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Tomorrow is my birthday and every year, the day before it I take a moment to reflect on what I've achieved the year before.
While most people celebrate the new year on January 1st, I always celebrate the new year on my birthday. I feel birthdays are a better measurement of progress (and sometimes, recession) than January 1st.
Where were you the year before? What have you achieved in the year
(FYI, for all of the men that follow this blog, you might want to sit this one out. Or, show it to a lady in your life who still gets her cycles.)
So, keeping up with my tradition of reviewing not just vegan restaurants, but also vegan products, I decided to also review sanitary napkins aka menstrual pads. (Disclaimer: I don't wear tampons so I can't give a review on
So, a while back ago...like last month (really, my bad), I was sent some material to personally review. I like to give a personal shout-out to Marc for being patient with me as I reviewed these. I'll leave the video I did with Bear at the end of this post, but I like to talk about the potty packs themselves.
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I decided to try something different for my vegan tastes. (For those new to the blog, I'm not vegan but I do make a lot of plant-based and vegan dishes because my body likes it).
I really did like this recipe, though I thought the sodium content was a wee bit high for my taste (and I didn't use that much salt). I did make it a little more spicy
I'm sure all of you have heard the latest butthurt news out of the U.S. In case you haven't heard, Nike released an ad with Colin Kaepernick for its 30th Anniversary of Just Do It:
Now, if you want to know how I feel about Colin Kaepernick, click here for a refresher.
The hours and days after the ad had debuted, it was funny to watch some of the reaction online.
Boy, that was a wordy title.
So, I love Ulta. It's actually one of my favorite stores. And because it's one of my favorite stores, I really can't shop there very much. It's one of those stores where it's like Target in a sense; you go in there for just one thing and you come back with a cart full of crap you probably don't need but you really want?
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I like to give a shout-out to Brand Ballot for featuring this blog in their Top 100 Mommy Blogs of 2018. I have to say that's pretty dope. I'm not going to give an emotional write-up and blah blah blah when I can just bless y'all with a pic of Bear.
To check out who else made the cut (and I have to say I have some really good company!),
We did a lot this summer and it was a lot of fun. From swimming to the beach to just enjoying life! Though I do wish we did just a bit more, I'm proud we accomplished a lot. So, let's go!
Swimming lessons:
If you followed my IG stories, we enrolled Bear into swimming. It was rather coaxing to get him to take his lessons and lots of promises were made
I don't normally share quotes but I thought this was funny. Anyone who feels down about anyone dismissing their dreams could use this:
I had many people tell me I shouldn't be a writer because there's no money and success in it. So, I worked a job (several of them) and I was very good at what I did. But I always went back to writing and I figured out
Getting back to doing reviews of vegan recipes, products, and local restaurants, I decided to try Sage Vegan that's located pretty close to me in the great city of Pasadena. You know about Pasadena, right? Home of the Rose Bowl, the Granddaddy of Them All, Rose Bowl Parade, and all sorts of goodness.
Even though Sage wasn't that far from me, it took me forever to find it! It's located