so, yesterday I did one thing - TWICE. I got lost.
I woke up, went for a run down Balboa Ave after dropping my no-longer-ghetto-car-off at the mechanic [[yay! this is exciting]]. A friend of mine and I decided to set off on what we thought would be a pretty darn good hike - instead, it ended up turning into a dang good MOUNTAIN CLIMB. We got lost so we were just guessing where the trail started - we made our way up the mountain, creating our own trail truckin' through brush, pickers & climbing rocks we didn't think would be possible. Once we got to the top of that mountain, we finally saw the trail a little ways ahead which led to the REAL mountain.
Cowles Moutain - 1,591 feet:: the highest point within the City of San Diego. Located in the San Carlos neighborhood of the city, its main hiking trail is one of the most popular in the area, with a 360 degree view from the summit <- funny, we got lost finding "the most popular hiking trail in the area" eh? WINNERS.
Needless to say, the view of this mountain was nearly breathtaking. It was awesome -- here, we'd stand on one side and look at the city life/Lake Murray and in the far distance we'd scope out downtown San Diego. As we'd slightly turn there was a fine line where the city ended and the hills began. We saw EXACTLY how this city was laid out - from Imperial Beach and Chula Vista, all the way up to La Jolla and beyond...all along the coast and then plenty more. It was one of the coolest things to see. We sat up there and just enjoyed the fresh air && the view God planted upon us. Awesome enough though, I look like I got in a fight with MANY bushes and pickers - and from the looks of how scratched up and torn my legs look, many would have thought nature won that battle.
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Later in the evening I had a dinner date with my 2 cousins: Mike & Matt. Funny story, ACTUALLY. Matt tells me to meet him at Brigantine--and this is where I'm going to quickly say something and then turn my head in complete embarrassment. The guy GAVE me directions. Like 2 turns of directions and well...I messed it up. I swear, I have a good reason (kinda, not really). So I got home to quickly change from my hike && freshen up--and I quickly looked up how to get to this place on my computer because I didn't want to get lost (not even thinking of his directions he gave me) So I drive to La Mesa (East County) and call him asking him where he's sitting.
He says "walk into the restaurant to the right and I'm right there"
Me: I don't see you.
Matt: There are some balloons, do you see them?
Me: Yes, I'm actually right next to some balloons.
Matt: Hmm.. how the heck don't I see?
{restaurant too loud - texting now.}
Me: Come to the front please :)
Matt: I am there...where are you? Are you at the brigantine?
Me: Yes...I'm at the front.
Matt: Outside or inside? I am by the hostess
Me: haha I am by her too..Waht the heck!
Matt: Ok, we need to get on the same wavelength. Ask the hostess which location you are at b/c we are obviously not at the same place.
...so I call Mike..asking him where he is...he says...are you in Del Mar? Hmm...BINGO. He got me. I was in La Mesa. Mmmkay visual Green Bay friends...so basically La Mesa is 30 minutes away from Del Mar. Del Mar is a beach city on the coast and La Mesa is way inland. So just imagine someone going to Appleton or Neenah and you're waiting for them in Green Bay. yep, my bad.
After picking on me all dinner, we had a great catch up dinner talking about ohhh the things men talk about and my little sass ass just laughing and shaking my head. Good to still have a piece of family out here :)
weird thought though: there were balloons at both of our locations...just saying?
PS:: My blog won't let me add pictures..I'll try to figure it out. Darn it!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Note to self: Do not cross an intersection at a yellow light.
haha - so yesterday, I was driving on my way to the bank (for the first time) down roads I've never drove on && this butthead in front of me slammed on his front breaks at a yellow light as we were just about to go through it. I was thinking "HElLlLoOO!?!?!? Its yellow - you can go dood." So I get into the lane to the left of him, me probably not having the nicest face on and he motions 'picture taking' at me with hand gestures.
And I'm like "uhh, what? take a picture?" haha - so I look around and I don't see anything rather fascinating so I roll down my window. He explained to me through our car windows that if you get caught going through a yellow light in California, they'll take a picture of you and it's like a $450/$500 fine! I was like whoahhhhh NELLY!
