you can have it all
During these uncertain times with everything shut down and no where to go I've had some time on my hands to experiment in the kitchen...aka Coco Labs. These fluffy delicious cookies are so light that I've been baking a batch and eating a batch every day this past week...oops! It took me 4 batches to …
Hello friends - I can't believe it has been 6 MONTHS since my last blog post! Work, grad school, life stuff has been keeping me busy....so busy that I haven't had a chance to post! Literally though - there were Saturdays where I spent 12 hours straight sitting in my chair writing my essays... Since …
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"Nikki you got a lot of life in you but you don't need to jump out of a plane to have fun!" I vividly remember my stepfather telling me this in our living room after number whatever MRI. We were talking about skydiving. And how I'll never have the opportunity to do it. You see, …
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Yoooooo! It's been nearly 2 months since I've moved to the big Shang-HELLO. Check out my latest updates on what I've been up to/learned lately... Yoga - Eastern yoga is NO joke here. They try to get us in positions like the one pictured above, but in reality this is what I actually look like. OK. …
Hello world. I bring you the world's fastest, simplest, and healthiest pizza recipe! I can't tell you the number of times I've made this after a night out fumbling around my pots and pans or even as a quick snack in between study sessions. And guess what?? It only requires 1 pan and 1 bowl!!! …
Money is a funny topic, especially among our generation -- the millennial generation. It's this thing that no one likes to talk about. We have different associations with money--both positive and negative. Money is this uncomfortable subject that most people our age like to dance around because depending on your audience and your network, the …
My friend once told me I do a lot of cool things and I need to share it more. Which brings me to my latest adventure in good ol' Shanghai! Remember in my last post how I talked about being spontaneous and carefree, and how it's not to be confused with irresponsible and impulsive? Well, …
Balance. It's key to everything. It's key to eating, to friendships, to dating, to exercise, to work, to going out, to chocolate consumption (eh, that's debatable), to social media, to spending splurging, to LIFE. Yet, why is it the hardest thing for us to find sometimes? I think it's because we sometimes forget how essential …
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