The Trip
Monday sailing trip.
Under the Bay Bridge two times.
Good times had by all.
The Boat
Make sure you steer straight.
Look out! We are going to tack.
Smooth sailing from here.
The Experience
Sail beyond ball park;
Great views of San Francisco;
Ignore cold weather.
The Others
Found: pirates on ship.
Big red sails keep them moving.
What’s their business here?
Happy day after Saint Patrick’s Day!
Yesterday was a long day of craziness.
But this post isn’t about that.
Nor is this post about SXSW which I still haven’t had a chance to write about.
This post is just another boring photo-a-day post. But I hope you enjoy it anyway 🙂
March 10 - flying Southwest to SXSW. Remember when you were a little kid and you used to be able to go visit the pilot AND he gave you the little metal wings? Man, times have changed.
March 11 - so true!
March 12 - taken in my SXSW photo camp 🙂
March 13 - Austin, Texas
March 14 - red velvet cupcakes at work to celebrate birthdays
March 15
March 16 - who says going to work can't be beautiful?
March 17 - the only way to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day... Jameson!
How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun to celebrate the holiday?
You are going to have to just bear with me as I update my blog 18 times a day until Wednesday.
Sorry about that 🙂 but not really hehe
Here are my photos from the past week (and some extras just because it’s spring time and the world was beautiful this week):
March 4 - wandering around Downtown Danville
March 5 - I loved my outfit this day (and I'm so humble about it too...) - I got a lot of compliments at work which is an even BIGGER compliment, especially considering the women at work are some of the best dressed people I have ever met 🙂
March 6 - "5 o'clock" - March Photo-A-Day hosted by @fatmumslim on Instagram
March 7 - coffee catch-up chat with Kevin Hines 🙂
March 8 - flower stand in San Francisco
Note: I took a picture on March 9, but it was terrible and I didn’t like it so I deleted it. My bad.
March 10 - waiting for the bus, the first leg of my trip to SXSWi in Austin!
Macaroons at La Boulange - so pretty
yummy! Patries at Madeline's
Spring has sprung in Walnut Creek
Roses for my cousin - she wrote a play and it was performed at Stanford this past weekend 🙂 so proud of her
Cabbage leaves from my dad and step mom's garden
snail friend from said garden 🙂
All photos were taken with my iPhone.
And, once again, I am late on my Friday “Photo-A-Day” post. Would you expect anything less?
On that note, I have decided that I will no longer limit myself to writing my Photo-A-Day posts on Fridays.. Instead, I will just say that it will happen during the weekend sometime. Maybe Friday, or Saturday… or even Sunday! You’ve just gotta have an open mind and read it when it comes 🙂
February 28 - it was a tough day so I stopped on my way home and got Oreos and peanut butter (don't pretend like you didn't try that and love it when the Lindsay Lohan Parent Trap came out)
February 29 - Happy Leap Day!
March 1 - I showed up at the office before anybody else did... it was eerily quiet
March 2 - I came home for the weekend so I met my dad at his office in Oakland so we could drive home together. Saw this on my walk from BART to his office building. Kind of cool.
March 3 - I was shopping today and there were flowers everywhere! This is just one of the many pictures I took as I was wandering around.
Anyway, I already told you I was home for the weekend (lots of stuff – seeing my dad and step mom, my little sister came home for spring break, my other little sister came home for dinner, I went to my cousin’s play, taking Pookie and my mom to see the apartment tomorrow….) but more on that later.
What plans did you have for this weekend? Were you going to try to accomplish anything big? Did you get done what you had planned? Did you get to relax a bit?
Normally I don’t post twice in one day, but earlier today I said that I would do my Picture-A-Day post that I neglected last week. I wasn’t about to go back on that commitment.
February 18 - our first home made meal at the apartment (of course it was spaghetti)
That is something I’m trying to work on – sticking to things that I say I’m going to do. Now, I’m not a complete flake, in my professional life I’m very good at getting things done by a deadline. I’m dedicated to my work, and I come by that naturally (both of my parents are very dedicated to their jobs – it’s genetics). But in my personal life, sometimes I say I’m going to do something and then end up getting too tired, or I forget, or whatever, but I’m trying to work on that. It’s something that bothers me about other people, so I feel as though I should change it in myself as well.
February 19 - my receipt.. I've never seen my name spelled like that... ever.
Here’s another confession, as if I haven’t revealed enough of my shortcomings today, I didn’t take a picture one day last week – February 20 to be exact. I could come up with some sort of excuse about being ridiculously busy and having a bunch of other stuff to finish (like finally getting my apartment completely set up and worked out), but the fact is, I simply forgot.
So sue me.
There’s no reason to beat myself up for missing the photo opp. In order to make up for it, though, I tried to take more pictures throughout the rest of the week. I’m disappointed in myself that I broke my new year’s resolution, but it was just one day and the point of the exercise isn’t necessarily to take a picture every single day – it’s more to use a camera more, whether it be my Canon Rebel or my iPhone.
February 21 - a rip in my tights 😦 and I love those tights! oh well
February 22 - I decided to walk to work and took pictures along the way
February 22 - China Town
February 22
February 23 - the staircase in my building
February 23 - one of my favorite buildings in San Francisco
February 23 - view of Alcatraz from Union St
February 24 - my new friend on my desk at work
February 25 - "breakfast" at Ikea (before we went shopping to finish decorating our apartment)
February 26 - meet Teddy, I've had him since I was 25 days old 🙂
February 27 - "because the best monsters are actually good on the inside" (makes me think of Monster's Inc.)
