Hiking Billy Goat Trail
Last month, I hiked the Billy Goat Trail with J and one of my best friends. I can’t believe I had not hiked this trail before now, especially as it is one of the more well-known hikes in the DC-metro area (you can read more …
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How to Remember (Almost) Everything
We are inundated with exorbitant amounts of information on a daily basis, and to be honest, I am surprised that anyone remembers anything. Between the incessant red bubbles popping up on our phones, the technology that allows us to chat with multiple people simultaneously, and …
Goal Setting
Recently, I’ve been really into working on the goals I set for this year, but I know that normally by February the goal motivation and energy of many have already started to run out. I have always been a goal-oriented person, but I realize that …
How to Start a Reading Habit
If you are like me, you love to read, but sometimes struggle with getting back into a reading habit if it’s been a little while since you’ve picked up a book. I lost my reading momentum earlier this year and had a hard time trying …
Hiking at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve
Am I the only one who feels that the weather this fall has been amazing?! I don’t want to jinx it, but I definitely do want to take advantage of it! Since we had such amazing weather last week, and J had a day off, …
Projects I Have Done in Quarantine
After a much-needed break, I am back with a fun post (well, at least in my opinion): a list of projects that I have done while in quarantine! While I recently wrote a similar post that gave an honest, high-level, realistic account of what quarantine …
How to Digitally Organize Years of Photos
Up until recently, I was one of those people that had thousands of unorganized photos on my phone’s camera roll. It was only when I almost lost 4,000 of my precious iPhone photos (you can read more about that horrible situation here), that I decided …
Memory Keeping | Memory Boxes
If you couldn’t already tell, memory keeping is a huge hobby and passion of mine. In addition to chronicling photos, journaling daily, and creating annual photo books, another way that I preserve my memories is by keeping memory boxes. What is a memory box, you …
Long Distance Relationship Diary: Reflecting
While organizing all my photos and making photo books during quarantine, I have come across countless pictures from when my husband and I were long distance. (For those who don’t know, my husband and I were long distance at the very beginning of our relationship …
My Journey to Being Caffeine-Free
I think my coffee addiction started in college, maybe even high school. To be honest, I don’t remember the exact moment it started, I just remember it always being there. As you can imagine, working full time while getting my MBA only made the addiction …
A Very Real List of Things I’ve Done in Quarantine
My husband and I are now officially in week 8 of quarantine (I know, most people are probably in week 6 or 7, but his work went remote early and I work from home, so once he started working remotely I decided to start self-isolating …
Memory Keeping & Day One
I have been documenting my memories and keeping journals since I was little. I used to start every family vacation and sleep-away camp with a blank notebook, and would return home with a journal bursting with notes, memories, tickets, brochures, and small trinkets pasted to …
Things That Are Getting Me Through Quarantine
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed everyone’s lives over the last couple of months and many are still figuring out how to cope with those changes. Personally, I have found that quarantine has not only given me a “new normal” to get used to, but …
My Digital Planning System
I wish I were a paper-and-pen kind of planner. Truth be told, pre-iPhone, I actually was a paper-and-pen planner. There is something about writing in a physical planner, personalizing it, and color-coding it with pens and highlighters that makes me happy. Every year when new, …