holidays
After I complained the other day about getting too much family time over the holidays, I started to feel bad. There were actually a lot of wonderful moments with my brother, parents, aunts & uncles, and grandparents that I'm thankful for: * Hiking through the marshes at Shoreline while
drinking
When I pulled up into the driveway today, our neighbors had about half a dozen people over (they're all about a couple years younger than us), and they were sitting out on the stoop, drinking Bud and smoking. "We're having a little early New Year&
holidays
I left the sunny warmth of the South Bay, drove into a fog bank, sat in traffic on 101, and circled for parking, but man am I glad to be back in SF. Every year, my pious and kookie grandmother introduces us to fresh ramblings and petty grabs for attention.
holidays
San Francisco is the sixth city I've lived in (after DC, NYC, Beijing, San Jose, and LA) and today I went back to the first. I flew down to LA with my folks and my brother to visit our LA relatives, and while I've had enough
holidays
I got an Alton Brown cookbook, books on screenwriting from my grandfather, salami from an Italian deli in North Beach, a bottle of very old scotch, Eddie Bauer binoculars (for when girls in yoga pants run past our bay window), a scarf for San Francisco weather from St. Frances, very
food
For one of my clients, I write a monthly HR newsletter, and for the last two months, it's been packed with suggestions for "staying healthy while making merry;" "beating that holiday weight gain;" and "staying active over the holidays." It was stuff
holidays
I've been back in San Jose with my family and so far: * we had dinner with the Cantlers and talked about how, if not for all the violent rape and the people that live in the flying boob, Zardoz would be a great family movie; * Little Fox got
disasters
After burning for almost four hours, a fire destoryed two apartment buildings in our neighborhood today. It was just three blocks away from our house and rated a 5-alarm fire. For a moment there, SFist was reporting that it had reached an unprecedented 6 alarms. Fortunately no one was killed.
dating
One of the things I actually enjoy about online dating is answering the questions. Not the open-ended ones like "Tell us something about you," but the multiple choice ones, like how often do you drink, excercise, etc. And one of my favorite little quirks of dating sites is
banality
Put off some work and chores last night to watch the Niners crush the Steelers, and woke up today to realize I was out of clean clothes. So tonight I cued up Wired's Spotify Playlist of the Top 100 Songs of 2011 and did some folding.
living in SF
Finally, after living here for more than a year, I made it to the highest poin in San Francisco. And given how easy it was, I'll probably go back soon. I walked down to the Castro, hopped on Muni, got off at West Portal, walked up Portola Drive
food
Two more Christmas parties last night, and I gobbled up more holiday treats: baked brie, roasted nuts, rugelach, wedding cookies (Rock smeared the powdered sugar all over his nose and scratched at his neck), hot cider, hot cocoa, some violet liqueur that Jessie made me try, wine, the Anchor Christmas