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May 30, 2026

The Wizarding World of New York City

In the famous words of Taylor Swift, welcome to New York, it’s been waitin’ for you! Last month, April 2026, Evan and I traveled to New York City for our joint 33rd birthday celebration. We both are big Harry Potter fans, so naturally, we planned our trip around Broadway and The Cursed Child. And let me just say, the show did not disappoint - it was literally everything and more!Of course, we did other things aside from just eating chocolate covered frogs and drinking butter beer. Here is a[...]

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June 28, 2025

We’re shipping up to Boston

Hello New England! Admittedly, it’s been a minute since I posted on the blog. As a life update, Evan, the pups, and I, recently moved out to the Boston area in Massachusetts, and I started a new role as a Case Manager at Boston College! Thus far, I am enjoying and feeling seen in my new role, and I like that it combines aspects of my Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, as well as higher education/student services work in Academic Advising.I received my job offer in March/April 2025, flew ou[...]

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June 23, 2024

ciao Europa! This is what honeymoon dreams are made of (part two)

Ciao ~ welcome back to part due of my honeymoon blog! This week, I am going to cover the later half of our trip spent in Italia. In the famous words of Lizzie McGuire, “this is what dreams are made of.” Lake Como, Italy Day One: Lake Como was our first stop on our Italian leg of our honeymoon. We took a bus from Strasbourg to Como, which took longer than expected due to our bus running an hour behind. Once we arrived in Como, we took a ferry to Lenno, where we checked into ou[...]

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June 16, 2024

Bonjour Europa! This is what honeymoon Dreams are made of (Part One)

Most of my European dreams and inspirations, as I’m sure is the case for others as well, derives from famous movies and tv series like The Lizzy McGuire Movie, Luca, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, James Bond, Emily in Paris, etc. Thus, we saw it fitting to visit various parts of Europe, for our once in a lifetime (always the goal) honeymoon! We took the untraditional route and decided to plan our honeymoon roughly 6-7 months out from our wedding. While there are pros and cons to waiting som[...]

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January 8, 2024

2024 Vision board: What’s in and out

With 2024 in full-swing, I can’t help but look back at 2023 with gratitude and appreciation, with hopes 2024 will live up to expectations. Last year, Evan and I got married in our home town of South Lake Tahoe at Valhalla Tahoe. We missed a few friends, but were primarily surrounded by the ones who love and support us most. Now that 2024 is here, we are most looking forward to traveling to Europe for our honeymoon. Travel[...]

Travel Blog, Vlog

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March 21, 2022

New Orleans Vlog

https://youtu.be/yV6h03qU0yMA few weeks ago I visited New Orleans, LA, with my boyfriend, Evan. We stayed at The Old No. 77 Hotel and Chandlery. While we did not experience any paranormal activity ourselves, a former employee (bartender at a neighboring hotel) told us a tale that some guests who had stayed on the third floor asked him about horses running on the roof... interesting, I know. That said, we spent three full days in New Orleans. We had a chance to explore some of city's main attra[...]

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January 8, 2022

I Don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022!

Another year has come and gone, and the world is still as unpredictable as ever. At this point not testing positive for Covid or one of its variants is like avoiding the ghosts coming at you in Pac-Man (okay now I'm really starting to show my age). 2021 was a lot of things - it had its triumphs and challenges. Reflecting back to 2021- I kicked off the year visiting one of my best friends in San Francisco and made a weekend trip to Carmel. I enjoyed many sunny days in Santa Barbara, but also[...]

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December 25, 2021

Utah puts the ho ho ho in Holiday Magic

Merry Christmas Eve Grinches! I hope you have been starting to feel that ho ho holiday magic! And if not, I know a little bit of Baileys helps me get by. This year I've been dreaming of a white Christmas; and luckily, it looks like this manifestation will become my reality. It has been dumping snow in both Utah and South Lake Tahoe (our home town) the last few days. In fact, on Tuesday, Evan and I drove home to Tahoe to beat the winter storm warning, and we thankfully made it[...]

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June 7, 2020

The Bucket List

Originally Published April 18, 2020 "Oh the places you will go" -Dr. Seuss There are three types of people in this world- your savers, spenders, and experiencers. For example, my mother is a saver, because she likes to deposit that hard earned cash into her savings. She doesn't eat out much, engage in retail therapy, or take trips too often. Then you have your spenders, or those people who get a paycheck and immediately purchase goods and services. Last, but not least, you have[...]

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May 17, 2020

2020, What kind of year are you…

Originally Published February 29, 2020 (started moving blog posts from Wix Account) 2020 are you a year of fun, opportunity, change, hardships, lessons, etc.? Or are you all of these things? My First Blog Post To those reading this, welcome to my very first blog post! It's hard to believe we're nearing the beginning of March and I am just now getting around to writing. SMH. Not to make excuses, but it has been a busy start to the year - I got promoted to Senior Undergraduate[...]