Part Two: The Feast (and the Unwelcome Trash-Can Dwellers)

A successful Thanksgiving is in the books! I (along with my ever-helpful husband) pulled off a delicious Thanksgiving meal which we celebrated with our friends Erica and John. What a fun day! And I gotta...

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Thanksgiving 2014, Part 1: The Preparations

This is the year. I'm making, from start to finish, my first full Thanksgiving meal. Oh, the joy! Oh, the hilarity. Since we are across the country and have only 36-ish hours off from work, we knew there...

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Sweater Weather

I definitely did not bring enough warm clothing with me. People warned me about the weather in the Bay Area, and you have my sincerest apologies for not fully believing you. Now people back on the east...

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Two Words: Full Time (or is that one hyphenated word?)

Turns out that having a full time job takes up, well, the majority of your time. How about that. You may have been wondering why I haven't posted in about three weeks. More than likely, you didn't even...

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California Love

I'm out of Wedding Season shape. There was a (extremely long period of) time in my life where going to other people's weddings was my life. I mostly* enjoyed it. What's not to love about weddings? Free...

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And The Angels Sang...

HALLELUJAAAAHHHH!!! Dearest friends, I am ecstatic to report that yesterday was the first day (more like afternoon) of my new job! Through a kind and very random reference by my new friend Brianna,...

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Why I Don't Like HIMYM

Some of you are probably all ready livid with me just after reading the post title, but hold on! I'm about to share an amazing revelation I had the other day. (Ok, "amazing revelation" is probably too strong a phrase for this. It's more like a personality vs pop culture theory that I think is pretty...

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Holiday Chatter

Is it ok that I've all ready started a Christmas list? I'm typically not one to begin the season before December 1st (unlike places such as Starbucks... ugh) but when you live in such an affluent place but can't afford any of it, you easily dream.  Thus, I've put all of my "I'd like to rush out...

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Lessons From a Blueberry

Things That Are Dumb 1. Traffic with absolutely no cause 2. Everything Kanye West says 3. Expectations We played this game in the car the other day, asking each other ,”What are some things that you think are undeniably dumb?” Not surprisingly, being an opinionated individual, my list went...

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Shower Resonance... and other things that are different in California

Written: August 11, 2014 As I got ready for my first Skype interview this afternoon, I was belting in the shower in order to calm the nerves and I realized I needed to readjust… because even the resonance in my shower is different on the west coast. I had gotten used to the feeling and sound of my...

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The One Where I Started a Blog

So here we are.... the Blog-o-Sphere. The Big Domain. The World Wide Web. You get the point. Kudos to Sir Aaron Peck for this blog title. I was mostly impressed with the amount of comment likes he received. I also am pretty sure no one knows how to pronounce my married name.  It's GOW-DUH.  Like...

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