Salty Stargazer – Personal & Poodle Mom Blog

Five Years. Five Celebrations.

Published April 24, 2019

Milestones reached and goals accomplished are all reasons to celebrate. I am a big fan of celebrating anything you want any day of the year, but sometimes it’s nice to go a little bigger to create longer lasting memories. And for us, that milestone was our five-year wedding anniversary. I am somewhat of a traditional girl, but the idea of receiving the traditional or even the modern-day option of the five-year wedding gifts of wood or silverware I was not interested in. I accidentally came up with another great idea! Ladies, I know you’ll love it –

March 29, 2019 was our five-year wedding anniversary. And for the past year or so leading up to it we kept talking about what “big trip” we wanted to take to celebrate. The problem was we were trying to decide where to go anywhere in the world. That’s a lot of incredible options! We finally made our big celebration decision, but in the meantime, we celebrated with smaller trips and dinners… which led me to the perfect real, modern-day idea for a five-year wedding anniversary, five years means you get five celebrations over the course of that year!

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Cold & Flu is Not a Season

Cold & Flu is Not a Season

Published November 28, 2018

My Top 6 Tips & Tricks that have kept me sickness free for years!

Some may argue that we don’t have seasons here in Southern California, but one season that no one has is the “Cold & Flu Season!” It is not a real thing. It is a perfectly executed marketing campaign. What’s real is people tend to not take care of themselves this time of year or take the necessary steps to avoid illness.

Sunday is for Politics…?

Published October 29, 2018

In a world full of negativity is it too much to ask for our political candidates to focus on the positives and give respect?

‘Tis the season for all things political, but thankfully they are soon coming to and end! Temporarily at least. Maybe that’s why we are all so thankful during the month of November. If you’re like me, you’re probably tired of all the yard signs, commercials, snail mail, door hangings, sponsored social media ads etc but what happened yesterday really got under my skin and made me think….

A Journey through Napa via St Helena

Published November 22, 2017

A Taste of Napa!

As is well-known, the Napa Valley is home to some amazing wineries and having never been to Napa before I was very excited for this visit. The reason for our trip was to assist and support the Waggin Trails Rescue Foundation (WTRF) at their annual Napa Valley fundraising party. And this year it was hosted at The Room at Flora Springs winery – which turned out to make the short list of my favorite wines on our trip.

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Let’s Make A Deal! Or Not…

Published September 4, 2017

This past Friday a friend and I went to Let’s Make a Deal (LMAD). I honestly hadn’t watched the show all the much (ok, I had never watched it) until the week or so before we went. I apologize to any of you who are super fans of the show. So after watching a couple of episodes online, reading several other blog posts, and following LMAD on Twitter to get hints for the “quickie deals,” I felt like I had a pretty good idea of what to expect that day. I was right about a few things, but learned quite a bit more.