For all of my readers in the U.S. and Canada, YAY for Labor Day weekend! I'm looking forward to what seems like it'll be a pretty low-key next couple of days. Today I decided to try getting back to my usual Friday routine of going for a hike with Harley girl. I haven't hiked lately since getting a boot on for my foot injury, but now that the cast has been off for a week and it's feeling pretty good, I figured I'd try to do a somewhat easy & short hike. Quite honestly, I've been dying to go hiking. The views are so gorgeous around here, and I just adore getting some fresh air and clearing my mind during a hike. After a nicely productive morning of work, I took Harley to our usual nearby park that we hike at for a lunchtime workout. It's pretty toasty out today - about 90 and bright ... [Read More]
Archives for August 2013
Thursday Travel Throwback: Across the U.S.A.
Happy Thursday, and welcome to my third Thursday Travel Throwback series post! Today I'm sharing with you the highlights of my adventures driving from the East to West coast. At the end of 2009, my Marine and I drove from our temporary residence in the Pensacola, Florida area where he was training, back to our home state of New Jersey for the holidays. Right after spending Christmas with our families, Adam and I packed up a Uhaul, sold his car, and trailered mine on the back, and we were off to move to San Diego! Weather-wise, it was a little risky driving cross-country in the middle of the winter. We did hit some snow, but we were lucky enough to not get stuck in a big storm or anything. One of my favorite parts of the trip was spending a few days in Missouri. We explored ... [Read More]
WIAW: Taco Night in Less than 10 Minutes
Fact: I love stretching, and typically do so on a daily basis. When I don't stretch for a couple of days, my body starts to feel achy and stiff. This doesn't happen often, but while my girlfriends were in town this past weekend, I didn't do any real exercise besides walking around San Fran and taking Harley for long walks - and I did very little stretching. So this morning when I woke up, I was looking forward to getting a nice stretch in post-walk with my pup. My foam roller felt glorious! (source) My workout at the gym this evening was my first sweat session of the week, and it was a good one. I got the okay to take off my foot cast a couple of days ago - WOOHOO! My foot has been feeling better, so I think the bone is healing and there's less inflammation going on. I've definitely made ... [Read More]
One Awesome Girls Weekend
On Saturday my old college roomies flew into San Francisco to visit me for a long weekend, and I've had so much fun with them the past couple of days! Neither Meaghan or Marla had been to the Bay Area before, so when their flight arrived a few hours late in the afternoon, we made sure to fit fun touristy activities in. First on our list was visiting the Painted Ladies aka the house from the TV show Full House - which we all were obsessed with growing up! After checking that out, we drove down Lombard Street, then stopped to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Afterwards we walked around Fisherman's Wharf, checked out some seals... ...and enjoyed a celebratory girls weekend drink. After that, we met up with a few people in Meg's family who live in/were visiting the area. We went out to ... [Read More]
Oatmeal Pecan Baked Peaches with Cinnamon Honey Greek Yogurt
Happy weekend! I'm psyched for the weekend because two of my girlfriends from Jersey, Meaghan and Marla, are flying in to visit me tomorrow. These ladies were roommates of mine in college, both of whom I've talked about on my blog before. I'm so excited to show them around my new area and have some fun girl time! Now onto the title of this post... Locally grown peaches have been everywhere lately, and I'm loving it! Ever since making wine-baked peaches, I've been thinking about other ways to bake peaches for breakfast or lunch instead of dessert (read: no fro yo involved). Yesterday, I came up with one pretty damn delicious peach recipe for lunch: First I sliced a ripe peach, placed it in a small baking dish, and poured an almond milk/vanilla extract mixture over ... [Read More]
Thursday Travel Throwback: Hawaii
Hello, hello! Welcome to Part 2 of my Thursday Travel Throwback series. Last week I featured my time in Sicily, and this week I'm talking about... Hawaii! During my Marine's first deployment, I met him for a week in Waikiki. It was 8 months after our civil ceremony and 6 months before our big wedding shindig, so we consider our Hawaii vacation to have been our honeymoon. Naturally, we spent a lot of time lounging on the beach relaxing... We also did some touring around the island to some cool spots, including Hanuama Bay... ...and this gorgeous lookout point: I love that photo so much, I had it blown up into a canvas picture that is now hanging in my kitchen! In Hawaii, I was pretty much obsessed with getting flowers arrangements made to wear in my hair. They were so ... [Read More]