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Dear Forbes Magazine, Last week you published your annual ranking of "America's Most Miserable Cities." I somehow missed reading about it until a couple of days ago (probably had something to do with the flu-induced delirium I was in most of the week) but ever since I read it and saw that Sacramento was ranked American's Fifth Most Miserable City, I've →
Winter sunset at the barn
I'm starting today's post with where I'm starting today, Monday morning, at 6AM -- the barn. Why am I there so bright dark and early? You'll have to read tomorrow's 10 on 10 post to find out. :-) ~
Maui Day 3: Oh the weather outside is… pretty nice, actually
On Sunday, while we were sitting at a bus stop at a mall, groggily waiting for our second bus of the day, John observed how odd it was to be hearing Christmas music when it was 80 degrees and humid outside. I laughed then, but when we were out and about today and I heard yet another rendition of "Let →
The Secret Life of Trees
One of these days my bad puns are going to come back to haunt me. But I just can't resist them, no matter how many people roll their eyes and hit the "unsubscribe" button on their RSS reader. (And please don't do that. I'd be very sad to lose a reader over a bad pun... or 50.) In case you missed it, →
A quarter of a million miles, baby
Yesterday I was supposed to drive from Sacramento to Vancouver, WA, where my parents live. I got up and started checking weather and road conditions, and decided to leave around noon, since Weather Channel said that the rain/snow was supposed to stop around 10AM, and I figured that by the time I got up to the CA/OR border (the highest →
Reflection fun
So on that run a couple of days ago when I took yesterday's pictures, I was crossing back over Tower Bridge when I glanced south and saw the huge backup of traffic coming into downtown Sacramento on Interstate 80. My first thought was, "OMG, SO GLAD I'm not stuck in that!!" My second thought was, "OMG, COOL REFLECTION!!" I have →
After two months of 6-7 day workweeks, it’s hard not to think about the beach
I've been working Saturdays the past couple of months because in some addled corner of my brain, I thought the extra money would be nice. I, of course, wasn't considering all of the other things I'm doing -- work, grad school, water polo, freelancing, Moose (ok, he wasn't back in the picture at that point) that it might be nice →
Sitting by the dock of the bay
Eschewing my usual blog post format of "ramble ramble ramble picture" for a change, here's another shot from my trip to Washington this past May.
Same view every morning, yet somehow I’m not tired of it yet
Ever since I moved to Sacramento a bit over two years ago, I've had to drive over the American River (first on Business 80, then after I moved, Highway 160) to get to and from work. I LOVE seeing the river in all of its moods, and morning and late afternoon are the best two times of day because of →
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999
I hope I managed to infect at least one of you with a Prince earworm via my post title. :-) Yesterday morning I was getting ready for work, and in my typical ADD fashion suddenly decided it was time to copy 11 years worth of pictures off of an external hard drive and onto my laptop so that I could take →
Euro Trip Day 16: What a neat, neat day
Today started off early... too early. Because I couldn't sleep, I went to bed sometime after 4:30... only to have to wake up at 7:45 for church. Whee! I can't remember if I mentioned it here or not, but here in Sveti Stefan, we're actually staying with a coworker of mine whose husband's family lives here. In fact, they used to →
Euro Trip Day 14: Best. Sunset. EVER
(The headline is a Simpsons reference, btw.) This is going to be short because I'm exhausted -- literally, I'm falling asleep writing this post. Today we got up at dawn and got to the bus terminal REALLY early and waited for our bus, in order to avoid yesterday's snafu. The bus ride wasn't long distance-wise, but we had to change buses →
Euro Trip Day 11: Hoping that this is as unfun as it gets
I've had better days. We slept in a bit today, had a leisurely breakfast, and then decided to rent bikes and head out to explore the island a bit. However, we somehow took a wrong turn, and ended riding 3 kilometers up a REALLY BIG HILL. I know, only 3 km -- cry me a river, right? Well, it was 90F+ →
Euro Trip Day 10: In which the entire day can be summed up in one picture
. Slept in, went to the beach, went to the grocery store, ate lunch, went back to the beach. Read, napped, swam, sunned. It's a brutal life. Sorry for the boring post... it was a boring day, but so so so heavenly to have that boring day. (It was a beach day because we're saving up for something fun, like a kayak trip... and →
Euro Trip Day 9: In which we get to Korčula and I wonder why we didn’t just go straight here
(Side note -- the island's name is actually pronounced "KOR-chula" -- the č in Croatian is a ch sound.) So today I discovered one of the little problems with traveling and not really having a set schedule... one forgets what day it is fairly easily. This morning I woke up gradually shortly after 8, as the sound of jackhammers infiltrated →
9:15 PM: Late rainy evening looking east over the Puget Sound
9:15 PM: Late rainy evening looking east over the Puget Sound, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. No picture can do justice to the quality of light, or the cool evening air, or the gentle rain, or the peace of this place. So you'll just have to use your imagination. It's beautiful here, y'all. .
Italy Day 4: The Amalfi Coast
The fourth day started out quite wonderfully. Why? Well, for the first time the whole trip, we slept in. Ahhh, sleep. We were up and out the door by around 10:00 though, so that we could catch a bus to Positano and then to Amalfi, to see what neat things there were to see. As it turns out, it wasn't →
Seen on my way to work
Random 001, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I know those of you who live in climates where it snows in the winter are probably laughing at me right about now, but keep in mind that I'm a native Southern Californian, so driving to work and seeing snow-covered mountains (even if they are a 75-mile drive from here) is still amazing and awesome →
One of the reasons I love Sacramento
One of the reasons I love Sacramento is the relative proximity of everything. We're about an hour and a half from Tahoe/snow/skiing, an hour an a half (ok, or longer depending on traffic) from San Francisco and the coast, we're a decently large city but can easily get to the Bay Area if we want a larger city, and we're →