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I have completed something on my list. I am officially a home owner again. I purchased my first home when I was 22 in Baltimore Maryland and loved it. When I started a job in DC three years later I commuted for a year before finally deciding that it would be easier to live closer [...]

I have made less progress on decluttering than I thought I would at this point. I need to focus on my personal clutter and instead have managed to only make progress in areas of work.
I got my work emails down to zero before the end of last month and last night threw away, shredded, and [...]

Today is my Celebrating Life day. It is part of my list to celebrate life on the date of my birth every month. Unfortunately I was so busy this month that I almost forgot. Thankfully I have a colleague who remembered and asked what I planned to do to celebrate. There are no set rules on what [...]

My office culture is more of a grab something, work at your desk kinda place. A group of my work colleagues and I try to go out for a nice sit down lunch a few times a year. We started this tradition by going to Washington DC Restaurant Week and trying a new restaurant near our [...]

I had lunch today with a friend I have known since I was five years old. We met at Junior Academy (a daycare and afterschool center) and spent many a day chatting over the afternoon snack. 25 years later, life has brought us full circle as we spent a part of our day chatting over an afternoon [...]

So I have lost the first three pounds of my 30. This was extremely surprising since I have eaten at least one mint chocolate Oreo cookie each day this week ( and three on Saturday). But I did make several other changes to my lifestyle since making this decision to lose some weight. I drink [...]

So I changed my list yesterday because I wanted to add Declutter My Life to my list. I realized that I could not enter into another decade without eliminating some of the things that are consuming my space mentally and physically. My life is being overrun by notes, letters, and things that I keep thinking [...]

As I watched last nights episode of Grey’s anatomy I reflected on one of my favorite character’s (Dr. Bailey) struggle to have it all. I always loved her character for how she represented for educated professional black women. Her character used to be a strong uncompromising leader who was able to have a loving long [...]

 
It is so fitting that for my list the first new food I would try would be candy. But what can I say, I have a sweet tooth! My co-worker returned from a family trip to Dubai and brought candies made of dates into the office. They are from Datela sweets and she bought them from the [...]

Since I have been celebrating, reminding and basically harassing people about turning 30 all of 2007, one would think that I would be better prepared. But the day has come for me to let my 20s go and head into full adulthood. Though officially I became an adult at 18, 30 always seemed like the [...]