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  • Tag: avon walk for breast cancer

    • waiting

      Posted at 3:27 pm by jasminedesirees, on April 3, 2014

      I am sitting at work waiting everrrr sooooo patientlyyyy for 5 o’ clock to get here. My sister is coming to spend the weekend with me and I’m so excited.

      She’s never really been here before, she came out to do the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer with me in September, but we were pretty much walking and suffering the entire time so it wasn’t an all around fun experience.

      I’m taking her to AsiaSF for supper tonight, I’ve been wanting to go there for ages but the boy is not keen on the idea, I can’t imagine why.

      We have lots of big plans, and the weather is supposed to be nice, plus I’m taking the day off to cavort around the bay with her tomorrow.

      I’m lucky because even though we live far apart I get to see her pretty often, but it’s usually with my whole family all together.

      I was thinking about it, and I’m pretty sure the last time we did something just the two of us was when I flew to Calgary to hang out with her for my 18th birthday, so this is long overdue.

      So now I just have to make it to 5 o’ clock. Did I mention I was waiting patiently?

      Posted in family, life, San Francisco | 0 Comments | Tagged Asia SF, avon walk for breast cancer, family, life, San Francisco, sisters, visit
    • team ta-tas

      Posted at 12:21 am by jasminedesirees, on October 3, 2013

      I posted yesterday about our experience doing the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. It was a pretty long post already without pictures so I wanted to share some today.

      Starting off early in the morning
      Walking by the Palace of the Fine Arts
      Love this city
      This lady danced her little face off, all day long
      Funniest hat I’ve ever seen
      soooo much pink
      beautiful bay
      golden gate
      Posted in family, life | 1 Comment | Tagged avon walk for breast cancer, breast cancer, family, San Francisco, team ta-ta's
    • breast friends

      Posted at 6:51 pm by jasminedesirees, on October 1, 2013

      The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer was this past weekend. We signed up in February, fundraised for months, thought about training for months while sitting on the couch and not actually training (to be fair, it’s walking, right? I’ve been walking pretty solidly for like 26 years by now).

      I was excited for it, and excited to be doing it with my mom and sisters, I thought it would be fun and that it raised money for a good cause, but I didn’t give it much more thought than that.

      It was a really great experience, even just as far as getting to see the city. If you only have one weekend to visit a place, think about signing up for this event because it was really awesome, we walked through Fisherman’s Wharf, down the Embarcadero, through China town, North Beach, the Presidio, past Golden Gate Park, it was really an amazing way to see the city, and to get to really appreciate so many of the places that I drive by all the time and think to myself “Oh I should really stop there”, but then never do.

      As we were at about mile 8, we came to a corner where a woman was standing alone. She was pale. thin, and she looked frail but tough. From her close cropped hair, it was clear that she was either in the midst of chemo, or had just finished it. As each walker passed by her, she would look them directly in the eye and say “Thank you for walking for me.” I almost burst into tears, but it was so inspiring, especially at about mile 25 when all I wanted to do was lay down and drink a margarita.

      That night we went to Cheesecake Factory for some carb loading and some truly delicious Asian Pear martinis, I didn’t even blink at finishing most of our shared piece of cheesecake myself, because let’s be honest, I had earned it. We were sitting there, feeling proud of what we’d accomplished, 26.2 miles the first day, but tired, sore and injured, and really disheartened at the prospect of doing it all again the next day.

      All of a sudden, my mom pipes up with “Maybe that’s kind of what it’s like when you are actually fighting cancer. You’re tired and sore and injured and you’ve already come so far and you feel like that should be enough, but it isn’t, and you have to wake up the next day and do it all over again, even though you don’t feel like you can, but you have to do it.”

      I guess that’s why we have moms. All in all, it was a great experience and a very memorable weekend.

      Posted in family, life, San Francisco | 1 Comment | Tagged avon walk for breast cancer, breast cancer, family, health, San Francisco, thoughts
    • twenty six

      Posted at 3:33 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 15, 2013

      Happy Birthday to me.

      It’s strange to me that I am 26, I still feel like I am 12 most of the time, and honestly I haven’t changed that much since I was. But time keeps passing even when you don’t notice it, and it’s pretty crazy to me to look back now at my life, especially since I graduated high school.

      I’ve met so many incredible people, and had so many wonderful experiences, I am truly grateful for all of it. If you had told me at 12 that I would have had the opportunity to do so many of the things I’ve done, I wouldn’t have believed you, but I would have hoped you were right.

      Highlights from this last year, for me were:

      – Finally being able to get a job in the U.S., and finding one that I like with wonderful co-workers was definitely a bonus.
      – My mom and Ry coming out to visit us and see our new house in June
      – Getting married in July, and getting to see all of my favourite people in one place, at the same time
      – Running my first solo-half marathon in October
      – Our road trip down the coast to Carmel for Derek’s birthday
      – Taking Derek back to Canada with me to see my home town in November
      – Mexico with my family for Christmas
      – Hawaii with my mom and sister in January
      – A road trip to L.A. with Derek in February

      This year I am looking forward to:

      – My parents coming out to visit in a couple of weeks, this will be the first time my Dad has been able to come
      – Hawaii in May for Derek’s graduation
      – My best friend moving to Oregon, so I can stalk her on long weekends
      – Fourth of July weekend in Montana with my older sister and her beautiful babies
      – A September long weekend wedding
      – The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in September with my momma and sisters, go Team Ta-Tas!

      And lots more.

      If you were thinking of getting me something for my birthday, but you weren’t able to get in touch with Charlie Hunnam, you could sponsor me for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, here.

      yes.
      Posted in life, thoughts | 0 Comments | Tagged avon walk for breast cancer, birthday, life
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