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Lucy on the Ground · Jul 10, 2026

Luce Ends: July 10

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Lucy on the Ground · Lucy on the Ground

Welp, if you happened to miss my one off post this week, I finally came clean about the fact that I quit my job…a year ago.

Surprise!! But also, probably not!!

I’d love to give you all a logical explanation as to why I kept delaying this “announcement” (most of the less logical decisions are buried in that novel of a post if you’re curious), but the truth is, for a while, I felt like a quitter. Which, technically I was…but the icky feeling came from the “I gave up on my career” sense of the word rather than the literal definition.

Good news—I don’t feel like that now!

But leaving my job and the company I’d work at for 99% of my adult life had me sorting through a lot of emotions and I didn’t want to dump them all on you at once. So I dumped them on my therapist, Bill, my mom, my friends….lucky them. The big question is, do I regret it? And the truth is….

I don’t regret getting my thoughts together and waiting to talk about because whatever jumble I wrote had many of you sharing your own stories. Stories about quitting or wanting to quit or just recognizing my need for change and applauding it. I couldn’t haven’t predicted such a response and, again, I’m humbled and touched how many of you chose to even reach out after it. We’re all just trying to figure it out, no one has a guide on how to do this and we just want to be the main character in our lives!

So now that the dramatics are out of the way, what else has been going on?

  • I’m behind on every show except Love Island USA and UK and to be honest? I wish I could drop USA, but I’ve come this far!! I must stay the course! At least seeing Sincere and Melanie’s families shame them was fun…even if it did NOTHING.

  • The house projects/manifestation board have taken on a life of their own and I’m driving Bill crazy. Currently waiting for my mom to pick me up so we can get all our tools together for wallpapering….Ts and Ps.

  • Coco moved to a big girl bed (see here for the bed and the mattress) so Frankie was let out of her prison of a crib and….I think we made a mistake there. To be fair, she’s been in our bed every night since we moved, so her wandering in on her own now does make things easier, but now both of them come out twelve times to tell us something before actually laying down. And Frankie chose to get in Coco’s bed night one, right when she fell asleep, to give her a sisterly whack and last night she figured out how to move her bed and untrap herself so let’s just say I have some regrets!!!

  • The car, garage door and now sprinklers are all possessed in some way or another….which led to Bill trying to turn off the water, breaking the handle and the plumber discovering wipes in the pipes and a the need to hypro-WHATEVER. And the sprinkler system needs replacing. THE JOYS OF HOMEOWNERSHIP!!! EVERYONE WARNED ME!

I’m not going to lie, all of that landing this week (most of it yesterday) made it a doozy and I suddenly felt the pressure of this move, but Bill and I are still trying to keep it in perspective and roll with the punches. It’s still weird and my mom still cries when she looks at me and I still feel like we left in the dead of night, but I’m trying not to spiral. It’s going to take time, it’s going to take money, but I’m sure we’ll settle into a routine right around October….when the baby is due.

  • My Plans for *this* Career Move

  • More Love Island UK Thoughts

  • What Way Too Pregnant Me Is Wearing on A Bachelor Trip Next Week

  • Some Fave Links of the Week

What Quitting Actually Means

Like I said in my longer rant, I still don’t have a plan.

I could say that the pregnancy aspect has maybe thrown a wrench in whatever goals I had for this first year, but, despite taking nine months to actually quit my job, I left the other side of this journey pretty wide open. I didn’t want to plan too much and let myself down. It didn’t even feel like it was permanent until maybe six months in and then the next six months were baby on board and buying a houses pivots so it’s a good thing I didn’t set a lot of other big goals because they’d be falling to the wayside in the jumbled mess that is my life right now.

SIDE NOTE: You’ve all been so encouraging, especially when it comes to sending messages and comments about the much more fanciful dream of getting into some longer form writing and I will say….that’s there. It’s in the works/has been in the works for years and never truly leaves my brain, but that fear of failure trait of mine I mentioned is still a huge hurdle I’ll have to overcome to ever get the wheels fully in motion and actually push myself but I just wanted to say thank you for feeding those fantasies even when I’ve done nothing to warrant it!!!

In terms of this existing platform and my Instagram, I do have some ideas and I welcome any feedback you have!!!

  • The personal stuff: kids, quitting my job, the shot (which I WILL be getting back on the second they wheel me down to postpartum)—all these things have done well when I’ve shared them here, but it’s rare and I'm not sure how much fun there is to be had there for you all? I look back at some of my postpartum posts and wondered why you all stuck around, but if there’s an interest there, just let me know!! You all know I love to ramble

  • TV Recaps/ Previews: I loved writing the Summer House recaps and planned on doing that with the Bachelorette (RIP), but I’m not sure what to pivot to in the pop culture zeitgeist—I could do weekly Bravo blurbs, could get back to recording little mini voice overs here with my thoughts on whatever but….again, IS THAT OF INTEREST?? And what shoes would you want more of my thoughts of??

