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Christmas Coffee Advent Update #3
Less than one week until Christmas! I’m still having so much fun with our Christmas Coffee Advent! 🙂 Here’s how we’ve been enjoying our daily coffee this season. Day 12: Go to a new coffee shop We flew to Dallas this day for our big family gathering, so we went to a White Rhino coffee Continue reading
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this week #55
Good morning and happy Thursday! Christmas is only one week away! I hope you are continuing to have a lovely holiday season. This was a busy week for me between work and travel (and getting sick). But here’s what I’ve been… …Reading: I finished The Great Gatsby and Death on the Nile last week! I Continue reading
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Christmas Coffee Advent Update #2
In case you were wondering, we’re still going strong with our seasonal celebration of coffee! This experience has made me consider doing stuff like this more frequently. Not a whole advent calendar, per se, but maybe a planned week of seasonal activities here and there. We’ll see! Day 5: Make an espresso con panna with Continue reading
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this week #54
Good morning, and happy Sunday! I’m writing to you from the couch. After I finished my run last night, I noticed my throat felt a little sore, but I chalked it up to running in the cold. I tossed and turned all night and woke up feeling extremely blah. My throat was still sore, and Continue reading
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Happy December!
And the coffee advent calendar begins! I figured it would be fun to share our coffee activities throughout the month, so here I am. I must say, I’m having a great time so far. Each night, Patrick and I discuss the next day’s coffee task excitedly, which is making cold December mornings more exciting. Day Continue reading
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Life’s Playlist
On the way to the gym this morning, I decided to take a short break from Christmas music and shuffled my ‘liked’ playlist on Spotify instead. I first started my Spotify in 2011 (I think), and the variety of music on my liked playlist reflects that. At some point I stopped using my account and Continue reading
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this week #53
Happy Thanksgiving! We turkey trotted this morning, and it was madness. Fun! Make no mistake. But it was a much bigger crowd than last year on Alexandria’s pretty small streets. A cold front blew in overnight, too. We’re prepping our contributions for Thanksgiving dinner, and I’m resisting the urge to drink a lot of coffee. Continue reading
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this week #52
Happy Wednesday! This week has felt unreasonably long. Maybe it’s the fact that it gets dark outside before I even leave the office, or maybe it’s because I’m not running this week so the evenings pass more slowly? Whatever it may be, I’m excited for the weekend. I’m not having a bad week whatsoever, but Continue reading
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2025 Richmond Marathon Recap
What a weekend! Another successful Richmond Marathon in the books: I PR’d by 14 minutes! With my recent 50k, that makes two PRs in two weeks. I’m stoked. My previous marathon PR was Richmond last year. I ran 4:38:10 and 4:41:11 for the course (I did not run the tangents, so it came to 26.48 Continue reading
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Christmas Coffee Advent Calendar
I know, I know, we still have Thanksgiving to celebrate. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited! But I had this idea on my mind and it required some advance planning… Christmas is around the corner! Years ago, I bought reusable, build-your-own advent calendars from Target that we’ve filled with fun chocolates ourselves every year. It’s Continue reading
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