Snapshots from a happy life

Sometimes you just need to step away from the internet and go enjoy life outside a computer screen. I've been an internet addict (certifiably) since the moment I first logged on (love at first byte?) in the mid 90s, but after my parents bought me my first PC in early 1998, hooked up to the internet in my room, my fate was sealed, and I have spent far too much time online ever since ... precisely why I'm finding it more and more necessary to take breaks as I get older. Smartphones have really accelerated this technology burnout. In short? Blogging got exhausting and nothing was happening. So I took a (long) weekend off.

Ahhhh.

It felt great. I've had a great couple of weeks. Going through these photos and posting them really made me realize why I feel so busy, and why my heart feels so full. Here are some highlights:

Berkeley really started to look like fall last week. 

beautiful.

fun with sunshine + sprinklers

view from a Muni train 

Thursday morning

Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

Pepple's vegan doughnuts

raver chicken at Sur La Table

IT'S WEARING A HAT

tofu scramble

Mogli Burrito

making cookies

moon + venus

uc berkeley west gate 

best vegan pancakes ever

cookies (also vegan) <3

MacArthur BART station

UC Berkeley // love the colors 

Another beautiful Indian Summer day

I made a REALLY delicious faux minestrone last Thursaday!

believe it or not, this is a sunrise ... aka when I leave the house these days.

another sunrise shot // financial district

that same sunrise by the time my train got to Oakland

Alex's socks!!

Sunset, on the same day I photographed the sunrise. Life can be cruel :P

SOMA 

after Folsom Street Fair

evidence that I walked all over the city with bare legs -- this has never happened before!

plastic fishies at the new gluten-free grocery store on my street

salsa bar

desktop background from smashingmagazine.com

more campus sunshine ... now with more creek

solo

last night's moon

I have some great posts planned for this week (in my not-so-humble opinion...) before we jet off to Los Angeles on Friday morning to shoot a wedding (in Malibu) on Friday & Saturday. We're also going to be staying with my BFF Christina on Sunday night before flying back home on Monday. It's going to be a great time, but I am a wee bit stressed out about everything as well.