Most people follow foodie blogs for delectable, healthy from-scratch recipes with unique ingredients. So in that vein I present my third Super Easy But Somewhat Creative Dessert You Can Make Using A Cake Mix (™). Just because it’s not classy enough for you, doesn’t mean we don’t need easy recipes sometimes. I wanted to [...]
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Blog hiatus over! I tried to be as unplugged as humanly possible last week as I took my first VACATION in the year that I’ve been working to Maui, Hawaii with my friend Alyssa. I’ll be sure to do more posts about Hawaii itself including the delicious food that we ate and activities we engaged [...]
It’s amazing how easy it is to go through life without having enough FUN. I have a lot of fun, usually, but also find myself occasionally wondering what happened to the carefree nature of life. Days when I’m tired, stressed, and “fun” activities become obligation. Tonight was one of those nights. I’d paid to go [...]
On Tuesday, my friend texted me and asked if I wanted to do a 22-mile trail run with him on Saturday. I considered it for a minute, checked the website and then decided that 22 might be a bit ambitious for my first trail run but hey, 11 should be easy! I recruited Alyssa, Kabri, [...]
Okay, so the blog took a little tiny bit of a backseat this week while I was busy at work and lost sleep over the fire trauma, but I’m back in action. First up: a New Years’ Eve Recap, or, more specifically, the New Years Dash 5K recap. Backstory: this was going to be my [...]
Last night, nothing happened and everything did. I had just sat down with my laptop around 8PM to do a little productive work on the 1st of the year to get it started off right, after quite the lazy day. Only minutes afterward I heard a woman screaming outside, in a bone-chilling way, and the [...]
Greetings folks. I planned to do a whole 2011 series this week but frankly life just got in the way. So some of them may be belated, but I did want to do a little recap of my running year. The other, harder-to-quantify stuff can come later. In January I started training for my first [...]
As I sit here on Christmas evening, I’ve found myself thinking about what Christmas means to different people. It’s Jesus’s birthday, of course, but the holiday is celebrated in many different ways by people who believe many different things. There’s an overarching “holiday spirit” that infects us, and takes on a variety of forms. I’ve [...]
So there are not a lot of fitness activities I’m scared to try, but for some reason CrossFit has been a fascination for me (it sounds badass!) but also something I was a little afraid of. See, I was scared of one of the two things happening: 1, being in a line of people and [...]
(Subtitle: The post where I talk about a really unhealthy desert and then randomly segue into giving away pounds of coffee) I realized I should stop calling my blog a quase food blog and just call it a running, life, and baking blog. Because pretty much all of my recipes are desserts. And that’s how [...]
I’ve spent the last few days surrounded by entirely too many cookies. It’s funny, I feel like I have a limitless sweet tooth, but when I get to the point that eating another cookie sounds disgusting, I know I probably passed my limit. Well, it’s been a weekend of holiday parties and more than a [...]
During the holiday season there are about fifteen billion demands on our time. Work heats up, travel plans enter, and calendars are filled with parties. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, supposedly, but often it feels entirely overwhelming and stressful instead of peaceful and joyful. What gives? I’ve recently been selected as a [...]
This weekend was all about perspective—in a variety of ways. On Saturday, I went to a race just to watch and support. I kind of did this at Half Moon Bay, but also ran 15 miles that day, so it wasn’t truly spectating. This was. I woke up at 5:45AM, drove my tired and reluctant [...]
The last three weeks just culminated on Sunday in the most ridiculous running experience of my life. The backstory: Three or so weeks ago, a friend mentioned she probably wouldn’t be able to run CIM because of an injury. I’d considered signing up earlier, and then opted out as I thought I’d be traveling for [...]
Just over a month ago I wrote one of my favorite posts ever on the blog, No-Nonsense November. There was little to no forethought behind the post, just a straightforward declaration that I would Cut the Crap from my life in a variety of areas. November has come and gone with several highlights, from the [...]
My mom has loved to run for a very long time. While I got many personality traits and interests from her, I never really liked to run. Sure, I did a few 5Ks with her (like this very race I’m about to recap), but more or less begrudgingly. So she said she was “amused” when [...]
I posted about what I was thankful for, and I could wax poetic about everything that happened here over the holiday, but that may not be the most exciting play by play. Instead, I’ll leave you with a few shots from my Thanksgiving. I hope yours was as full of joy. So much to [...]
