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My name is Gracie. I'm a twenty-something recent college grad on a mission to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life...while having fun along the way!

Feel free to contact me at gracie@girlmeetslife.com





a long day, a good day.

You may have noticed that I’ve been keeping up with the “dear diary” sort of posts. But, to be quite honest, it’s days like today that leave me thinking, “who the heck would want to read about this?!” For the sake of transparency, though, here’s what my little old Monday looked like. While nothing particularly exciting [...]

august favorites.

So long sun-kissed tan, hello 5pm sunset.

Okay, okay, we’re not there just yet.

But with the end of August does in fact come the near-end of summer. So here’s a look back at a few of my favorite things from the past 30 days.

gilt groupe.

I never used to understand the draw of online shopping. In my mind, [...]

kick the habit, create a new one.

This month’s Kick the Habit challenge turned out to have a lot more of an impact on my life than I thought I would. I mean, I knew that kicking some bad habits would be a good thing, but I didn’t realize that I’d a) form healthy lifelong habits and b) learn some deeper lessons about [...]