Alex and tabs book club

Hello! Welcome to my blog 🙂 I have been wanting to start a blog for so many years and I finally decided to do it! I am still figuring out how things work… but I am excited to learn.

My lovely friend helped me choose the name of the blog because drinking coffee, eating sweets, and running are my favorite things to do. You can usually find me with a pastry in one hand and a coffee in my other hand. I like lattes the best because the art baristas can do is so amazing and wonderful. My favorite pastry would be a chocolate almond croissant.

I am currently twenty years old and a junior in college. I attended Cornell University for my first three semesters of college and then I transferred to UC Berkeley. I am studying immunology and I am on a pre med track! One day I want to be a cardio thoracic surgeon. I have wanted to be a doctor since I was a kid and I am finally going to apply to medical school within the next two years. I dream about being a surgeon every single night.

I also am on the track and field team at school and compete in pole vaulting. I started pole vaulting my freshman year of high school. Being on a college athletics team is such a blast. I have the most supportive and kind coaches and teammates. My favorite thing about pole vault is how technical and precise the event is.

I also love to bake, which is the main reason I started this blog. My godmother taught me to bake when I was in middle school. Before that, the only thing I would make was Ghirardelli box mix brownies. I would go through those brownies so fast and I still make them today because of the nostalgia, and they are super good too. My godmother expanded my horizons and taught me first how to measure flour and sugar and then taught me how to make frosting. The first thing we baked together was red velvet cupcakes. Every sunday she helped me bake something new like banana bread or a layer cake. As time went on, I gained enough confidence to bake on my own but I always prefer baking with her guidance. I began to really explore my creativity through baking and wanted to design and decorate cakes such as a cactus cake, unicorn cake, yule log frog cake, and more. In high school I created a cottage bakery and was making custom sugar cookies for parties. I bake every weekend, even in college! I hope to get into recipe creation with this blog.

I also want to make posts about my bunny, Casper. He is a sweet teddywidder bunny that loves to cuddle and run around. He acts quite similar to a dog. I also have four dogs at home too. I like to take my dogs on hikes and take them to the beach. 

Last, I want to make posts about cozy moments and little adventures such as sharing photos from hikes, strolls to a cafe, playing my nintendo switch, books reviews, crafts  traveling, and more. I love the seasons, especially fall and winter. I feel like these seasons compliment my personality and I love to cozy up with a good book and cup of coffee. 

I hope to make this a safe and welcoming place. I am so excited to start this blogging journey with you!