In this city: some mornings you just have to stop

Anthem (new)

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Travelin': Ha'aena State Park, Na'pali Coast

Travelin': Kauai

Where I was yesterday.

Where I was today.

(a)musing: small things

• Went to a site in Montara, Ca this morning. It was foggy and cold and I have never seen so many banana slugs in my life. This one was in love with a primrose.
• Flickr apparently doesn't allow you to mass download your own photos. This is ridiculous. There are a ton of pirate type programs you can download to help you do it, but I have had bad luck with that before. My flickr account has all the pictures I lost when my hard drive crashed (no, not backed up, yes, facepalm). I ordered two CDs from QOOP, a service partnered with Flickr that will do it for you. It cost me $35. Waste of money? No. I'll save that much by not renewing Flickr this year. Download any pics you want now.
• I am going to clean my apartment from top to bottom this weekend. I considered paying someone to do it (I have only done that once; it was glorious), but since I just spent $35 on photos and August was a heavy retail therapy month, I'll be scrubbing away myself.
• I leave for vacation soon. To say I am excited would be the understatement of this new decade.
• I watched all of LOST. I thought it was fantastic and beautiful.

Friend.

I miss seeing her everyday.

In this city

Summer was today in San Francisco. People are outside. A runner went by me when I was watching the sunset at Fort Point. He said it's a nice day. I said it's beautiful. Tourists on the bridge did not realize their good fortune. Everyone had their windows open; I could hear Mad Men playing and smell pork cooking when I walked from my car. My apartment was 80 degrees. I love it.

Me.

I went and saw a movie this weekend. It was rad.

Wait, where are you? Oh right. In the fog.

OH HI!

August has been an uber foggy and uber busy month. I am so content to be sitting still this evening. Yoga kicked my ass earlier and now I lounge and enjoy the lovely new BBC Emma. Oh stodgy Victorian delights! Oh, Emma, you meddling little matchmaker! (Oh dear, she just made Miss Smith deny Mr. Martin. It will be a full six hours before that error is fixed!)

Right. Busy. I went dancing (hey 90's hip hop), went to my first live viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show (WOW), ate fondue (seriously, Meg and Jonee have fed me so much), shopped, camped (I was lazy and took few photos, although I was quite successful at putting up tents and jumping into lakes with sunglasses on), and spent oodles of time with family. August. Funtimes. And now a random selection of photos.

Weekend away: Pinecrest

Stayed the first night at Dardanelle campground, home of Beary (Barry or Berry) the Bear, no potable water, and awesome star gazing. Headed down to Pinecrest the next morning and were able to get three campsites for Saturday night. Party boat during the day (yay, but now Pinecrest has a new pair of sunglasses thanks to me). Campfired, ate tons of food, listened to awesome dudes karaoke in the woods, slept and woke in a tent, dirty, sunbathed on a beach and watched a bunch of kids play on this. Soooo jealous. Funtimes.