Saturday, July 5, 2008

looking back but staring foward

I'd just like to congradulate myself for a moment. I have almost completely changed my life in the past 6 months. I knew this day would come where I could look back and be proud of the hardships I had to go through to get here, exactly where I want to be. Maybe it isn't that huge of a deal to anybody else but it takes courage to realize unhappiness and do whats neccessary to change it. I live in a new city, have a new job and I'm loving everyday full of new experiences :) Really things have been great. I'm making friends with my roomates. It's nice coming home to people you enjoy. And I love that I've reconnected with Elisa and Nicole.
SF has so much to offer and I've barely scratched the surface of it all. It makes it even better having Ashley and German here visiting! This weekend has been so fun so far. Thursday I picked them up, took them by Google in Mountain View, which was disappointingly unactive. So we headed to the city, found their hotel and I went home for a bit to change. Met back up with them, had a good dinner and drinks. Headed to Popscene, so German could dance!! It was worth seeing, but me not being much of a dancer, did not belong. We then went to Mastadon to meet Elisa, her and I proceeded to get drunk and didn't make it home til almost 4. We both woke up hungover but I remember us laughing a lot so it wasn't too bad. I dropped her off at bart and made my way to Rainbow Market. Was pretty impressive. I thought it was cute that Ash told me German had said he hopes I cook for them, so I had to, even though being hungover and a new kitchen made cooking turn into an all day project. Not very often do I get to put my skills to use for a vegan friend. I made my faithful lasagna, with a few alterations and a really good salad with mixed greens, quinoa, green apple, gogi berries, walnuts and a basil-apple dressing. Mmm. It was nice to have them over and Jerimiah and JP ate with us. I wanted to make dessert but couldn't find the tofu I needed. So after dinner at my house we went to Cafe Gratitude and spent $50 on dessert and latte's, damn nuts are soo expensive! Andy met us there then we made our way down near their hotel. There was random fireworks all over the city sky but we didn't make it a point to watch. Kind of disappointing but I'm over it. We went to this place German heard of called Annie's Social Club. It was cool, had a band playing in the front, good drinks and karaoke in the back. Ash and German both sang and it was great. It was Ash's first time going up alone and it had to be the most adorable thing I've ever seen her do :) Haha I'm so proud, the girl can sing even though she won't admit it! Me and Andy got home eventually, and ate lasagna, after hanging out at their hotel til 3am, talking, talking, talking about some things I'm upset we spent so much talking about, but whatever. I really like hanging out with Ash and German and Andy was drunk and entertaining! Andy I promise someday we will smoke on my roof!!! :)
Today we spent the day in Santa cruz





It was nice being there. We got PF, of course, and vegan milkshakes and I got some cute things at American Apparel. Mainly it was just nice to hang out, Dana and Hunter met us there and Ash got to meet the sweet little guy!

It was a long drive. Tomorrow they go home, but not before breakfast with Ash's dad and picking up Kylie. I can't wait to see Kylie cause I'm gonna tell her about our plans for Disneyland! I hope she's excited as I am.

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