First of all, I apologize for taking a slightly longer break than I anticipated. The fact is, I decided to go back to a full-time job so I’ve been busy with interviews and starting work at a new company! Monday was my first day on the community team at Coursera, where I’ll be working with […]
I suppose I was tempting fate when I wondered what could possibly go wrong with mushrooms for my #monthlyveg. Just 1 week later I put myself on a limited diet that most definitely didn’t include mushrooms! So I’m here today to give you an update on my diet progress and also to let you know […]
As you can imagine, I haven’t been feeling very inspired by food recently, (if you missed it, this is why) but I do have something else to share with you. This past week we’ve actually been getting summer weather in the Bay Area (even in San Francisco!). On Saturday we decided to make the most […]
I mentioned last week that I’ve put myself on an extremely restricted diet in an attempt to identify foods I might be sensitive to. I’m sharing my story here in the hope that it may help people in a similar situation. My first week hasn’t really been too successful. I’m pretty sure putting yogurt on […]
Although it’s not something I’ve mentioned before on the blog, I’ve suffered from IBS for about the last 10 years. For most of that time, I put it down to stress and did my best to ignore it. More recently, as the stresses in my life have stabilized and I don’t have a stressful job anymore, […]
It was my birthday last week and it’s become something of a tradition for a group of us to drive up to Lake Berryessa and rent a boat for the day. It’s always beautifully warm and sunny up there and the lake itself is cool but just nice for swimming in on a hot day. […]
Over the weekend we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. Crazy how time flies! Since it’s something of a milestone I wanted to plan something special, although I knew it’d be difficult to top last year. My requirements were relaxation and sunshine and I found the perfect place! Vichy Springs Resort is a site of natural […]
A few weeks ago we had a long weekend for President’s day and my friend and I took Monday for a much-needed escape from the city. We weren’t entirely sure where we were going to go, just that we wanted to hunt down some real California sunshine and relax. We tried Half Moon Bay but, […]
Last Sunday was the cooking event of the year (in my house at least!) I’m talking about my annual Oscar’s party, which has somehow snowballed into an awesome tradition of fancy clothes and fancy food and more people than we can comfortably fit around our TV. Learning from my experiments last year, I picked out a few […]
Well, last year I started this blog with a resolutions post. I knew I wanted to start a new blog and I really wanted to just get something out there to avoid the paralysis of perfectionism and not knowing exactly what to post. Since then this blog has drifted in a different direction and that […]
