• First Woody Creek Tavern experience was a most excellent one, culminating in the entire town of Aspen at Regal …
• Learning to dirt bike! I’m so badass:
  

  Yeah, that’s a 450

• Continuing to build my business savvy … always learning. Related: finishing an intense contract that challenged that savvy.
• Santa Barbara wine paired with a delicious multiple-course dinner.
• Anticipation of trips (research shows anticipation of travel creates a LOT of happiness) coming up for the next three weekends!

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

• Um, hello? Guys? I have been writing this ENTIRE MONTH as 039912 … it’s actually 04. Apparently I am stuck in March. That doesn’t actually make me Feel Good but I thought I needed to say something about it
• Highlands Closing Day Party. Probably my favorite day this entire year—I wore not one but TWO awesome onesies, had all my favorite people in one place, everyone was dancing their faces off in costumes for HOURS … what more could a girl want?! Oh, gluten-free basil pesto pizza in a hot tub followed by snagging a pair of PUCCI ski pants and playing a hilarious pictionary/telephone hybrid game? Yes. Seriously, best day ever.
  This is the party on the mountain, it only gets crazier as we ski down! Unfortunately, no full-body pics of my flowered one-piece suit with attached skirt and off-the shoulder styling exist … but don’t worry, it’s an investment piece, it WILL be making more appearances in my life.
• Accidentally riding switch for at least half my last run down Ajax of the season … and I still love snowboarding. Goodbye winter season of skiing and riding, you were amazing!
• Hot “old lady” date with a friend, where we sat at the kids’ bar and drank so much water that the entire waitstaff took bets on who would get up to pee first (it was me, and the cute bartender won).
• Summer tires. Back to ridin’ on 22s.

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

• An art opening, Aspen Fashion Week parties, and an impromptu girls night
• Free Yoga at the Sundeck Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday at 9:30am. Yoga AND ski!
• My new Sevenly tee. I’m obsessed. Every week this company designs an awesome tee and donates money from it to a cause. This particular tee donated $13,769 to Mercy Ships, a hospital ship providing numerous people with life-changing cleft lip/palate, orthopedic, cataract and tumor removal surgeries in Lome, Togo, West Africa.
  
• Ben & Jerry’s Greek fro-yo. <3 Can’t wait to try the rest of the flavors!
• Green drinks! I don’t mean the boozy St. Patty’s kind, I mean the healthy kind. My secret green smoothie recipe? Spinach/kale, frozen cherries, SFH chocolate protein powder, a raw egg (you can’t taste it, I swear), cinnamon, turmeric, and water or coconut water. Blend. Love.

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

• MIAMI.
• MIAMI.
• MIAMI.
• Salt, sand, sun, sea, surf, cerveza.
• MIAMI.

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

• Holy crap it’s March. That actually doesn’t make me feel good, but DailyHap‘s first month birthday is pretty awesome!
• The best skiing day I’ve had all year … friends, hard runs, and POW!! Followed by margaritas and a chile relleno burger…
• … finding out that La Palapa’s meat is local and grassfed! Hello burger!
• I’m grateful that snowboarding came back to me very quickly, and that although I hurt my SI joint again, it has so far healed very quickly as well
• a present in the mail that was a hand-me-down present from a husky to Denali:
   her previous owner may have overestimated Denali’s neck girth, but it was much appreciated nonetheless!
• psychotherapist parents who help me analyze every lil bit of my life, or leave me alone, whichever is better

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

My first hike up a mountain + ski down.

TWO Thanksgivings. Amazing friends in Aspen.

Sewing my ripped basketball sweats. I don’t know why I waited so long to do that, because having them not let in cold air is amazing.

This video:

Whole Foods Parking Lot video dude is a GENIUS. Literally some of the best rhymes I’ve ever heard.

Seeing two of my besties, who are dating, who I set up. Love love!!

Emily’s Chocolate Covered Cherries. Got me through the three-hour drive back from Steamboat seeing those crazy kids.

Snow Queen B&B.

See last week’s Feel Goods (Thanksgiving edition) here.

