Friday 7 Quick Takes (vol 120)

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This week on Totes Awesome Channel we are vlogging about the small ways we make a difference.


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So four days after I purchased my roundtrip flight to Paris, Anita and I bought our tickets to Portland. We figured since there are many people flying into Portland for World Domination Summit, we better get to it even if it is in July. I’ve never been to Oregon and am excited to eat at Voodoo Doughnuts!

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My funds are pretty tied up right now with these two ticket purchases sitting on my credit card. I am tempted to sign up for my first travel rewards credit card. The annual fee of the one I’m looking at is a hundred dollars. I can earn two round trip tickets in the first three months if I just use it to pay for everything. I’ve never had a credit card where I had to pay an annual fee! Any insight would be appreciated.

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Currently Reading:
How to Travel the World on $50 a Day
Daring Greatly
Anna Karenina (free Kindle version!)

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One of my goals is to get my mojo back when it comes to posting more regularly on my food blog. I posted a baby post last night. I’m dipping my toes back in with writing more regularly and started with a corned beef, cole slaw, and french fries sandwich!

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Made the 2nd of 24 vegetarian dinners of 2013 last weekend. I made creamy avocado pasta with roasted tomatoes and it was delicious!

Creamy Avocado Pasta

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This week’s moments of bliss: ♥ buying Portland tickets for WDS2013 ♥ Architects of Air Adventure girl date ♥ fun time catching up with food bloggers at the AFBA Cook Book launch party ♥ roasted beets ♥ scary movie date with my little from Big Brothers Big Sisters ♥ grilled cheeses ♥ flirting with my food blog ♥ Bob hanging out with the same group of dogs almost every day ♥ morning snooze with Bob on the couch ♥ watching Anthony Bourdain on The Taste ♥ wearing crazy teddy bear socks I received from my sister

teddy bear socks

Question: When was the last time you were surprised by your preferences?