Two things that a lot of you probably don’t know: One, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Two, and more significantly: it’s been four years since I’ve been in America for Thanksgiving. It’s been a year since I left the continent of Africa and coming up on a year since I returned home to the States [...]
Each holiday has its appropriate time period. I get that. Halloween gets October, Thanksgiving gets November, and starting on Black Friday, it’s Christmas everywhere. But I’m one of the many committing the overly-excited holiday faux pas. Starting with this. Hey, when you live alone in San Francisco in an apartment the size of a closet [...]
I’ve fallen off the (blogging) wagon. When life gets crazy sometimes the blog slips for a few days… and then after it slips for a few days I start getting really overwhelmed because I have that many more days of content I feel the need to post about and then the time just flies by [...]
So I already posted about #fbzfest (aka Foodbuzz Blogger Festival) night one, which was pretty awesome in and of itself. Then Saturday arrived. I knew today would be a “marathon, not a sprint” as it involved sessions from 9-12, eating at the tasting pavilion from 1-4, and then yet another multi-course meal at 6:30, so [...]
I seriously feel like I never need to eat again. Okay, that’s a lie. I’m pretty sure my stomach expanded from doing nothing but eat for three days and now I’m scrounging for food at 10PM… but that’s a whole different story. This weekend was the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival, which I’d been looking forward to [...]
This will be a mini post. But I have to share some happy news. I found out today that I was selected to be an SF Marathon Ambassador for 2012! I applied last week, but never thought I’d be chosen. Now I’m going to get to work with 31 others across the country—including Alyssa, Aron, [...]
I’m cutting the crap this month. I’m cutting the crap out of my diet. I am going to, under any possible circumstances, avoid the vicious C-words at my office. Candy, Cereal, Crackers, Cookies, Chips… Coke (the diet version)… only bad things happen, and there have to be better ways to make it through the 3PM [...]
I’m cutting the crap this month. I’m cutting the crap out of my diet. I am going to, under any possible circumstances, avoid the vicious C-words at my office. Candy, Cereal, Crackers, Cookies, Chips… Coke (the diet version)… only bad things happen, and there have to be better ways to make it through the 3PM [...]
It’s been a while since I felt a true runner’s high. And not for lack of running… I’ve been logging my miles since the SF Marathon, with these three months seeing a few hundred miles run as well as three half marathons raced and one spectated while running farther than the course distance. But something [...]
Whenever I take a week off of blogging, it feels a bit like falling off the wagon. The farther away you slip, the harder it seems to be to jump back on. I truly love blogging, though I think I’ve been a little frustrated by it lately because I know what it could be if [...]
Half Marathon #4 in the books and tiffany bling to boot! Yesterday I woke up at 4:30AM to run the Nike Women’s Marathon. I had a fun sleepover at Alyssa’s house with RadRunner and a bunch of cute cats and when the alarm went off a bit too early we were out of bed and [...]
It’s Nike Women’s Marathon time! When I entered the lottery for NWM11 MONTHS ago, I didn’t know a single runner in the area. Now, I’m running it with a dozen or two of my new friends, which I am incredibly excited about! I met up with Alyssa and Erica on Friday to pick up our [...]
So a handful of weeks ago I contacted some bloggers to try to plan a meetup in October. There seemed to be about 50 of us floating around the blogosphere, why not get together? So I tried to plan a meetup for October. Logistics were a challenge with Fleet Week and general busy-ness, but Sports [...]
Hello all! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I had a great one, a highlight being a Blogger Meetup but that’s a separate post for tomorrow perhaps, once I steal some pictures. As apparently amidst organizing a blogger meetup I lost all blogger photo-taking tendencies. Oh well. One of my best friends was in [...]
I got a little delirious and ended up signing up for my fifth GrubWithUs dinner tonight. (If you haven’t seen my posts about GWU before, here’s the lowdown: signup for meal with 8 randos. prepay for variety of dishes, tax and tip. Go to new restaurant and get to taste tons of dishes while chatting [...]
Yesterday I ran my third half marathon at the Dodge San Jose Rock & Roll. I had initially wanted to do the race but couldn’t afford it, but then my lovely (and generous!) friend Alyssa gifted me a bib she couldn’t use, so I was psyched for the opportunity. Unfortunately, work and life got in [...]
