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    Summer is here and I’m working on it

    June 26, 2019 /

    As I predicted at the end of my spring post, I am still a mess. In some ways I'm still the same mess and in other ways I am a new mess. I'm still working on many of the same things I was three months ago, but have fixed many of them and made progress on others. I'm still a mess, but as I hoped, I am a slightly happier mess.

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    Phone Calls

    January 6, 2019

    You Won’t Always Have More Time

    May 31, 2020

    Spring has arrived and I am a mess

    March 20, 2019
  • Food

    Where to get the Best Poke on Oahu?

    June 19, 2019 /

    Poke (pronounced POH-KAY) dates back to the ancient Hawaiians who would feast on freshly caught fish massaged with sea salt, seaweed and crushed inamona or kukui nuts. Since then poke has grown and evolved, in some circumstances, drastically. As immigrants from all around the world, and especially places like China and Japan, began arriving in Hawaii, new flavors began to shape poke. While the more traditional Ahi poke is made with tuna, shoyu (soy sauce), sea salt, green onions, Maui onions and limu, visit any poke shop in Hawaii today and you can find a wide array of flavors and options including kimchee shrimp, furikake salmon, miso tako (octopus), pipikaula…

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    Lanikai Juice

    July 26, 2019

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    April 19, 2019

    Colima Burgers

    December 10, 2019
  • Life

    10 Years

    June 9, 2019 /

    This Tuesday (6/11) marks the 10 year anniversary of my high school graduation. The ending of one chapter and the start of a new. For everyone, their high school graduation means change and new beginnings. It's one of the many stepping stones into adulthood. For me it marked the beginning of the end in many ways, and that sounds much more dramatic than I intended, but I can't think of a better way to say it. This wasn't just the closing of my childhood chapter and beginning of my adulthood one, it was the first nail in the door to my childhood. Before the calendar year would end my life…

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    May 25, 2020

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    December 18, 2020

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    March 23, 2020
  • Travel & Adventure

    Eaton Canyon Falls

    June 1, 2019 /

    My husband and I have finally, after over five months in California, started hiking again. In just the past few weeks we have tackled five different trails starting with Eaton Canyon Falls. Located in Altadena, CA, Eaton Canyon Falls Trail is a fairly easy and relatively short trail. Listed at about 3.5 miles, I tracked it at about 4 miles round trip and it took my husband and I about 2.5 hours to complete, including the time we spent at the falls.

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    December 27, 2018

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    May 3, 2019

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    April 13, 2020

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It's starting to warm up here in SoCal, so it feel It's starting to warm up here in SoCal, so it feels weird to share a photo of leaves changing in Utah back in early fall, but this was the last time I was outside exploring nature and I'm dying to get back out there. I want to climb mountains and cross streams. I want to hear the birds chirping and the leaves rustling. I just want to get out of the house and out of my neighborhood.
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Froze 🥶 my butt off at the beginning of the mon Froze 🥶 my butt off at the beginning of the month, but the community we stayed in was adorable, especially with a fresh dusting of snow ❄️
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You can't understand this cold 🥶 you must exper You can't understand this cold 🥶 you must experience this cold. I was ill-prepared for this. 
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Stumbled across this photo while writing my latest Stumbled across this photo while writing my latest blog post (link in bio). This photo was taken right around my 20th birthday and this is the exact type of attitude and energy I want as I enter my 30s 🎉
📷 @ge_rar_doh
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#birthday #happybirthday #happybirthdaytome #throwback #flashback #turning30 #30thbirthday #newdecade #newchapter
Make it stop! You can't already be 7. Happy birthd Make it stop! You can't already be 7. Happy birthday sweet baby Jrue ❤️🎉
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I'm a few days off on this, but I am officially in I'm a few days off on this, but I am officially in my final week of my 20s. As I approach my 30th I've been reflecting a lot on this past decade and thinking ahead to what is to come.
It's really rare for me to post photos of myself, especially photos of me alone, and I almost never take selfies. I've never been big on that, but I've noticed over the years I've started doing even less and less. And over the past couple years I've even started avoiding being in photos all together. There are different reasons for that, but a lot of it does stem from my personal insecurities and that's something I really want to work on moving forward. I want to be comfortable in my own skin and proud of who I am.
Now I don't think posting a bunch of photos of myself is going to fix anything, but it is a start and a step out of my comfort zone. So I scoured all my photos (tried to stick to photos close to my birthday) from the past 10 years and found 1 photo from every year (2011-2020) of just myself. (Some years were even hard to find than I expected.) And even if some of these photos make me cringe, it's kinda fun to see how I've changed (and how I haven't).
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#turning30 #30thbirthday #selfie #selflove #selfimprovement #positivevibes #positivity #positivemindset #timetoreflect #timetogrow #growingup
It's been a really rough week. On Monday I finally It's been a really rough week. On Monday I finally got to return to work and after two weeks of barely moving, walking and being on my feet all day really took a toll on me. I knew my recovery wouldn't end just because I could leave isolation, but for someone who has a hard time sitting still this week has been a real challenge, not just physically, but mentally as well. I need to keep reminding myself to listen to my body and that it is ok if I can't get as much done in a day or a week as I'm used to. As long as I keep moving and keep improving, that's all that matters.
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#inspiration #inapirationalquotes #selflove #selftalk #motivation #quotes
I haven't been able to leave the house for almost I haven't been able to leave the house for almost two weeks now, but I saw there was snow on the mountains so let's just pretend this photo isn't a year old ☃️
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#wrightwood #wrightwoodcalifornia #snow #snowday #winter #winterwonderland #sangabrielmountains #losangelesnationalforest #sanbernardino #southerncalifornia #socal
Flashback Friday with my all time favorite picture Flashback Friday with my all time favorite picture of the family's personal New Year's Baby 🎩
Happy 18th Birthday @bronah_castro ❤️ I can't believe you're already 18, in my head I think you'll always be the sweet little boy that just wanted to watch Spongebob, play Minecraft and eat peas and spaghetti 🍝 Over the years you've gone from my punk rock baby that would tolerate listening to Green Day on my bed, to my Sour Patch Kid who was always "sour then sweet" and then you were the adventurous jungle boy climbing barefoot through Hawaiian jungles. But no matter what, through it all you've always just been Jonah Scott, the sweetest, kindest, most caring kid I know. You didn't get to spend nearly enough years with my dad, but I know he would be so impressed and proud of the man you're growing into. I know I am 🥰 Happy Birthday Jonah 🥳
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