Snapshots from a happy life

I feel like it was just Friday a couple of days ago, and now here it is, Friday again. This would be great except it's also alarming, this passage of time. Life slipping by, one week at a time, without my noticing. Gah. I need to work on making every moment count. For a while I was doing so well with that, but it goes in waves, and this week the waves have been, shall we say, choppy.

I won't go into anything that's been happening in detail, just because nobody wants to hear that and I don't want any random eyes to come upon my words and see a grown woman complaining about things -- not like this. I've just felt like everybody wants a piece of me this week; well, either that, or they don't want anything to do with me, and that's an equally bummerific situation, in my opinion. It's just not been the most fun or enjoyable couple of weeks, but oh well, this too shall pass, I'm still alive and that is the greatest gift of all. I do know these things ... but sometimes I struggle just like the rest of you to appreciate it day to day, and I need to be able to say that without people thinking something's seriously wrong, or getting calls from my very loving family thinking something truly awful is happening. OK? OK.

We'll see what the weekend brings. At least it will bring not being at my job, which I have no problem saying publicly makes me very very happy. Hopefully I'll get some sleep and enjoy the next two days. In the meantime here are some of my favorite snapshots from the last week:

this morning: "gay dorothy on the yellow brick road"

Found this beauty in Yerba Buena Gardens yesterday <3

Yerba Buena Gardens

in the parking lot of H.D. Buttercup (furniture store) after a rainstorm

in the parking lot of H.D. Buttercup (furniture store) after a rainstorm

in the parking lot of H.D. Buttercup (furniture store) after a rainstorm

Seagull INSANITY at Bay Front Park

Huffaker Park <3

late afternoon in my SF neighborhood

Sun rising from MacArthur BART station

Berkeley sunrise

UC Berkeley, mid-winter late afternoon sunshine

Mission Creek Park

Sunset at McCovey Cove

Sunset at Bay Front Park

one of our peppermint shrimp <3

the grassy knoll. not THAT grassy knoll obviously. that's just what I call this one.

My favorite dude, the Heron who lives along Mission Creek

Bay Front Park; a Naval Hospital Ship is in the shipyard now getting repaired (cool)

outside the ballpark

outside a boat club that I can't join because I'm not a snob

My awesome actually put-together outfit from yesterday. People at work were shocked, obviously 

FOOD:

fingerling potatoes

fingerling potatoes

tater makin'

a very fine evening with an artichoke

coffee in a mason jar

roasted fingerling potatoes (oh yeah, with fresh rosemary!)

chickpeas with bok choy & carmelized onions; roasted fingerling potatoes

dry fried & marinated tofu (it was SO good)

spring rolls