September is over. September has brought some really fun stuff in its four short weeks. I had an awesome Labor Day weekend. I spent a week in Utah. I made a whole bunch of jam. I hung out with other bloggers. I cheered friends at a marathon. There were a lot of other highlights that [...]
The original title of this post was “Why spectating is way cooler than racing,” but then I thought better of it. 6AM Sunday morning came quite early as I dragged my sorry and exhausted bottom out of bed, dressed hazily in running gear and made my way over to pick up Alyssa. We were headed [...]
I love blogger meetups. I love them even more when they involve food and fun people, which luckily, they absolutely always seem to do. Today was Fitbloggin’ Local Meetup #2, also known as the Breakfast Summit so graciously hosted by Annelies and Attune Foods. They welcomed ten lovely bloggers into their beautiful office for a [...]
I spend an amazing amount of time and money exploring lunch spots in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood and since my blog is in part about food and San Francisco, I figure I should start actually posting some of them. And luckily I have awesome coworkers who are often down for new lunch spots. [...]
Hello everyone! Blog and email and gchat and facebook silence this week. Sucks but I’m going to have a nice long post about that later this week. Wanted to get a post up about my run today. Today was one of THOSE runs where you are just sort of miserable and they totally knock your [...]
The last weekend was pretty awesome. And today has been not that bad either—especially for a Monday! Let’s recap shall we? Friday night—wish I could tell you about my hot plans but that mostly involved going to the gym and then watching Notting Hill on my laptop while eating popcorn. Awesome. I’m sorry, but that [...]
Slow blogging week as I was out and about in a few areas of central Utah this week. Followed up by a fabulous weekend. I’ve got some great posts coming up but until tomorrow I want to share some pictures of the last week. I’m determined to get on track this week with blogging, healthy [...]
I REALLY, really needed a weekend. Last week was rough with 5AM wakeup calls every day for booty-kicking bootcamps and entirely not enough sleep. Next week begins with a 4:30AM wakeup call to head to Utah for most of the week. Labor Day weekend, how I needed you. Friday night I was pretty exhausted but [...]
Last night was my fourth GrubWithUs dinner and my first where I got to dine with the lovely Jana! These dinners are a great way to meet cool new people and also, equally cool, to get to try a wide variety of dishes from a cool new restaurant all at once. Previous GWU meals have [...]
Today was my first day of bootcamp! You may recall that I mentioned signing up for a bootcamp back in July through a Bloomspot deal. It was scheduled to start the day after the SF Marathon (HA!) and run through last Friday, but the week of the marathon I realized I’d be traveling two solid [...]
So I wasn’t really sure if I was going to get a bib for The Giant Race this morning. And even if I did, when my alarm went off at 5AM, I wasn’t sure if I was actually going to go. My preparations this week consisted of a couple of normal runs and no advance [...]
San Francisco is a great city to live in. It’s an even better city to eat in. Yesterday, I pretty much broke all my rules (guidelines) as I had two big food-and-booze focused events to get through: Company Culture wine tasting and my third GrubWithUs dinner. Our quarterly company culture event took us to The [...]
Not going to lie, I had high expectations for this weekend. And it turned out to be… even better than I expected! Saturday morning I was finally participating in something I’ve been wanting to for a long time: hiking in Marin! I met up with Talia bright and early and we headed up to hike [...]
I took on a new activity last night per the suggestion of my friends Julia and Talia. We decided to make jam. Making jam is one of those activities that sounds quaint and fun but as I haven’t cooked a full-on meal it what seems like months, I’m usually content to hand over the $2 [...]
Part 3 of a series following Portland and New Hampshire following a 7 or 8 state (I can’t remember) trip I took the last two weeks. I am very behind on both blogging and comments as I am still jetlagged and exhausted but bear with me as I catch up. : ) I figured I’d [...]
Few traditions are as culturally transcendent as sharing a meal with family. There are a lot of books out there about how to eat and what to eat and the right way to eat, but they all agree on one thing: the profound importance of sharing a meal amongst friends or family. Breaking bread together [...]
First of all, thank you so much for your kind words on my SF Marathon Recap! It’s been a week since the race and I felt great just a day or two after, and am ready to tackle my next goal. I’ve also been a bit behind on blogging, twitter, commenting etc, so forgive me—in [...]
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