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Last Year Was My Best Year Ever

Last year was my best year ever. In fact, I bought a book called “Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals” by Michael Hyatt. It’s full of action plans, check boxes and templates….

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Seattle in Less than 24 Hours

I took a very short work trip to Seattle last week (less than 24 hours) and wanted to share a few pics. The best thing about Seattle is that my dear friend Conrado, who I’ve known since the 2nd grade,…

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Currently Out of the Office

We’re on a one-week family vacation! First time in almost a year. We’re at winter wonderland / gorgeously sunny Lake Tahoe. We arrived on a cold Sunday. Monday, it snowed. And today, we were making sandcastles on the beach. Franco…

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How to Maximize Your Time at Gilroy Gardens

How to Maximize Your Time at Gilroy Gardens For Memorial Day weekend, we went to Gilroy Gardens which is a 1:45 drive south from San Francisco. I like to think of Gilroy Gardens as a cheaper, mini-version of Disneyland. It was…

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From Art to Politics: 8 Instagram Accounts to Follow Now

I just became active on Instagram! You can find me @catherinegacad. I never thought I’d be an Instagrammer, but I recently had a photography consultation with @spottedsf and she encouraged me to start posting. Despite my inactivity, I’ve followed my own…

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British Indiosyncrasies

For one, everyone drives on the wrong side of the street and the car steering wheel is also on the wrong side. So weird! In lieu of ‘big’ or ‘fat,’ people say ‘massive.’ So when we got to London, I…

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Roatan, Honduras

Weather here is magnificent. 80-90 degrees. 100% humidity which I don’t seem to mind. Fleeting rain and thunderstorms once or twice a day. Doesn’t bother me if it’s still warm and you can easily dry off. It was unbearably hot…

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Career Relief

Wow, that was a long absence. I’ve neglected blogging to focus on my career and financial well-being. Thrilled to report that the weeks of interviewing and hard work yielded the perfect result. I’m extremely happy and feel truly blessed. I…

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Clueless and On Vacation

I think it’s sad that most people zone out when I talk about the arts. In New York, when I said I was going to the ballet, everyone asked where. Ummm, the Lincoln Center where it always is. Cmon people!…

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Money Monday: Airbnb Beginner’s Luck

Our Airbnb transaction went without a hitch this past weekend. So smooth. The renter was completely engaged with emails, text messages. He let me know when he was 30 minutes away from arriving. I love that—responsive, responsible, low risk. I…

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