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It’s halftime in the big game, and Tabs’s team is down 3 to nothing. The Rams really aren’t looking great so far, and Tabs is having a tough time with it. Being a former football player, he has strong opinions about what the Rams are doing wrong. He keeps yelling “Meow! Mrrow!” at the TV, which, loosely translated, means “Give it to Gurley!” While El Hub, Connor and I watch the game here in Hawaii, Tabs and his pet sitter threw their own Super Bowl party back at the home office. Tabs would have come along on this trip, but...

1. The Clinique “My Happy” perfumes When I graduated from college and got my first “real job,” one of the very first things I treated myself to was a bottle of citrus-y Clinique Happy, a scent I adore to this day. All I know is that every time I wear it, good things seem to happen (it’s also what I was wearing when I met El Hub!), which is partly why I’m so enamored with these six new Happy versions. Of course you can wear them separately, or combine two or more of them together to create a layered scent,...

The sun came out yesterday for the first day in a loooong time, and I was able to walk outside without a sweater, a sweatshirt, a coat and a raincoat. ‘TWAS GLORIOUS. I could actually put my arms down without feeling like Randy from A Christmas Story in his snowsuit. Every person I ran into yesterday said something along the lines of, “The sun is out! Let us bow down and worship it!” Yeah, I’m exaggerating, but we Californians are nuts. 😂 It wasn’t quite warm enough to wear sandals outside yet (unless you’re one of those dudes who wears...

Good day, sunshine! ☀️🤗 Did that make you think of the opening lines to this song? ’tis a good day to celebrate love, so here are some of the things I’ve been loving lately… 1. This Serena & Lily French bistro-inspired kitchen Now that’s a phrase I did not expect to ever see in print…because when have I ever thought that deeply about kitchens? For the record, Serena & Lily is not a hip 20-something singer-songwriter duet. They’re a high-end furniture line kinda like a more streamlined, bougie-er Pottery Barn (as if that were possible). Think Crate & Barrel meets...

Tabs was a firm believer in flexibility, both in terms of dealing with surprises in his professional life (like the night we ran out of gravy), and with regard to his sumptuous body. Being a yoga master and a feline fitness champion, he understood the importance of stretching in being able to hit purr-fect kitty modeling poses. Needless to say, he took stretching very seriously — so seriously that his Extreme Tummy Shaping DVD from 2015 is still the bestselling feline fitness DVD of all time. And he credited stretching with helping him become the starting point guard for the...