Week in Review - 12/28

- Busy bee day of errands & house cleaning 

- Moved in to my new office. Scared but excited to start a new chapter in my life!

- Dinner date with my sister

- Rang in the New Year w/ an incredible day filled with love and laughter. Beyond romantic dinner followed end by an extravagant hotel party. Here's to 2015 - a year of new beginnings!

- Moved in to my new office space. Excited to start this new chapter in my career.

- QT family snow day of cooking mixed in with Legos & snow stroll to the bakery. 

- Quiet Relaxing Sunday trying to beat a stubborn sore throat

Week in Review - 12/21

- Attended co-workers holiday party in to the wee hours of the morning 

- Four Seasons event w/ my <3

- Got crafty & baked cookies 

- Tried a new restaurant & bakery

- Christmas celebration w/ the fam. Belly laughs & making memories

- Shopped for holiday party outfit

- Full day of fun w/ my babe. Gym, sunny farmers and dinner date

- Play date in the park

- Savored a much needed glass of Cab solo in a busy yet intimate bar

Week in Review - 12/7 & 12/14

- Interviewed another candidate

- Wax on wax off

- Very successful annual meeting with big client

- Awesome work from home day in make shift office

- Dentist visit :/

- Launched holiday project with amazing turn-out

- Getting ready to move in to new higher position :)

Week in Review - 11/30

- Staycation.... Tried to enjoy it but did get very bored. 

- Binged on newly discovered Netflix series from overseas

- Attended a close friend family members wake. You might not be able to be there all the time but be there when it matters

- Met up with the girls and had dinner at a newly discovered spot

- Shopping trip to Ikea & Target

- Washed clothes and ran much needed errands

- AHS night with my girly girl

- Night cap in my neighborhood

- Did a little holiday shopping

- Celebrated besties birthday with drinks & din

Week in Review - 11/24

- Enjoyed a solo night in w/ yummy home cooked din

- Lazy pizza night

- Created some yummy magic bars for Turkey Day aka best day of the year!

- Spent time with my mom & family

- Caught up on work projects

- Din with my bestie & her coworker at awesome speakeasy type place

- QT w/ my babe

- Basked in the unusual warm winter weather 

- Slowly savored & sipped morning coffee & brioche reminiscent of Paris

- Game night at a friends house

Week in Review - 11/10 & 11/17

- Body Pump

- Burned the midnight oil and celebrated end of project completion with wings & beer

- Celebrated move in day with delicious famous pizza

- Gym solo trip

- Shopping trips for our home & fridge

- Hosted a brunch at home with my girls full of Bloody Mary's and goodies

- Trip to the burbs to visit a close friend and see her beautiful new home

- Hired and filled two positions 

- One week move in celebration

- Push thru Pilates 

- Dinner & brunch with my bestie

- Much missed and needed yoga session w/ spa

Week in Review - 11/3

- Relaxing date day with burgers and Pinkberry!

- Pitched new project at work

- Interviewed candidate for work

- Flowed thru two yoga classes 

- Weekly AHS fright night 

- Squeezed in a quick run during a busy work day

- That new car smell:)

Falling back in to Fall

What a whirlwind these past few weeks have been. If you've been keeping up with my blog you'll know I was planning my dream vacay with SO to Paris. The weeks leading up to it where crazy and hectic and when it finally arrived there was a strike! But we made it and words cannot describe how incredible Paris and Versailles truly are. A few things that stuck out:

- No one is on their phone. No one is walking and txtn. No one had their phones out at the restaurants.

- It's all natural. Woman had on very little makeup and their hair was ver natural. 

- They always look put together. Even if it's just a t-shirt w/ dark jeans they would wear a beautiful scarf. No one looked sloppy.

- No flipflops and no sunglasses. The flip flops I understood because they can be obnoxiously noisy and just look like eh. But sunglasses I didn't understand. It's sunny everywhere! 

Now that we've finally been we're already planning our next trip. I highly recommend you do the same.

1 - Save your money

2 - Do your research (TripAdvisor Forum is a great resource)

3 - Learn a bit of the language (I suggest an app called Dulingo) 

4 - Buy your ticket

Do not wait until 'the right time' NOW is the right time! As long as you're working hard and paying your bills nothing is holding you back. We all work ourselves to death in our culture. When we need to work to live and enjoy life and see all the amazing things this world has to offer. We don't live to work! That's not how life should be. Remember Paris is Always a good idea!

Week in Review - 8/10

- Celebrated a friends bachelorette party

- Impromtu rainy relaxing lazy day off

- Very productive work week

- Paris vacation prep (1 month away!)

- Enjoyed the final days of summer at local festival

- Discovered new smoothie bar

- Great meeting w/ manager. Changes coming soon!

- Weekly farmers market trip 

- Late night pizza with one of the girls 

Week in Review - 8/3

- Ran 2 miles

- Cooked yummy dinner

- Success put together Ikea furniture :)

- Outdoor yoga class

- Movie & dinner nite with my sister while the kids went to 1D concert followed by family sleepover

- Farmers market & ikea trip

- Body Pump & pilates

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Week in Review - End of July

July shaped up to be an insanely busy month! Sorry for the delay in posting.