And a bonus one from my wanderings around San Francisco.. just because I like this one 🙂
How was your weekend? Did you do anything special?
I hope your Monday went well!
I’ve decided to make a change to my blogging strategy.
If you are a normal reader and have followed me since I started this blog (only about 2 months ago), you know that I had all these grand blogging goals set up for myself coming into 2012. You also know that I haven’t been doing a very good job at accomplishing those goals. I’m trying to do everything at once, but I think I just put too much on my plate.
Sometimes I feel like this (stock image)
One of the main things I’m struggling with is the fact that I have two blogs running at the same time. I have one for my personal life (this one) and one for my professional thoughts (RachelHelen). I didn’t want to have a combination blog because I wanted to cater to everybody’s interests, speak to my demographic, all that good stuff.
That just didn’t work for me. I didn’t even get my Photo-A-Day post out last week! (It will come soon… hopefully tonight…)
I have tried scheduling certain days to write in one vs the other, I have tried duplicating posts, I have tried just about everything. One of the main reasons this doesn’t work is because I am no longer working from home – I have a real job, in a real office that I go to every morning at a specific time and come home at a specific time (generally exhausted from that day’s work and not wanting to look at the computer anymore). Because of this, I have decided that I will no longer have two blogs.
Instead, I will be keeping this blog and discontinuing the other one. This means, I’m sorry to say, that even if you are not interested in public relations/social media/the internet world, I will be blogging a bit about that here. I don’t want to lose any of my readers, but I also want to be able to update on a regular basis and updating TWO blogs instead of one just seems so daunting. Right now, instead of keeping up with one or two, I’m keeping up with none.
This is just not okay in my overly-dedicated, perfectionist and multitasking-driven mind.
I would absolutely love any input you can give me on my writing, what you would like to hear more about, and what you could do without.
This blog isn’t just for me, it is for you, and for all the other readers out there who haven’t yet discovered my awesomeness (kidding… kinda. But share with your friends! The more the merrier also works in the blogging world.)
Anyway, so those are my thoughts on this subject matter. I will be trying to combine the two blogs (AKA import my posts from my other blog to this blog…) and write more frequently.
I hope to see more of you as I continue to write here.
Have a wonderful Monday!!!
Wow, I haven’t been doing too well on this whole “post every Friday” thing… but to be fair, I was going to post my weekly photos yesterday, but I am still trying to get the internet in my new apartment figured out (the apartment is set up down a long hallway and I am on the opposite side of the apartment from the modem which doesn’t make for very fast connection speeds).
Anyway, this week was my first full week at work. I actually had my own responsibilities, figured out how to do certain things in the industry, and learned a lot from my coworkers. I won’t get into everything from my week, but if you want to read about it, you can check out my post here: Things I Like About My Job, part 1.
Because so much was going on this week I took more pictures than my normal one-a-day. Well, let me rephrase that – I always take more than one picture a day, but I don’t always like them. This week it’s different – I like more of the pictures I took. It was kind of exciting. Not to mention the fact that my obsession with Instagram has gone from the minor leagues to the major leagues (if you have the app, follow me – my screen name is rockegan 🙂
February 12 - my old room... now a guest room at my dad's house (that kind of made me sad to type)
February 13 - basically tells you how my Monday morning went - (don't worry, only one of them was a latte, the other was a peppermint soy hot chocolate)
February 14
February 14 - Happy Valentine's Day! (can you tell where the Valentine's cards are located?)
February 15 - bagels and lattes for breakfast 🙂 two of my favorite things!
February 16 - my new bedding! red sheets with a red and white patterned comforter (it's gonna take some getting used to - so girly!)
February 17 - cool 80's style boombox left on the sidewalk
February 17 - awesome graffiti art in SOMA
February 17 - happy hour with my coworkers at Sens
I hope your week was wonderful.
What are your plans for the long weekend? Do you have anything exciting going on?
I’m way too exhausted to write anything else besides posting my Friday photos… on Saturday. Oh well, It’s been a crazy week. Got the keys to my apartment. Started work (yay). Emptied out the storage unit in SLO and got all our stuff home (double yay). And tomorrow we officially move in.
Here are the pictures from this week. Then it’s bed time. Triple yay.
February 4 - Darling... I don't know how to tell you this, but... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom...
February 5
February 6 - Is Lucky's really considered the "smile zone?"
February 7
February 8
February 9 - got to work early on my second day so I sat outside, drank a latte, and read. The weather was beautiful in San Francisco!
February 10 - sunrise on the way to work
January 11 - moving from SLO to San Francisco
And on that note, good night, I’ve got a big day tomorrow.
This week was pretty crazy! I’m still not ready to share all the news with everybody out in Cyber Land… but I promise I will fill you in this weekend or on Monday. I promise.
But before my photos and Tweets from week 5, something adorable:
And now for the photos:
January 29 - the touristy part of San Francisco
January 30 - sometimes Target has the coolest pillows
January 31 - basketball game at my high school alma mater, things sure have changed
February 1 - my dad brought my Aunt Judy's Tiffany engagement ring back from Pennsylvania. She passed away 11 years ago. (No, I'm not engaged)
February 2 - I love arm chairs. They are so stylish and comfy. At a café at Polk and Washington
February 3 - tea time at Sideboard Coffee
And finally….
**Squeals!!**
Rachel Discovers Happiness 