And so it’s back to reality! Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend. I really enjoyed mine, start to finish and was sad to go this morning. However, it is always good to be back in DC :O). Last night’s farewell dinner was fabulous. I requested paella as my send-off meal because I think my Dad’s [...]

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I was a bit neglectful and missed my post yesterday – apologies! Being home is lovely but my schedule is way out of whack! Last night I met some of my old friends from my time as a Borders Bookstore employee for a sushi dinner. The suburb of Cleveland that I live in is pretty blah in [...]

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Hope everyone’s enjoying their Black Friday! We woke up to the most gorgeous blanket of snow this morning – yay!!! I am so happy to see some snow while I’m in Ohio since I don’t think DC gets anywhere near as much. Now it feels like Christmas!! My sister and I were brave and faced the [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!!! Thanksgiving is not a huge deal in my family since we’re British, but I love our little celebration nonetheless :O). My mum, dad, sister and I started our day off with “The Phillips Trot.” Just like The Turkey Trot except it’s shorter and starts at 11AM instead of 8. hehe. After our run and showers [...]

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Hello Friends! Happy almost Thanksgiving :O). Sadly, I have no delicious eats to post today because I’m on my way back to Cleveland to visit my family and my very favorite friends. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday and I will be back with some very yummy home-cooked meals tomorrow :O). – [...]

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Hello! It’s almost like today is Thursday right?? How much fun is that. A while ago a couple of my friends from work went to Zola Wine & Kitchen for lunch and raved about it. Ever since I’ve been wanting to try it out. So when I got invited along today I just had to [...]

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Aww, back to the grind. At least it’s only a three day week! It’s always nice to have something to look forward to when returning from a particularly good weekend. Unfortunately I wasn’t feeling so great this morning – I think all this weekend’s booze caught up with me :O/. So, breakfast was fairly simple. [...]

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Myyy goodness. Last night most certainly ranks in the “top 10 DC moments” :O). I am so excited to share. So let’s begin!  Here we are outside of  VOLT- I really placed myself front and center in that pic. hehe.      We didn’t make reservations and just decided to eat in the lounge which actually [...]

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Good morning! Happy weekend! First, last night. After work I went for a nice run outside. It feels so good to get moving after sitting still at my desk all day. I had a lot of energy and it was a fabulous 40 minute run followed by a bit of ab work back home. Normally [...]

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Today is a very special day because it’s VOLT-Eve! We are sooo excited for tomorrow because it’s dress up time and delicious food time and try to marry one of our co-workers off to the surely soon-to-be Top Chef time. eek! I’m also getting acupuncture for the first time tomorrow. I’m very interested to see how it will [...]

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