I believe the key to staying happy in life is finding things to get overly excited about and then just letting yourself enjoy them. I spent so much time hating on Bach and thinking I was superior when in reality it just made me pretentious and no one else cared because they were all having fun actually watching it! Lesson. Learned.

We had a party to celebrate the premiere and it was so much fun! A party on a random Monday with delicious food, amazing women, and non-stop laughter! We basically throw a low-key girls night every Monday during the season, but this one was special.

We filled out brackets! This is still endlessly hilarious to me. We aren’t quite as hard core as some of the girls who do fantasy leagues but I expect we’ll get there someday.

The girls I watch with usually read spoilers but they’re holding off until next week – just for us and so we can do this bracket competition.

10 seconds after I took this photo my best friend showed up with a pack of Diet Coke bc #squadgoals

Will you accept this rose? Cupcakes

Ok laugh all you like but this was actually INCREDIBLY helpful during the episode and filling out the brackets. There’s like 7 James and half of the dudes look exactly alike. It’s mostly a parade of cookie cutter white dudes. Unlike us, a room full of cool girls of whom I completely spaced taking any pictures.

I will say that I *am* a little concerned about this season and my ability to control my feminist rage at the sexism and aggression we’re undoubtedly going to see. Still, with my girls and my Sodalicious mug and my treats it’s bound to be a good time.

A couple of friends asked me to save my snap story because they couldn’t watch until the next day so I’ll share with you if you text me! I promise I won’t post about Bach here again (or maybe I will! It’s my blog and I do what I want!!), but you can follow along on snapchat @ dholdy for my weekly Bach thoughts. I have a feeling you’re gonna hear the word “douchebag” a lot, so sorry in advance.