Hiiiii, thanks for this fun update, that really does look like a great weekend! My weekend was so good too!! I have been recovering from a pretty bad gut virus the past weeks with very low energy levels (got food poisoning on holiday), but this weekend I finally felt human again 😁 I even went for a run and lemme tell ya... that's my happy place. Became a runner during the first months of the pandemic and it has been a huuuuge stress outlet for me. It brings me an indescribable amount of joy to be out running in the woods. So when I went running this weekend, I had a massive dopamine rush and overwhelming feeling of "yes, I've got my health back!". It made me realise how incredibly important good health is and how grateful I am to have it.
The rest of the weekend I have pretty much just been cuddling my 1yr old niece. She's my little sunshine and we're besties.
Hope you're feeling healthy too! Have a great week!
irene ! ugh, love amsterdam, and the thought of you running around ams all happy makes ME all happy. i've been wanting (not yet trying) to get into running -- it seems so peaceful. give your niece a squeeze for me!
Hey hey Taryn, I’m part of the pretty recent followers, but I really like your honest and raw texts! I just wanted to share a little something, I’m French and am from the south west of France, really close to the Pyrenees. I just finished my bachelor and found a great internship in the communication of a feminist organisation in Paris (Paris!!). I’m here for 6months, and as much as I love the city life and all the adventures I have here, I struggle to find inner peace as I wish I could visit my family and cats on weekends or more often. Trains are terribly expensive and I only have weekends free, so I don’t think it’s worth it. I just wanted to share this little inner struggle I have right now, between my pure joy of being in Paris in a dream internship, but missing family and quarantine “life” when everything was slower.
maite!! gorgeous name, and nice to meet you! completely understand where you're coming from, and holy cow - PARIS. that really is the dream! so much of successfully maturing is learning how to manage your time and what to prioritize. everything has tradeoffs but it sounds like you're looking at it from a really healthy view. right now, it's time to focus on dream job and when you are able to carve out time, you'll prioritize seeing family and your cat :) you got this. it's all in seasons. enjoy this one!
I totally get where you are right now. I'm kinda at the same point right now. But we gotta have to hang in there buddy... What actually works great for me is to go out and just explore some parks and wander around the city. It takes your mind off things and you can actually enjoy your surroundings an maybe even get to know some new people :)
Thanks for the comment. I know it’s mostly a phase, my mood fluctuated often as life is never linear I guess! But nature and meeting people is for sure a good remedy ;)
Really loving all of the newsletters - I feel like I relate to them a lot!
This weekend I went to look at a wedding venue with the love of my life, Rosie. It was amazing - there was a huge fig tree with fairy lights through it (I’m a sucker for fairy lights!).
We walked around the venue for about an hour, hand in hand, just dreaming about the day. I’m so excited that gets me and I get her and we just work.
I've been following you for some time and you kinda got me inspired to write my own stuff. At first I was wary if this would be something I could do because I'm a visual Person and not that much of a writer but a friend encouraged me to just go for it and told me he will read everything that I Wil write in the future. So I went for it and he is kinda my motivation to actually keep going because he nudges me sometimes to write something hahah...
Anyway, my weekend was kinda uff... let's describe it this way: uff, meehh, uii, big whoaahhh. That sums it up. I moved away for University and I'm living in a Big city and I'm from the country side where there are fields all around you so that's a big whoaaaa. Everything is so loud an noisy and there are soooo many people, who have different lifes than me that you don't know and it's all a big whoaaa! I've been here for a week now and this week was tough. There was a lot of crying, feeling like I don't belong here and a lot of guilt. This may sound weird to some of you but yeah I feel guilty for leaving. My parents have to oay my rent, my whole family miss me and I just can't figure out how to squeeze in a new job to pay for my living and actually take part in paying some of the rent because my lectures are scattered all over the day and late into the evening.... So this is all a big whoa uff and everything that comes with it and all these emotions hit me at once this weekend... I went out to the park and rode my bike up and down some hills to take breath and at least cope for a minute... So it's been a day...
