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Actual factual vacation time away from here, this thing, and you

Dear Friends,

I’m on vacation this week. For my break, I’ve set small goals every day, but it’s not what you think. My missions are fun, low stakes things like “drive around town to taste test chocolate chip cookies,” “make a leather traveler’s journal,” and “go to the mall with one of my high school friends.”

I’ve also included room for lots of nothing, which will probably mean lying down and spacing out in front of the air conditioner. If you don’t hear from me this week, it’s because I took a much needed nap. Or five.

I’ll be back next week with stories to tell, good things I noticed, and, well, everything else. Until then.

xo Christine

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Good Things

• Our baby girl turned 15, and she’s graceful, gracious, and a delight to be around

• New-to-us, delicious restaurants, like Woon

• Lingering at breakfast with friends

• Silicon Valley still makes me laugh

• Alice in Wonderland is a feast for the eyes

• My own neopolitan: Jeni’s watermelon taffy ice cream, Haagen Daz matcha green tea & vanilla

• A nod to my Dad before I take a bite of adobo fried rice because it will always remind me of him

• Finding new, sometimes ridiculous ways, to put my hair up

• Reusable bendy straws

• The excitement of sending packages and snail mail across the country

Good Quote

Good Deed of the Day

Offer a drink to someone, like your kid, or your partner, or your friend. I’ve been trying to fill our Brita water dispenser every morning so that everyone has cold water to drink throughout the scorching day.