We ended up having like a 3 minute conversation about where I'm from and what we're both doing here - at the corner of Encinitas Blvd & N El Camino Real in the middle of traffic until the left arrow light switched to green. I thought this was humorous and when I thought this was going to tick me right off, this man brightened my day - what a nice man, to roll down his window and nicely inform me of this picture taking nonsense.
[i knew of the lights taking your picture, but i didn't know they were THAT intense and hardcore about it..eeek!]
Note to self today:
1) do not cross an intersection at a yellow light - unless you'd like to pay the city a good chunk of mooooo-lahhh$$$.
2) don't always flip out right away, because I for sure was not happy when he slammed on his breaks so i inconveniently whipped around him. But I was greeted with a warm smile and some good ol' California advice. And crazy enough, we were laughing with each other by the time the light turned green - we made each others day!
And I'm like "uhh, what? take a picture?" haha - so I look around and I don't see anything rather fascinating so I roll down my window. He explained to me through our car windows that if you get caught going through a yellow light in California, they'll take a picture of you and it's like a $450/$500 fine! I was like whoahhhhh NELLY!
We ended up having like a 3 minute conversation about where I'm from and what we're both doing here - at the corner of Encinitas Blvd & N El Camino Real in the middle of traffic until the left arrow light switched to green. I thought this was humorous and when I thought this was going to tick me right off, this man brightened my day - what a nice man, to roll down his window and nicely inform me of this picture taking nonsense.
[i knew of the lights taking your picture, but i didn't know they were THAT intense and hardcore about it..eeek!]
Note to self today:
1) do not cross an intersection at a yellow light - unless you'd like to pay the city a good chunk of mooooo-lahhh$$$.
2) don't always flip out right away, because I for sure was not happy when he slammed on his breaks so i inconveniently whipped around him. But I was greeted with a warm smile and some good ol' California advice. And crazy enough, we were laughing with each other by the time the light turned green - we made each others day!
Make one person happy every day, even if it's yourself.
Friday, October 22, 2010
chiC day. [&&figuring out who i am]
We started off in what is known as Little Italy. Little Italy today represents Downtown San Diego’s oldest continuous neighborhood business district. Creative builders and architects have and are continually building beautiful new developments on
After walking
Another successful day in CAL-i-FoorRrrrrrnia!!
I'm trying to discover who I am by broadening my culture, experiences and outlook - try it! It's the best way to figure out what your passion is and what you love and dislike :)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
discouraging day.
Today is a sad day - I'm not sure if it's legit or if it's because a few womanly functions may be streaming through my body soon. ((sorry)) The weather is kind of dungy today - which it's been like this the last 5 days. I have a horrible disgusting cough with disgustingness in my throat && all i want to do is lay around or be with one of my best friends. Because of my cough, it makes it hard to get my miles in today or do anything very active. My living arrangements are kind of on hold right now & id really love to just dive in the ocean to wake me out of this sad moment, except it's really chilly.
---but after playing the sympathy card on myself, I realize it's okay to feel like that. It's okay to just "be" for a day. As long as you have more happy days than sad days, you're living the dream - you're rockin' it. So today, I'm going to take a shower, brush my teeth & put on some comfies that I feel cute in---I feel like a chill day in starbucks or a book store or at the beach might be uplifting and refreshing. A little caramel hot chocolate and the atmosphere of nature or inspiration will do just fine for this gloomy tuesday.
everyone, have a happy tuesday. Make the most of it! Do whatever you feel like doing--it's YOUR life...when are you going to realize you can live it just the way you want?!
everyone, have a happy tuesday. Make the most of it! Do whatever you feel like doing--it's YOUR life...when are you going to realize you can live it just the way you want?!
Monday, October 18, 2010
D Street Bar & Grill.
Mmhmm---well today and the last few days I've consumed some of my life to my new waitressing job... D Street Bar & Grill. I've been learning, studying and repeating the food and liquor menu in my head over and over.
