Big news friends! My husband and I finally closed on our new place and last weekend, we made the move into the new house. I feel like we’re slightly nuts to have bought a new house after just having gone through what turned out to be a very stressful process of selling our last house and making a transcontinental move, but here we are… homeowners again! I love owning a home, but I think all homeowners can agree that with homeownership comes responsibility that you’d sometimes rather not have. After stopping over to drop things off nearly every day last week with the heat working just fine, we arrived at the house with all of our stuff over the weekend to find the house to be 55 degrees and the heat not working properly. Buying a new home and something breaking the day you move ... [Read More]
healthy soup
Potato Black Bean Soup [vegan + gluten free]
Lately the weather in the San Diego area has been nuts. Rain, rain, and more rain for the past month! This is usually the "rainy" season - though I use that term loosely - but this has been more rain than I've seen in my 7+ years in California. For the state, this is good news! California's reservoirs are swelling for the first time in half a decade, and the drought we've been in for years might be over if Mother Nature keeps it up. With all of the rain lately, a few things have been happening in my world. For one, my dog has been super whiny and energetic. She literally does sprints around the house when it's raining out, and cries at the door yet doesn't want to go outside and get wet... not that I blame her, I've been missing our outdoor workouts too. Secondly, my ... [Read More]