- Ikea trips

- Fresh flower picking

- Farmers market jaunts

- Drinks & Dinner & late night dancing

- Rooftop bar browsing

- Body pumping x2

- Pilates posing

- Sleepovers & getting ready for the big move

- Landed freelance gigs

- Feel in love all over again 

Week in Review - 7/6 & 7/13

- Cook yummy salmon dinner for myself

- Cooked at home 3 nights out of 7 

- Went food shopping... munch needed

- Worked 2.6 miles on the elliptical 

- Really pushed myself thru Body Pump 

- Worked my core in Pilates

- Wedding celebration for a long time friend

- Dinner & drinks w/ good friends

- Goodbye party for co-worker

- Interviewed several & hired one new staff member

- Weekly colorful farmers maker trips

- Created a delicious smoothies w/ previous farmers market good. Nothing should go to waste if it doesn't have to

- Walked a good 2 miles running errands 

- Washed clothes... much needed

Week in Review - 6/29

- Washed clothes

- Much needed mani pedi (OPI gels changed their formula because they're not lasting nearly as long as they use to)

- Suit shopping & impromptu fries and bevs w/ babe

- Cooked a yummy dinner w/ zucchini fries

- Movies with the girls

- Fireworks festivities

- Took one body pump class

- Sweated thru one unintentional hot yoga class

- Holiday drinks w/ the girls

- Dr. Appt for allergies

- Funday w/ babe eating at one of our favorite spots & shopping 

- Relaxing evening watching French TV ... Paris trip prep!

Weekly Theme - Enjoying food .... Now time to eat healthy this upcoming week

Weekly Gratitude - I'm grateful to have health insurance & am able to go to the hospital when I know so many other cannot.  

Week in Review - 6/22

- Wax on Wax off

- Walked 1.3 miles

- Brunch w/ my bestie

- Cleaned much needed clutter

- Quick shopping trip w/ babe 

- Took 1 Pilates class

- Ran 2.16 miles 

- Closed 2 new accounts

- Attended a charity fashion show #standuptocancer

- Followed by late night snacks with my coworker/besties 

- Celebrated besties bday at new really cool speakeasy 

- Farmers market weekly visit

- Relaxed at home with Netflix 

Week in Review - 6/15

- Went to a ball game on a wim 

- Walked a 5K thru our date day just having fun

- Dinner w/ babe 

- Celebratory dinner w/ babe at steak house

- Practiced Pilates 

- Body Pump 

- Mani two toned

- Eyebrows tamed

- Dinner w/ my bestie 

- Weekly trip to the farmers market

- Suffering the worst allergy season ever!! 

- Productive week at work... Much better than the week before when I was considering relocating

Week in Review - 6/1

- Ran 4 miles

- Movie & dinner night w/ my bestie

- Saw a live broadway show w/ my sister & showed her around the city 

- Enjoyed a new book on a rainy afternoon 

- Mexican dinner w/ babe ... Not that good but always enjoy time spent together

- Added summer highlights to brighten my locks 

- Met up w/ some old & new friends for daytime delights on a gorgeous afternoon

- Discovered a new brunch place w/ old friends

- Walked along the waterfront on a first day day filled with laughing, love & the word wedding w/ my babe

Week in Review - 5/25

- Tried a spin cycling class for the first time

- Took the train to visit family for Memorial Day... First BBQ & beach day of summer!

- Very rare weekday dinner date at home w/ my babe

- Ran 1.5 miles ... starting to get a rhythm going. Feels great to see progress :)

- Tried my first spin cycling class and loved it. Thinking about making it part of my weekly routine 

- Pilates class w/ a co worker 

- Shopping & dinner w/ the girls

- Pub dinner date w/ my babe

- Chilly day spent running errands & home cooking

- Waterfront park picnic w/ my babe filled with laughter & love

- Ran 1.5 miles and did some arm strength training

- Enjoyed a solo coffee shop date

Week in Review - 5/18

- Ran outside for the first time in my new beautiful neighborhood

- Movie date & pizza w/ my bestie 

- Finally made it back to Pilates after missing class for weeks

- Day of support w/ my sister after a medical scare

- Tough day at work followed by a much needed trip to Target

- Relaxing end of the week with an early nights rest

- Farmers market succulent trip w/ a good friend .. Strawberries taste like candy! 

