♪ Purple hair, purple hair… ♫
The Prince tribute was just a coincidence.
Remember the mermaid hair? I think Im even more obsessed with this color.
I cannot pass a mirror without staring. Vegas keeps saying “did you know your hair is purple?!” and “I married a unicorn!” She loves it. I think.
In other news, we moved. Half a mile down the street. In case you were wondering, moving doesn’t suck any less. We took 4 days and god-knows-how-many truck loads of stuff. One day I did 25,000 steps… all weighted down. And at least 10,000 of that was stairs. There isn’t one piece of my body that doesn’t hurt.
Current scene post-move. Wine was required. Lots of it.
Here’s my day of new home eats. Read on and link up to Jenn’s WIAW baby at the bottom!
Breakfast:
The usual morning cocktail followed by the matcha sludge.
I made us eggs sautéed with asparagus, shallots, and brie. Side of toast with jelly from Vegas’ mom.
Lunch:
I escaped the land of boxes to meet Nicole for a peaceful lunch at Trilogy. It’s a vegan cafe and yoga studio. We sat on a roof top patio in the sunshine watching people do arial yoga. It doesn’t get more California than that!
Nicole had the acaí bowl and I had the “Wrap of Zen.”
After moving, being wrapped in zen sounded perfect.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BE9xBQpmjVr/
Snack:
Quest Bar – Cookies & Cream (one of my top 5 flavors).
Dinner:
Cinco de Mayo Week Taco Tuesday! We have basically no groceries, so I made the Easiest Tacos Ever again. Thankyouverymuch Sizzlefish.
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I swear I’ll get back to more regular posting… the #strangebutgood recipe I promised last week will be up (along with the link up) this week. Really.
What’s the furtherest you’ve ever moved? Shortest?
Have you ever tried arial yoga? I’m curious now!
I saw your purple hair on Facebook and absolutely loved it!
I love your hair!! Being a unicorn can never be a bad thing!
Congrats on getting all that moving done. Steps are brutal!
LOVE the purple hair. I really wish I could get away with stuff like that, but I think I’d get fired.
Your lunch sounds amazing! I wish we had healthy rooftop restaurants with people doing yoga here in Williamsburg, but it just hasn’t caught on yet!
It’s the first time in my life I’ve been able to do it… I’m enjoying it while it lasts!
Glad you’re all moved in! I’ve been getting some more house stuff done lately while Brett’s been gone and it feels so good to check things off my house list! Also, that wrap is right up my alley!
Can I just say that I love your hair?! I am so jealous that you can pull that off. It seriously looks amazing! Dang girl! I don’t even have any comments on your food because your hair is just incredible.
Thank you!!! I got lucky and found an amazing colorist here. 🙂
LOVE the purple hair. I had pink hair for a bit in the 8th grade, which was fun. I’m blonde but have been thinking it might be fun to do red lowlights this fall. We’ll see…
Congrats on the move. The farthest move I did was New Jersey to Boston for college, but the shortest was definitely the time I literally moved a block away from one NYC apartment to the other.
If you like pink, you have to check out her IG: https://www.instagram.com/hairbykristinamarie/
Love the purple hair, and that egg breakfast – yum!
I think you carry the purple hair really nicely. It makes your hair look shiny. I love that God made all different colors. 🙂 Also, 25,000 steps sounds… ouch. 🙂 I’m glad that the move went well.
that zen wrap looks amazing, it’s filled with all the goodies!
Your purple hair looks great!! Moving is a pain no matter how/where you do it – we have a move coming up and I’m dreading it.
That rooftop patio looks heavenly!
It was absolutely serene!
I would probably never leave that Trilogy place. I’d get hypnotized by the zen and you’d have to yank me down from the aerial ropes. Sounds marvelous.
Congrats on the move! Wine and feet up is most definitely deserved.
Have you ever tried arial? I’m not into yoga myself, but that was fascinating to watch!
We moved less than 1/2 a mile once before, and I think it was even worse to be honest. I’m totally loving your hair by the way – color and the longer style.
It is! You don’t have to be organized so it turns into a hot mess.
Thank you! It’s growing on me… literally. 🙂
Oh my gosh I LOVE THE HAIR!!!!! It looks amazing.
And congrats on moving! The process is rough but it’s always nice once you’re settled!
Your hair!!! I LOOOOVE it. And yes, moving does suck. I’m doing that this weekend. 1/2 mile wouldn’t be so bad but I’m moving about 1,000 miles.
i love the variations in your hair. That is what is so on point. Now you just need a job at Anytime Fitness with me and you are set!
moving is exhausting! but always nice to start fresh 🙂 We once moved from one house to another, only a mile a part. It’s was still an exhausting task!
I hear you on having no groceries and making whatever you have in the fridge! I totally did that this week…for a potluck! I didn’t have time to go to the store and buy salsa, so I just made some salsa based on random stuff I had in the fridge. : P
The purple hair is awesome! I mean, really…who wouldn’t want to marry a unicorn?!
That’s a great idea to make a salsa! I bet it was good, too!
And thanks! Unicorns are the jam. 😉
Furthest I guess is across the Atlantic to Oxford from CT/NY and back, but I mostly bought stuff when I got there, stored it during vacations, and left or sold it when I got back. I did, on my final trip home after finishing my three years, bring four giant suitcases on the plane with me and struggle with a cart after landing at Newark which you could not see me behind, thereby confusing people with the slow-moving, apparently steerer-less luggage.
I can’t even imagine what would happen if I moved overseas… but maybe I wouldn’t have to worry because I’d try my best not to come back. LOL!
You’re so right, vegans, aerial yogis, and sun…SO cali 😉 And girl you’re rocking that purp. I love it!
