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So much to talk about in today’s post!  If you don’t follow me on Facebook (friend me: Beth Hills Velatini) or Instagram (mybizzykitchen), then you don’t know that while I didn’t win the Sebastiani Pizza My Way Contest, I did win the People’s Choice award for most online votes – so thank you very much for that!  That prize was worth $1500!  Momma needs a...

Thank you for all your wonderful birthday comments, texts, and emails yesterday – you made me feel the love and I felt all the virtual hugs on having my first birthday without Tony.  I saw on my Timehop that two years ago we went to Ruth’s Chris – I love Tony’s comment, this made me smile yesterday. I ran some errands at lunch.  Thanks to...

And I’ve already cried today.  You see every year for my birthday Tony would leave me flowers on the kitchen counter to see before I went to work.  I never knew or saw where he hid them either the night before.  I would wake up, and there they would be. So this is my year of “firsts.”  And this is my first birthday without Tony. ...

I stopped by Hannah’s work on my way to work.  I know she lives with me, but I still enjoy spending ten minutes or so with her at her job before I go to mine.  Every once in a while she’ll tell me “I like your ensemble!”   I don’t have the most fashion sense, so it’s nice to hear when I actually pull an outfit...

The bad part about our flight being so delayed on the Monday we were supposed to fly back was that we were supposed to meet up with two of my cousins and my Aunt on my Dad’s side of the family in Tampa where they live.  We were to have about a 4 hour layover and I didn’t even know my cousin Chris and his...

Sunday night Mom and I were on our own as my cousin and Aunt had flights back that day.  We hadn’t yet gone to Mallory Square to see the sunset, so we dropped off our bikes back at the rental place and walked to Mallory Square.  I love that you can pretty much walk from one side of the island to the other.  We got...

I hardly ever eat sweet stuff for breakfast, just because my palate wants savory and salty.  But when we found a French bakery on Duval street that sold that mornings pastries for 50% off, we stocked up for breakfast the next day.  I picked out this apricot pastry – holy balls was this insulin worthy! We walked around and shopped a lot.  We passed by...

While I have been canoeing before, even so far as to do a couple Outward Bound trips in the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada, I’d never been kayaking before.  My Mom and Aunt Martha went the previous year and gave it two thumbs up, so we decided to go again.  I don’t exactly remember, but I think it cost us each about $50 for...

I am not going to lie – coming back to our frigid temps would make me pull out my camera and scroll through all the pictures of walking outside in tank tops and wearing sandals.  Part of me wanted to wear sandals to work last Wednesday, but it was super cold, and I would have to walk through snow.  Hoping that our weather near the...

It was funny because every day I would look at my weather app on my super cool iPhone 6+ (made my boss jealous that she didn’t have one – love it!) and every day, the next day would have a little rain cloud that there could be a chance of rain.  However, each day it never rained, and it would predict that the very next...