Category: Lifestyle
File this under the worst thing I ever made. Tequila pineapple upside down cake is a major FAIL. It looks normal and even beautifully plump. But a picture tells 1,000 words, and this one is full of lies! Editor’s note: this post was voted on by my newsletter subscribers. If …
Put on your most comfortable walking shoes and take 10,000 steps through Alamitos Beach, Long Beach and explore some quirky sites! Having just recently moved to Long Beach, California—the city both Sublime and Snoop Dogg called the LBC—I’ve been very curious about the area. So much so that I embarked …
Continuing on the theme of Accepting Yourself Naked, today’s topic is non-scale victories or NSVs. NSVs are wins and accomplishments that have nothing to do with what the scale says. They can be large or incremental. They aren’t about how much you weigh, they’re about how you feel about yourself. …
Did you download your #2018bestnine? What did you think about it? Does it actually reflect your life in 2018? Here’s another post inspired by the ladies at Crafty Ass Females! They dedicated their last podcast of the year to a recap of an earlier episode regarding the Instagram #2018bestnine, and maybe …
The 2018 year in review is going to be different than 2017’s. Last year I had a review of only my wins. For 2018 I want to review the misses AND the wins. But instead of calling them “fails,” I’m going to think of them as “course corrections.” I was …
The New Year will be here in a mere 31 days. That’s just over 4 weeks to start on those New Year’s resolutions that are so popular. But what if you didn’t actually wait until the beginning of 2019 to start? What if you gave yourself those extra 4 weeks …
“The Holidays.” For some people, this is a great time of year. For others, not so much. In the States, this Thursday is Thanksgiving and the unofficial start to the holiday season. From my own personal experience, “the holidays” means I’m going to be tempted by overindulgence in food and drink, …
Why is the sweet dirty martini an obscure cocktail? Because I made it up! Or so I thought!* Even if I didn’t, I have yet to ever find a bartender who knows how to make it without me dictating the ingredients. Go ahead and Google it. The first and only sweet …
Anyone who knows me in real life knows I love beer. I was drinking it when I met my husband. He proposed in a brewery. We got married in a different brewery. And then spent our honeymoon in Europe drinking our way through all the Trappist breweries. What I didn’t …
“Accepting yourself naked” is probably going to become an ongoing theme on this blog. Not here for nakedness but for giveaways instead? Check it out down below. (The giveaway has ended.) Do you like to see yourself naked? If you do, then all the props to you! I want to be …