Two years ago in London I literally moved around the corner once. There was only six or seven houses in between my apartments, but it didn’t make the experience any less painful as I did everything by hand and there were a LOT of stairs involved. At the end of the day, I decided to treat myself to a Baileys hot chocolate, and then knocked it over on my brand new cream-colored carpet. It was NOT my day! I hate moving!!!
I have to say it again: I LOVE the hair!
At least hot chocolate is easier to get out than red wine… maybe…
I bet my hair would be a HIT in Morocco. 🙂
We are moving closer to Downtown at the end of June. So excited but so much stress!
That’s awesome! It’s really nice to have everything so walkable.
My first time here and so far I love it, definitely love the hair!
Thank you so much for commenting and for the compliment. I hope you return! 🙂
I once moved with an apartment complex, and that didn’t make it any easier either.
Love you hair!! And I love that way your lunch place sounds. Entertainment and good food!
OMG I absolutely love your hair!!! I’m seriously just wondering if my hair is too dark to do the same??? 🙂
And that lunch? To die for!!
You can totally do it! She just totally bleached mine, but I think with darker hair you can do highlights with a different type of dye so you don’t have to bleach your whole head.
haha vegas does love it because you stand out and she married a hottie –> YESSSSSS!
p.s. purple is royalty
LOL! I heart you. And it funny because she hates to stand out. I’m all “look at meeeee!”
I LOVE YOUR HAIR!!! ugh i got a few purple streaks about 5 years ago a loved it. but it was sooo much effort, it took a few months of trying to get the color to stay! (black hair probs). but for my birthday, my mom said she’d buy me this new vegan/natural/awesome hair dye… ad 2 months later… still nope. so when i’m out of school i’ll find it again and we will be unicorn twins! ;D
anyyyyways. that’s pretty darn california haha. i hear so much about restaurants that have a cafe AND yoga at the same place…. ON A ROOF TOP. are they really that popular?! don’t know how i’d feel doing yoga with a cafe of people watching! hah. (well i guess ariel yoga is different. is it even yoga really?!
It is a pain… it only lasts 6-10 washes and I have to take ICE cold showers. Dry shampoo has become my BFF!
I love the hair! You rock it well!
Oh, I sympathize with the aches. I once moved just a mile, and thought – sure, I’ll handle everything but the furniture… without thinking through that I was going from second floor walkup to a basement apartment. (And I have many, many books…)
So, going *down* all those stairs carrying heavy stuff turns out to not be good for knees…
Enjoy your new home!
That’s what we did! BIG mistake. Next time movers are moving every last little thing.
Love the purple hair and all your eats look so delicious especially that wrap! And I am obsessed with Quest bars, I actually just finished a cookies’n cream protein shake, not my fav but what still delicious.
I’ve been dying to go check out Trilogy Sanctuary- So San Diego but so perfect!
I love your hair!
Absolutely love the hair! And it suits you so much!
Longest move was scotland to Australia! But my shortest move was literally down the street! Talk about one extreme to the other!
Thanks! People keep saying that… I’m wondering what means… LOL!
I can’t imagine moving as far as Oz, but I’d be down to try it in a heart beat! 🙂
Just looking at that pic of Trilogy makes me want to hang out there all day everyday! So cozy & peaceful there! Great catching up with you 🙂 And PS – YES on dessert there next time! Wanna go to a hippy dippy event there with me sometime?! They do full moon events & performances, it sounds very San Diego-ish! Neither of our significant others would probably enjoy that haha
Full moon events?! I’m pretty sure that needs to happen. Do we get special full moon dessert though? 😉
I love those coconut wraps and recommend them to all my clients. They are so yum! 🙂 And I wish I like Quest bars, but I always feel like I’m chewing on a piece of salted plastic. I just dont get it, ha! I know they’re not as healthy, but I shamefully think the Atkins and Think Thin Bars taste so much better (I know!). I just finally talked myself out of buying any of them since they’re loaded with nasties that make my belly turn cartwheels ;/
I love your hair, by the way! I saw a girl last week with that color and told my mom that “it’s the new thing” which of course, she couldn’t believe but just nodded in disbelief – lmao. I think it’s really pretty, and congrats on the move! I hope you and Vegas enjoy living down the street and are enjoying the CA sun! 🙂
You like Think Thin better than Quest?! I think THEY taste like plastic. Hahaha! I know I shouldn’t eat either, but sometimes I just need something quick and easy. And I have a gut of steel. 🙂
It amazes me how many older women have walked up to me and told me they love my hair. And then others just stare. LOL
Wow you can certainly pull of the hair! Love it
That breakfast looks delicious. I am a big breakfast person. That looks like a cool place for lunch. Glad the move went well. I just moved about seven hours away from home to Va Beach and am loving it.
Moving totally blows. BLOWS. I am sooooooo not looking forward to that when the time comes, but it’s obvioulsy inevitable with the upcoming life change……. But honestly NO IDEA when (even once this event occurs) because well, the housing market out here SUCKS A HUGE FAT… Ugh. Yes. But at least PURPLE HAIR doesn’t!
Tell him you won’t marry him unless he pays someone to come pack up and move all of your shit. 😉
Mmm, I love homemade jams and preserves on crispy toast!
And you’re so right – no matter how far you’re moving – it doesn’t get any easier! And I always think it will be a nice way to clean out stuff I don’t need – but then I just end up packing almost everything into boxes anyway! Ugh.
I love the hair. Purple suits you, as does wine.
Wine is purple. Wine me. Weekday sobriety sucks.
We are making the move to our new house this week so I totally feel your pain! This weekend we will embark on the actual moving process but packing is work in itself!
Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn 🙂
Here’s to being a unicorn and NEVER moving again! 🙂