5 on a Friday: I am probably at a trampoline park while you read this

 1. No need to wait for the end of the month! THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. READ IT RIGHT NOW.

Beatrix looks to be totally uninterested, BUT WHAT DOES SHE KNOW ANYWAY?

2. I am equally torn between wanting to buy new fall clothes because I feel like nothing in my closet is on trend and wanting to just figure out how to make all my old stuff work as a sartorial challenge. STAY TUNED (my closet is mostly skinny jeans, though, so I am going to have to make some sort of intervention).

Super old wide-legged jeans and $10 Target clearance mules from YEARS ago. Classy.

3. I cannot/will not quit the pumpkin spice latte. Like, I feel like I should hate it because I really dislike drinking my calories and being basic, but I just love it so darn much.

Even if I have already had breakfast. Even if it’s a cold walk. Even if getting this cup will make me late. I CANNOT QUIT YOU.

4. I am slowly and surely getting better at working in the same room as Minnie. Ben is a whiz at this, but sometimes on my home days, I get sucked into housewife mode. BABY STEPS on this one, but I am having productive late mornings and post-nap afternoons, and it feels good. I am also getting way better at doing housework with Minnie underfoot instead of saving it for nap time so that I can do real work while she’s sleeping, which I know is not rocket science but took me a hot second to figure out anyway.

She is also clearly hard at work

5.  Listen, the middle section of my Target has been roped off for awhile now, ad I have been very grumbly about it especially because order pickup has been a mess. But the ropes and curtains came down, and it is an Ulta Target and I am just so happy (also so basic, I know). AN ULTA TARGET. Better than the Ulta a mile further away because I cannot get both toilet paper AND lash primer over there, you know?