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  • 12/31/2025 These are the days of…

    12/31/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… …getting another cute little Christmas tree for our kitchen: …visiting a new coffee shop in the area that is also dog-friendly: …doing a Christmas photoshoot for JJ: …being gifted a small ceramic pan so then making some baby lasagnas for Jacob since I had some…

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  • Retreat with Cory Muscara

    Retreat with Cory Muscara

    For the 12/5-12/7 weekend, I decided to treat myself to a retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains with meditation author and speaker, Cory Muscara. I first heard of Cory Muscara through some people at Onsite (my incredible experience at Onsite here), and since then, I have been following him for…

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  • 12/8/2025 These are the days of…

    12/8/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… …ordering Ike’s sandwiches on a tired evening and getting to see their Christmas wrappers: …visiting a new coffee shop in Sunnyvale: …learning a Chinese song from my teenage years that has become more popular, and adding all the 注音 for the words I don’t know:…

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  • 11/13/2025 These are the days of…

    11/13/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… ..taking more photos of JJ: …getting to see cute animals at one of my internships: …going on a sunset hike (and running into a tarantula and a coyote): …coming across KPOP demon hunter ramen at 99 ranch : …going to a super yummy Ramen place…

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  • Oct 25, 2025 Reflections

    Oct 25, 2025 Reflections

    Things I have been leraning about… Yahweh: Things I have been learning about others: Things I have been learning about the world: Things I have been learning about myself:

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  • 10/13/2025 These are the days of…

    10/13/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… …seeing more of the ocean by one of my internships: …starting to use my Japanese clay pot for making lots of warm, soup-y, hot-pot-y meals: …finally visiting Menlo Park downtown for the very first time for a French club meetup: …doing a quick early evening…

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  • 日記 九月二十一和二十二日 禮拜天跟禮拜一

    昨天禮拜天早上我和我老公還在他爸媽家。我們早上在網路上看了我們天禮拜天早上我和我老公還在他爸媽家。我們早上在網路上看了我們直播了我們目前正在參加的其中一所教會的講道。之後,我老公跟他弟弟準備了他們的午餐。因為我現在有一些小健康的問題,我沒跟他們準備因為我從家裡帶了我自己的便當 _ 白飯,鮭魚,跟一些蔬菜。然後我們有談一些明年想計畫的歐洲旅行。 吃了午餐之後,我跟我老公又去看一部電影,迪士尼的[埃利奧]。我覺得是一部蠻感動的電影,可是我們也覺得故事進展也點太慢了。我們知道我們是不想在電影院看這部電影,所以能在迪士尼+看到這部電影就很好了。 看了點影之後,我們就回家。回家要花大部分一個半小時。

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  • 9/22/2025 These are the days of…

    9/22/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… …taking JJ with me to the local coffee shop while I do my readings and homework: …finishing this lovely book – it really started picking up towards the last 1/3 part of thet book: …taking photos of JJ at home while we dogsat him: …starting…

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  • 日記九月二十號,禮拜六

    日記九月二十號,禮拜六

    這個週末我和我老公回到他鄉村慶祝他爺爺奶奶的結婚紀念日。他們結婚了六十三年了。 我們星期五晚上從家離出發,因為通常是這個時候才不會那麼塞車。。。不過,到了晚上九點半還是塞車很多,所以我們大部分十一點才到他爸媽家。我在車上睡所以我想立刻繼續睡。我不是睡的很好可是我到下午才起床,所以有休息很多。 我吃了我包裝的鮭魚便當吃午餐 (對,我晚起就沒吃早餐),然後我老公跟他弟弟,爸爸,跟兩個叔叔想到外面玩匹克球。我老公有問我要不要跟他們一起玩,可是我不太喜歡玩這項運動。所以我拿了我目前在讀的書,[柏青哥],坐在匹克球場上的長椅來看。雖然我只讀到一百頁,故事已經非常的有趣,非常的感動。我很高興我有照到這本書來看,而且是免費的 (有一天,在我以前工作的地方,有個人把很多歷史非小說放在外面給所有人拿。我就拿會很朵本)。 打完匹克球之後,我們就到這城市其中最有名的義大利餐廳跟我老公的爺爺奶奶吃飯,總共又七個人去。我點了無麩質義大利麵加番茄醬跟蝦子和一晚蔬菜通心粉湯。這是我第 一次跟蝦子配番茄醬吃,我不是很喜歡。所以我挑出盤子上所有的蝦子放在旁邊分開吃。 吃完午餐之後,我跟我老公到他父母附近的公園走一走因為我們吃得好飽。然後我們看了漫威的[雷霆特攻隊]電影,覺得蠻好看。我不知道如果我現在要不要用中文分析這部電影,總有一天我 會吧,因為它其中一個重點是心理健康,而我正在學習成為心理健康治療師。 今天是美好的一天,非常放鬆。雖然明天就要回家了,我希望明天也能一樣輕鬆。也希望我可以一直在這裡練習我的中文再分享我的日子! _ 心如

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  • 9/7/2025 These are the days of…

    9/7/2025 These are the days of…

    These are the days of… …using this image from Kpop demon hunters as my avator on multiple platforms (I have yet to talk more about Kpop demon hunters on this blog because it is having its own post): …celebrating my father’s birthday at Pacific catch: …seeing Kpop demon hunters in…

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I’m Tiffany

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