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Family,Food,Friends,Holidays

A great birthday

posted on : June 15, 2013

Thursday the 13th of June was my 26th birthday, and turned out to be my best one yet.  Usually I dread my birthday, not because of getting older but because I have always had bad birthdays.  The past couple years I have had to work late, have had some major…

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Army,Entertainment,Family,Food

Iron Man 3, Military Spouse Appreciation, Step Out with the USO, and the Old Guard All Ranks Ball

posted on : May 12, 2013

It has been a crazy busy weekend for us. Thursday night we were given free premiere tickets for “Iron Man 3” at the Hoffman AMC in Alexandria, VA by the GI Film Festival, which was sponsored by the Gary Sinise Foundation.  The Gary Sinise Foundation had invited military…

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Entertainment,Friends,Horses

Eric Church, a Pony Club Reunion, and “War Horse”

posted on : October 28, 2012

Busy weekend!  A few weeks ago I had bought tickets to see Eric Church in concert for Nathan’s birthday.  He was coming to town, and Nathan kept talking about how he wanted to get tickets, but he shouldn’t, but he wanted to, but he couldn&#8217…

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Wedding

Hearing those BELLS!

posted on : June 25, 2012

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, mostly because the past few weeks have been a WHIRLWIND, to say the least!! The biggest news since my last post – Nathan and I got ENGAGED!!!! It was on June 6, and I had invited him to be…

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Running,Sports

8k… DONE!!

posted on : March 11, 2012

Today was the St. Patrick’s 8k in downtown, DC.  It was also my very first legitimate running race, and the debut of “Team Noob-A-Roo” (though we only had 3 people so it didn’t count!).  I’m ultimately thrilled about how my…

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Work

What a Mellon!

posted on : March 6, 2012

Yesterday I had the opportunity to travel with the President/CEO & the Chief of Staff to check out the location of an upcoming event.  I am assisting in the production of a tribute video to two honorees at the event, so seeing the location and planning out exactly…

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Horses,Travel,Work

My job and Aiken adventures

posted on : January 31, 2011

My last update was December 2nd, and boy has a lot gone on since then! The holidays went without a glitch, and I was lucky to be able to spend Christmas with my family at Millwood this year. Last year I was working in PA, and had to work that…

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Entertainment,Family,Friends

Birthday, Lasik, and a Wedding!

posted on : June 30, 2010

Been a very busy couple of weeks around here and Millwood! June 13th was my 23rd birthday, and it was awesome. I got to see Nick Thune at the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse (he has a show on Comedy Central) which was pretty cool! Sunday was spent kayaking on the…

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Friends,Horses,Travel

Onward and Upward

posted on : July 31, 2009

Today I concluded my summer job of exercising horses in the Clifton/Fairfax Station area. I met some really great people and feel really happy to have made such great connections (future job possibilities…?). I also found out what a small world it is and what an even smaller…

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