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The past week has been a bit of a blur because of planning for Meet, Plan, Go Portland. Smashing success and here’s what else I’ve been up to lately. -Tasty n Sons – It’d been a year since I’d had breakfast at Tasty n Sons. I should really go here more often. The cast iron [...]

My move into my new places randomly coincided with my switch to working from home. It’s been about four months now {WHAT!?!}, and although it’s definitely been an adjustment, creating my own little work space has really helped me adjust to working from home, and not letting my work area take over the entire 600-ish [...]

It had been a few years since I updated my portfolio/resume website.  I had let the hosting expire, only keeping the domain.  So I’ve now changed the DNS and pointed it at a blogger site to keep things simple (and cheaper).  Most of the free templates were either too simple, but not clean design or [...]

5 Ways To Streamline Your Job Search

In: How To, work

It’s been over a year since I quit my job to travel.  Now that I’ve been back on the job hunt for a month, I’ve assembled a list of ways to streamline your job search. Set up RSS feeds. Just because you’re unemployed doesn’t mean that you want to spend hours every day combing through [...]

See Jane Work – 25% Off Coupon Code

In: home, shopping, work

Get 25% off sitewide on SeeJaneWork.com Promo Code: 25OFF09 Expires:  January 31, 2009 Add to your ‘happiness at work’ quotient by surrounding yourself with fun and useful office gear. Here are a few things I love from See Jane Work: Knock Knock’s “All Out Of” grocery shopping lists Office Basics Letter Trays – in happy [...]

#3: Max out my 401k Contribution

In: 101 Things in 1001 Days, work

Here’s one I didn’t complete this year. 2007 401k Contribution Limit: $15,500 My Contribution: $10,573 I’ll be working on this one a little bit harder next year. :) In the meantime, here’s a few savings tips. How To Not Be Poor When You’re Old: Start saving NOW, yes, seriously, NOW. Check out this 401k Calculator [...]

#89: Take A Sick Day To Go Play

In: 101 Things in 1001 Days, work

When did I do this? If I told you, I’d have to kill you. :) It was sometime this year… I didn’t do anything reeeally fun. I worked on a project for school, cleaned my apartment and went to dinner. So it was more of a mental health day. Maybe I should only consider this [...]

#5: Finish my MBA

In: 101 Things in 1001 Days, life, work

I’m finally done! After 2 years of part-time classes, I’m officially done with my MBA! After undergrad, I had no intentions of getting my MBA, and I’m glad that I took some time away from school before going back. It gives you some perspective on what you’re learning. What did I learn? Not what I [...]

The purpose of writing in a work “journal” was to be able to look back and see how much I collectively accomplished in one month. Did it work? Yes and no. At first, I documented too much. :) Surprise, surprise, but it ended up being a good thing. Towards the end, I just noted what [...]

Although working at a company without a dress code policy can be fun, it also makes you lose all motivation to look nice — and fairly quickly! Hello, flip flops! Yeah, it’s gotten that bad. So in an effort to be more professional, I made a conscious effort to wear heels and flats for two [...]

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Hey remember that time I had a quarter-life crisis, quit my job, and traveled around the world for a year? Hey remember that other time the economy tanked and I spent almost a year looking for a new job? Hey remember that time I made banana and Nutella crepes for breakfast?

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31 Before 31 List

1. Run a 5k
2. Eat completely local for one week
3. Go on an overnight bike trip
4. Roadtrip Hwy 101 to San Francisco
5. Visit all 31+ Breweries in PDX (7 left)
6. Try a new cocktail
7. Try wakeboarding
8. Go to Portugal
9 Take a 2+ week trip
10. Work remotely [not in Portland] for 1+ month
11. Get a piece of clothing tailored
12. Speak in front of 100+ people (at a conference etc)
13. Have a party at my house (ie. invite more than 4 people over)
14. Visit Hawaii again
15. Start a book club
16. Eat at Beast
17. Go to a Plate & Pitchfork dinner
18. Do a cleanse
19. Do another 30 day yoga challenge
20. Organize a group [bike] ride
21. Find a mentor
22. Paint a wall in my home
23. Go on a press trip
24. Sew something again
25. Do a month-long blogging project
26. Volunteer / do some pro bono work
27. Learn a song on the guitar
28. Find a karaoke song
29. ____________
30. ____________
31. ____________


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