Life is more than the Cubicle

Last weekend I went camping with some friends from church: Sam, Sandley, Chrissy, and Jon. We met up on Saturday morning and drove 4.5 hours to Sequoia National Forest where we pitched our tents in the Quaking Aspen Campground. I don't have pictures of the campground but it was about your usual type of deal.  Then, we sat for a few minutes talking...

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I finally had a low-key, sleep-in kind of saturday morning so I decided to wake up at 8:30am and get ready for the day. I called my mom to see what she was up to and we ended up going to the Saratoga farmers market and then to Whole Foods. I quickly pulled up a few recipes from my cookbook stash and made...

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I haven't been posting as much as I said I would. Oops! To distract you, here are some pictures of pretty things from a clothing swap that I hosted a few weeks back. I bought some flowers from whole foods to accent one of the clothing tables. I thought there would be just a few pieces of clothing to display. Little did I...

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Here's an update on the cooking, adventures and creative happenings from the past few weeks. I decided to try a new recipe that I found for oxtail soup. I bought a pound and a half of oxtails from whole foods, seared them then boiled them with tomatoes, onions, garlic, carrots and all sorts of good things. Post sear in the pan. Look at...

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This is super late in posting. Oops. Last year my family decided to have a reunion in Australia which included 3 days up in Cairns to play in the sun and 3 days in Melbourne to have some family fun time. The plane trip out there was....long. It's been a while since I've gone on such a long flight and I didn't get...

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