Have you been to a wellness retreat before? In all honesty, I used to go back and forth between really wanting to do it and thinking that it was definitely not for me. My problem is: as an introvert, I was afraid that a weekend retreat would exhaust me (spoiler...
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We can’t go through a fall season here in CA without a trip to Apple Hill. Everybody knows that. Last year was special because I got to spend a day there with my Mom. Just me and her. I never get that anymore. This year, we decided to make the trip...
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Source Last year, I ran my first half marathon in San Francisco. This year, I returned to the City to run another half marathon (warning, this will be a long recap!). As I mentioned before, the SF marathon has full marathon (DARK BLUE) and two half marathons. The 1st half marathon...
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We I always make big plans for long weekends and then we end up hanging out at home and enjoying a nice, laid-back weekend instead. I am not complaining. Coffee in the backyard, reading, running, walking in the park, movies. It was perfect. I ran our usual errands on Saturday...
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Hi friends, how was your Easter weekend? I hope it was lovely! I have to be honest with you: if my Mom hadn’t reminded me that it’s Easter weekend, I probably would have completely blanked on it this year. Oops. I blame the fact that neither Good Friday, nor Easter...
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I don’t know if you noticed but I am suffering a bit from writer’s block lately. The posts just don’t come easy for me right now. But what do you do when you don’t know what to write? You keep writing (in the hopes that the mojo will come back...
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A little late, but I wanted to recap our Thanksgiving weekend. Four glorious days off and nowhere we had to be. J and I stayed put over the holidays and it was great and relaxing, just the two of us. On Thursday, I slept in and then made a big pot...
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Hi guys, how was your Labor Day weekend? Ours was pretty low-key (overall). We didn’t really go anywhere and didn’t attend any BBQs (is that a Labor Day thing? I saw a lot of advertisements for BBQ stuff before this weekend), but I since I get (most) Fridays off, I was lucky...
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Our long Memorial Day weekend was mostly low-key and laid back. + Friday was J and my 10th anniversary. We wanted to go somewhere for a day trip and I had suggested going back to the Fremont Diner in Sonoma/Napa Valley. I had just been there two weeks ago with...
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Two Saturdays ago, I flew down to SoCal for a quick weekend trip to see Caryn and her boyfriend Joe. They flew out from Washington, D.C. and I was so thrilled to see them again. I got into Burbank on Saturday morning, picked up my rental car and made...
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