D Street is a sports bar - with plenty of tvs to watch any game you could imagine, chill and laid back regulars, bombass food that is actually reasonably priced with awesome portions & I must add, that the people that I work with are awesome. We all help eachother out and grab eachothers food and drinks like it's no big thing. We are at team and I find that awesome.
Restaurant business is extremely different out in California than Wisconsin. Everyone is so much more laid back and easygoing - they're just there to have a good time and hang out with their friends. They usually are in no rush and will patiently wait for their food and drinks with no problem. What fascinates me is that when I'm done with my shift and I still have a table open, I can politely tell them I'm leaving & their voluntarily cash out right away. (anyone who is in restaurant business knows this is PRIME!)
I just got done on day #4 of training - I have my 5th tomorrow and shortly after that I will be all on my own.
----on a side note: Tomorrow I start at Liquid Force, wakeboarding company, as their marketing intern. I don't have a lot of new news tonight but that's my status as of now :)
1) Waitressing job going great.
2) I start my 2nd job tomorrow at Liquid Force.
3) Life is goooooood :)
chat soon!
D Street is a sports bar - with plenty of tvs to watch any game you could imagine, chill and laid back regulars, bombass food that is actually reasonably priced with awesome portions & I must add, that the people that I work with are awesome. We all help eachother out and grab eachothers food and drinks like it's no big thing. We are at team and I find that awesome.
Restaurant business is extremely different out in California than Wisconsin. Everyone is so much more laid back and easygoing - they're just there to have a good time and hang out with their friends. They usually are in no rush and will patiently wait for their food and drinks with no problem. What fascinates me is that when I'm done with my shift and I still have a table open, I can politely tell them I'm leaving & their voluntarily cash out right away. (anyone who is in restaurant business knows this is PRIME!)
I just got done on day #4 of training - I have my 5th tomorrow and shortly after that I will be all on my own.
----on a side note: Tomorrow I start at Liquid Force, wakeboarding company, as their marketing intern. I don't have a lot of new news tonight but that's my status as of now :)
1) Waitressing job going great.
2) I start my 2nd job tomorrow at Liquid Force.
3) Life is goooooood :)
chat soon!
Friday, October 15, 2010
ROADTRIP TO CALIFORNIA - Playin' cattttch-up.
Be prepared--this may be a long one.
Sorry. SOrRRy! Sorry! I'm the worrrrst blog updater ever. Please have faith in me! I've been busy on the move for the sunshine state of Cal-i-fornia! So--last week Friday morning (October 8, 2010) my dad and I filled up the G6 at 4am and headed on our roadtrip out West.....
to drop me off for at least 4 months. Alone. (yep, weird) Most might be thinking...wHaaat? Well, yeah-your reaction is the same as mine. I have lived in my parents house for 21 years and have never left. Nothing like taking the HUGE leap of faith, eh?
Friday.October.8.2010:::: After sleeping through my alarm and dad coming downstairs to get my butt out of bed, I slowly roll out of my comfy sheets (not excited that I will not be in this bed until Christmas) and throw on some comfies for a long car ride. We left at 4:06am--riiiight on schedule! I slept the first 4 hours while I let Dad do the driving honors. I woke up mid-way through Iowa which was one of the most boring states to drive in. Going down US-151, my hub cap busted off (probably should have listened to Drew when he said I should've gotten my cracked hub cap fixed...whoops). I now have a ghetto lookin' left side of my vehicle. I guess it gives it character! ha.
Once my hub cap busted off I decided to take on the 7 hour drive through Nebraska, one of the flattest states! It was an easy drive on the I-80W. Nebraska is where the storm chasers go because you can see miles and miles ahead of you. As we crossed the border into Colorado, we hit what looked like might be a bad storm - luckily we missed it and only got a few sprinkles. Around 7:00 we fueled up and went to PIZZA HUT (which was the best pizza...maybe because we were just sooo hungry & anything n' everything could have been the best? haha). Our 8am McDonalds (yuck!) and pretzels could only hold us over for so long. At this point, Dad and I set off for the Colorado mountains --- we wanted to get a little ways into the mountains after Denver. I saw Lookout point and all of the city lights from a'far and went through The Eisenhower Tunnel which was 5 miles long under the mountain. We made it to Silverthorne and decided to call it quits!
