Quick update: I’m on day 5 of my Whole 30. The first few days were rough… I was scrambling to figure out a meal plan for the week, but I think I have a handle on things now. With D’s schedule, I eat dinner alone… Read More »Cherry Blossoms 2015
Don’t take this as me falling on the bandwagon of clean eating. To be fair and honest, I don’t eat a lot of processed foods and try my best to make my own meals. It started about 4 years ago when I was complaining a… Read More »Going ‘Whole 30’
I didn’t decide early on in life that politics was a career I’d pursue or even a path I’d cross. I didn’t care as deeply as some and I admit, even today, I feel out of place in the progressive world. My peers often make… Read More »Oh, politics…
D’s birthday was a month ago. I know, I’m late blogging about it. I have no excuse… Just like my birthday, we had a week-long celebration for D’s – taking a short trip out of town to Williamsburg and throwing a dinner party for him… Read More »D’s Birthday
Finally!!! It’s Spring. I can’t tell you how happy I am that it’s finally here. Winter was a doozy. Long, cold, snowy, annoying. All of that angst. But today, oh, today is a beautiful day. However, with Winter finally saying its good-byes to us men… Read More »It’s Spring!
It’s my 5th year anniversary “back” in D.C.! I fell in love with this city a long, long time ago as an American University transfer student in 2007. We had a quick love affair, and I left for California in 2008, until 2010 when I… Read More »The Last Five Years
Some days you just need an ounce of positivity. You dig deep, trying to find that one thing at the very bottom of the barrel that can help you make it to the next day. Sometimes we find ourselves defeated, lying on the couch under… Read More »Positive Affirmations
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I’m not a professional baker… I don’t have any training whatsoever… I am just a bonafide true admirer of the Cooking Channel and Food Network. When I get that baking or cooking bug, I peruse the interwebs and concoct some version of 20 various recipes… Read More »Andrea’s Cake
I probably will get some flack for saying this, but I think Asians started the foodie craze. It might be our own upbringing – eating foods that many find disgusting, unappealing, or just plain weird. (Ahem, I’m looking at you anti-durian eater, Andrew Zimmern.) However,… Read More »My New Toy