Author Archives: leemeredith

My most eventful quick trip to California

I flew down to California to visit my family four weeks ago, and flew back to Portland a few days later with a completely different life! I already knew I’d be heading down with no tattoos and coming back with one; I didn’t know I’d be heading down with a job and coming back withoutContinue reading “My most eventful quick trip to California”

Something better, something beautiful (my ’21 & ’22 music playlists)

If you’ve been following my blog/work for a long time, you may remember that I used to be very into making mix CDs. I even made a knitting pattern collection with pattern names inspired by albums and I made a mix CD to go with it. I was reeeally into making mixes in college and for years after I’d make themed mix CDs for occasions.

March Around the World movie challenge!

Throughout March I played along with this Letterboxd movie challenge called March Around the World, and I got really into it! If you followed my instagram stories you saw as I posted each one I watched… The challenge was to watch 30 movies from 30 different countries in March but I ended up getting upContinue reading “March Around the World movie challenge!”

Sooooup! Swap + Pumpkin Black Bean Beer Cheese Soup Recipe (+ FOUR more soup recipes!)

I know how annoying it is to scroll forever to get to a recipe, so I’ll go ahead and post the main recipe first at the top, then I’ll tell you all about my annual Soup Swap afterwards, plus give you a few more favorite recipes I’ve made to swap over the years! This recipeContinue reading “Sooooup! Swap + Pumpkin Black Bean Beer Cheese Soup Recipe (+ FOUR more soup recipes!)”

My Improvised Cable-Yoke Sweater

How about some knitting content on this blog?! I started knitting this sweater in summer 2020, with plans for it to be my around-and-around in plain stockinette movie theater sweater when I started going to movies again, once the bottom edging was done. And then I originally had a vague plan to do a simpleContinue reading “My Improvised Cable-Yoke Sweater”

My 2023 wrap up… making & doing

I’ve thought of 2023 as Senior Year of the pandemic. Not because there’s any graduation or ending in sight, just because it was the fourth year, and I feel like we’ve all grown and changed so much since 2020, or Freshman Year. 2023 was a bit rough—it’s the year I finally got covid—and it’s alsoContinue reading “My 2023 wrap up… making & doing”

My Favorite Movies of 2022… plus movies in 2020 and beyond

I initially wrote a massively long post about my love of movies over the last several years, with multiple favorites lists, and then I realized that was ridiculous and I needed to at least split it into two parts. So, my previous movies post became part one, which was kind of just about movies inContinue reading “My Favorite Movies of 2022… plus movies in 2020 and beyond”

Moviiiiies! My off-and-on life obsession, and my faves of the 2010s list

I’ve always loved movies, always always, but I’ve also kind of fluctuated with how big a part of my life movies are. My whole family was always big into movies… in fact, my brothers loved horror movies from an age way too young to actually watch them! They just loved the idea of horror moviesContinue reading “Moviiiiies! My off-and-on life obsession, and my faves of the 2010s list”