Hope you are having a good day :)
Loved this little site note of you. Took my mind off some things c:
lizzy - my girl - congrats on trying to start writing, congrats on making a big move, and congrats on realizing that the only thing you can control is what you can control. take deep breaths, ride your bike - you got this.
Thank you again for this newsletter, it makes me so happy to see it pop up in my mailbox.
Your weekend sounds amazing! I enjoying mine with the company of a best dog ever, taking long walks and marathon-watching my favorite TV show. I just started at a new job today, therefore I wanted to just take it easy during last weekend.
The show is Alias and the role I took is at HR dept. I graduated less than a year ago so I thought I would get to spend more time in the middle of the woods reading novels and knitting before getting a full-time job, but this is actually good! I’ll have time to embrace my inner hermit some other time then.
This sounds like the best weekend 🥰 I also had a great one, celebrating my 25th with my closest friends and also found out I'm officially moving to Bristol (UK) where I've been wanting to move to for agesss 🥳 I just know life will be so much more and I can't wait for the new adventure! Wanted to share the excitement cause you share a lot of your life with us ☺️☺️ I love just watching you and Cam living your lives as best you can and being so happy in the process!
emily yessss. i'm so happy for you, making the move! do you know how few people actually move to places where they want to be?! it's very, very few. and you're on of the brave ones. cheers and have the best time ever.
Omg loved this, and ive been dying to tell ppl about my weekend highlight so here goes! My bro just graduated college and there's no ceremony due to covid. My mom bought my bro the full grad outfit, I put together a grad playlist and we all trekked to the oddly far away mailbox to the tune of pomp and circumstance and we are the champions, and filmed him opening up his diploma. Too fun.
Cuddled my doggos the entire weekend! (And schoolwork but I’d like to forget about that). Thanks for the non-regular emails; I get excited every time because I never know when to expect them! So the unexpected side of your emails has loads of advantages haha! Thanks a lot Taryn! Lots of love from the Netherlands xx
hi! wow it’s been a hot minute since i saw one of your newsletters come in and wow i never knew how much i missed it
my weekend was amazing, i got so spend so much time with the girl i’m currently seeing (we usually only have one date night a week if we’re lucky since we’re both busy people). we actually met 3 days in a row and even spent almost 12 hours together yesterday and it was A M A Z I N G. she said she noticed that i’m becoming more comfortable around her since we met a few months ago on a dating app and i didn’t notice it at first but then i realised that yeah, i’ve been feeling like i could be myself more around her now. it really was a good feeling to realise, especially since i haven’t felt this happy in a long long time. i can’t wait to see where life takes us especially since i’m going to be graduating from university soon and needing to be an adult (ahh!)
glad to hear that you’ve had an amazing weekend too!! have a good week ahead :-)
Hi ! I love your news letters, it kind of feels like a lil treat when they come in and I don’t expect them haha.
I have had a week, haha. My last day working retail is tomorrow, and I will be starting my new job getting experience in the field I hope to work in after I graduate. I’ve started to realize that my life is progressing a way I always wanted it to. I’ve finally transferred to a university, I’m taking steps toward my dream job, I’m dating, my friends are great, and I have solid plans to move in with my best friend (and finally out of our parents houses). While all of this is so great and I’m incredibly thankful and little me is so happy, I feel so out of control and I don’t know how to be okay with that.
Anyway, this is the first time I’ve said that (or written it, I guess) and I’m realizing maybe in my spiraling moments, it might help to remind little me where I’m at.
I hope anyone who reads this has a fantastic week/everything.
Hiiiii, thanks for this fun update, that really does look like a great weekend! My weekend was so good too!! I have been recovering from a pretty bad gut virus the past weeks with very low energy levels (got food poisoning on holiday), but this weekend I finally felt human again 😁 I even went for a run and lemme tell ya... that's my happy place. Became a runner during the first months of the pandemic and it has been a huuuuge stress outlet for me. It brings me an indescribable amount of joy to be out running in the woods. So when I went running this weekend, I had a massive dopamine rush and overwhelming feeling of "yes, I've got my health back!". It made me realise how incredibly important good health is and how grateful I am to have it.
