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		<title>Our First Anniversary (Didn’t Go According To Plan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, Mike and I hit our one year anniversary! With how ridiculously quickly we got engaged, I feel like some people probably thought we wouldn’t even make it this far &#x1f602; But far from the honeymoon phase being over, we have somehow fallen even more in love with each other than ever before. I have always said that my goal in life is to make each day better than the last, and while there have certainly been rough days here and there, I think on the whole, that’s been true of our relationship &#8211; it just keeps getting better [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back When the Audience Came Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, I read Jack Raines&#8217; latest Young Money post, Audience Capture and Short-Form Slop. Jack writes about how social media has changed from a place where anyone could build an audience by being genuine about their experience, into an algorithmic battleground crowded with AI-generated content, professional creators, and endless clips. Ever since reading it, I&#8217;ve found myself reflecting on my own experience&#8230; which somehow starts with AOL dial-up, Geocities, and a very unfortunate online alias of &#8220;Wee One Carousel.&#8221; While I started writing this blog in 2008, I actually started building websites way back in 1997. I started on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>72 Hours in Boise</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m writing this in flight on my way home from the most wonderful weekend in Boise, Idaho… and I think what is sticking with me the most is realizing I didn’t plan a single bit of it. No spreadsheets, no reservations stacked weeks in advance, no meticulously researched itinerary. Wow, how my life has changed from being a type A Manhattan girl! When Mike and I first met, I had two German shorthaired pointers, Sadie and Sam, and he had two German wirehaired pointers, Bridger and Boone. The four of them together became the Pointer Pack, and I loved taking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>36 Hours</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m still not blogging as much as I’d like, so I’m going to mix it up and experiment with shorter and less-polished posts. Iterate and (hopefully) improve! Speaking of short and sweet, I regularly listen to a podcast I really enjoy, Before Breakfast with Laura Vanderkam. The daily podcast is usually only 4-6 minutes long (and I’ll add that a lot of it is ads, so it’s actually much shorter than even that) and each day is a productivity tip or new way to think about things. Listening is a great way to get a little burst of inspiration without [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Wedding (Part 3): A Few Final Details Behind the Magic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oops, it&#8217;s been a while &#8211; but I want to finish this series so I can remember all the details that made me so happy! Here they are. I loved and want to remember that our florals were quite simple &#8211; we bought a great bundle of boutonnieres, corsages, and bouquets from Costco, and then my mom helped arrange them and add hydrangea to the mix. One snafu was that it was supposed to be blue hydrangea, but they are so finicky and we ended up with hydrangea that were kind of pale green with a hint of blue. I&#8217;m [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Wedding (Part 2): The Party Of Our Lives!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I left off my post on part 1 of our wedding, Mike and I had just grabbed hands and danced down the aisle to Natalie Cole. We were married!! And now it was time to live happily ever after!! We were so excited to celebrate with an awesome wedding reception, after party, and post-wedding activities, and our reception was one giant swirl of food, music, dancing, and laughter. Here&#8217;s how it all unfolded after the ceremony&#8230; As soon as we exited the meadow where our ceremony was held, Mike and I headed up to the barn loft to sign [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Wedding (Part 1): From Welcome Party to &#8220;I Do!&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We just got home from our honeymoon, and it was absolutely incredible! We spent two weeks in Tanzania and hiked Mount Kilimanjaro; saw all kinds of amazing animals on safari in the Tarangire, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti; and finally spent two days on the beach in Zanzibar. That last part felt like the quintessential honeymoon experience, and it was cool to see the Indian Ocean, but both of us were a little stir crazy for that part of the trip&#8230; so I think we planned it perfectly. After such a long time away from work, and especially after those final two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding My Stride in the Next Professional Chapter</title>
		<link>https://50by25.com/2025/09/finding-my-stride-in-the-next-professional-chapter.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in July, I shared that I was saying goodbye to my job in consulting after fifteen years, and promised I’d come back to share what was next. Long-time readers know I&#8217;ve been blogging for several years before PwC, sharing my excitement at getting the job, and I hope I am still blogging for many more years to come! I try to toe a professional line and don&#8217;t talk much about work on this blog, but I would be remiss to not memorialize that those years shaped me in more ways than I can count. Not just through the projects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Forgotten Valley Hike I&#8217;ll Never Forget</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been just over a year since Mike proposed on my birthday, and I honestly still can’t believe we’re married now!! I genuinely didn’t think I’d ever meet my perfect match, and yet here I am with a guy whose Enneagram even mirrors mine &#8211; he’s a core 8 Challenger with a close secondary 3 Achiever, while I’m the reverse (core 3 with a close secondary 8). The ultimate power couple &#x1f602;! Single friends, take heart &#8211; you never know when the right person will come along. And for that matter, when the right person does come along &#8211; you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ballgowns, Bandages, and a Birthday Sprain: My Running Reset</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Still so much to catch up on, but I thought I&#8217;d start with something a little bit useful 🙂 First, an important bit of backstory. On my wedding morning, I had really wanted to do a long trail run, but Mike and friends told me not to risk falling. So I decided to stick to the gravel roads in my neighborhood and head up Warren Road, a steady hill that surprisingly has less vert than when I do loops around the more typical undulating terrain in my area. I think of it as a pretty easy route, at only three [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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