Journaling
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Our Favorite Places to Eat
Everyday Dining / Take Out Grub Sushi Hana Rubios Mendocino Farms - Beet Salad Oggi's Grub - Napa Salad Chez Nous Panera - Strawberry Poppy Salad Santana's Knotty Barrel Phil's BBQ Pizza Rev Ki's Restaurant Regents Cheesecake Factory Places to Hang Out Cordiano's Orfila Ballast Point Cutwater Newtopia Cyder Juneshine Fine Dining Poseidon Vintana Tom Ham's Lighthouse Brunch Yanni's Dessert Extraordinary Desserts Cheesecake Factory - Godiva Flourless Chocolate Cake Brunch Only Places Broken Yolk Swami's Nutmeg Bakery Breakfast Republic Places to Sit and Work Pacific Coast Grill Wilson Creek Phil's BBQ Don't Like Habit Burger Salads
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My Journaling Journey
I journal in many ways, in my planner, in my notebook, in a reference notebook, I've tried to keep a separate writing journal and I've tried Day One. But there was always something missing. Hence I landed on this blog. Before starting this blog, I looked into several tools including: Revisited Day One Evernote OneNotes And I briefly looked other journaling apps that are out there like Penzu Day One Day One has a beautiful interface and I liked how it pulled weather and social media into your posts. However, I didn't want a big dump of information. I only wanted the journal to collect what was most important to…
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Key Takeaways – Running
Everyday Runs Drink my tea and get good sleep to fully recover. Drink a lot of powerade for hydration and electrolytes before a run. Read more Need 3 hours after eating to digest I run best on salads Watch Game Changers - enlightening to see how the blood changes based on what you eat Focus on the back kick - I tend to shuffle and not bend my knees especially when I'm tired. I noticed this from looking back at race photos Recovery Get in the pool!! - This made a world of difference. Remember how floating in the lake at Harsen's Island helped me recover from that super hot…
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I Needed an Extra Recovery Day
Monday I went for an easy 6 mile run. I didn't eat very well, but made sure to drink a lot of Powerade before my run to be hydrated. I ran late, around 8:00 pm because it was hot and super humid. I ran easy and felt pretty good, but when I looked at my paces, I was at an overall average of 10:00 pace. Even though I did the Black Mountain hill, the last time I did an almost similar route, my overall pace was around 9:16. This told me I was still not recovered. It was a struggle, but I finally decided to take last night off and…
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Photo Organization – Removing Duplicates
Here are tools to help with de-duplication of photos. I found this in a Facebook group and saved it here for future reference. Highlights: DupeGuru a free cross-platform deduplication app for initial heavy lifting of dedupe efforts. Lightroom Classic with Teekesselchen, a free cross-platform plugin for second pass. Photosweeper for Apple Photos. Tips on How to Deal with Photos That Are Very Similar But Slightly Different It's all about the eyes. If the eyes aren't in focus, delete immediately Keep the first one and get rid of the rest At the start of the emotion - When Ashley and I were going through Big Sur photos, this one stood out. …
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Things to Help Me Sleep
Here are the things I do to help me sleep: Watching a show. Big Bang Theory usually helps me sleep. I need to “watch” a show that doesn’t keep me so engaged that it keeps me up, or where I have to keep my eyes open to know what’s going on. The show just has to help me shut my brain off from thinking. Delta sleep waves on YouTube Insight Timer sleep meditation app Toe separators to relax my feet. Remember to set a 15 minute timer so you don’t fall asleep with them on your toes Flip upside down so you’re head is by the footboard Are you hungry?…
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Decision: Why I Stay With iPhone
It is easier when the family is all in the same iPhone ecosystem. We can find each other, share photos and airdrop each other, even just to name our family group chat. You can’t do that if someone isn’t on iPhone. And you can FaceTime too. I know there’s other apps, but it’s just easier. I really like the Photos app on Mac and iPhone and how it syncs with Cloud. I love the Live Photos, especially when it app creates a memory from the photos. I love how the live photos bring it to life. When 3rd party apps like Adobe Elements or Google Photos creates videos from them,…
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How I Plan to Use This Blog
Journaling This blog will be used for writing and journaling where dates do not have too much importance. I already have a planner where I capture things that are date/calendar specific and I capture things that Spark Joy every day. This blog is for adding more context and detail and memorializing things that I had written online and can copy and paste from emails, facebook posts, etc. It will record decision made and why, the outcome and any key input into those decisions. The information here should be searchable so I can reference in the future. A lot of things captured here is because the information is captured digitally and…
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How I Want to Be Remembered
I saw a post where someone’s mother had passed away and they had a Pierogi dinner in her honor. It got me thinking about how I want to be remembered and celebrated. We have started a tradition of New Year’s Day hikes, Mother’s Day hikes, birthday hikes. I imagine the family would have a hike in my honor. I want to be remembered for my love of running, my Keep Smiling motto, ingraining the importance of health and fitness and eating right for my kids, my love for the outdoors, for the piano, for my planner, outdoor dining. Of course, all of this is in addition to my love for…
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Diet, Allergies and Intolerances
I am gluten intolerant. I also cannot have peanuts, cashews and mold grown cheeses. Mold grown cheeses include: Blue cheeses: Gorgonzola, Roquefort, Stilton and other blue varieties Soft ripened cheeses: Brie, Camembert Humboldt Fog, and St. Andre This is consistent with me being allergic to Penicillin which is a mold based antibiotic. Seasonal allergies are the worst in: July in the Midwest October and any time the Santa Ana winds come in to San Diego. I seem to be allergic to the desert. I’m also allergic to dust and animals, especially cats!
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Apps for Photo Organization
These are the primary apps I've considered or tried for photo organization. More detail is available below. Adobe Bridge* Adobe LightRoom Adobe Elements Mac Photos* Google Photos* Dropbox* Forever * Products I currently use Mac Photos I use iCloud Photos which syncs photos across my phone and MacBook. Then I use the Photos app on Mac to do the first round of curation. I use the Favorites feature a lot so it’s easier to curate in Photos rather than having to find the favorites again in another organization app. Round 1: I put albums by Year/By Month and separate Personal from other stuff SmartAlbum criteria: By month Not in an…
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Fitness and Gyms
30 Day Challenges 30 Day Squat Challenge - I started this with Nicole and got about halfway through but never finished the challenge 30 Day Burpee Challenge 30 Day Plank Challenge Gyms 24 Hour Fitness - Not too happy with this gym right now. We're a member of the PQ Gym by Stater Brothers. It is always super hot in there. The best treadmills are closest to the door because there is a fan and you don't get trapped by the pool with the heat from the machines and sweaty people and you're not overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine. Also, they reduced their hours so it's not 24 hours…
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A Reflection of My Burnout The Last Few Months
This was an email I wrote to my coach. I had been burnt out and unmotivated. Here was my findings and I wanted to save it here for future reference. The Email Analysis I did 177 points today. You would think I would be thrilled for being so productive but the problem is, I can’t delineate and stop. Then I didn’t start my run till 8 pm and I’m out running in the dark again. Then I get angry with myself. And I get burnt out. But that’s why I have to get out of the house. It gives me a starting and stopping point. At least I can see…
