January 10th, 2012

The Official Juice Cleanse Post

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If you follow me on the Twitter or we’re friends on the Facebook, than it’s likely you know I did a three day juice cleanse.

Spoiler alert: it was awesome. No, really.

I’ll explain more about it by answering the questions I got most often:

Why do a cleanse? One of my goals this year is to focus more on

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January 9th, 2012

Why Don’t You?

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Are you reading Smaggle? If not, you should start immediately. She’s smart, funny, sassy and from Australia, meaning that she uses turns of phrase that are completely different from mine AND I get to imagine her reading her posts in an Australian accent. WIN! Anyways, she does the most lovely feature called Why Don’t You?, in which, she gives a few small suggestions as to fun

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January 6th, 2012

Friday Best…

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from a walk around my neighborhood…

Happy Friday, friends! I hope this first week of 2012 has been going well. I didn’t mention it on the blog because I’m afraid of Bad Things (but alluded to it on Twitter because I’m dumb and inconsistently afraid of the world!) but we spent nearly two weeks in Illinois visiting Andrew’s family for

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January 4th, 2012

Get Crafty: DIY-ish New Years Postcards

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I love sending and receiving mail. In the past, I’ve spent hours laboriously gluing paper Christmas trees to cards and mailing them out to my nearest and dearest. But this year, I taught right up to December 23, and didn’t have the desire to spend time making a ton of individual holiday cards this year. Also, I’ve always loved it when people send cards at a bit less

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January 2nd, 2012

Reflections From My First Digital Sabbatical

I’ll be honest: I didn’t think I’d make it 24 hours.

I expected yesterday, my first 24 hour break from social media, to be agonizingly difficult and frustrating. I expected to feel anxious at not checking my phone, connecting on Twitter, seeing what everyone was up to on Facebook. I signed off of Twitter at 11:57 so I could watch the ball drop & kiss Andrew

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December 31st, 2011

Fresh On The First

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Hello! And almost happy 2012! I love New Years Eve, and I’m super excited to celebrate tonight. But tomorrow, you won’t be seeing tweets about my plans, or hearing about my 2012 goals.

I’m taking a day off from all social media.

I wrote about this idea a few posts back and since then, I’ve only grown more passionate about the idea

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December 30th, 2011

2011 Best

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Happy Friday! Instead of doing my normal Friday Best post, I thought it’d be fun to take a look back at the year more generally and make a list of all of my personal favorite things and “best” of the year.

Without further adieu:

Best product of 2011: Urban Decay Naked Palette. Oh, how I love you, Naked Palette. Seriously, the best

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December 27th, 2011

The Most Important Thing I Learned in 2011…

Since I’m on vacation and it’s the week between Christmas and New Years, a time that includes a ton of navel gazing and pondering for the year ahead, I have been having all of the epiphanies, and trying to define the most important thing I learned in 2011.

2011 was a year of setting boundaries and re-learning things about myself. It was about teaching others, including

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December 23rd, 2011

Friday Best…

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It’s Friday! Hooray! It’s also my last day of work until January 9th, which makes me so happy I really can’t handle it. I am READY for a break. It’s hard to find time for holiday spirit when you work so close to the holiday, but I think I’ve done pretty well. I can’t wait to really enjoy the holiday. I’m also really excited for

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December 22nd, 2011

My hippie side and a lifestyle change…

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I try very hard to keep my semi-hippie nature concealed from the Internet, but the truth is that I went to massage school, I once burned sage in my apartment to clear “energy” and I secretly (or not so secretly) want to dread my hair like Anne Lamott. You would, too, if you had to deal with my hair. I promise.

One of

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