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The Struggle That Took Me Away
Wow. What. A. Year. When I first started this blog, the focus was supposed to be on health and wellness – both physical and mental. It then morphed into wedding prep and hosting a COVID wedding. Now, it’s more of a continuous “about me”, but I swear this one does tie into the importance of your mental health. Some of you may know that I lost my job in March 2020. Not just my job, but it was my dream job. You guys, I come from a very math and science heavy household growing up but always loved being creative (right side) and artsy (left side) which came out through…
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New Year. Old Traditions.
Happy New Year! It’s finally the end of that never ending year and the start of something new, something hopeful, something of change! We could all use some change and something else to focus on! Every year my husband and I make our vision boards. What is a vision board you ask? A vision board is literally a blank slate – usually we cut a white poster board in half where you share, clip and paste, draw what you envision for your future or what you want to focus on for the upcoming year or few years. This will be our 6th year doing it together and I only remember…
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Quarantine Instagram Work Outs
I am a firm believer in getting your body moving every day, even if it is just to have a little dance party by yourself. It is so important to move and get your blood pumping because to me – that is the essence of being alive. Do not take movement for granted as there are so many in the world that wish that they could. Quarantine has heightened that importance so we aren’t just Netflix and chilling all the time (which is also necessary in moderation). Since living in San Francisco and growing up being super frugal, I am not a big fan of spending $200+/month on a gym…
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New Job! Who this?!
I started a new job mid-March – crazy to think that I was able to and lucky enough to quick and find a job so quickly. I am definitely thankful, grateful, and blessed. But, do not be fooled – it was a lot of hard work as well with the emotional rollercoaster of interviewing and moving on in the process vs. getting denied. What I’ve noticed thus far in this new role? Although I went through multiple interviews, it’s hard for people to know the detail and depth of your work experience in a matter for a 30 – 60 minute interview. It is up to you to utilize your…
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I Quit. Now What?
Early February, I put in my two week notice and quit my job with no job lined up and was fully ready to take 6 to 12 months to heal, take classes, and job search. The job I quit had a great mission and great teammates, but unfortunately it was not a great culture fit and I did not feel supported or set up for success in my role. Not to mention, it was a role that did not check even the majority of my career goal boxes and had begun to affect my mental health – hence the quitting. The week of my last day, I had a total…
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Ending the Never-Ending Year!
First of all, thank you for your patience with me. I have not written a blog in a couple of months and I wish I had a good reason to or an exciting project I was working on instead, but to be honest, I just did not have the mental capacity to do anymore at the time. I know that I am not alone when saying these past two months have been even more tiresome and mentally draining than almost the rest of the year. The end of the year is usually crunch time – time where you are trying to squeeze in any last minute goals, time to drain…
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Keeping Sane with SIP and the holidays
The holidays are my thing. More specifically Christmas, but I still can get down with Halloween and Thanksgiving. 2020 has and still is a very weird off-putting year, but I do not believe it should be a killjoy on the holiday season. Yes, it may be a little different this year, but sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. I’m going to share some things that I am doing to make sure that I am still being festive and celebrating the fall holidays to give me a sense of normalcy and keeping myself sane. Make your space festive.For Halloween and Thanksgiving – it’s literally the same color scheme…
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Post Wedding Recap
I’m writing this – not even a full week after the wedding, but wanted to honestly debrief with myself before I forget anything from the wedding, the weekend, or even how I’m feeling right now. It all feels like such a blur and I still can’t believe we tied the knot and it’s all over already! Although prep was only two months long and traditional weddings usually take a year of planning, I feel like it was so much work and coordination on our whole village’s part. Literally everyone of our attendees helped with something – whether it was setting up tables and decorations, or helping with the A/V set…
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How We Balanced a Physical & Virtual Wedding
To be honest, at the beginning of planning our wedding, we did not pay much attention to the virtual part of our wedding besides just live streaming it to our friends and family that weren’t able to attend the physical wedding. The aspects of how we made the physical portion of our wedding COVID friendly could be read in my previous blog post here. We were so focused on making the physical wedding as COVID safe as possible, that the virtual portion was unfortunately put on the back burner. Fast forward to a month before the wedding and we started to have conversations with my dad who was originally going…
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Bachelorette Recap
I am not your typical bride – I am pretty low key and low maintenance. I am not one to go to Vegas, get strippers, get super trashed, etc. For my bachelorette it really played out very well and COVID actually helped me have a bachelorette that was more catered to my personality. I only had at a maximum four girls attend the bachelorette at one time. Only two were there for the whole weekend which consisted of a Friday evening to a Sunday late breakfast. My sister only came during the day on Saturday. But, to me, it was perfect. I didn’t mind that everyone wasn’t there for the…
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Planning a COVID safe Wedding
Planning a wedding in 2 months is definitely not an easy feat, but to be honest, I am lucky to have been put in a similar predicament when I worked for the San Francisco 49ers. One of the years I worked there, I was tasked to put on and market a first of it’s kind conference in a matter of 2 months. So a wedding with less than 30 people was a piece of cake! Now, here are a few steps of how I made it COVID preventionary. Provide hand sanitizers for each guest and/or household. I provided 8 fl oz. hand sanitizer for each household which I got from…
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