    • I’ve also thought of doing an Old Movie Recommendations Post/Course….get us all to watch things we haven’t but again….is it of interest!!!

  • Home Stuff: Despite the chaos, that seems to be a big hit right now so I plan on continuing to let you all see whatever project we’re in at the moment…even when I get unsolicited feedback on things I can’t / won’t be changing!!

  • Fictional Writing: Yes, I read all your nice messages about trying my hand at my Nancy Meyers writer girl era and it’s a habit I’ve fallen in and out of the last year that I want to keep up with, I just have to accept I’m playing the long game there and, if I want that to work out, I’m going to have to treat it like the 9 to 5 I just got rid of lol I’ve thought about doing stuff here but….I don’t know if that’s weird?? Feels strange to read short stories here, but maybe that’s a niche I don’t know about!!!

Love Island UK Thoughts: Post Movie Night Thoughts

I LOVE THIS SHOW. It’s such a reward after suffering through USA and I’m sad to think it’ll be over soon….even if Movie Night infuriated me. WHY DO THE MEN KEEP SPEAKING????

  • First…what happened to Lola?? I'm not saying she was a groundbreaking personality on this show, but dear lord I’d like to never hear from her again. I’m all for having one couple that is too lovey dovey from jump but the other islanders keep comparing themselves to because the rest of them can’t settle down, but these two have turned for me!! JULIE ISN’T WRONG. JUSTICE FOR JULIA!!! And I wish someone would maybe call out that English isn’t her first language so maybe her bluntness is not the same as British bluntness, but she’s not wrong—that three way kiss from Fitsy was crazyyyyyyy and it was his job to put his foot down with the Casa girls. Now Lola is over defending everything in hopes of making the UK public think they’re should win when in realty….they were going to coast to the finale and now I think they’re going to get voted out???

  • Then there’s Kav and Jas (and Lorenzo)—I feel bad for Jasmine because she is a mess over a man named Kavan who listens to his perpetually stupid brother when it comes to everything, but Lorenzo is right there!!! And today HE teared up when she was sobbing, something Kavan has yet to do, and I know he doesn’t make people coffee and is just here for his tan but WHY CAN’T THEY JUST RUN THE AFFAIR BACK AND BE DONE WITH IT.

  • Also Simba and Angie…look, they’re getting back together and we just need to accept it. I will say they did an excellent job editing his convo with Mara and Mara and Angie recapping it together with a sobbing Jasmine to really make this episode a tear jerker, but I don’t trust him. I never will. But I love Angie and support her rights and wrongs (it would be wrong if she took him back.) Also Mara is a STAR.

As far as everyone else….Yas and whoever (borin’), Samraja and Mica (how is she 21 and I think Samraja is almost as bad as some of the other guys, he just has a way with words), Ellie and Finely (the winners but Finely needs to keep his mouth shut), the brothers (GET AIDEN OUT OF MY VILLA!!!!!), Charlene and Kav can have each other (she should demand better), and I feel bad for Priya.

Finding things for this bump—this third baby, I just ate a cookie in bed bump—is not easy. Especially in summer. The perk of my other two pregnancies was the winter/early spring timing because I was hot but not let me wear as little clothing as possible hot. But now?? In humid Kansas?? I AM NOT OKAY.

Below is what I’m packing for my friends Bachelor trip this weekend back in Chicago and I am PRAYING we get to feel that Chicago breeze I’ve missed so much because otherwise…I’m going to be a bitch on wheels.

As always, sharing my ShopMy and Amazon pages here, but will now be putting all my Luce Ends in one designated weekly collection….hopefully that is helpful!!!

Not pictured: I have an XL of the Spanx swimsuit I love that will work as good as it can lol, this cheap black cover up, I’m considering this Madewell dress that’s sold out everywhere but Nordstrom and I am OBSESSED with this Tuckernuck dress and think I’ll wear it the rest of summer and next summer but it’s been a pricey week in terms of home ownership so holding off.

In terms of things I’ve gotten recently / have been eyeing that have nothing to do with my trip next week….

📖 ‘The Five Star Weekend’ is out on Peacock and the reviews are great so far, but I still haven’t read the book (is it crazy I’ve never read ANY Elin???) so I need to know….should I read before binging??

📺Emmy Nominations are out and Mariska is hosting!!! I’ll say this…I’m behind on a LOT of TV

❤️Tom wants to do a romcom with Zendaya and we NEED to make this happen —someone get Nancy on the phone!!!

👩‍🍳Wishbone kitchen is getting her own cooking show on Netflix (I love a good cooking show)

📝More thoughts about the future of the Creator Economy out of Cannes and why I need to get my ass in gear when it comes to thinking outside the box

Any codes you need headed into this month are below!

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