Happy Palindrome Day!

Thought it would be fitting to write a new post on Palindrome Day! For those of you who don't know a palindrome is a number or words or sentence that reads the same forward as it does backwards. Like racecar. My favorite is "Did Joe kill like OJ did?"... Anyway-- today is Palindrome Day because the date is 01022010. Some of you may know how kind of obsessed I am with palindromes, but I'm not going to get anymore into that on here.

For some reason I feel like the older I get the more sentimental certain moments are in my life. I've always had this feeling around Christmas time that I could never explain until this past year I read a passage in a book that explained everything I have ever felt in one paragraph which I will share with you now.
--"Christmas is a cumulative holiday, which is perhaps why it's so difficult. It carries with it every Christmas that went before, and you experience it each year as though you're all ages of your life at one time. You're a child, an adolescent, and an adult simultaneously; people, places, and feelings that have gone or been left behind are with you again, bringing both great comfort and immesurable sadness..."-- From the book Breakfast with Tiffany by Edwin John Wintle

My holidays were pretty great-- I went home to the Show Me State. Got to see some people I hadn't before I moved, and also spent not enough time with my family and dogs. Now I'm back in Cali for a pretty long stretch-- until June when I go home two different weekends to be in weddings... Kate and Lance on June 5, and Reggie and Chee on June 19th. I'm very much looking foward to those two dates, but I have a lot of work to do before then.

I'm joining the YMCA tomorrow here in Berkeley-- I had tried out their spinning class which turned out to be amazing and it's time I start working out every day like I was before I left. I feel so much better when I'm being healthy so why not keep doing it?!? It's hard to get started, but once I do it's very addicting. I guess you could say it's kind of my new years resolution only I'm hoping it's just a lifestyle change that I've started since May, but just took a little break whenever I got ready to move. I'd like to have changed a bit- in a good way- before my next trip home.

New years was fun in San Francisco. I had to work New Years Eve day and then I went to Hannah's afterwards to have dinner with her and her friends and get ready for the night on the Party Trolley. The trolley was pretty amazing... met some pretty cool people and got to see more of the city than I imagined. Spent midnight at the Embarcadero watching fireworks and found myself taking it all in and just realizing this really is the experience of a lifetime. I'm very much looking forward to my next six months or however long I have left here. We ended up getting back to Hannah's at like 230 and I was out! haha... It was a very successful night in retrospect.

I went to the movies with Jan and Dave and Dave's family New Years Day. We saw Sherlock Holmes which was pretty great. Got home last night and was so exhausted that I went straight to bed. Today I celebrated Palindrome Day by catching up on some Young and the Restless! haha... And now I'm getting some little projects started. Tomorrow I need to go grocery shopping and to get my membership at the Y and to start up my workout routine again! I'm getting excited. I figure if I'm gonna be here by myself I can at least do something with myself during that time. Anyway, I do miss everyone back home very much, but I kind of feel like they will always be there when I come back. But this is my time now to see a new city and see what I am really all about.

Work starts back up on Monday, and I am ready to show them why I was brought here. I'm about to blow this year of 2010 out of the water!

xoxo,
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