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This weekend was a full one. I don't feel very refreshed, but I do like being busy outside of work. So.

There was running around all Saturday, trying to figure out what to wear to this dinner the mayor and his entourage had been invited to. It turned out it didn't matter too terribly, since the outfits ran the full gamut of jeans and Hawaiian shirt to full on suit and gown. Granted, since I was technically half-representin' it up, I didn't need to be the one in the jeans and shirt.

Then Sunday we went hiking again with malanai and the_verb, which was a delight. Went higher than we'd ever gone in that canyon, and we could've gone higher. Saw deer and hawks and more hawks and many delightful cactopodes. I intend to compile them at some point and do a post on their elusive nature and the stalking thereof.

Then snacks by the creek-bank again, with feet off. That'll be such a delight come summer, when the creek water isn't so very frigid. Now, at least, the sun isn't too overwhelming.

Coffee and errands and then Lady and I joined up with the aforementioned friends for a good ol' super bowl party. Delicious and horribly-bad-for-you foods were had before Lady and I split so she could get her homework done. I pretty much just had enough time upon arriving home to edit a few photos before passing out.


Day 17 - Your highs and lows of this past year
This one will take a bit of thought. 2010 encompassed a lot of things - moving, engagement, being uncertain about so much, being unemployed, being employed but in a shitty job, et cetera. I know - let's do a list!
High - Visiting Tucson last February and finding that the desert would really be a neat place to live
Low - Receiving the rejection letter from UofW, knowing for sure we would have to leave Seattle
High - Picnicking in the Arboretum with Hos'
Low - The trustee job and how very depressing it was
High - Engagement!
Low - Being horribly sick that last week in Seattle and then again our first week in Tucson, when Ana-cakes was visiting.
High - Ana-cakes!
Low - My last grandpa dying
High - Meeting malanai
Low - Being unemployed for three months, unable to collect any unemployment, and the uncertainty inherent in that
High - Going out into the desert with Kyle Freaking Cassidy
Low - Constantly sending out resumes and applications and not hearing a word back
High - Getting a job!
Low - Finding out it paid less than even my very first retail job
High - Getting another job!
Low - But not in time to avoid being ridiculed by one side of my family over Christmas, and also to be made to feel inadequate and a failure at life :<
High - Having the opportunity to shoot the_verb's wedding.
Low - Seeing my new home city in the news for such an atrocious event
High - Tulip Festival, strawberry picking, amazing summer weather, monsoon season, the rainforest on the Olympic peninsula, photos and cupcakes and my lovely lovely camera
Low - The weeks before mom finally decided to just get her knee fixed
High - F'ing w00tstock 2010
Low - Realizing that the anxiety and panic attacks were because of the Seattle weather :(
High - Life. Knowing that whatever I'll be doing days and weeks and months from now, wherever I'll be, it'll probably be awesome, because awesome is everywhere, waiting to be found.