weekly wrap: vol 20

happy Fall!

Sep 26, 2025

The best season is amongst us! Unfortunately, the weather in the DC area has NOT gotten the memo and it is still in the upper 80’s and humid. Is it too much to ask for that crisp, cold, autumn air?

I’ve been nursing a migraine since yesterday afternoon. All evening, I was laying in a dark room with an eye mask on. It’s one of the worst feelings. Not feeling well and being able to do anything is one of my pet peeves. I woke up feeling a bit better and just took some Excederin to help push the migraine out so hopefully I’ll be 100% soon.

Toy Story is one of Aaron and I’s favorite movies and this year is its 30th anniversary and they brought it back in theaters so we went to see it. We had the entire theater to ourselves so that was a nice surprise, haha…and this new theater chain, Paragon, has surprisingly really good food, especially the pizza. When Brandy and I went to see Freakier Friday, we saw it at a Paragon theater too and we both agreed that the pizza was really good. It would be better if they served Coke instead of Pepsi though ;)
This is such a niche topic but something I had been wanting to figure out for a very long time, and I just figured it out yesterday so maybe it’ll help someone. I have a 2017 27” iMac that I use as my daily driver (they don’t make 27” iMacs anymore). When I bought it, it already was a 5K display panel. Unfortunately, since it’s so old, it doesn’t receive updates anymore, which I don’t really care but I have wanted to repurpose the iMac to be used as a monitor and as of now, that wasn’t possible. Like, you couldn’t even connect it via wires.

My “dream setup” has always been the Studio Display connected to my Apple laptop, but I was reading the specs and the Studio Display and my iMac have the same display so it seemed silly to get rid of my iMac for a $$$$ monitor and getting a new iMac was unreasonable. Well, lo-and-behold Duet Display. With this app installed on both my computers, I can now use my Macbook as my main driver and use my iMac as my monitor. I’m seriously SO happy to have finally figured this out! I will use this iMac until it dies, which I hope is never lol
In just one week, we’ll be jamming out to The Life of a Showgirl. I can’t wait to hear the new bops. I got tickets to the release party too! Ahhh
As per usual, Brandy and I have planned our first international trip for 2026. Any guesses to where we are going? I’ll give you a hint: the destination is in a popular song by the Beach Boys.
Tighter Together Fall 2025 starts Monday!! It’s the bi-yearly challenge I do with my workout app (Moves) and for the past several months, I have been slacking on workouts so it’ll be nice to hop back into consistency. There’s so much to offer in this program; you don’t have to have a regular subscription. You can just sign up for the program exclusively and it’s yours forever. Consider joining me!
I am still deep into Tiny Glade. I’ve learned so much from my first week of playing it. There are so many mechanisms and hidden ways to build things. My first glade was basically like a practice and my second glade is so much better. I’ve also been watching a lot of YT videos to get inspiration, haha

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