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My husband and I just celebrated our 1-year anniversary!! We planned a bigger trip for our anniversary (and very late honeymoon) , but we still wanted to do a little weekend getaway to celebrate. We didn't want to go too far away and we wanted a cute Airbnb that we could work from remotely that was close to the mountains. I had already gone to Dahlonega (please read that post here ) , so I went down a rabbit hole trying to find another mountain city that was within 3 hours of Atlanta that was not in North Carolina (my husband's request) . I stumbled upon a very cute AirBnb in Blairsville, Georgia. Might have heard the name once in a conversation, but I basically had zero knowledge of the town. Turns out there is quite a bit to do in the area! I was unfortunately sick this week with a horrible cough (basically for a month at this point) , so all our activities revolved around being socially distant from people. Honestly, the mountains are the perfect secluded place to be if you...

Y'all, if I'm being completely honest, I am low-key stressed because I have a lot of blog content that I need to post. I know, what a surprise! I had at least two posts that I wanted to have up before this one, but at the moment, this one is most pertinent because ya know, IT'S 2026!!!!! Every year, I'm just shocked at how the previous year flew by and I can say the same thing about 2025. I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that 2020 was officially 6 years ago. Covid is literally about to celebrate its 6th birthday. And 2016 was TEN years ago??!!! I can vividly remember how excited I was for 2016 because I was going to turn 21. And now I'm officially in my 30s. I cannot believe how fast time is flying and how I really need to be better about living in these precious moments, which I am going to address later in this post. Anyways, if you are new here, hi! Every year, I start jotting down things that I learn on my notes app, and compile them into this post. Id...

I got married a year ago so I thought it would fun to share all the things I've learned from having a destination wedding and what I would have done differently or happy I did. Did I mean to post this much earlier and procrastinated? Yes, I did. But better late than never!! Disclaimer: no hate and all love to everyone if you feel like any of this this applies to you. This post is solely to help future brides and grooms. Invite everyone.   If I could go back in time, I wish I invited everyone I knew. We had a hard cap at 150 so we basically only invited close family and friends. We didn't invite A LOT of people because I really thought all my close family and friends would fly to Italy. Spoiler alert: they didn't. Instead, I'm almost positive we have a number of family and friends who are still upset they were not invited. I don't think all of them would have showed up, but I feel like I hurt a lot of people's feelings for no reason. It was never my intention to...

As stated in my last post, I recently turned I celebrated my 30th birthday with my childhood friends in Chicago. We did a lot in 48 hours so I thought I would share what we did! FRIDAY I flew out of Atlanta around 3:30pm. Got to Chicago around 4pm CST. We dropped my bags off at my friend's apartment. She has a beautiful rooftop view, so we checked it out. We changed and got ready for dinner. We went to the  Chinatown   Square .  It's a two-story outdoor mall with an endless amount of stores and restaurants. I could have spent all day here just window shopping! We explored a little bit before our dinner reservation. We got dinner at Minghin Cuisine and had the most yummy dim sum and drinks. I had sake for the second time in my life (my first time was the night before back home lol) . We decided that we were going to get Labubus (this generation's beanie babies...sort of) . Unfortunately, we weren't going to be able to get them that day, so we decided to go shopping for ...