Friday Fives, 8.1.2025
Happy August from the Windy City!!!! It’s 70 degrees and I could not be more thrilled to experience this in the thick of summer.
1. I just hit publish on my Next Thirty Days Substack for August. Looking back at July’s Next Thirty Days, I’m pretty impressed with what I was able to accomplish given I was traveling four separate times!! I’m absolutely loving the “public” accountability (“public” because I have very few readers and that’s ok!) and forcing myself to write every month. Keeps me on track. 🫡
2. For the last six months I’ve been wanting to get another piercing and with Rowan being in Chicago and allowing walk-ins… I didn’t have an excuse. Plus, it was on my August Next Thirty Days goals so I had to right?
Anyway, I’m very thrilled with this new addition to my helix and our very successful experience at Lollapalooza yesterday seeing Gracie Abrams and exiting by 8:30 p.m.
3. I am very delayed on this purchase because I know it’s been cute and trendy for awhile but I did get the colorful beaded necklace in my August colors and j’adore.
4. Summer + Des Moines = ❤️ even though I really have barely been in the 515. Bike rides, Biergarten, meals on the patio, bubbles, splash pads, corn on the cob specifically with these turkey burgers (!!!!), the Iowa State Fair… I’m just locked in and cherishing the last few weeks of it before my girl goes to Kindergarten.
5. I was in NYC last week for a few big work things like speaking on a Marketing Brew panel. Pinch me. We attended a really fun networking event hosted at Olfactory and I now have two custom perfumes that I cannot get enough of. Highly, highly recommend.
If you go… please go to the one on Bleeker and then get a reservation at Sip&Guzzle and get the mochi french fry, the volcano (one for each person), the bikini, the electric chicken, the beef and their ice cream for dessert. Look, I know NYC has insane food everywhere but this place just blew me away and their service made it even better.
Oh! And I got this dress which so many of you sent lovely DMs about. Here it is.
It’s a Friday afternoon in Chicago, time to do some things before a lovely dinner reservation with one of our amazing creators at Hummingbirds. Bye!! 👋