Saturday.October.9.2010~~~~ 6am wake up call. On the road by 6:30.
Mmmkay--Scratch that. We made a pit stop to a Shell gas station to top off the gas and get 2 hot chocolates..it was FREAKin' ChiLLy out!! Needles to say, our pit stop took about 10 extra minutes due to my dad over filling his hot chocolate and then it spilling all over my hand when I tried to help him. hahahahaha. After repouring his serving, I got mine and headed out the door. Colorado is one of the most beautiful states. We went under, into, through and around the mountains - some topped off with snow, others still in their fall season. As we were going down the mountain there were signs everywhere telling truckers to go in low gear and there were off ramps in case their brakes went out---SCARY. We went through the cities of Avon, Breckenridge, Vail & topped it off with Grand Juction right before the Utah border. Now...I thought Colorado was beautiful...well I just hit a whole new type of beauty entering Utah! Utah might take the cake in my eyes! So much change in scenery from 1 mile to the next. I'd be surrounded by white canyons one minute, red canyons the next, then it'd change to multi-colored canyons, then trees would be everywhere and then you could only see the canyons from miles away. GORGEOUS!! We swung into Subway and a gas station--there was a "back to the future car". Dad says it's called "The Delarian".
Arizona - we only trickled through a sliver of it but what we saw was gorgeous. Virgin River Canyon.
Nevada here we comeeeeee...right when we hit the state line, CasinO-GALorE was thrown at us! We got off I-15 and Dad drove down Las Vegas Blvd...the streets were packed with tourists and it was complete CHAOS. So after being about halfway through, I told dad to get back on the hwy - it was super rad but I wasn't in the mood for an hour of bumper to bumper traffic. Once we passed Vegas, the ride got longer and we eventually hit California. We got into a town called Ontario, CA and decided to stay there for the night. My dad has a good buddy who is the Crew Chief for a NASCAR driver, David Ragen #6 - he landed us Pit Passes and Garage passes for the race in the morning so we hung out with the crew.
Sunday.October.10.2010 (10-10-10...whoahhhhh)
ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
Hit the road for the California Speedway - We were VIP and behind the scenes at the race the whole time. We got to hang out with the crews before the race in the garages, check out the cars on the track, stand with the crews during the National Anthem and got to sit in the pit area where the cars come into re-fuel and get new tires. I met Richard Petty "The King", William Fichtner (stars in "the dark night", "Prison Break", "Dodgeball", "Date Night" and many many more movies!), Kim Coates (from Sons of Anarchy) and NASCAR drivers Martin & Earnhardt Jr. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life.
After the race, we set off for Encinitas, CA which is where both of my jobs are. We went to D Street Bar & Grill (my serving job) and checked out the food and atmosphere. We met up with my second cousins, Mike and Matt for some food and drinks. Afterwards, we headed to Bonnie's (my moms cousins) to check out my new temporary home for a few weeks! It's kind of crammed quarters right now but it's a beautiful place to call home for a short while - inground pool, hot tub, fresh vegetables and herbs and a running trail I can train on.
---ohh yeah. Side note: I'm thinking of signing up for the Death Valley Marathon. I'll talk about that in another blog :)
Monday.October.11.2010 - the Calm before the Storm
Drove up and down the coast with Dad - needless to say, the morning was quiet. I knew and Dad knew he was leaving his 1st born child in San Diego, CA - 2,200 miles away from home at 11:30am. We exploered the coastal roads through all of the beach towns and probably said a whole 10 sentences. I pulled into SD international airport, right by his terminal and the tears came. He squeezed me harder than he's ever held me. After the emotions, I was ready to get the heck on my way and DO SOMETHING!! I met up with my 2 friends who kind of, took me under their wing - Looney & Nate. We headed to PB [pacific beach] and went body surfing in the ocean. It was pretty much fricken awesome. I remember talking to Loones about sharks biting us as Nate & I headed the heck back to shore - to see him get dimolished by a HUGE wave. hahahaha. We screwed around on the shoreline while popped the kelp on the beach with our toes and heels ((new favorite obsession)), while loones pretended to be a dragon with the massive kelp he discovered. ha. We rode the "beach cruisers"--which are bikes but for the beach...kind of like mountain bikes?lol.
