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The Snow Cone Truck

Today, I woke up at 6:30am, went on a long walk with the dog, cleaned the kitchen, and went to the gym. Then (with much encouragement from my boyfriend), I mowed the lawn. All this sounds pretty good, right? Like maybe, today was a really good “adulting “day!

Just when you start to think I may finally be an adult at the ripe age of 27, I stop the lawn mower mid-cutting because I see a snow cone…

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Whole30 Wrap-Up

Novel Attitude: I made it 30 days clean eating! :) Now, can I do it again? To be determined…

I am behind in blogging, but I promise I have a good reason! :) My boyfriend and I moved into a beautiful house together, so we have been busy packing, moving, and unpacking the past few weeks. We have my entire apartment to go, and then we will be all moved in by next weekend!

Our new house! This picture…

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Whole30 - Week Two

Whole30 – Week Two

Previous Health Eating Post: Whole30 – Take Four

Novel Attitude: Pre-prepared food is critical to Whole30 success.

I’m into my second week of the Whole30, and I have to be honest – there have been slip-ups. Some on “accident”, and some due to loss of will power. A big challenge for me is eating with friends. They all are extremely understanding of my desire to eat healthy, but my will power…

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Whole30 - Take Four

Whole30 – Take Four

Previous Healthy Eating Post (1/8/2016): Kimmy tries more cooking

Novel Attitude: Retrying the 30 day food experiment Whole30

I felt inspired after trying three new recipes in my last post. Not only do I want to continue cooking with a larger variety of spices and protein, I also want to cook healthy meals that are also delicious. I love food in general, both healthy and unhealthy. I’ve been…

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Kimmy tries more cooking

Previous Healthy Eating post:

I’ve been on a bit of a cooking streak lately, and I’m finally seeing some improvement with my meals! I’ve been researching more on proper techniques, and it’s paying off. I’m no longer concerned about serving edible food for other people! ;)

Novel Cooking with Split Pea and Ham Soup

For Christmas, we bought the typical pre-cooked spiral ham. Reminiscing on past…

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At It Again

Most Recent DIY Nightstand Post (9/27/15): Nightstand – Final Class

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that the last time I worked on my nightstand was probably in early November, and the class ended in late September. It’s been nearly complete for a few months now, and I lost the drive to finish it! Over the holidays, I found renewed vigor (thank you New Year’s Resolutions!) and spent a few hours…

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#belt sander #diy #nightstand #woodworking

Welcome to 2016

Happy New Year!

In the past year, I switched jobs, took a two and a half month summer, and was more diligent with becoming the person I want to be. All in all, I think I proved to myself that I’m not too old to reinvent myself. My main readers are family members, so I know they’re laughing because I’m the youngest in my family! :)

Truth be told, I have the same “New Year’s Resolutions” this year…

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The Tree That Killed A Prius

Do you ever think that karma gives you a second chance? Maybe you did something a little wicked, almost had negative repercussions, and ultimately were able to learn your lesson to avoid something worse happening in the future? It’s almost like the universe is throwing you a bone – “Hey, man, we all have those days where we’re just a little extra selfish and a little extra preoccupied. I get…

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The Case of the Doughnuts

Have you ever tried to resist a doughnut all day? How about for two consecutive work days?

It is NOT easy, especially not when said box of doughnuts sits itself right behind your cubicle, and every time you get up, you take a longing glance in its direction, maybe counting how many are still left, how many have been eaten and save you the misery of fighting that temptation, how glistening the…

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Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!

I started my Thanksgiving vacation with a 14 hour road trip with my boyfriend to Ithaca, New York, which was absolutely gorgeous. Ithaca is situated on one of the Finger Lakes. The lake stretched practically from Buffalo to way past my viewpoint in Ithaca!

On a walk down by the lake, I finally learned how to skip rocks. The beach was…

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The Anytime Resolution

Over the past three weeks, I cleaned and maintained a clean apartment. It’s silly, but I haven’t thoroughly cleaned and kept my space clean for quite some time. Ask my parents – I was never the kid with a clean room growing up! Living in a big kid apartment, working a big kid job, I decided I needed to start acting more like an adult. This includes doing the dishes in a timely manner or putting…

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Halloween

Halloween was so much fun! My friends and I ended up crashing a random party in an office space near State Street in Madison. My favorite costume of the night was with a couple who are expecting their first child. The man was dressed as golfer Tiger Woods, and the woman was dressed as a hole in one. She wore a green felt top with a round cutout over her baby bump. The bump was dressed up as…

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Not your standard cupcakes

I love October and fall and changing colors and cooling off. I love boots and scarves and bundling up to stay warm. There’s something magical that begins to happen as we enter the end of the year. I always love the anticipation of good things to come. Thursday, not Friday, is my favorite day of the week because it means the weekend is coming!

In honor of Halloween and an apparent fascination I…

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Zombies, Escape Chambers, and Weddings

Wow. I have not done a good job of writing the past week and a half! So much has happened, too! Quick recap of all fun things in timeline order:

Zombie laser tag

Escape Room

Sister’s wedding!!!!

Cubs win NL Wild Card. Cubs are series tied with Cards for division.

I have a slight obsession with zombies, which I am told are not real. The best laser tag I have ever done is at iCombat, which has a…

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Fit Body Boot Camp

Three weeks ago I began a fitness boot camp six week challenge. The personal training sessions became too expensive for me to maintain, so I switched to this challenge at the Madison Fit Body Boot Camp. The boot camp hosts multiple sessions a day, six times a week for 30 minutes each. The sessions are a mixture of cardio, strength, and resistant circuit training, so they go by really quickly.…

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Nightstand - Final Class

Nightstand – Final Class

All of my nightstand classes are finished! We didn’t quite complete the projects in class because it was a rather complicated project, and five people shared tools. However, we have all of the tools we need to finish the nightstand outside of class, and all of our pieces are completed.

In the last post, I put together the carcass. Since then, I’ve added the underlying top layer, drawer pieces,…

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How to Get Away with Murder (Mystery Dinner Party) Part 2

Last night, my friends and I threw a surprise birthday/murder mystery dinner party for my boyfriend, and it was fantastic! In Part 1, I detailed planning for the party and the night of. This post Part 2 will detail how to actually throw a murder mystery dinner, including the script I used and suggestions for improvements if you decide to throw this! If you do use the same script, please comment…

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