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Date Night Idea: Cooking Class
If you and your partner are both foodies, or are looking to cook at home more and possibly eat healthier, why not make a date night out of a cooking class? On our recent trip down to Portland, Chris and I took a class with a long-time friend of mine, Swati. She offers cooking classes…
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8 Tips for Easy Adventures
I like to refer to my Year of Exploration jaunts as “adventures.” It’s probably because I enjoy gaming, so it’s fun to imagine life as a series of side quests and dungeon crawls. So often, when we think of going on an adventure, or exploring, we imagine it has to be a big all-day expedition,…
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2018: A Year of Exploration
Happy Almost New Year, dear readers! I’m really excited about 2018. Sadly, this past year has really not turned out how I expected it to. I suffered a lot of setbacks in terms of employment and the loss of our dear Maggie dog. When 2017 started, I had this great idea that I would go…
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Sips by Tea Subscription Box — First Impressions
If you know me at all, you know that I Love Tea, as explained in depth in that blog post. So I was pretty excited to sign up for the Sips by Tea Subscription Box. Now, I’ve done a few makeup subscription box in the past, and spoken with friends who do others, and ultimately…
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope your holiday is going well. It’s just after 7pm as I sit down to write this and we have so far only had one family of trick-or-treaters (two adults with a toddler). The corgis were very excited to receive the attention, especially Daisy who is wearing her beetle wings from…
The Displaced Cactus
Adventures of a former desert dweller transplanted to Washington