N-Y-C… Here I come!

I’ve had a 2.5 month hiatus from this fantastic city and I’ve watched enough SATC lately to be suffering from serious NYC withdrawal.  The fog in SF is rolling in, which always makes me want to roll on out.  Today’s commute almost broke the camel’s back.  It was > 1.5hours long and I was the driver.  Anyway I found out that I pretty much get free WiFi all over every major city for free through my company on a company laptop.  How did I not know this before?!  Anyway it’s working sweet and is compensating for the 2 hour delay I’m experiencing right now.  Yes, I’m stuck at SFO.  Anyway, this weekend promises to be a blast! Jensy will be in town, as will Mike and Andrea.  Yay! I’ve got to finish planning my date with M and then make brunch plans with everyone.  I feel so Carrie ; )

In hiding

I’m not sure why but lately I’ve been hiding a lot. Not feeling comfortable in my skin anymore. It’s like I shed the old one and grew a newer more pathetic one. Maybe it’s the time of year that the old skin re-appears. Maybe it’s just a time frame. Everywhere I turn, something reminds me of something else and leaves me uncomfortable. No matter what, I wish this feeling would go away.

Hopefully Wyoming will be a good thing. The SLR is coming with me.

Trip planning

It’s that time of year again when I just need a major break.  Seeing as s**t is hitting the fan on my current project at work, I’m a bit hesitant about taking off but perhaps by the time I’m ready to board the plane, things will be better.  It’s amazing but I’m actually looking forward to the nature vacation.  Perhaps because I’ll be a newbie to everything so it’ll be interesting.  But first I need to conquer the skies - plane tickets are just so ridiculous right now.  More details to come as plans evolve.  But planning a trip always makes me reminisce about the previous ones.  I’m feeling the itch to blurb.

Tomorrow is Batman day.  We have tickets to see The Dark Knight.  Sweet!  I’m so excited!

4th of July Wrap-up

I am but a week late but better late than never right?

4th of July was simply wonderful and even included some illegal fireworks in my neighbourhood, enough to freak me out as someone was shooting them right over my house! Right before the 4th, I lost my phone only to have a good samaritan return it. Sometimes people have a way of surprising me.

M visited for the weekend, and we had a great time The Chihuly exhibit is currently going on at the San Francisco de Young museum though Sept. 28th. If you live here and have never seen Dale Chihuly’s work, you need to go see this exhibit. I simply am in love with his work ever since the first time I saw it. I’m posting a few of my favourites. It was also a great opportunity for me to take my Nikon SLR out for a spin. It’s been a while.

Chihuly Wall (de Young Museum, 2008)

Chihuly Boat (de Young Museum, 2008)

Chihuly Parisian Ceiling (de Young Museum, 2008)

There was also time this weekend to visit wine country again. Yes, if you live in the bay area, it’s hard NOT to visit the wineries often if you like wine. Luckily there’s always a new region to explore. For this visit, I chose to drive out to the Carneros Trail.

Carneros Trail

As much as I normally like to try to hit 6 or so wineries in a day things never go as planned. So we only made it to 4 :-p. First was Roche Winery in Sonoma county. It’s a top a gentle sloped hill and overlooks the highway and racetrack. I enjoyed the wines here a lot. Then we moved down the road to Cline Cellars where unfortunately I did not enjoy a single one. The reds were too harsh and the whites were too dry. Then we crossed over into Napa county. I really enjoyed the unpretentious wineries in Sonoma. Napa always seems oh so fake. But luckily the two wineries I had planned to visit (because I did my homework this time) were simply gorgeous to look at, had gorgeous views, and good wine. First stop in Napa was Domaine Carneros Winery, a beautiful chateau on top a hill. It overlooked all this vineyards in the distance. I wish I could live there hehe ;). Then we drive to an even higher hill at the Artesa Winery. This winery also has an in-house artist that is showcased.

Roche Winery (Sonoma, 2008)

Domaine Winery (Napa, 2008)

View from Domaine Winery (Napa, 2008)

M & me at Artesa Winery (Napa, 2008)

This visit really made me happy and I was glad to get away from it all. I only wish every weekend could be like this!

Southern Cali

Just got back from my first trip to Socal. Hmm…

I had to travel for work so I didn’t really get to experience the nightlife but it’s still always fun to go to a new part of the country. I did get to try a new restaurant (it was bad by the way *yuck!*) so look out for my review on yelp. The traffic was as bad as everyone describes and I wasn’t even in downtown LA! I got to see another division within my company and that was really interesting! Though it does feel like I’m getting the shitty end of benefits now however. I know I know… I should not complain.

Socal was baking and the smog and haze was pretty disgusting. It makes Norcal look ohhh so pretty now.

Tomorrow is doctor day. I’m a little scared. Tendonitis is no fun!

4th of July weekend was wonderful. I have many pictures to post and lots to report. Keep on the look out. I’ll be posting them soon (too many to review hehe).