Hello there! Happy Monday! Today I’m excited to share the first day of our European adventure with you. Just in case it’s helpful for anyone who is also planning a trip, we created our itinerary through a combination of: Tips from family and friends Internet sites like TripAdvisor, Yelp and Hotels.com Guidebooks from Frommer’s and […]
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Hello there! Long time, no blog. I hope you all are well and have been enjoying the start of spring! We arrived home from our European adventure last night and dutifully forced ourselves to stay up until our normal bedtime. Well, at least we tried to force ourselves – ultimately we collapsed into bed about […]
Guidebooks + Giveaway Winner
Happy Monday! It was a big weekend of planning as we finalized our to-dos and must-sees for the Europe trip. Our strategy was to ask friends and family for advice first and foremost, but we also relied on an effective combination of guidebooks, TripAdvisor and Yelp to round out the itinerary. We all know that […]
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Thank you for the wonderful comments on my blogiversary post. You’ve put a huge smile on my face! And if you haven’t yet, you still have until tomorrow night to enter the giveaway! It has been a crazy week around here, so I thought I’d do a bit of a mishmash post to share what’s […]
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Five years. Five years since I was a college junior, secretly reading food blogs instead of doing homework. Five years since I moved into my first apartment and said good riddance to dorm food. Five years since I decided to try whipped banana oatmeal and see what all the fuss was about. Five years since […]
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Inspired by our Parisian book club meeting this past Sunday, I decided that my potluck contribution would be French. I don’t have much experience with cooking French food (I was going to insert a joke about French fries, French onion soup and French toast here, but thought it might elicit a few groans), so I […]
Reading Between The Wines: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
This weekend marked the second meeting of Reading Between the Wines. Our book selection this time around was a lot different than our first pick, but I love variety and jumping from young adult to historical fiction is pretty much my normal reading routine. Plus, I’d been wanting to read The Paris Wife by Paula […]
Spring Pinterest Partying + Karaoke
I took a short break from blogging this past week to enjoy a visit to a city you may have read about once or twice on this blog…Chicago! Officially, I was in town for a work conference, which was very interesting with a lot of great speakers. Unofficially, I arrived a few days early in […]
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My name is Jenn. My nickname is Bender. I'm a 20-something entrepreneur and writer in Phoenix striving to manage a hectic schedule while maintaining my health, happiness and, most importantly, my sanity! Read more here.
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