We headed to Ralph's Grocery store. [side note: you park in a garage and take a moving walking ramp up to the grocery store] Monday Night Football hit--we chowed on Tennessee's famous hot wings prepared by the one and only - then went home and slept!
Tuesday.October.12.2010 ---- CoRoNado (definition: Island off of SD, you take a big bridge over the SD bay)
Ran 4 miles. Ate Grapes. Showered. I am now ready for my 1st day of work - oh nevermind. I got called into work thursday instead. WhooOoo HoOoOO - I've got a few days to explore! I ate lunch with Bonnie by the pool while reading the San Diego guide book..which gave me some inspiration to go do something fun! I set my mind that I wanted to go to Coronado. I met a friend in Coronado and they showed me the "ropes of Coronado". I saw "the letters" that spell Coronado on the beach, Hotel Del Coronado (where a lot of famous movies were filmed), saw a palm tree that looked like a PINEAPPLE and a ton of cool, expensive houses. The shops and restaurants are so neat looking - I can't wait to go back! I saw around the Navy Seal base, the obstacle course they had to master by phase 3 and we then took "the strand" to Imperial Beach (which is a little lower class side of Coronado). There were some really sweet hole in the wall restaurants along that area. I came home, ate dinner with Bonnie & Tony (her boyfriend)...pork tenderloin...mmmmmhmmmm :) then hit the sack while watching Tosh.O (funniest show ever!) and Gossip Girl re-runs ha!
Wednesday.October.13.2010 ((LA JOLLA))
I slept in today - felt good! I caught up on a few emails and did a quick and efficient Crossfit workout [100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats]. I showered and decided to venture off to LA JOLLA. It's for some reason cloudy today--which is rare. I decided to journal on the La Jolla Shore Beach while listening to a little DMB in my green cross county shirt and comfy shorts. My pen kept being filled with sand but that's okay. It was peaceful here - I get to set my mind free and regroup with myself and my well being. I think about a lot out here, which could be a good or bad thing....I won't get into details on that part of my life :)... I'll spare you!
After feeling like I regrouped enough at the beach, I went along the coast to "Coast Blvd" which lead me to a cave -which was neat and then a place called "Childrens Beach" where there's beautiful cliffs and seals EVERYWHERE!! I thought to myself...why does it smell...fishy? ha--then I realized there were seals making noise and I put two and two together :-) Later, after La Jolla I went to Chula Vista to dominate a sweet Mexican restaurant called "Miguels"--went there with a friend and it was yummmyyyyy.
thursday.october.14.2010
---played catch up. met a girl for a condo. and worked at D Street Bar & Grill for the first night. Well...I love it there. Awesome girls to work with - we all help eachother. And I kicked ace on my first day---we were so busy I was helping take tables all by myself. It was pretty bomb. Loved it.
Todayyyyyyy---freakin' FINALLY!!!
I'm finally getting back on this thing - after livin' and exploring I will be back on a timely basis. Kick my butt if I don't!
My inspiration for like the last month---this is what has gotten me to where I am through all the scariness of this move and leaving the only thing I know. Just be!
Gracias (yes, I'm close to the Mexican border now. he he)
Sorry. SOrRRy! Sorry! I'm the worrrrst blog updater ever. Please have faith in me! I've been busy on the move for the sunshine state of Cal-i-fornia! So--last week Friday morning (October 8, 2010) my dad and I filled up the G6 at 4am and headed on our roadtrip out West.....
to drop me off for at least 4 months. Alone. (yep, weird) Most might be thinking...wHaaat? Well, yeah-your reaction is the same as mine. I have lived in my parents house for 21 years and have never left. Nothing like taking the HUGE leap of faith, eh?
