BESOS - or, why the people you choose to keep in your life should be the ones that make you feel like THIS :

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granted,

they can get a little "handsy" with each other,

but these people are the ones who believed in me,

or saw something in me i didn't see in myself,

and for the past three years

(3 YEARS!)

have worked tirelessly at my side.

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this one random night out,

i looked around that table 

and saw

my "ladies in red",

my "bang",

my manacop,

and my man.

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they've worked for free on jobs,

they've brought new ideas and new possibilities to the table,

they've kept my spirits up . . .

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find your people, people.

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in the end, they're the only reason we ever succeed,

but more importantly,

they're the only reason we're ever happy.

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it never felt like labor with them,

which i think is the whole point,

and how i want to live the rest of this life.

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besos,

babies.

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the view from up here : the meadow on the mountain

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at the top of my mother's mountain,

there's a meadow.

we like to walk up there,

bring a little champagne,

and take in the view.

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and get drunk and take pictures of ourselves.

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it got better and better up there.

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yeah, it was pretty perfect.

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and while there, of course, there was evelyn lee, and foreign cinema, and virtual "shopping", and a reminder of why we all kind of adopted each other so long ago.

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travels with tim -

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tim is on the road quite a bit these days,

his new role at charlotte russe 

has him scrambling to relaunch and rebuild and redesign

their ecommerce,

their photography,

and other things that get handed to he and his team on a daily basis.

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he loves it.

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i miss him.

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but when your partner is lit up with the challenge,

and electric with possibility,

there is joy in the knowledge of his growth.

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so when he gets home,

you save your pennies

and have dinners out at places like cecconi's,

where you can sit outside,

and remember each other,

live:

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exotic and delicious - the sf dining moments

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short weekend trip, but we ate well, as usual.

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evie insisted on driving us everywhere,

which led to this very hitchcock moment.

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and also, this very typically us moment at foreign cinema:

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that booth has seen far too much of us.

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then there was some time spent here:

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drinking and eating like this:

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that last dish is a buckwheat spaghetti with pork belly ragu, bacon, frizzled char, and golden raisins.

yes, drool.

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then tackling an old favorite:
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tim and i also got back to house of nanking:

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it's just a plate of mushrooms.  and yet so much more than that.

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but the best part of san francisco dining is always 

the "dining with evie" part.

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it pretty much takes, you know,

the cake.

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NYE 2009 PHOTO BOOTH -

threw a little pre-party here for new year's,

and got to snap some pics of our friends and loved ones

on the last night of a bumpy decade:

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happy 2010 indeed.

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