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This Week
→: This WeekLife Came back to the UK for <48 hours just because I needed a gym and a washing machine, which made me vastly less stressed! Then went to NYC for 3 nights, where I got to catch up with some friends and drank lots of iced tea. Made it back to the UK for the…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Talking to my freelancer friends, it’s clear the first year is the hardest and there are some bad decisions that we all end up making for ourselves. For me this week has been a week of accepting those bad decisions and their consequences, and I’ve been feeling really shitty as a result. I have a…
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Rio, May 2015
→: Rio, May 2015[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157654825168585″ align=”center”] I was supposed to meet one of my friends in Rio, but at the last moment we discovered she wouldn’t make it – she hadn’t known she needed a visa, and hadn’t been allowed on the plane. Whilst I love travelling alone, and I also love travelling with compatible friends too.…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife It’s been a joke for a while that my friends can’t keep up with where I am, but I finally lost track of my own travel. I was in the UK all week and thought I was flying Friday but I was actually flying Saturday. Discovered trying to check in on Thursday morning! But…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife After getting back to the UK from DC (via Frankfurt – my favourite sandwich), I drove to Aberystwith via Cadbury land (so fun). Drove back, dropped car off at my parent’s place, and caught a train to London. Spent a day there for a conference, and a second hanging out, and now I have…
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One Thing
→: One ThingI feel like the “life lesson” that I have had the hardest time accepting is that you cannot improve every area of your life at once. There are times when every area of your life does improve at once (those are so great, but rare, in my experience often brought on by a dramatic life event…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Started the week in NYC, went to DC, finished the week in the UK. Completely wrecked! Leaving for Wales tomorrow. Past-Cate was a bit too optimistic about… everything. That being said I had a great time in NYC and DC even though I didn’t really go anywhere – just the shopping mall where I…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Last days in Denver, making the most of the yoga pass! Managed to do a little touristing, get a hair cut (and color!) and hang out with people, which was cool. Then on to NYC where it’s been really cool to catch up with people, been hanging out with awesome technical women (10 in…
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Milestones
→: MilestonesIt’s been about a year since I walked away from the gilded cage, the conglomerate, London… really many aspects of being a grown up. Some days I am overwhelmed by how much I want to get done by the end of this year. Some days I am amazed by how much I’ve learned. Some days…