My in-laws and Chris & I are all members of Willakenzie Estates and they held a special tasting event yesterday so all of us, plus a couple of our friends headed out to wine country for a day in the vineyards. We went to Willakenzie along with Penner Ash and tasted some great wines. When… Continue Reading
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Return of my running buddy + my favorite bottle of wine
As I’m sure you’re aware (because I mention it on here all the time) I love running but my knees suck. And even though I’ve just completed 2 months of physical therapy (my 2nd time in less than two years) I am still crazy enough to think I can run Hood to Coast in August. … Continue Reading
Mind over matter
That’s what Jillian told me this morning, “mind over matter.” She said this to me as I was doing her 30 Day Shred. The ENTIRE DVD. That would be all 3 levels in descending order. See normally, you’re supposed to do 1 level for a good 20 minute workout but I wanted to kick my… Continue Reading
Know your audience
My degree is in communication and all through school my professors hammered the importance of knowing your audience. As in, understand who you’re talking to. Giving a presentation to a room full of designers? Don’t run through a million spreadsheets, make it visual. Talking to kids? Make it fun. What does this have to do… Continue Reading
My Next 30 Years
I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age The ending of an era and the turning of a page Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here Lord have mercy on my next thirty years Today, at approximately 6:30 AM PST is my 30th bday. And I am happy. When… Continue Reading
Best workout of the week
I can’t wait for the hours to tick away today. Sunday is my birthday and this afternoon we’re heading to the coast for a weekend of all my favorite things. Tonight we’ll be enjoying my favorite pizza in the entire world, tomorrow we’ll be going to my favorite brewery for one of my favorite beers. … Continue Reading
The last sunday in which my age starts with a 2
That is correct my friends. Today is the last Sunday of my 20′s. And I spent it doing this: Before that, I spent some time at Nordstrom Rack, doing this (sadly I got home and knit sparkle tank top had a hole in it so I took it back and got something else): While Chris… Continue Reading
Doing (yard) work
Yesterday we did yard work. And when I was thinking about what I’d say about it, I realized I didn’t want to write about yesterday’s yard work without giving you a bit of background on our yard. Because yesterday’s yard work was NOTHING compared to most of the yard work we’ve done on this place. … Continue Reading
Justin Bieber award?
Nope, sorry. Actually earlier this week, Sara and Julia, at Across country quilts gave me a Liebster award (and Liebster sounds like Bieber…so there you go). I had to do a little research on this since I’m new to this whole blog world. Turns out, Liebster is a German word meaning favorite, dearest or beloved. The… Continue Reading
Reasons why Oregon is amazing
My brother and his girlfriend came down from Olympia this weekend to visit so we wanted to do something fun with them and decided to go snowshoeing. We lucked out with the most amazing weather! It was so freaking beautiful out. I just couldn’t believe it. It was one of those perfect days where it… Continue Reading