Welcome to the first Ultimate Coffee Date of 2025 + I hope you had a great start to your new year! :]
Ultimate Coffee Date: January 2025
I got a super cute mushroom bowl to bake brie in, so I’ve been making it for potlucks! Easiest appetizer ever + looks fancy and tastes amazing. I put orange jam on this one! :] I have a kahlua baked brie recipe too…
If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I went to a craft fair with a few friends last month and it made me want to pick up a bunch of new hobbies. I managed to exercise a modicum of restraint though…
Maybe one day I’ll get better at crocheting and can make something much simpler than these!? lol
This made me laugh probably more than I should’ve…
If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…at our last coffee date, I mentioned I was going to start taking horseback riding lessons again! (The plan is to start in February, so I went with my friend to Dover Saddlery and we got fitted for boots!)
As luck would have it, I am apparently the size of a large child, so I got to buy my boots from the children’s section ($50 cheaper <3 ). Since safety is important and all, we also got fitted for helmets!
These are the same size (L) helmet but it looked comically ginormous on me, so my friends made some necessary edits. I will be getting the medium size helmet rather than the large…
If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…the vibe at work has still been exceedingly + unnecessarily uncomfortable due to the person who had also wanted this position, so much so that the rest of our department (located over in the other building) noticed and invited me to their holiday party so I could spend time in a more positive space, eat delicious food, and hang out with super adorable pets. It was super sweet of them and it’s been kinda better this week (mainly because said person is on vacation)!
On a completely unrelated note, there is a Thai temple in Berkeley that sells food on Sundays (they use the proceeds as donations to the temple). The food is glorious + delicious — I was super glad to get to snag one of their mango with sticky rice for dessert! *-* (The dent is from the container holding the coconut cream, hehe.)
If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I’m regularly able to make it up 5.11a’s now! This opens up a whole new world of possibilities (or so it feels)! :D
See past ultimate coffee dates here!
(Link-up with Coco @ Running with Perseverance & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner! Also linking up with Darlene, Michelle, Renee, Jenn and Zenaida, for Fit Five Friday.)
- Do you make resolutions every new year? Any plans/goals for 2025? I need to update my 101 in 1001…
- Come back on Monday for our next My Month Is Booked! I’ll be sharing my December 2024 reads as well as the total # of books I read in 2024 (I hit a new record for myself! :P ).
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Ugh, so sorry the work stress goes on. Is there a supervisor who can tell the other person to get over it?
Yay on the climbing!
Where will you go horseback riding?
I guess there is someone I could tell, but it feels like a sibling squabble where I’d be running to tattle to mom. (I guess I’m still hoping we can be adults about it/she’ll simmer down at some point, haha. ._.)
Thank you! I’ve been feeling so accomplished, haha.
The place I’ll be taking lessons is at a stable about 10 min from my parents’ house, so I can go visit them too afterward, hehe. :]
I am glad you carving out more time for yourself to do the things you love and balance out stress from work. Happy new year to you
Thank you! I am too — it definitely makes for more happiness/better quality of life! :P
Sorry about the work stress. No one needs that in their life! Hope it eases up as time goes on.
Sounds like you have a lot of adventures coming up in 2025 (as always!) I’m still working on my plans and goals. I know… the year has already started. I better get with it!
Agreeed + thank you! I hope it gets better at some point too though.
I’m with you on that! This week has felt incredibly long and I already feel behind, haha. We’ll get there though!
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You are crushing it! I wish I could get boots in the children’s section! As it is, I can comfortably buy men’s and women’s sizes lol!
I can’t wait to hear how your horse adventures go! I miss riding!
hehehe, it was a lucky find for sure! The person working with us was super awesome! :]
I’m definitely planning to post about em’! *-*!!
YOU do a great job of keeping busy, even in your free time ;-) Ugh, work stress (from co-workers) is really tough to bear (as if ones job itself isn’t enough, right?). I’m glad you still had a fun party to go to…that was a very nice gesture on the peeps including you ;-)
hehe, I can’t help it — there’s too much I wanna do! :D
And very much agreed. :[ It was so nice of my other coworkers though! <3
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How fun to have a definite plan for picking horseback riding up in February!
I’m so sorry to hear about your work situation. Isn’t there anything that can be done about it?
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I’m so excited! :D
Thank you! :( Unfortunately, probably not. I’m sure I could escalate, but I feel like it’s not worth all the extra drama it will inevitably cause, and would probably turn the people who are on my side against me. (sigh) It’ll be okay at some point someday, hopefully!
Hmm i’ve been on vacation this past week…
Lolll, it definitely couldn’t be you, haha. Hope you had a nice vacation though!!
That is tough working in a toxic work environment. I hope it gets better soon. Those are some neat crochet projects!
Thank you!
They were all so pretty! I’d love to be that talented someday, hehe.
How fun to get fitted for all the horse-riding gear! This reminds me I still have all my riding stuff, which has gone unused for eons.
Sorry about the ongoing bad vibes at work!
hehe, getting fitted for everything made me extra excited for next month! :D
Thank you! Still hoping it’ll simmer down someday, haha.