oh p.s. i resuscitated my bleeding-heart big-girl-blog and wrote something embarrassingly personal for the real world: http://sfwithkay.blogspot.com/2010/02/stigma-of-girlfriend-role.html

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living in apartment buildings is so fun.

fire alarm - my building or the building next door? i really hope it's the building next door because i don't want to put pants on. oh, guess i'd better check.

who is snoring? turns out it's not the person who actually lives in this apartment. nope. it's my neighbor and i can hear him loud and clear.

lately i feel like i live a completely charmed life... i live in the city i love most, my career-track job encompasses two of the things i love to do most, i have beautiful souls for friends, and i live with the most amazing man on earth who never forgets the little things in life. my hair stylist fixed my going-on-25-years-long hair problem, my ( Read more... )

i just can't wait for summer. not hot-hot summer, but my summer. i want to smell the beach. i miss that smell so badly i can almost imagine it, but not quite. i want lungfulls of summer beach air.

( fixed abe a little )

( i painted an abe )

bacon-wrapped fresh sea scallops last night; bacon was from the butcher. thick and smokey. a full day of sunny, hot beach sand and surf today. my new go-to beach is perfect. sunny and warm even when the rest of the coast isn't.

vacation looks like this:


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taking off for thailand. be back in 2 weeks.

i think i will never fight to have the upper hand in my romantic relationships again.