My team at work got picked at the random draw for the Nike Women’s Marathon! Doing the half of course, I’m not crazy. Yet.
Saturday is a big day!
It’s moving time. First move out of the house post-college. Very, very long awaited.
I plan on doing a lot of:
- Bike riding
- Running Lake Merritt
- Trips to the Farmer’s Market at Grand Lake
- Cooking
- Baking
- Sleeping
- Decorating
- Trips to Chinatown (since it’s.. right downstairs)
- Walking
- Afternoons at the coffee shops
- Eating.. a lot of Eating
- Hiking in the East and North Bay
- Nights in SF
- … it goes on and on
I’ll miss:
- Home cooked meals
- Having a car
- Quiet afternoons in the backyard
- Running errands at the grocery
- Fantasia
- Quick access to In n’ Out
- Running down the stairs
- … and of course my mama and my papa!
I won’t miss:
- My commute. Oh gosh this makes it ALL worth it.
- Not having to pay rent
- My commute.
- Needing to wake up at the crack of dawn and come home after sundown
- Dealing with tiny critters getting into the house
- Having 10 billion doors to check every night
- How freezing cold it is in my house
Alone: In the Wild by Dave Morrow’s Custom Creations on Flickr.
(via fuckyeahhiking)
Source: venturouswanderer
It’s a new year!
… and unfortunately, I am not in Yosemite like I was last year!
Last year my new years resolution was “Do More. Go More.” and I’m quite sure I did that. I think that resolution morphed to really mean do more things—that I’ve never done before, and go more place—that I’ve never been before.
Things I did this year that I hadn’t done before:
- Worked a 9-5 (8:30-5:30+, in reality) as a full time employee
- Run a 12K (or anything over a 3K for that matter)
- Continued to run and work out since—impressive considering I absolutely hate running
- Went (indoor) rock climbing
- Went on exhilarating 6+ hour hikes
- Ocean kayaking
- Capsizing from ocean kayaking—twice
- Traveled to the East Coast
- Snowboarded down a black diamond
- Owned a smart phone
- Baked a pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting, peppermint bark, and oatmeal cookies
Places I went to that I hadn’t before:
- Yosemite (1/1/11-1/3/11)
- Point Reyes (7/2/11)
- Big Basin (7/29/11)
- Pinnacles National Monument (8/6/11)
- New York City, NY (11/11/11-11/16/11)
- Muir Woods (12/3/11)
And you know what? Since food (yes, I’m serious) played that much of a role in my 2011.. Things I ate this year (and LOVE) that I hadn’t before:
- Japanese curry
- Chicken over rice (at the Halal cart!)
- Spanakopita
- Butler and the Chef
- Spinach (okay, I’ve had it before, but I definitely hadn’t LOVED it before)
- Food trucks
- Macaroons
And that was my year. I think what I did more this year on the negative side was get stressed and (over)planned. So, that leads me to this coming year.
- Do More. Go More.—v2
- Visit at least one other state I’ve never been to before
- Visit at least one other country
- Stress less
- Plan less
- Do more of what I want to do
- Be with the people you want to be with, not the people you hope to be with
- Redo my room (boring)
Anyhow, here’s to a new year. Photo highlights to come.
Finished Bay to Breakers ~12km, 7.62 miles in 1 hr and 28 mins (excluding stretch breaks)!! Hooray! Modest but a good first race! Congrats to all the finishers!
Time for Bay to Breakers!!
