READ Reading is still slow…. still reading the same book (all month. Sigh). I actually had to re-borrow it from (a different) library because I didn’t get through it in 3 weeks. COOKED I’ve cooked modified versions of this tortellini soup. One time, we used ground beef instead of...
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READ This month was slow going. I only finished one book, This might be the place. Woomp. Hoping to pick up my reading pace again in March. COOKED I found this Chimichurri beef and rice dish online and loosely followed it but substituted the ground beef with steak. It...
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I am trying a new blog feature this year which was inspired by the monthly recap posts that my blog friend Stephany was sharing last year. I liked the idea of a monthly recap so much that I decided pick up the idea for my blog. I’ve tweaked the format a little bit, but...
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Another year is in the books. It’s hard to sum up a year, but as always, I’ll try. Like last year, I created this little infographic. 2018 was a mixed bag. Some things didn’t go as planned, some things were frustrating as hell (especially politics), but we also had some wins this...
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Remember that I wanted to tell you about the fitness challenge I participated in a couple of months ago? When Susi asked me, if I would consider doing a 20-day fitness challenge with her in September, I wanted to jump on it. However, September was shaping up to be a...
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© ynab.com As I mentioned in my Spending Report post earlier this year, I wanted to give you an updated review of the budgeting software I’ve been using for the last 3 years. I reviewed You Need A Budget (referred to shortly as YNAB*) once before, but that was before...
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I’ve mentioned it before: I am a numbers nerd. If you can measure it, I want it measured. I guess this is why I’ve been using a Fitbit and Garmin simultaneously (and then try to make sense of the measured differences, ha!). I know the concept of step counting and...
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Amazing. Here we are in 2018. I still remember when we celebrated the new millennium and now almost 20 years have passed. Crazy-pants. Like last year, I created this little infographic to kind of sum up my year in some numbers. But of course, there is so much more. Overall, this...
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Be honest, do you also love – and shop often – on Amazon? If you like to share the deals you grabbed on Amazon and also check out what other people have been snatching up, you want to keep reading. My blog friend Lacey has started this new link-up where every...
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The first time, someone saw that big shiny thing on my kitchen sideboard, I think they commented what a “huge badass coffee maker” that was. Ha. I do like my coffee, but I don’t have a caffeine addiction. What they were looking at was my Berkey water filter*. I meant...
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