Here we go! The one entry that’s easy, I think? Sometimes though, maybe recency bias?<\/p>\n
\n- Going Utah and visiting the Mighty 5 (all national parks) and actually making it all the way through Angels Landing (am I afraid of heights? yes, but if I don’t look, then it doesn’t matter)<\/li>\n
- Seeing my sister and her kid not once, not twice, but thrice this year<\/li>\n
- Visiting Universal Studios for the first time since I was a kid and making it through Nintendo World, especially through single rider lines, Toadstool Cafe, and various things<\/li>\n
- Losing Toad at SFO, getting the call that he was found (although really it was just the item as SFPD calls it) and retrieving him a week later<\/li>\n
- Eating not-so-great food in Utah<\/li>\n
- Doing the “hike” to the “superbloom” in that beachy beach place just south of Pacifica<\/li>\n
- Hosting and organizing not one but two writing retreats with fellow writers\u2014one north in Calistoga and the other in Point Arena<\/li>\n
- Getting feedback for my novel which encouraged me to keep going even with all the doubt that I have for myself<\/li>\n
- Several days when Chris went to Tahoe and left me behind, and me wondering could I survive? Of course, I did<\/li>\n
- Baking regularly for Writing Accountability Group<\/li>\n<\/li>\n
Reading my piece about my childlike tendencies, pregnancy stuffs, and Ho-Oh at The Racket and being told that it was meaningful<\/li>\n
- Walking with Jakobe throughout San Francisco while playing Pokemon Go<\/li>\n
- Going to the old school Muni buses and light rail trains celebration day<\/li>\n
- Going to the Winter Holiday (to try to buy the sweater) for BART<\/li>\n
- Working in the government?<\/li>\n
- Attending the Diane Feinstein memorial while navigating Secret Service and (barely) rubbing elbows with very important people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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