The rest of the weekend I have pretty much just been cuddling my 1yr old niece. She's my little sunshine and we're besties.
Hope you're feeling healthy too! Have a great week!
Love from Amsterdam,
Irene
irene ! ugh, love amsterdam, and the thought of you running around ams all happy makes ME all happy. i've been wanting (not yet trying) to get into running -- it seems so peaceful. give your niece a squeeze for me!
Hey hey Taryn, I’m part of the pretty recent followers, but I really like your honest and raw texts! I just wanted to share a little something, I’m French and am from the south west of France, really close to the Pyrenees. I just finished my bachelor and found a great internship in the communication of a feminist organisation in Paris (Paris!!). I’m here for 6months, and as much as I love the city life and all the adventures I have here, I struggle to find inner peace as I wish I could visit my family and cats on weekends or more often. Trains are terribly expensive and I only have weekends free, so I don’t think it’s worth it. I just wanted to share this little inner struggle I have right now, between my pure joy of being in Paris in a dream internship, but missing family and quarantine “life” when everything was slower.
Ah! I guess it’s a balance.
Anyways, have a nice week :)
maite!! gorgeous name, and nice to meet you! completely understand where you're coming from, and holy cow - PARIS. that really is the dream! so much of successfully maturing is learning how to manage your time and what to prioritize. everything has tradeoffs but it sounds like you're looking at it from a really healthy view. right now, it's time to focus on dream job and when you are able to carve out time, you'll prioritize seeing family and your cat :) you got this. it's all in seasons. enjoy this one!
Huhu,
I totally get where you are right now. I'm kinda at the same point right now. But we gotta have to hang in there buddy... What actually works great for me is to go out and just explore some parks and wander around the city. It takes your mind off things and you can actually enjoy your surroundings an maybe even get to know some new people :)
Have a nice day :)
Thanks for the comment. I know it’s mostly a phase, my mood fluctuated often as life is never linear I guess! But nature and meeting people is for sure a good remedy ;)
Have a nice day.
Hey!
Really loving all of the newsletters - I feel like I relate to them a lot!
This weekend I went to look at a wedding venue with the love of my life, Rosie. It was amazing - there was a huge fig tree with fairy lights through it (I’m a sucker for fairy lights!).
We walked around the venue for about an hour, hand in hand, just dreaming about the day. I’m so excited that gets me and I get her and we just work.
Love from Australia,
Lauren
lauren holy COW that sounds stupidly perfect. so excited for you. when are you getting married?!
Thank you :) looking at August 2022
Hey there,
I've been following you for some time and you kinda got me inspired to write my own stuff. At first I was wary if this would be something I could do because I'm a visual Person and not that much of a writer but a friend encouraged me to just go for it and told me he will read everything that I Wil write in the future. So I went for it and he is kinda my motivation to actually keep going because he nudges me sometimes to write something hahah...
Anyway, my weekend was kinda uff... let's describe it this way: uff, meehh, uii, big whoaahhh. That sums it up. I moved away for University and I'm living in a Big city and I'm from the country side where there are fields all around you so that's a big whoaaaa. Everything is so loud an noisy and there are soooo many people, who have different lifes than me that you don't know and it's all a big whoaaa! I've been here for a week now and this week was tough. There was a lot of crying, feeling like I don't belong here and a lot of guilt. This may sound weird to some of you but yeah I feel guilty for leaving. My parents have to oay my rent, my whole family miss me and I just can't figure out how to squeeze in a new job to pay for my living and actually take part in paying some of the rent because my lectures are scattered all over the day and late into the evening.... So this is all a big whoa uff and everything that comes with it and all these emotions hit me at once this weekend... I went out to the park and rode my bike up and down some hills to take breath and at least cope for a minute... So it's been a day...
