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Travel
Explore USA
California
- San Jose/Santa Clara
- Steven’s Creek Trail
- San Jose Staycation
- Cinequest at California Theatres
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum grounds (dog friendly!)
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (inside)
- Tech Museum of Innovation
- Rose Garden
- Santa Clara University
- San Pedro Square
- Winchester Mystery House
- 7th Annual Fashion Show at Santana Row
- San Jose restaurants & coffee shops:
- Social Policy coffee, downtown San Jose
- La Lune Sucre, French bakery & cafe
- 85º Bakery & Cafe
- Minato Japanese Restaurant, Japantown
- Loft Bar & Bistro
- Roys Station Coffee & Tea, Japantown
- My Milkshake, customizable milkshakes!
- Veggie Grill Santana Row
- San Jose restaurants & coffee shops:
- Bay Area
- Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, Hiking with my Pomeranian
- Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay
- Saratoga Village
- Saratoga
- Capitola
- Santa Cruz, Mitchell’s Cove Beach
- Stanford University
- Central Park, Santa Clara
- Santa Clara University Campus
- Bay Area restaurants & coffee shops:
- Voyageur du Temps, Los Altos
- Bumble, Los Altos
- Chromatic Coffee, Santa Clara
- Bellano coffee, Santa Clara
- University Cafe, Palo Alto
- BJ’s Restaurant, Cupertino
- Bay Area restaurants & coffee shops:
- San Francisco
- Sailing on an America’s Cup Yacht in the San Francisco Bay
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Explore San Francisco
- Dolores Park
- Four Seasons Hotel
- “Hidden” mosaic staircase in San Francisco
- Fort Funston off leash dog beach 2015
- Fort Funston off leash dog beach 2016
- Cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge
- Muir Woods National Monument
- San Francisco restaurants & coffee shops:
- Carmel
- Lake Tahoe
- Southern California
- San Diego
- Palm Springs (Climbing in Yosemite National Park, and 3 recap videos)
Explore Canada
Newfoundland
- Snowshoeing in Pippy Park, St. John’s
- Fixed Coffee Shop, St. John’s
- Jumping Bean Coffee, St. John’s
- Middle Cove Beach during winter
- Conception Harbour
- Cape Spear the most easterly point in North America
- Flatrock” an incredible bouldering and single pitch climbing area
- The Cobbler a hike along the East Coast Trail
- Manuels River a popular climbing spot minutes outside St. John’s
- St. John’s my hometown
- More of St. John’s
Quebec
- Old Quebec City part one, part two, part three
Ontario
British Columbia
Alberta
The ABC’s of you know me
I LOVE tags and even though I wasn’t tagged in particular to do this one. I grabbed it anyway and decided to partake. I found this one from Char.
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A. Attached or Single? I’ve been with the Boyf 8 years as of June! Pretty attached if you ask me. We were BABIES. Look at us.
 B. Best Friend? I’m not sure who I’d classify my best friend besides my Boyfriend anymore. I always call my friend (who now lives in Ottawa) my best bud. Also, my friend Trev back home. But I go months and months without talking (and years without seeing) them. So I’ll stick to the Boyf as the first best bud.
J & I at her place in Ottawa last summer.
Trev & I at my Boyf’s university graduation in 2005. Glad I fixed my eyebrows since then.Â
C. Cake or pie? I love cheesecake, ice cream cake and lemon meringue pie equally. Does that count as an official answer? Because it’s going to be.
D. Day of choice? I always used to say Thursday because it’s anticipating the weekend. Now I’ve changed it to Friday because Friday’s are weekends, and some times paydays. Ooo yea.
E. Essential Item? Can my BlackBerry count?
F. Favorite color? A nice coral melon color. Like this tank from Lululemon.
G. Gummy bears or worms? Tropical mini gummy bears from Bulk Barn are to DIE for. I can’t buy them anymore, I’ll eat the whole lot of them.
H. Home town? St. John’s Newfoundland. Scenery is amazing, isn’t it?
I. Favorite Indulgence? Popcorn.
J. January or July? I HATE being cold. This is a no brainer: July.
K. Kids? My nephews may not count, but I love them like they’re my own!
We also have a Pomeranian dog, Alfie.
