Goodbye monday mornings at LAX

No more waking up at 3:55am for me on Monday mornings after today. In about 40 minutes, I’ll be taking my last early flight out of lax to sfo.

I’m not going to miss being here this early, but I’ll miss so-cal, hanging out with friends in the area and the beautiful sunny beaches. Training in so-cal along the pacific coast is my favorite so far. Running in the sand, cool breezes to wick off any sweat and then cooling off in the cold pacific ocean. Man, what a life I’ll miss living. I can’t do the same in the bay.

In a couple weeks, John will be moving up and we’ll finally start a new chapter in our relationship where we will finally live in the same city can’t wait!

Hopefully we will have a home in the Santa Monica or manhattan beach area in the somewhat near future. I’d love for our kids to be able to live by the beach and enjoy so-cal the same way we did.

But then again, we want to live in France as well. We might have to pick one, but who says we can’t have both? Someday… We will see.

Already can’t wait to plan my next trip to l.a. …. Oh wait, I’ll be here again in 3-4 weeks yay!

Time to go ! Bye bye

Almost over

It’s 5:30am on a monday morning and I’ll be boarding my flight soon to headback up to the bay. sigh. My weekend trips to so-cal are about to end. Next weekend is the last trip to LA in my series of LA flights and the last time I’ll stay at john’s ktown apt.

I’m defitnitely going to miss so-cal. This summer has been a great experience filled with lots of travel, sun, beaches, food and physical activities. I’m sad that all my photographs from this summer were stolen by some lowlife, but oh well. Things could be worse. I still have John and we’ll create more memories together. Cabo is coming up in november and again in January! Woohoo… And our 52 week honeymoon will start at the end of this month once I get the companion pass.

Lining up now for my flight now…

It’s almost over. I won’t miss waking up at 3:55am to get to LAX, but all my weekends have been worth it. Despite what happend last Monday at work, life is oh so good

Nap time!

I still think I have my pictures…

I haven’t been this sad since I dropped the external terabyte harddrive at the airport.

Yesterday, someone came into our office and stole 3 macbooks, 3 iphones, 2 wallets and a backback filled with a camera, kindle and mp3 player. My 32gb iphone and macbook is in that list. We tried asking ATT and Apple to see if they could track my phone using the GPS to catch the thief, but they said it wasn’t possible (what the hell?!)

The iphone, eh, whatevers. I can email my friends to get their contact information and can purchase a new phone. What hurts the most is that most of the pictures I’ve taken during my trips and events in 2009 are gone. Seafare in Seattle, Vancouver, B.C, Palm Springs, Eve & Isaiah’s wedding, all my food porn – gone. I can’t relive those moments. And with my shitty memory, I have nothing to look back on to remember those days. I’d pay a lot of money to get those photos back, but what are the odds of me being able to get my macbook back with all the original data still there?

I still keep thinking my pictures are on my new laptop under madeleine >> maDdz >> piCtures.  I should’ve learned my lesson the first time around when I dropped the terabyte at SFO, but I didn’t get hit hard enough and didn’t back up all my memories on smugmug. I pay a yearly service for it and I’m barely utilizing it. Stupid, stupid me. I can’t control how many rotten people are in the world, but I can do better when it comes to storing my photos and important documents.