When I introduced my themes for the year I mentioned the one of my goals with the theme of JAVA was to move away from chain coffee companies and start embracing local coffee shops. I am a little over 4 months into this switch… and I have learned a few things during that time that I hope will keep me going strong with this goal… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Year of “J”
I wrote in my first post of the year about how the primary J for my “year of Js” actually means less blogging and publicly sharing and more private JOURNALING. Read on to discover the other three themes for this year of J. Continue reading
Coffee shop joys
Remember back “in the before times” when it was totally normal to spend hours in a coffee shop catching up with friends and family or getting work done? I had a whole draft I’d update to eventually share on the blog and the draft was called “COFEE SHOP COMPLAINTS” and I’d add to it any time I was trying to work and something would be horribly distracting. Here’s how far I got before the pandemic hit: Continue reading
Frugal Fun: Birthday Treats!
So I had a lot of fun celebrating my birthday last week. I celebrated all day long and the only thing we paid for was childcare and a movie ticket for my birthday date that night to Avengers: Endgame. The best part is? I still have birthday treats to come! After asking for suggestions on instagram, I had a few people follow up and asked what birthday treats I scored for free, so I thought I’d write a little blog post about where you can get some birthday freebies. Continue reading
Alphabet Resolutions 