April 13th, 2012

Friday Best!

It’s Friday. I’m a little under the weather, so I’m hangin’ out at home, trying to not feel like crapola. I’m grateful for sick time, but certainly hope this passes soon.

Thankfully, we have some Internet Awesome to make Friday a little brighter:

My friend Kate wrote this great piece about our choice in deciding if things are irritating or liberating.

Caiti wrote

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April 12th, 2012

Cliches I’m Finding Oddly Comforting As I Lose Weight

A few things about me. First of all, I wax poetic on this blog all the time, but I’m not someone who traditionally enjoys affirmations and turns of phrase meant to encourage. I just don’t. I like to find things that work for me, and that I find personally encouraging, and use those. Secondly, I loathe cliches. I really dislike impersonal, hollow advice and cheesy

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April 11th, 2012

Things I Refuse To Apologize For Liking

I recently came upon this post from Adulting, in which she encourages us to just unapologetically like what we like, without going any further. I think there’s tremendous pressure at times to be “cool” and into cool things. We all know a music or food snob, right? And while yes, I enjoy listening to hip music blogs and have attended Coachella, and definitely love me a nice meal,

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April 10th, 2012

I Made This: Kale Salad

Kale used to scare me. A lot. I welcomed it into my life via a soup a few months ago, but ever since then, I’ve slowly been adding it to salads and getting used to eating it more often.

My cousin brought a version of this salad to family brunch, and I’ve been eating it ever since. I think I’m in love. I think you could

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April 9th, 2012

Favorite Things!

I’ve mentioned on both Twitter and this here blog how much I love the Joy The Baker podcast. It is my favorite thing to listen to, and I get downright giddy on Thursdays when a new episode is released. I have been a huge fan of Joy’s blog forever and the podcast introduced me to Tracy Shutterbean, and now I just adore them both. Not only are their

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April 6th, 2012

Friday Best…

Happy Friday, friends! As usual, I’m happy to see the weekend. It was a pretty good week though, so I can’t complain too much.

On to the links!

This is literally the best thing I’ve read in a long time. If you haven’t seen it yet, stop and read it.

I’m looking forward to trying to roast a chicken

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April 5th, 2012

Bully

Thanks to The Bully Project for sponsoring my writing. Visit their website to join the movement and learn more.

One of the weirdest things about being a high school teacher is remembering all of the weird high school drama that happened to you over and over because you see it replaying itself. By overhearing a comment in the hallway, I can

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April 4th, 2012

On the intersection of Paris, running and making myself happy…

I’m not quite sure what Paris had to do with deciding to be a runner, and exactly what running has to do with a recent, personal decision to just stop being unhappy and fix things but I’m going to try to explain the thoughts that have been floating around my brain the past few weeks.

I’m a nervous person. An “anxious bunny” is the cute way

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April 3rd, 2012

I Made This: Baseball String Bracelet

I’ve slowly been working my way through my Pinterest crafty board in hopes of doing more than just pinning projects for later. I am beyond excited that it’s nearly baseball season, and I thought it’d be fun to make a little baseball-themed craft to wear to watch my San Francisco Giants this summer! I spotted this tutorial for a baseball string bracelet, and decided to make my own.

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April 2nd, 2012

On a family brunch…

It might surprise you to learn that when I was younger, I shunned all things domestic. I didn’t enjoy crafts, and I certainly didn’t want to learn to cook. I never, ever thought that I would enjoy the prospect of making things. My mom is insanely talented at all things domestic, and I grew up surrounded by delicious homemade food, and a lot of different crafty projects, and yet,

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