half moon and chrissy field

Yesterday I spent the morning at the gym- sweating sometimes makes me feel better. It was a hot day in the city. I came home, made myself a pretty phenominal breakfast and got ready for wherever the day would take me. Turns out Lamine and crew were in the Castro brunching so I bused to meet them. We ended up driving over to Ocean Beach and then down the 1 through Pacifica to Half Moon Bay. What a fun afternoon! We sat outside, soaking up the sun, drinking grazing on apps and catching up. After a few hours we headed back into the city and eventually at a party a few blocks from me. The place was incredible but it was kinda weird not knowing many people so we soon headed down to Polk Street (Bar Johnny) All in all, a great Saturday with people that I usually don't get to hang out with.
This morning I missed two buses - ugh. Well I actually only missed one, the other one I got so far as to knock on the door and the guy wouldn't let me in and waved ahead! I swear ...I don't get that. Chloe's 1st birthday party was today in Chrissy Field- it's amazing how quickly the past year has gone by. Iz had quite the spread and here family was in from the east coast. It was pretty cold and foggy but the view of the bridge and water was still pretty spectacular and we hung out there for most of the afternoon.
Tonight I am headed downtown to meet with with Kristen's BF Nick who is in town for the next few days. Not 100% sure what we are going to do yet but looking forward to catching up with him (and telling fall back stories).
Next week is Labor Day! It will be fun to have Ken, Christy and the boys in town. Only 7 work days left until my Eurpoean vacation. I hope that I am able to journal while I am away...ciao

bus people, basil and baths

I sometimes have an overwhelming urge when riding the muni to ask everyone questions. Where are they going? Coming from? What's their story? Why are they smiling so big? Maybe they just met someone that they will soon fall in love with. How do they want to spend their time? What is most important to them? What brought them to the city? What do they know that I don't yet? Where did they get that fabulous purse/belt/jacket? Yes, the bus in an interesting place indeed.
After months and months of wanting one - I finally bought a basil plant! This may not sound like a big deal but oh my do I love it. I am now trying to add basil to everything I can and love the way it makes the kitchen smell. Perhaps this is only the start of yummy herbs that could soon over take part of our apartment and give the wine bottles a run for their $.
I am longing for a bath. It just sounds so relaxing and like the perfect way to end a fairly stressful week. Monday after work I met Jess and her family at this Chinese restaurant (Eliza's) in part of the city that I hadn't yet been to (dogpatch). It was so wonderful to see her and catch up. Chase is a little cutie and when I pulled out my phone to take his picture he said: iphone -ha. Not quite but close.
Wednesday I received some news at work that was upsetting and disappointing and so I have spent the past few days trying to think about where I want to be and what my options are. I feel like I was blind-sighted by all of this political office crap...I've been pretty emotional about it - keep crying when I don't want to and hope that I can pull it together for next week. At least this year has helped to give me perspective and the bottom line is that work is work and whatever. That night I BARTed out to the East Bay. C picked me up and totally let me unload everything. We drove to Alameda and had dinner and then hung out. All of the work stuff was soon forgotten...it was my first time checking out the new car - and we only stalled twice :)
I discovered this crepe place like right around the corner from my office and plan to make it my new go to lunch spot.
DJ AM died today. Quite honestly, there is too much death everywhere. It makes me sad when people are gone before they are supposed to go.

bliss

the past month has been truly unbelievable. I flew home the very end of July to road trip down to the outer banks. Prepping for this was hilarious...dropping all 4 cars of Yuts and the note writing process, going to get gas all together, packing the xp with more snacks than we knew what to do with. Saturday I drove up to the mva since I had "lost" my license - had to wait a while but got a new and improved one (I am now a Frederick resident for all those wondering), went to hang with dad and Jo, got to have lunch with Kim and Kate in Frederick (so glad that this worked out, they make my heart light and we had a blast catching up, eating, drinking and window shopping), bought two bathing suits and a party dress at target (oh, how I miss this store. It's amazing how much damage I can do in such a short amount of time but they just have everything and it all calls to me...) We got up bright and early on Sunday to get to NC around lunch time. The next few days were awesome. We sat out in our beach and only worried about having enough sun screen on and where we were going to order dinner from. Mom, Paige, Kendall and I shared a room and got up each morning and sat out on the deck with coffee, chatting and watching the golfers. Ahhhhh....tis the life. We drove home on my birthday. That Saturday we headed up to Boordy vineyards for a shin dig. I must say- it was pretty perfect. We had several picnic tables in the shade, it was beautiful, great crowd, good food. It all went by so quickly and was so blissful. They asked us to leave around 5 pm when after a while we moved the party to the parking lot as we were not ready for it to be over. Mom, Rusty, Jaime, Craig, Kristen, Kara and I all went back to Canton to hang for a bit and then hit a few bars. It was a fabulous day and I felt so very loved and lucky. Sunday I drove down to see Jackson and stopped by Heather's to see her and Sienna and then made my way down to Tiff's for the kids birthday parties. They are precious and getting to big! Morgan is looking more and more like Tiffany if that is even possible and Carter is so close to walking - he held on to my hand and we covered some serious ground including the steps! For now, he is scooting away which is hilarious to watch. God, I love those kids. I worked that week - started getting these weird dizzy spells on Tuesday. Fast forward to this weekend... um, I don't even know what to say about it. Friday was low key, I made dinner, finally un-packed...woke up hours later to several text messages...Saturday was my perfect day. C and I had brunch at the french place on Union, I headed to my facial at 2 pm. We then went down to the Asian Art Museum. Okay, I hate to admit it, but it's the first time that I really did something like that in this gorgeous, culterally diverse city that I do fall more and more in love with each day(unless it's cold, and then I take that back). I need to do more of that. It was very cool. There was a food festival in the mission (um, hi, this is like my most favorite thing ever, if there would have been live music, forget about it - and they kinda did, if you count the guy playing the tuba with broccoli in it...) We putzed around in the mission and ended up at this amazing restaurant, then at Elbo Room. Enough for now, I have some cards to finish before I collapse into bed. Yesterday was Dad and Joanne's anniversary - 24 years!