowls I’ve ever made! How I made it: Last night I mixed together 1/3 c. milk, 1/4 c. Greek yogurt, 1/4 c. [dry] quick cooking steel cut oats, 1 tbsp. chia seeds...
View ArticleAmerican Version of Ireland
It’s 12:15am and I’m eating frozen bananas while standing in front of my radiator. But I wanted to blog! My brain can only organize things into an incoherent list right now though, so that’s what we’ll...
View ArticleDay in the Life {Second Semester Junior}
I’ve attempted to write a day in the life post for this semester maybe three times already. I’ll start taking photos of everything and making mental notes about what I’m doing throughout the day, but...
View ArticleGood News, Bad News
What a week! As the title suggests, things have been an ever-exciting cocktail of highs and lows. Life is a rickety wooden roller coaster, but fortunately, those are my favorite kinds of rides. Also,...
View ArticleWhen You’re Feeling Off + Life Lately
It’s finally warm! Thank the Lord. It got up to a steamy 76*F on Tuesday! HI. It’s been pretty quiet on Moves and Grooves lately, but it’s been a busy and weird couple of weeks. The weirdness was...
View ArticleAlleluia!
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Oh mannnnnn. Easter just gets better every year — more meaningful, more beautiful, more joyful — because “God is infinitely interesting,” as Fr. Barnes once said! It’s...
View ArticleMarathon Monday 2017
PJ: “Marathon Monday is the most American day of the year.” Me: “Even more so than Fourth of July?” PJ: “Definitely.” After this year, I can actually believe him. Marathon Monday, aka Patriot’s Day...
View ArticleSummer’s Coming
It’s been forever and a half since I thought out loud with the lovely Amanda! what’s thinking out loud? 1) I am never not surprised that it’s almost May. What the heck!? 2) Last week was the “Easter...
View ArticleEarly to Bed, Early to Rise
I got up before 6 am two days in a row, and got up before 8 on a SUNDAY. Unlike most people in the healthy living blog world, I am usually a total night owl (for no good reason except that I’m a...
View ArticleFinals Week: Brought To You in Part By Bread
Ohhhhh we’re halfway there. WHO-OA bread is everywhe-ere. I’m halfway through finals week, but since I don’t have any exams until Thursday (plus a research paper due tomorrow), I’m feel like I’m on...
View ArticleWeekend Confessions
Confession #1: I’m currently blasting Ariana Grande’s “Right There” and belting it in my apartment (you know I’m rapping Big Sean’s part too), because Megan moved out and I’m alone. Confession #2: I...
View ArticleBittersweet
What is your record number of times you’ve moved within one year? By the end of the summer I think I’ll be at 7. College student, ya know…c’est la vie. This past week has been a bittersweet whirlwind...
View ArticleThe Great and Small Things I Learned This Semester {Junior II}
I needed to use both handrails to get up the stairs yesterday. That squat-burpee ladder workout (originally from Peanut Butter Runner by the way!) I did on Monday? Annihilated my legs. I have not been...
View ArticleHi, Summer!
What time is it!? {Summer time! It’s our vacaaaation!} [source] I told you I’ve been listening to High School Musical. Technically, my summer vacation started two weeks ago, but I haven’t really talked...
View ArticleA Single Lady’s Birthday
Putcha hands up! [source] I had a wonderful single lady’s birthday yesterday! Not just in the sense that I don’t have a boyfriend, but 99% of my day was spent with just me, myself and I. But thanks to...
View ArticleGentler Moves and Grooves
Yesterday was a very blue Tuesday! Not because it was a sad day, but because the color blue popped up a lot. Breakfast was the last of my Fage Greek yogurt (the BEST – thanks, Madre!) with blueberries,...
View ArticleThe Most Ice Cream I’ve Ever Consumed
This post is not about “health.” It is about L I V I N G though. More on that in a bit. I’m back in Boston! I packed up my bags and took a train from New York to Boston on Wednesday afternoon. First, I...
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