Hard to believe it’s nearly September.

This time last year, I was about to dive into my very first [very rainy] week in Copenhagen. Fast forward one year later and Copenhagen feels light years away. I’ve taken my traveling explorer hat off for a while, spending most of my summer in an office building instead. But I only have to have to rock the boring corporate pants for a few more weeks — my graduate internship is almost over. Then, it’ll be time to jump right back into thesis writing.

Until then, this is what life looks like when you have to squeeze all the fun in around your 9-5 cubicle lockup.

Work lunches in El Segundo.

And date night dinners in downtown Manhattan Beach.

Roses from my honey. (And by honey, I mean Whole Foods.)

Sunsets on the way home from Disneyland…

…and the Grand Californian Hotel.

I splurged on this a couple weeks ago (#treatyoself). I love my iPhone — talk about light and convenient — but it’s really fun to get back into the photog swing of things. Can’t wait to take this little guy around the world.

Squad goals.

(Our house is in the midst of a remodel, hence the general look of armageddon.)

The other night we celebrated my pop’s bday at TAPS in Brea.

He’s turning some-really-old-number, but at heart he’s a Snapchat-lovin’ millennial.

xx