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Monthly Snapshot :: July 2014

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**For all of you who like my monthly snapshot posts, Becca has started her own series which you can find at her blog here.  This month features some rather cool looking converse and lots of knitting.


ON REPEAT
Coconut coconut muffins
Ground beef and onions
Salads
Burgers
Camp food (quinoa soup, sweet potatoes, groats with chia seeds)

Walking
Knitting planning
Clothes shopping and wardrobe planning
Bookstores
Sight seeing
Outlander excitement

FAVORITES
BOOKS:: Outlander, Drums of Autumn, and the Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
TV SHOW: The Newsroom
MUSIC: Acrobat by Matt Brown
MEMORIES: Trivial persuit and fireworks, seeing Jim Byrnes again, babysitting. camping for a week, rereading Outlander with accompanying Twitter excitement, shopping on Robson, Trader Joe's, Powell's City of Books, Washington Park, the aerial performance, Matt Brown, and the Aztec dance group, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Embarcadero, passing out on the couch watching Youtube vids in Boston, laughing really hard carrying groceries back to the apartment

101 IN 1,001
About a year ago (August 2013) I started a 101 in 1,001 project.  Below is a list of goals I completed or finished in the last month.
  • Visit San Francisco (26-30 July 2014)
  • Visit Portland (22-26 July 2014)
  • Go camping (7-13 July 2014)
  • Spend a day with a child under the age of three (stretching this a bit but 5 July 2014)
  • Spend a weekend unplugged (12-13 July 2014)
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  1. Rebecca Johnson7:31 PM, August 07, 2014

    Now I want coconut coconut muffins. Thoughts on Fangirl?

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    1. Lisa10:28 AM, August 14, 2014

      Coconut muffins are just coconut flour muffins with flaked coconut in them so really they're just like normal people coconut muffins so I probably should have just called them coconut muffins, but I liked the repetition.

      Thoughts on Fangirl are forthcoming if I can ever untangle them for my love of all things Rainbow Rowell. I really need to slow down with my reading of her stuff or else I'm going to run out by September and SAD. Basically Fangirl was amazing and kind of scarily my life only the cooler version with more drama and less time spent lurking on online forums lmao.

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