Epic New Year's Just Always Happen To Me

so this year for NYE my mom bought tix for my family to go to the big night san diego party, and got us all nights at the hotel, which was the beautiful hilton bayfront, it was pretty epic.  all food and vip top shelf booze included.  never had to wait for a drink.  great music, great company, what a blast.  drunken night, preceded by not too too bad of a headache (stuck to grey goose vodka and juice the whole time).  woke up the next morning continued to drink bottomless mimosas and come to find my mom and her cousin booked the hotel rooms again another night.  so we did it all over again.  (pickle in my head saying "can't stop, won't stop") we went to dinner, then drank in the hotel bar, and we were all tired and exhausted (looking like zombies), but somehow we managed to make it out to shout house that evening. we came back to hotel bar around 2am.  and we shut it down.  then when you'd think it was all over.  we went to our hotel room to drink more.  bet you thought i would have a wicked hangover.  but no.  man good vodka goes down better than cheap beers at pint night.

pickle and i walked to a park the next morning with gus, who i have failed to mention was at the hotel with us both nights.  pet friendly hotels are awesome. then went home. great great NYE.

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it isn't the first great NYE i have had.  just a couple off the top of my head.  was when dyl pickle came to flo-town and we celebrated at midnight in piazza raphael smashing empty champagne bottles in the square with hundreds of crazy italians.

another, was at B-stone bar in kearny mesa, with pickle's friend mike.  it was a crazy time indeed.


great new years just seem to happen to me and i am very grateful for that and to my awesome mom who bought us vip tickets.

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my resolutions;

workout------gym 2 times a week, extra long hikes or walks 2 times a week
cook more-------eat healthier, more veggies (can't be too hard since this last year i learned about whole foods, and have come to like quinoa, butternut squash, and others, and i have great resources, hungry hungry hippie, and 101 cookbooks)
pack leader------ straight from the dog whisperer, i need to be a pack leader with calm assertiveness.
study better------sdsu mba program won't kick my butt, i want to get better than my 3.5 gpa next semester.  which will be challenging, all of my classes will be very difficult.

broke but inspired

these are just some images that are aesthetically pleasing to me.... they all come from a blog fav of mine http://thebeautyfile.blogspot.com.  enjoy!

a little monday positivity

to those of you who have work today, breath deeply once, and think of something you can do today that isn't your job.  i'll tell you, on the worst of days, it always made me feel better, to take a longer lunch, clip my fingernails, get a pedicure, haircut, pick up dry cleaning, exc.... all on the company dime.   you should officially make today time theft monday.  

as for me, i don't have work today.  i am in the purgatory between jobs, where it is amazing to have all the free time you could ever want, but no money to do anything.  so,  i think i will take gus to the beach today and take some pictures with my diana.

a new philosophy

mnmlist : less




Stop buying unnecessary things.

Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.

Reduce half again.

List 4 essential things in your life,

stop doing non-essential things.

Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions

focus on each moment.

Let go of attachment to doing, having more.

Fall in love with less.

ideas/goals/objectives

well this list is embarrassing. here are some things i would like to learn. yes some things on the list i maybe too old for, too young for, too busy for, too lazy for, too slow for, too untalented for. (i couldn't figure out how to write that grammatically correct--grammar fail)

photography
cooking
knitting
guitar
calligraphy
driving stick
surfing
spanish
paddle boarding
rock climbing
hiking
skateboarding
yoga



this is a photo composition from an art gallery i used to work at. (i use the word work loosely.) the artist is adam lewis smith, despite me thinking of him as a mediocre person (to be fair, who isn't though), some of his compositions are exceptional. this one i like very much.