Hope you are having a good day :)
Loved this little site note of you. Took my mind off some things c:
lizzy - my girl - congrats on trying to start writing, congrats on making a big move, and congrats on realizing that the only thing you can control is what you can control. take deep breaths, ride your bike - you got this.
Thank you :)
Thank you again for this newsletter, it makes me so happy to see it pop up in my mailbox.
Your weekend sounds amazing! I enjoying mine with the company of a best dog ever, taking long walks and marathon-watching my favorite TV show. I just started at a new job today, therefore I wanted to just take it easy during last weekend.
All the best from Finland,
Hanna
Enjoyed* thanks autocorrect
HANNA FROM FINLAND. new job and favorite show?! spill the beans on one at least - what's the show, what's the job!
The show is Alias and the role I took is at HR dept. I graduated less than a year ago so I thought I would get to spend more time in the middle of the woods reading novels and knitting before getting a full-time job, but this is actually good! I’ll have time to embrace my inner hermit some other time then.
This sounds like the best weekend 🥰 I also had a great one, celebrating my 25th with my closest friends and also found out I'm officially moving to Bristol (UK) where I've been wanting to move to for agesss 🥳 I just know life will be so much more and I can't wait for the new adventure! Wanted to share the excitement cause you share a lot of your life with us ☺️☺️ I love just watching you and Cam living your lives as best you can and being so happy in the process!
emily yessss. i'm so happy for you, making the move! do you know how few people actually move to places where they want to be?! it's very, very few. and you're on of the brave ones. cheers and have the best time ever.
I flew to new york city to see a friend from college + my favorite band at radio city and i truly don’t know if I’ll ever be over it.
Omg loved this, and ive been dying to tell ppl about my weekend highlight so here goes! My bro just graduated college and there's no ceremony due to covid. My mom bought my bro the full grad outfit, I put together a grad playlist and we all trekked to the oddly far away mailbox to the tune of pomp and circumstance and we are the champions, and filmed him opening up his diploma. Too fun.
Cuddled my doggos the entire weekend! (And schoolwork but I’d like to forget about that). Thanks for the non-regular emails; I get excited every time because I never know when to expect them! So the unexpected side of your emails has loads of advantages haha! Thanks a lot Taryn! Lots of love from the Netherlands xx
hi! wow it’s been a hot minute since i saw one of your newsletters come in and wow i never knew how much i missed it
my weekend was amazing, i got so spend so much time with the girl i’m currently seeing (we usually only have one date night a week if we’re lucky since we’re both busy people). we actually met 3 days in a row and even spent almost 12 hours together yesterday and it was A M A Z I N G. she said she noticed that i’m becoming more comfortable around her since we met a few months ago on a dating app and i didn’t notice it at first but then i realised that yeah, i’ve been feeling like i could be myself more around her now. it really was a good feeling to realise, especially since i haven’t felt this happy in a long long time. i can’t wait to see where life takes us especially since i’m going to be graduating from university soon and needing to be an adult (ahh!)
glad to hear that you’ve had an amazing weekend too!! have a good week ahead :-)
Hi ! I love your news letters, it kind of feels like a lil treat when they come in and I don’t expect them haha.
I have had a week, haha. My last day working retail is tomorrow, and I will be starting my new job getting experience in the field I hope to work in after I graduate. I’ve started to realize that my life is progressing a way I always wanted it to. I’ve finally transferred to a university, I’m taking steps toward my dream job, I’m dating, my friends are great, and I have solid plans to move in with my best friend (and finally out of our parents houses). While all of this is so great and I’m incredibly thankful and little me is so happy, I feel so out of control and I don’t know how to be okay with that.
Anyway, this is the first time I’ve said that (or written it, I guess) and I’m realizing maybe in my spiraling moments, it might help to remind little me where I’m at.
I hope anyone who reads this has a fantastic week/everything.