Another picture during one of my morning workouts.  I went biking early in the morning and snapped this near Fiesta Island.

I just got home and don’t feel like going to bed so I will post

I just saw the Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour cirque du soleil show.  I had a great time!  Although I feel it was more dance and music than acrobatics, there was still a good amount of in it, and it was very entertaining.  It made me realize that I I should listen to more MJ because they played a few songs I wasn’t familiar with.  I think that if MJ were still alive and saw what kind of honor he was being given, he’d be pretty happy.  (P.S. I am not discussing his personal life, just his music and the show).

I wish I had pictures, but cameras are forbidden.  Here is a preview of the show if you are curious.

Is this tour stopping off in your city?  Are you going or did you go? If you went, what did you think?

Alright!  I had a spare minute to bring this back for you.  Wanted to share this awesome sunrise picture I took the other day as I managed to drag my butt out of bed to go running at Mission Bay.  (Hopefully I can keep this up, I have a half marathon to train for in March!)

This year, I did not make any New Year’s resolutions.  It actually stresses me out to keep them.  I decided to just try and live better (a little vague, but I am fine with it).  But since January 1, I have discovered what I am now calling “Unexpected Resolutions” where I just start assimilating things into my life as I discover them or decide to.  So far, I am at three:

1. Making the bed every day – OK, I will admit that I NEVER EVER EVER make the bed.  It is a horrible trait.  I mostly only make the bed when I am on a cleaning/decluttering spree.  Since Jan. 1, I have made the bed every single day after getting out of bed…well kind of half-assed, but that’s better than nothing.  Baby steps after all

2. Eliminating junk mail – I actually did this last year, but need to revisit.  I wake up to 18 emails every day.  I delete at least 15 of them.  I hate junk mail.  I signed up for things because they were very trendy at the time and I find that I’m never using them (mostly daily deal sites and discount shopping sites).  So I am not only unsubscribing to them, I am also making sure that I CANCEL the account altogether.  I haven’t gotten through all of them yet, but I am slowly whittling down my inbox number.

3. PHONE STACK – I just discovered Phone Stack yesterday when my cousin tweeted this article.  I am COMPLETELY guilty about staring at my phone during meals (hell, during TV, running, whatever I can get away with), and I know it’s a medium-to-high level of rudeness so that idea could not have come at a better time.  The basics are that everyone stacks their phone in the middle of the table during a meal and whoever picks theirs up first pays for the whole bill.  Shawn and I did a phone stack last night for dinner and we didn’t pick it up the entire time we were eating.  I actually got to ask him how his day at work was!  Now I don’t know that we’ll necessarily play Phone Stack all the time, but it’s a great way to be away from the phone and give mealtimes(and the people you eat with) the importance that they deserve.

Did you have any planned or Unexpected Resolutions?

I know, I know, I promised to have a better recap post but I still don’t.  Things have been crazy.  Shawn and I have decided to move into a new apartment!  We have been getting back to the post-holiday daily grind AND apartment hunting too.

Anyways, I did want to show you these cool hanging designs I found while I was out and about.  The first one is a bauble design from Anthropologie, probably leftover from Christmas and not yet taken down.  The other is a light fixture with designed jars.  I found it at Chilis restaurant of all places!  I think they look fab-o.  If I could make this design in my own (future or present) place, I would!

Hi guys,

I am sitting here writing an email to my nephew with my recap of 2011.  (a la that Google commercial).  How perfect because 1-it is a completely adorable idea, and 2-it just helped me with my 2011 recap.

January – June
1. Met Mei Li, my niece who was born a few months earlier in October, 2010.
2. I began volunteering in the Marketing, Street Team department for the San Diego Asian Film Foundation.
3. I ran my 2nd ever half-marathon at the Zoo Park Safari.
4. I turned 29 and quickly created my 30 before 30 list (which not all was finished so that is pretty much out the window, though I’m still proud of what I managed to get done).
5. I went with Jenny to see Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj in concert.
July – December
1.I tried out skydiving for the first time.  It scared me big time, but I had a lot of fun too.
2. My nephew, Mason, was born!
3. Watched my friends Josephe and Janette get married
4. Saw Adele, and Katy Perry in concert (also with Jenny).
5. Had a family reunion, mostly to meet Mason, and also surprise my mom with her belated birthday party.
6. I raced my second sprint triathlon.  It was during the same weekend as the 10th year anniversary of 9/11.  It was a hectic and reflective weekend.
7. Worked the 12th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (where the culmination of my work resulted in)
8. Went back to Virginia to watch my friend, Jessie, get married, have a reunion with my college girlfriends and see my parents.  All in one week.
9. Celebrated the Christmas celebration by seeing The Nutcracker, The San Diego Parade of Lights, Christmas Card Lane, and spent the holidays with Shawn’s family.

2012

I don’t want to predict 2012 just yet.  I have a few inklings in mind for the moment.  I will just leave you with what Jenny found on Pinterest.

Source: handmadezwonull.blogspot.com via Jenny on Pinterest

 

Have a wonderful 2012 everyone!

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year and may all good things come your way in 2012!  I am relaxing all day and all night in my pajamas (probably for both New Year’s Eve and Day).  What are you doing?

Have any of you guys listened to the The Civil Wars?  They are pretty well known for this song/video:

I finally got around to listening to the whole album, Barton Hollow (same name of the first single I saw/heard).  Amazing.  I was a little taken back that all the songs didn’t sound like Barton Hollow (what I had initially expected based on hearing Barton Hollow).  Nevertheless, I enjoyed how simple, sweet, and relaxing the rest of the album is to listen to.  For instance:

If you have listened to them or get a chance to, let me know what you think!

Shawn's family tree 2011

We have been having a great Christmas weekend so far and hopefully by the New Year, I will have a nice round-up post to share with you.  Until then, may your days be Merry and Bright!  And please check out the disclaimer below. My friend posted this hilarious holiday disclaimer on Facebook.

*Merry Christmas Disclaimer: Please accept without obligation, express or implied, these best wishes for an environmentally safe, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, and gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday as practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice (but with respect for the religious or secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or for their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all) and further for a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated onset of the generally accepted calendar year (including, but not limited to, the Christian calendar, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures). The preceding wishes are extended without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee(s)…

Just wanted to share my little mantel and how it’s filled with lovely cards from friends and family.  Hope you all have a wonderful upcoming holiday weekend (whether you celebrate Christmas or any other December-related holiday).  What are your plans?

 

I hope that after the New Year, I will have time to share more stories and any other crafting, exercising, adventurous things with you!  Until then…