Category: San Diego
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San Diego Quaren-Queen!
What does a blog that mostly focuses on trip reports and travel do when travel is off-the-table for awhile? Go dark, in this case! But I want to continue writing so while COVID-19 is limiting travel, I’ll start writing my deepest, darkest, TMI secrets. I kid. There is absolutely no way that’s happening. I have…
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Weekend Review
SMS and I had another great weekend in San Diego. After he arrived Friday night, we woke up Saturday morning and decided to go to Morning Glory and try the famous soufflé pancakes. We got there around 9:30 and the line was already pretty crazy. We had been warned to go early but hey, it…
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Weekend Review
Location: San Diego SMS came into town for the long weekend since our main social event was his Dad’s birthday party on Saturday! On Saturday morning, we went to the Farmer’s Market to buy kale for the salad requested for dinner. The kale salad recipe I use is from Oh She Glows, a veg/vegan recipe…
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Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time!
Christmas festivities throughout December… I blogged about it “December 7” thanks to back-dating, but SMS and I went to December Lights and recreated our meeting 7 years ago! We went during the day because we went to his sister and husband’s Christmas party that evening. The next week, I travelled back to Virginia to do…
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Highlights: November 2019
Another month mash-up! At the beginning of the month, SMS and I took a walk over to the Cantor Arts Center. We enjoyed the temporary exhibit West x Southwest: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. We also looked at the objects in the “Melancholy Museum,” an organized presentation of many items collected by Leland Stanford the…
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Highlights: October 2019
Wrapping up October with a quick fly-by! I have to be done by the New Year- new resolution, more frequent blogging. This has only been made and broken many times! So, first things first. The above picture is from a dresser I have from my parents. It dates back to childhood and I just recently…
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Highlights: August 2019 (Part 3: San Diego and Wedding Prep!)
Look at me, look at me! Looking like a total idiot! Ok, ok, many of you will think I look nice and to that, I say “Thank you.” But look at the photo carefully. What is wrong? I certainly didn’t know until someone told me at a very high-level change of command I was attending.…
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Recreating a Moment, 7 years later…
SMS and I met seven years ago as I cut across Balboa Park during December Nights to meet up with a group of friends. On the way, I saw two other friends whom I hadn’t expected to see. I popped my head over the wall, called out their last name, and SMS thought that this…
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Real Housewife of Silicon Valley
So, after an amazing Napa trip with my professional wine-tasting in-laws, I took the week off and did my best impression of a Real Housewife of Silicon Valley. Mainly, this meant that I went to expensive boutique exercise classes. I went to my favorite SPX pilates class and realized that my core has no strength.…
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December Travels
In early December, I traveled to Newport Beach for a SMS’ side of the family Christmas party. We had a really nice time hanging out the weekend and it was pretty low-key. No new Newport Beach recs, other than SMS’ cousin has a pretty cool leggings line called Goldsheep. I have a pair and I…
Portmanteau Suitcase 