At Pfeiffer Big Sur for a Maine-less Christmas (tears). You can’t see it but all the other tourists there were taking the exact same photo. I’m very original.

This year will involve:

• Getting one plant to grow in thrive in a dark apartment
• Making San Francisco a prettier, more pedestrian and bicycle friendly place to live and work. (tearing up more 8-paver wide sidewalks and planting more greenery – who’s with me?) 
• Going to the ocean once a week just because it’s there, but if you don’t live in the Richmond or Marina, it’s easy to forget about it!
• Finding a group of people to work with who are creative and energetic about design, sustainability, making the world we live and work in more aesthetically pleasing and less wasteful
• Starting with baby steps toward at least one of my business ideas (more soon)
• Revamping this website – finally! (So you can see and follow along with my DIY projects, post more writing and research, and share more photos, not just mobile posts!)
• Planning a trip to Southern California, still an unexplored territory to me
• Work toward feeling like I belong here

Went to Maine for a while, it rained and was freezing, now I’m back in San Francisco and it’s raining here too. Oh, well. I ate a lot of farm fresh eggs and butter when I was home – it makes using the term “farm fresh” on any menu you’ve ever seen a pure travesty. I am now yellow with carotenes. 

I didn’t miss it here too much, and I certainly didn’t miss job searching. I guess I’m glad it’s not going to be winter in another month, though. I guess I’m not going to be walking 100% this fall to be able to go hiking while the weather’s still good. I didn’t wear a bikini once this summer. I can’t afford to go home for Christmas. 

*le sigh*

I can ride an exercise bike at the gym now. I know it’s fake, but at least I can start doing cardio. I am supposed to be 50% weightbearing by the end of next week, but it will be 6-12 months before I will have enough strength and stability to do things like backpack. Boo.