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Vacation So Far…Rain and More Rain

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I’ve never been on vacation in October. Well, maybe a destination wedding. But really that doesn’t count like a genuine two week planned trip to a far away destination. This is truly the first. And it seems the world is going to hell in a hand basket as far as the weather is concerned, and naturally it is all going down while I am travelling through Italy this week. First stop was Rome, landing through the blackened clouds and touching ground to a stormy day in the eternal city. But the hubs and I persevered as we had a schedule to follow. Walking leisurely through a town we love so much. Snapping photographs and then touching them up over an espresso at an outdoor cafe, sitting under heat lamps. Day two was Vatican City, and more rain, and day three some sort of shopping, which is what I planned but ended up just sitting on the Spanish steps for most of the day and enjoyed the freshly cleaned work of art while people watching. It rained …

Lifestyle: Turning Fifty or Staying forty-something?

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This topic  came to me a few weeks ago, when I got an email-invite for my cousin’s 50th birthday party that his wife decided to throw for him.  She sent me a text afterward  asking if we could make it considering the one hour drive to the venue. I immediately told her we would, thinking since they were one of the couples moving away, it would probably be the last time I see them for a while. Unless of course they came back to the city or I went down to Los Angeles with the sole intend to visit family – which I hate to admit – I am not good at. The visiting family part. Note to self here, I need to work on that. The moral of this blog post is that after I turned 30, I decided I would never have a birthday party again nor a celebration of it. Instead I would simply go away for a weekend or a few weeks somewhere far away and deal with getting older. Even …

Interesting Finds Online – Vol 11

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I needed inspiration this week, or something to pick me up since the insane cold weather and ugly fog continue to rear its ugliness in the city going on four months now to, well over into the middle of September. The blahness making it very difficult to feel upbeat and charged up. I swear by the looks of it, I don’t see us having a descent  Indian Summer this year. Anyway, I found some things online that put a smile on my face, and naturally I needed to share them. Kieron Willamson

Travel: For the Grown Ups

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Travel for the grown-ups are the off-season trips to destinations only couples without children or those with grown-up kids could possibly pull off beyond the summer months. You know, the time right as schools start for some in late August, or early September to the time just before the holidays. I consider this to be the best travel season, and here a a list of reasons why?  

Lifestyle: What’s Been Keeping Me…Busy

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I feel like I’ve been away forever, but some things had to fall through the crack, namely my blog, and workout, while I worked through my fullest of plates of late. First and foremost, the living space revamp that’s tortured me to no end,  forcing me to rethink the plan, hence delaying the timeframe – so HGTV like. Here’s how it all went down. I planned to install hardwood floors. I dreamt about it for years, talked about it endlessly, shopped various flooring stores, picked out the best option, signed up for the measure only to find out, the space required too much sub-flooring prep work to consider the hardwood. Back to square one, we went shopping for wall-to-wall carpeting, something I’ve always hated, but apparently have no choice in the particular part of the city I live in, with the damp and mold issues.  I shopped until the cow’s came home online and in the stores, and I have to tell you I have learned enough  carpets and flooring that I could actually become …

Lifestyle: Photography Colors To Set The Mood

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I took the train from Sacramento to San Francisco on Sunday, after I went up to the area for a small break from the freezing cold temps in my neck of the neighborhood – by the ocean, where its been foggy and ugly, and pretty down depressing with all-time grays. I tend to forget how the weather plays on my mood, and during the summer months in the city,  I find myself not at all inspired. So, I escape once in while in search of sun, green, and colorful flowers. In this case  up to the Sacramento-Roseville area, well technically further into the country, for some sun and to hang out with my favorite dogs – dogsitting. Normally I drive up, but this time I shared a ride with someone going up there, and then took the train back.  Along the way,  I snapped a few photographs. which I enhanced to more dramatic hues and sharpness, again craving colors. I figured these photos would keep me going through the foggy nonsense in San Francisco until early …

Decor: The Plan To Renovate On A Budget – Part I

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This past few days I’ve stayed away from my computer, shifting my attention to rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty, painting, varnishing, running to Home Depot, and changing my mind on everything I started out with my renovation ideas, did a 360 and now back exactly to where I started  – in terms of colors and style and removable wallpaper. (I’ll explain later). You know the term, you live and learn. Well, this has surely been the case with this project, discovering along the way, many, many difficult obstacles, delay what I envision happen by a few extra days. Naturally, I’ll share the before and after soon enough, But for now, I just want to say, I’ll be missing from here again for a few days, to finish up  what I started so I can go away for the rest of the week  to the country where the sun is shining and the grass is truly green, and the sky  is blue compared to what the heck is going on this brutal cold-summer in …