L. Life isn’t complete without? The internet. Is that a terrible answer?
M. Marriage date? June 17, 2005 ;) Not really. lol
N. Number of brothers/sisters? 1 brother who’s almost 3 years older than me.
O. Oranges or Apples? Honey crisp apples. I’ll pay $50 for one, they’re that good.
P. Phobias? Snakes. Can’t even go near them when they’re behind glass. I am so fearful.
Q. Quotes? “Be the person who you want to meet” and “No Guts, No Glory” I love those two.
R. Reasons to smile? My Boyf, my friends, nephews, my family, Alfie, candy, chicken, McDonalds, CrossFit and climbing.
S. Season of choice? Summer then Fall.
T. Tag 5 People.
- Brittany @ My Daily Randomness
- Amanda @ A co. Est 1984
- Meg @ A Dash Of Meg
- Courtney @ Treadmill Runway
- Aleeza @ Stylish and Literate
U. Unknown fact about me? I didn’t start cooking until I was 26. It was when I moved to Ontario. Thankfully I cook exactly like my Mom, even though I had never cooked with her before. She just instructed me over the phone and everything tasted just like Mom’s Home Cookin’. Mmm Mmm. Now, if only I had 1/10th of her boobs. (Sorry Mom).
V. Vegetable? Carrots are my all time fav. Sweet potatoes and asparagus are right up there.
W. Worst habit? This sounds gross but biting the skin around my nails.
X. X-ray or Ultrasound? More recently? What’s the question?! (Ditto, Char!) I’ll also go with recent and I got an X-Ray on my ankle when I injured it during soccer a few summer’s ago.
Y. Your favorite food? Anything with chicken. But what tops it all off is Lemon Pepper Chicken Stir Fry. SO good. Paleo friendly too!
Z. Zodiac sign? Like a true Taurus, I’m very stubborn. I don’t mind though ;)
Now answer one of the above questions for yourself!!
ootww and a barf inducing #CrossFit WOD
How in the h-e-two sticks is it Friday already? And pay day!
Last night was busy as heyyyy. I went to CrossFit and immediately drove home once it was over (barf inducing WOD last night. I’ll tell you all about it later). I didn’t barf. But I felt like I wanted to because I wanted to finish. So, I drove home and packed up Alfie’s belongings, scooped him up and headed in my car for a little drive to meet my CEO and her 10 mth old boxer puppy to go for a walk.
Well, wouldn’t you know, Alfie had to poop REALLY bad? Little nugget couldn’t hold it in, and luckily I had a towel laid down on my seat (because I love my car so much and didn’t want it covered in his fur) he took a dump right on the darn friggen towel. I was so shocked he did this, I was yelling “AH AH! Ah AH!” (his command for “No”). I pulled over onto the side of the road and scooped it all up in a little plastic bag and rushed it to the nearest garbage can on the street.
I think he could tell I was really peeved off because he didn’t whine or cry the entire ride there. He’s usually a very nervous dog on car rides and doesn’t know where the heck we’re taking him.
The walk? OH the walk on the other hand was interesting. He didn’t go after the boxer, but he stuck by my side the entire time whining and getting “huffy” (he makes weird noises) at me since I was told to ignore him. We’re trying to socialize this Pomeranian of ours and it’s taking a lot of work lol.
Anyhoo. The week flew by. To be honest, I didn’t want to get up this morning and I hit snooze twice and ended up finally getting out of bed at 7:40. I like to usually get up around 6:50-7:00 to get chores done (dishes from previous night) out of the way before heading into work. But I didn’t want to do that either last night, or apparently this morning.
I went to CrossFit four days in a row this week Mon-Thurs, and I’m kinda wondering if I should go again tonight. 5x seems kinda nutso. But I have nothing else planned for the long weekend, and they’ll be closed lol.
Man. I’m still doing okay with paleo but once in a while I have those chocolate mini eggs, or something chocolatey like that. ANd I get these sharp twisty pains in my stomach. BAD cramps like I’ve never experienced before. They last for shots of 30 seconds, then moves to another area. That goes on for about 10 minutes. I suppose the little workers in my stomach are all strong, trying to kill the bad sugar in my stomach. Right? That’s my theory on it anyway.
I’m multi-tasking. Eating my breakfast, uploading it to instagram and writing a blog post in the a.m. at 8:30 in the morn. Go me.
Have a great Friday/long weekend. I’m sure I’ll be back here at some point over the weekend. You know how it is.