Friday.October.8.2010:::: After sleeping through my alarm and dad coming downstairs to get my butt out of bed, I slowly roll out of my comfy sheets (not excited that I will not be in this bed until Christmas) and throw on some comfies for a long car ride. We left at 4:06am--riiiight on schedule! I slept the first 4 hours while I let Dad do the driving honors. I woke up mid-way through Iowa which was one of the most boring states to drive in. Going down US-151, my hub cap busted off (probably should have listened to Drew when he said I should've gotten my cracked hub cap fixed...whoops). I now have a ghetto lookin' left side of my vehicle. I guess it gives it character! ha.
Once my hub cap busted off I decided to take on the 7 hour drive through Nebraska, one of the flattest states! It was an easy drive on the I-80W. Nebraska is where the storm chasers go because you can see miles and miles ahead of you. As we crossed the border into Colorado, we hit what looked like might be a bad storm - luckily we missed it and only got a few sprinkles. Around 7:00 we fueled up and went to PIZZA HUT (which was the best pizza...maybe because we were just sooo hungry & anything n' everything could have been the best? haha). Our 8am McDonalds (yuck!) and pretzels could only hold us over for so long. At this point, Dad and I set off for the Colorado mountains --- we wanted to get a little ways into the mountains after Denver. I saw Lookout point and all of the city lights from a'far and went through The Eisenhower Tunnel which was 5 miles long under the mountain. We made it to Silverthorne and decided to call it quits!
Saturday.October.9.2010~~~~ 6am wake up call. On the road by 6:30.
Mmmkay--Scratch that. We made a pit stop to a Shell gas station to top off the gas and get 2 hot chocolates..it was FREAKin' ChiLLy out!! Needles to say, our pit stop took about 10 extra minutes due to my dad over filling his hot chocolate and then it spilling all over my hand when I tried to help him. hahahahaha. After repouring his serving, I got mine and headed out the door. Colorado is one of the most beautiful states. We went under, into, through and around the mountains - some topped off with snow, others still in their fall season. As we were going down the mountain there were signs everywhere telling truckers to go in low gear and there were off ramps in case their brakes went out---SCARY. We went through the cities of Avon, Breckenridge, Vail & topped it off with Grand Juction right before the Utah border. Now...I thought Colorado was beautiful...well I just hit a whole new type of beauty entering Utah! Utah might take the cake in my eyes! So much change in scenery from 1 mile to the next. I'd be surrounded by white canyons one minute, red canyons the next, then it'd change to multi-colored canyons, then trees would be everywhere and then you could only see the canyons from miles away. GORGEOUS!! We swung into Subway and a gas station--there was a "back to the future car". Dad says it's called "The Delarian".
Nevada here we comeeeeee...right when we hit the state line, CasinO-GALorE was thrown at us! We got off I-15 and Dad drove down Las Vegas Blvd...the streets were packed with tourists and it was complete CHAOS. So after being about halfway through, I told dad to get back on the hwy - it was super rad but I wasn't in the mood for an hour of bumper to bumper traffic. Once we passed Vegas, the ride got longer and we eventually hit California. We got into a town called Ontario, CA and decided to stay there for the night. My dad has a good buddy who is the Crew Chief for a NASCAR driver, David Ragen #6 - he landed us Pit Passes and Garage passes for the race in the morning so we hung out with the crew.
Sunday.October.10.2010 (10-10-10...whoahhhhh)
ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
After the race, we set off for Encinitas, CA which is where both of my jobs are. We went to D Street Bar & Grill (my serving job) and checked out the food and atmosphere. We met up with my second cousins, Mike and Matt for some food and drinks. Afterwards, we headed to Bonnie's (my moms cousins) to check out my new temporary home for a few weeks! It's kind of crammed quarters right now but it's a beautiful place to call home for a short while - inground pool, hot tub, fresh vegetables and herbs and a running trail I can train on.
