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7-27-2025 MY WEEK: i dare you...

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it was truly a daring week - from challenging ourselves to afternoon local hikes, utilizing my fashion oracle cards (unsuccessfully, but i might try again soon), to sib and i taking our first ever salsa class .  sib and i visited brandywine falls , hogback ridge park , and hidden valley park  after work over the week, and for a busy work week i had, it was a healthy way of decompressing and debriefing. we have camp week at work - hence why i was struggling with oracle cards. functionality and avant garde did not go hand in hand this time.  brandywine falls hidden valley park hogback ridge park besides ohio's mystical parks, sib and i ventured the erie coastline, and enjoyed visiting the quaint and underrated beauties - fairport harbor  and  ashtabula harbor . i often crave for beaches and harbors, having spent most of my teen summers there, and i miss the scenery often. lake erie is not waters i would necessarily tread, but getting ice cream or lunch by the wate...

7-20-2025 MY WEEK: the art of dance and dress up games

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  this week, i drape myself mostly in swimwear to lounge on bitten pool noodles and take naps in the sun, by our pool. therapy during the work days.  briefly mentioned in my faves entry  this week was our visit to the drive-in movies, where we watched dirty dancing and grease . the atmosphere couldn't have been better, and the number of snacks we ate couldn't have been larger. but it did inspire us to tap into the dancer in us.  i love to dance. i am not good at dancing, but with a good group and a drink or two, i become shameless. sib and i are looking into taking dance lessons, because we as a society have stopped dancing - well, or even at all. is society too worried about how we will be perceived that even silly dancing became taboo? if the recession is coming back, we at least need to bring back dancing - it's all we have left. dancing costs us nothing.  funny enough, we had a bonfire on friday, and bestie victoria was mentioning how she went to a ballroom ...