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Food is for Sharing w/ Cat

I am so excited to have Cat from Oddly Lovely on Life with Rosie today! Cat is one of my all time favorite bloggers who I read for a while before I started Life with Rosie. I guess you can say she inspired me! Cat also has the cutest pup named Ru who would probably be Rosie's best friend if they lived close one another. Be sure to stop by her blog and check out her other posts! The best part about cooking as a hobby is that everyone needs to eat every day. Unlike snowboarding or horseback riding, food and cooking is always present. If you're a good cook, you don't need to rely on expensive dinners out for a satisfying meal. And there's something . . .

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I’m 25 Years Old and I have Handicapped Parking

Last November, Dustin and I stopped by our local Petsmart to pick up a Christmas present for Rosie. We had just come from a beautiful morning wedding ceremony for some good friends and were running some errands before heading to the evening reception. After picking out the biggest antler chew the store could offer, we made our way back to the car. As we started getting in, a man who was walking by us yelled in a nasty tone: "ARE YOU REALLY HANDICAPPED?" and shook his head muttering "Disgusting." Dustin just about ripped his head off, yelling that the guy had no idea what I had been through and he had no right to judge us. Not going to lie; it ruined our . . .

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What’s Up Wednesday-Birthday Edition

It's time for my favorite mid-week link-up! I'm so excited to be co-hosting again this week! Be sure to check out Ashley, Shannon and Katie who are the regular hosts and drop your link down in the bottom so I can make new friends! If you are new to What's Up Wednesday, you can get the rules and questions here! Today is the best What's Up Wednesday ever, because it's my 25th birthday!! What I loved about this past week: My pre-birthday weekend! Dustin outdid himself by surprising me with my dream car on Saturday morning for the whole weekend; a Camero! I've been obsessed with Cameros since the first Transformer movie came out and it's been on my 101 in 1001 . . .

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5 Best Birthday Reward Programs

As many of you know by know, cancer complicates birthdays. However, I'm trying hard to always be positive about my birthday and to celebrate making it through another year that cancer tried to take away from me. At the beginning of 2015, I decided I was going to enroll in all of the birthday rewards programs I could think of/find in order to get as much out of March as I could. After all, birthdays only come around once a year, right? The key to this is to enroll a month or two before your birthday, as most of these programs require you to stay on their email subscriptions in order to qualify. If you do it this way, your inbox won't be full of junk emails for months . . .

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Reading Circle - February

All images courtesy of Goodreads. Remember the good old days of being in a reading circle in elementary school? I secretly loved them and that's probably why I'm a book nerd! I am back on track this month to achieve my reading goal of reading 75 books by the end of the year. I read six books this month and I'm proud of myself because this month I branched out from my typical Young Adult Lit and read regular adult fiction and really enjoyed it! Black Moon by Kenneth Callhoun -★★ - A copy of this book was provided to me for free by Blogging for Books. All opinions are my own. Black Moon tells the story of several characters as they deal with an insomnia . . .

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March Goals

source I used to be the kind of girl who set her goals at the beginning of the year and then kind of forgot about them. Last month was the first month I tried setting monthly goals, and by publishing them on my blog, I felt super accountable to try to achieve them. It worked out pretty well, so I'm going to continue setting monthly goals so I can continue to feel motivated! Speaking of February goals, I pretty much rocked mine! I wanted to go on a soda fast, and I made it the WHOLE MONTH plus two days without my beloved Barq's root beer. I gave myself a big cold glass of it yesterday, and you know what? It was sickeningly sweet! I drank the one glass and . . .

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The Guy Behind My Blog vol. 2

I'm linking up with Betsy at Heaven's to Betsy for another round of The Guys Behind the Blog. Dustin really liked being interviewed last month and was super excited when I asked him if he would do it again. He's a great guy to have behind my blog. Here's the truth: my blog wouldn't be possible without him. He's providing me with a little extra cash to be able to run it (after I pitched him my ideas a-la Shark Tank). I'm using that cash to buy products to try out, ingredients to use on new recipes, and money to participate in giveaways. Even though I haven't made any money off my blog, he can see how happy it makes me to work hard on something I love and . . .

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On Losing my Hair and Growing it Back

Even though I had gone through my first round of chemo, had dropped 20 pounds in a week and ended up back in the hospital for a hydration transfusion because my sodium levels had dropped drastically, it was still hard for me to believe I had cancer. Sure, I was a little skinnier and super pale, but anyone who saw me passing by wouldn't know about the war raging in my body and the six inch tumor I named Ricardo growing in my leg. I still looked like a regular 15 year old girl, granted a little bit of a rebel one, because of the bright red hair. I died my hair fire engine red the day after I was diagnosed. My "last hurrah" before it all came out, although it . . .

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What’s Up Wednesday vol. 3

I'm joining the girls over at American Honey, Chalk It Up to Better Luck and The Hallway for Wordless Wednesday! What I loved about the past week - Having a full weekend to reconnect with Dustin! It was the first weekend we had off together in a couple of months, so we took advantage of it. We had a beautiful Valentine's Day filled with a couples' massage, a walk with Rosie, a late lunch, book shopping and a movie! On Sunday, we did a massive spring clean out of our room, our second bedroom, bathroom and closets. We ended up donating 7 trash bags of stuff to the local DI and throwing away another 4 trash bags of junk! Hooray! What I'm looking . . .

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What’s Up Wednesday

Today, I am linking up with Ashley, Katie and Shannon for their What's Up Wednesday link-up! Woohoo! I like the idea of doing a mid-week recap and getting ready to tackle on the rest of the week! What I loved about the past week -the upper 40's weather! It was sunny and in the high 40's this weekend in Idaho (IN FEBRUARY), which is about as rare as a fish on a bicycle. Dustin decided the weather was good enough to go get the motorcycle out of the storage unit, so we had quite a time pulling it out and getting it road ready again. It's supposed to stay this warm for the next few weeks, so we hope to get as many bike rides in as possible! What I'm looking . . .

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Chelsie travels China //1

This weekend was the three year mark of the day I left on one of the greatest adventures of my life. After getting my left knee totally replaced, courtesy of my tumor, I finally felt like I was ready to take on the world and shove it right back in cancer's face. I was going to take back my life and everything that cancer had told me that I would never be able to accomplish or do. So, as any logical early twenty year-old would do, I deferred from school for two semesters and went to live in China for five months. Why China? Well, I knew I wanted to study abroad and I found an amazing program called International Language Programs that was more like a "service . . .

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