1. My amazing, supportive, happy family
2. PLPs of both sexes in Aspen, Austin, Arizona, D.C., Cali, and all around the world.
3. Denali’s 5th birthday and her new off-leash walking skills
4. All four of my grandparents are still alive
5. Texas
6. Being raised in Texas (You Know You’re a Texan When …)
7. Hymeadow
8. Pumpkin
9. My adventure to Aspen
10. Knowing what Love Is and loving it
11. Learning to ski and snowboard
    

    Yep, those are still dumpster poles

12. Blake Lively, for constant style inspiration and a huge girl crush
13. The colors teal and orange together
14. Wool socks
15. Airplanes, for visits to and from friends
16. Washington D.C., for being a wonderful home to my fb gf and my second fall home
17. My many friends who have found true love
18. Pickup basketball
19. Hot tubs
20. My new skis, which are long, fat, and badass
21. Pigeon pose, for eliminating IT band pain
22. Glitter nail polish pens
23. Confidence and grace, gifted to me by my parents and their raising of me
24. Press trips
25. My blog and her loyal followers, who read even when I don’t write about Austin
26. Football
27. Rekindled romance with reading
28. Learning how to curl my hair with a straightener (again)
29. Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Kate, Voegle, and Taylor Swift
30. Wine
31. My new travelin’ buddy, the iPad2
32. Gossip Girl, Hawaii Five-O, Hart of Dixie, 90210, Covert Affairs, Ringer, and Pan Am
33. Deep Hip & Leg Stretch yoga class
34. My life experiences
35. Lowered blood sugar
36. My new mittens, which are teal and warm
37. Pinterest
38. Pinterest
39. Pinterest
40. Handwritten notes and cards
41. Hot pink temporary hair dye
42. The Pitkin County Library and its incredible inter-library loan system
43. My hand-me-down down jacket (again … seriously, I would die without it)
44. The ocean
45. The internets
46. Adobe Creative Suite, I’m still holding on to the pirated version from my first-ever job (shhh don’t tell)
47. Kale
48. Newfound photography obsessionand friends who happen to have closeted photography interests
    

    Polar bear!

49. Twitter
50. The blow dryers with the nozzle attachments at Aspen Club
51. Ashley Turner
52. Bubble baths (with non-toxic bubbles, obvi)
53. Free Pints of Ben & Jerry’s
54. Free Pints of Ben & Jerry’s for Ripples of Hope for Children (more details coming soon)
55. US Weekly
56. Change … as in life, not coins
57. Drake
58. My mobile storage unit (aka yellow land rover)
59. Blogs and the bloggers who write them
60. Aspen Extreme friends who force me to do things I never thought I would do
61. Theme parties
62. Jhorts
63. Denali’s reflective collar so I can find her in the snow
64. Bubbly water
65. CrossFit
66. The Blind Side, it never gets old
67. The knowledge that you can hard-boil eggs in a toaster oven
68. ViX bikinis
69. A spiritual, open-minded family
70. Sunshine + Vitamin D + warmth
71. Cold-brewed coffee
72. Love … luv … lurve … loooove … I love all love
73. That the proliferation of infographics and cute pinterest sayings makes me think at the end of this post that I should have probably made it a graphic in Illustrator, and made it pretty. Instead of a list. Then people might have pinned it. PIN ALL THE THINGS!!

Classic Pass! Let the skiing and snowboarding commence!

Matsu Mondays … I ate FOUR handrolls. Is that a new record?

Elk burgers. Holy yum.

Impromptu pilates when “deep leg and hip stretch” class was cancelled … tiny micro-movement was NOT what my hips wanted but giggling throughout class with Nikita was worth every minute. All 45 of them.

Not one but TWO photo shoots! Juice and fashion, my two faves?

My health. My strength. My family. My faith. Optimism.

Carl’s annual Thanksgiving Wine Sale. 4 bottles of 2007 Buena Vista Carneros Pinot Noir? Yes please.

Robi landed in Aspen today! Watch out, town! Epic weekend ahead.

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

It’s a lucky day, right? 11-11-11!

QT with my Houston cousins

Suede protector! I tweeted asking for recs and found out there are suede brushes AND sealants! Now all of my suede shoes are protected from the intense weather that is an Aspen winter.

who knew I had so many suede shoes??

Kale, dried cherries, and parmesan cheese

Pickup basketball is back in swing! I’ve missed playing

A stellar surprise phone call leading to an impromptu visit from a bestie next week! So excited.

This monkey is asking the same questions as me: How does this thing work??

See last week’s Feel Goods here.

… we all know about Things We Forget by now, right? This and this are my other fave post-its, but today I’m loving, and missing, my friends. Also, as both of my parents are therapists, I do want to add that there is a time for therapy. But there is also a very important time for friends. They are awesome.

And thankfully, I get my therapy for free. Often over a home-cooked meal. So here’s to friends!