---ohh yeah. Side note: I'm thinking of signing up for the Death Valley Marathon. I'll talk about that in another blog :)
Monday.October.11.2010 - the Calm before the Storm
Drove up and down the coast with Dad - needless to say, the morning was quiet. I knew and Dad knew he was leaving his 1st born child in San Diego, CA - 2,200 miles away from home at 11:30am. We exploered the coastal roads through all of the beach towns and probably said a whole 10 sentences. I pulled into SD international airport, right by his terminal and the tears came. He squeezed me harder than he's ever held me. After the emotions, I was ready to get the heck on my way and DO SOMETHING!! I met up with my 2 friends who kind of, took me under their wing - Looney & Nate. We headed to PB [pacific beach] and went body surfing in the ocean. It was pretty much fricken awesome. I remember talking to Loones about sharks biting us as Nate & I headed the heck back to shore - to see him get dimolished by a HUGE wave. hahahaha. We screwed around on the shoreline while popped the kelp on the beach with our toes and heels ((new favorite obsession)), while loones pretended to be a dragon with the massive kelp he discovered. ha. We rode the "beach cruisers"--which are bikes but for the beach...kind of like mountain bikes?lol.
We headed to Ralph's Grocery store. [side note: you park in a garage and take a moving walking ramp up to the grocery store] Monday Night Football hit--we chowed on Tennessee's famous hot wings prepared by the one and only - then went home and slept!
Tuesday.October.12.2010 ---- CoRoNado (definition: Island off of SD, you take a big bridge over the SD bay)
Ran 4 miles. Ate Grapes. Showered. I am now ready for my 1st day of work - oh nevermind. I got called into work thursday instead. WhooOoo HoOoOO - I've got a few days to explore! I ate lunch with Bonnie by the pool while reading the San Diego guide book..which gave me some inspiration to go do something fun! I set my mind that I wanted to go to Coronado. I met a friend in Coronado and they showed me the "ropes of Coronado". I saw "the letters" that spell Coronado on the beach, Hotel Del Coronado (where a lot of famous movies were filmed), saw a palm tree that looked like a PINEAPPLE and a ton of cool, expensive houses. The shops and restaurants are so neat looking - I can't wait to go back! I saw around the Navy Seal base, the obstacle course they had to master by phase 3 and we then took "the strand" to Imperial Beach (which is a little lower class side of Coronado). There were some really sweet hole in the wall restaurants along that area. I came home, ate dinner with Bonnie & Tony (her boyfriend)...pork tenderloin...mmmmmhmmmm :) then hit the sack while watching Tosh.O (funniest show ever!) and Gossip Girl re-runs ha!
Wednesday.October.13.2010 ((LA JOLLA))
I slept in today - felt good! I caught up on a few emails and did a quick and efficient Crossfit workout [100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats]. I showered and decided to venture off to LA JOLLA. It's for some reason cloudy today--which is rare. I decided to journal on the La Jolla Shore Beach while listening to a little DMB in my green cross county shirt and comfy shorts. My pen kept being filled with sand but that's okay. It was peaceful here - I get to set my mind free and regroup with myself and my well being. I think about a lot out here, which could be a good or bad thing....I won't get into details on that part of my life :)... I'll spare you!
After feeling like I regrouped enough at the beach, I went along the coast to "Coast Blvd" which lead me to a cave -which was neat and then a place called "Childrens Beach" where there's beautiful cliffs and seals EVERYWHERE!! I thought to myself...why does it smell...fishy? ha--then I realized there were seals making noise and I put two and two together :-) Later, after La Jolla I went to Chula Vista to dominate a sweet Mexican restaurant called "Miguels"--went there with a friend and it was yummmyyyyy.
thursday.october.14.2010
---played catch up. met a girl for a condo. and worked at D Street Bar & Grill for the first night. Well...I love it there. Awesome girls to work with - we all help eachother. And I kicked ace on my first day---we were so busy I was helping take tables all by myself. It was pretty bomb. Loved it.
Todayyyyyyy---freakin' FINALLY!!!
I'm finally getting back on this thing - after livin' and exploring I will be back on a timely basis. Kick my butt if I don't!
My inspiration for like the last month---this is what has gotten me to where I am through all the scariness of this move and leaving the only thing I know. Just be!
Gracias (yes, I'm close to the Mexican border now. he he)
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