January 29, 2006 What a fun week. I saw one of my very good friends this weekend, Dave Slagle, who also works with my favorite supplement store, Max Muscle. I also received an allergic rash from a charity crab feed with my family. (I knew I was allergic but loved crab too much to not eat it) Each week I have been making small goals to transform bad habits into good habits. And each week, while I don’t always hit…
January 23, 2006 7:14 am. Monday morning. I just finished a run/bike cardio session that preceded a prayer giving thanks for a new day, a new opportunity, a new beginning and a new me. Last night I made a pact to myself as I usually do when I am posed to attack. And after each week of experiencing trial and error: I now have a bettering understanding of what challenges my strengths and what triggers my weaknesses…knowing thyself is a…
January 16, 2006 I am sitting on my rooftop overlooking San Francisco. It’s late Monday afternoon and I can see the highway slowly building traffic from the rush of people trying to get home or to the gym or to dinner. I used to wonder about the lives of other people all the time…when I was little I would peer at other people on the freeway and wonder where they were going, what they were doing, what made them excited…
January 9, 2006 It has been almost a year since I began writing my weekly journals. I had no specific vision when I began writing these entries and quite honestly, I didn’t know what I was doing when I created this site: I just knew that I had a lot in me and I needed to expel it somehow. Last year I created this site because I felt internally injured after graduating with double majors and a minor from college,…
January 1, 2006 Happy New Year!!!! Louis and I were planning to spend the New Years with a romantic dinner in San Francisco and a gathering with friends in a downtown apartment later but at 7pmafter he showed up in a non-matching outfit and flowers for dinner we decided to take an impromptu drive to Sacramento to share the new year with my family at my grandparents house party. After shopping for a new dress and spending an hour getting…
December 26, 2005 Merry Christmas Everyone! This is an extra special journal entry because I’m going through a huge settling phase: where I am coming to terms with everything that has happened in my life this year: all my personal experiences, physical battles all the people who have come in and out of my life…it has definitely been a very, very, long year. This week I am settling…meaning that I am coming into myself I am reflecting on past events,…
December 19, 2005 This past week my youngest sister graduated from college, my niece had her 3rd birthday, we had a new fitness club opening in Piedmont and an old friend, Jean Carls died at the age of 94. I met Jean three years ago when I assisted in her during a visitation to the doctors and I can still vividly remember her talking with her physician and expressing how she didn’t understand why she was still living and how…
December 13, 2005 I am sitting in the middle of moving boxes, drinking red wine and eating broccoli in a temporary kitchen office at exactly 1:03am. I have been sooo busy lately. From a long drive from Arizona to San Francisco last weekend, a 24 Hour Fitness Express convention in Pleasanton, a big, annual Christmas party in Sacramento, and work deadlines, unpacking, Christmas decorating, working out and eating moderately in-between all the chaos. It was Saturday night at 11pm in…
December 4, 2005 I spent the weekend on an impromptu trip to Arizona. The last couple days were filled with packing boxes, visiting Louis friends, and spending moments reflecting, reminiscing and remembering special places, special friends and special days he spent while living in Phoenix. I don’t talk about my personal life often, but I do talk a lot about goal setting, commitment, focus, love, determination and passion. You know when you find someone extra-ordinary when he/she redefines what all…
November 27, 2005 I am now officially 25! I shared the day with close family and friends in an intimate gathering at my friend, Brian Woo’ s residence in San Francisco. Besides a beautiful ring and jewelry making kit from Louis and pretty drop earrings from Barbara, I didn’t receive many gifts. In dedication to my late cousin, Michael Greenway, I requested instead, that people donate to the Holland Opus Foundation for kids who were musically gifted but living in…