- Found the perfect white w/ pink tip tulips ... Weekly fresh flowers can make a huge difference in any space

- Picnic w/ my girls involving wine & cheese & meats ... couldn't have asked for anything more 

- Wax on wax off

- All in one productive day involving cleaning, food shopping, picking up kitchen plant, washing clothes & reorganizing my living room. Ending w/ me & babe making a delicious dinner

- Last minute all access to concert on a Sunday night w/ a friend ... Random adventures are always the most memorable 

Week in Review - 5/11

- Quick day trip to NYC for fun business meeting and lunch  LOVE the energy the city has

- Dinner date night w/ my bestie at an amazing steak house

- Ran 2 miles - 12 minutes without stopping !! Yay progress

- Made it thru a dentist appointment :/

- Spent the day outside w/ my babe enjoying beautiful weather

- Dinner date with my girls

- Ran 3 miles

- Danced the night away

- Day trip w/ my babe to a fave local

Week in Review - 5/4

- Created a delicious homemade southern Kentucky Derby style dinner

- Soaked up yoga class and spa amenities at new yoga studio w/ an amazing instructor

- Grocery shopping trip w/ my babe... It's the little normal things I love

- Gym date day... Very little compares to working out together & seeing how strong ur man is

- Drove to my birth city & picked up my birth certificate ... Step closer to Paris

- Clocked in almost 2 miles on the dreadmill and ran for about 5 minutes without stopping

- Tried Barre workout routine for the first time... tough but absolutely worth it

- Enjoy late night pizza & wines with my girls

- Woke up bright and early for a circuit training class along the waterfront

- Savored new Oprah chai while taking a solo walk around the harbor listening to a favorite podcast

- Dived and lunged in 1 yoga class

Week in Review - 4/28

- Finally took a day off of work since December

- Picked up new living room set

- Trip to Home Goods & Tarjay

- Made yummy home chicken soup

- 2 gym jaunts

- Wax on wax off

- Evening yoga class 

- Dinner date w/ my babe at new Q restaurant

- Much needed drinks with a long time friend 

- Signed up at a new Yoga studio & dived in to 2 early morning yoga classes followed by 2 trips to Sbucks and a walk along the waterfront 

Week in Review - 4/20

- Shoe shopping trip with no success but still fun

- Delectable oyster dinner date with my bestie 

- Saw a good friend visiting from out of town 

- Celebrated a friends birthday outside of the city

- Dinner with the girls

- 2 gym jaunts & yoga class

- Dinner date with my babe

- Attended a work event & met fun people

- Delectable Asian specilty dinner with my bestie

- Finally purchased refills for my plugins from B&BW

Week in Review - 4/13

- Ran 2 miles

- Lunch w/ lovely co-workers & friends

- Big day at work

- 2gym jaunts

- one Pilates class

- Dinner date with Babe

- Dinner at fav restaurants with besties

- Dived in to yoga class with new instructor

- researched & researched trip to Paris :) 5 months!!

- Savored amazing vanilla protien shake while taking in some people watching 

Week in Review - 4/6

- Mani Pedi treatment 

- Sox Game w/ friends

- Made it through an intense bootcamp class

- 3 gym jaunts (1 w/ my babe)

- Ran much needed errands including food shopping! Time to limit the take out!

- Met up w/ my besties for drinks on the first nice weather Friday

- Enjoyed a full day of self reflecting and went somewhat digital free

- Wax on Hair off 

- Finished old projects & Started new ones at work

- Savored 2 green smoothies ( light as air when made with cocoanut water! )

- Farmers market shopping trip

- Quick but much needed family visit

Weekly Lesson Learned : Sometimes the best company is your own

Week in Review 3/23

- Much needed mani

- Savored imported coffee & a delicious lunch at local coffee house while listening to "chill" station on Spotify

- Purchased fresh tulips to celebrate spring

- 1 gym jaunt 

- Celebrated a friends birthday

- Went bowling for the first time since forever and a day ago

- Dinner date with my babe at neighborhood hot spot

- Half day at work for quality us time

Week in Review 3/16

- Cruised the farmers market for fresh flowers and picked up yummy fruits and cheese 

- Basked in the first sunny somewhat warm day with my kindle

- Savored "not good for you" take out and a few glasses of wine 

- Enjoyed a much needed me day of shopping and visiting my mum

- Put my tool belt on and set up my new bed frame [ easier than I thought! ]

- Dry Bar visit 

- Set up 1 new project meeting

- Created new feature section on company website 

- 4 gym jaunts including butt-kicking bootcamp

- Made dinner 4 nights a week instead of eating out [ more $$ for París in September ]

- Met with 1 prospect

- Celebrated a friends birthday until the wee hours of the morning

- Danced to songs from back in days :)

- Had drinks with old friends 

Week in Review 3/9

Week in review

- Successfully made a non stressful trip to the RMV. GKF

- Met a pig named Bobby and decided to once again stop eating bacon (the only pork product I ate)

- Got my to do list down to 11/2 pages from 3 pages

- Shopping trip to Ikea

- Built an Ikea table solo  (small achievements make me smile)

- Finally ordered my Tranquility du Jour day book 

- 1 French lesson 

Week in Review

Week in Review

2 pilates class

1 yoga class

week full of healthy eating

finished long overdue work projects

connections via business calls

successful business meetings

home made dinner w/ friends

90 minutes boot camp class

weekend full of dinner & drink w / new friends and old

 salon juant 

much needed mani

Monday Quote - No regrets, start this week fresh

Week in Review

Week in Review

brunch date w/ friends

sipped and sample local Italian cafe

pushed through first 90 minute bootcamp class

2 pilates class

1 yoga class

1 gym jaunt

discovered Davids Tea

fabulous finds at the farmers market

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