January 4, 2016

my childhood classmate, shabnam, left these earrings with adhithi to give me.
her daughter is now adhithi's roommate at ucsd.
i don't normally wear earrings like this, but these were pretty cool!
(too much work to coordinate and match like this)

January 3, 2016

glutton for punishment?

driven?

crazy?

all of the above?

i headed back out onto the trails after a tough saturday run.  all to make me tougher!

i drove to heather's place in marina del rey so she could drive us out to zuma in malibu for our run with another trail running group.  her friend, and former diva, vida was going to be there as well.

we hiked again on all the ups, and i gave my best effort to run the downs.  

this time the trail went up, down, up again (egads!) and then down again.

heather and i had been on part of this trail (the ending part) together with shanon back in september (when it was disgustingly hot).  

my silly brenny baby

January 2, 2016

divas run at the old mount wilson trail today

we were mostly going to be on the mount wilson toll road. 

i was going to stick with heather, annie and tam today

 such BEAUTIFUL skies!

 at henniger flats, waiting for my friends to go potty

it was a gorgeous hike up.  8 miles up .  3743' elevation gain.
annie and i ran the first two miles down together; i had a tough time catching up to her.  she was going around a 9-9:30 pace.  a bit fast, but not too fast considering it was all downhill.  i made sure to keep up.
after around 2 miles of going down, i passed her.  i expected her to still be right behind me, but she must've slowed down considerably.  i told myself i would push as hard as i could going down.  let's FLY!
if memory serves me right, it was around 2:52 to get to the top.  which then means around 1:25 to get back down.
i never stopped my watch, so a lot of the time included stops for pictures and waiting for tam to catch up with us so we could all stick together!
my 15th mile was 7:50.  WHAT?!  i've never had a split that fast -- even running downhill.
i guess that's why my calves were tired afterwards.  =)

went home and made zongzi with mom. <3 p="">

January 1, 2016

i made some baked zucchini crisps today

yummy!

but a little too much cayenne.  kind of a lot of work (compared to the result) but it was a delicious snack nonetheless.

 haha.  all gone!

mom and i went for a nice walk around the neighborhood =)

 then i made some breaded crunchy cauliflower...and yeah, i ate all those too.
this was just the last remnants in my picture

12-31-15

 yes!  i got my jump shot!

 thank you, random stranger, for indulging me =)

 family pic!

 bye-bye, gramma and grandpa!
i'll miss you!!

 hey, i went up that mountain on the right...
twice!

 oops!  blinky!

misty was happy we were home...

12-30-15

it was a snowy run today!

i was surprised how much harder it was snowing when i got down to the trail as compared to the house..

 i made sure not to wipe at my face or to look at my face until the turnaround point (3.5mi)
this is what i looked like!  =D

derek and i went out to eat at "the pearl"

 i had some escargot (i took a pic of it, but where'd it go?)
a plate of various things (bison something, pate, apricot jam?)

 yummy!  french onion soup.
delicious!

 duck for me...

 bison for derek...

 back at the house, there were three silly grandkids getting a story read to them by gramma

 and the bigger grandkid playing with the big boys