When I went hiking in Quicksilver on Saturday, I picked up a brochure and map of all Santa Clara County Parks so I could see what other trails were in the area. According to the brochure, 21 parks have hiking trails and I have decided to try all of them until I find a park [...]
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Adventures in Hiking–Santa Teresa County Park
Posted in exercise, Hawaii, hiking on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Almaden Quicksilver Park
Posted in beauty, exercise, hiking on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So Charis had to post-pone our plans to hang out for a different day, but I didn’t let that stop me from hiking today, it just meant I had to prepare for my trip a different way. You know, like, carry my photo ID with me in case I got mauled by bears or something. [...]
Going Hiking Today
Posted in Artsy Stuff, beauty, exercise, friendship, happiness, hiking on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gonnah test my hiking skills today at Almaden Quicksilver Park, and old mercury mining community in the hills south of San Jo.Found this picture of one of the trails which is absolutely lovely: Yay trees! This is exactly the kind of trail I like to hike because it’s so shady and isolated. The photo evokes [...]
17 Days until I Leave for Hawaii!!
Posted in beauty, exercise, happiness, hiking, OMG, Rommel, sunshine, the beach!, travel on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Only 17 days! We are staying at a Ko Olina condo resort on the beach. There are tons of picture online of the resort so it’s hard to see what the place will really look like. It all looks amazing. Seems really man-mad, and not very natural Hawaii . . . but I’m okay with [...]
A Happy Life
Posted in Christianity, Coco, Cooking, Dad, dance, Depression, energetic, family, finances, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, hiking, laughter, marriage, Mom, reading, reconciliation, Rommel, Sexuality, travel, Uncategorized on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago I let my imagination loose and wrote in my journal (the tangible, hand-written one) a description of the kind of life I think would make me happy. Writing about and imagining myself as happy (truly, madly, deeply, un- apologetically happy) felt liberating, so I’ve actually re-read the journal entry a few [...]
I’M GOING TO HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted in beauty, family, happiness, hiking, Rommel, the beach!, travel on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
yup yup! Never been, but I’ve always wanted to. Rommel and I are going with Ate Julie, Briana, and Jenae for Briana’s 16th birthday in August. We bought our tickets, and we’re staying at a free condo on the beach! We’re going to lie on the beach Hike to waterfalls Eat at a Luau for [...]
Who me? Busy on a weekend?
Posted in friendship, happiness, hiking, laughter, Mt. Diablo, Rommel, Weekend on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ha! It’s true! On Friday, Amanda came over and Rommel took us out to BJ’s for dinner. Rommel, as usual, did his typical shy and quiet thing at first since this was the first time he really spent time with her. Of course, it didn’t help that BJ’s had 7 or so TV screens showing [...]
