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- birthday plans
  
  Posted at 6:22 pm by jasminedesirees, on October 4, 2013
  
  Next week is Derek’s birthday, I’ve been trying to decide what to get him. Last year, we went on a road trip down the coast and just kind of crept around Santa Cruz, Monterey and Carmel exploring. It was really fun and spontaneous.
  
  I’d really like to do something like that again this year, I was thinking Morro Bay. There is so much beautiful coast line in this state, and I’d like to see as much of it as possible while we’re here. We even bought a tent this summer that hasn’t been used once as I bought it for a camping trip and then ended up sleeping in the boat under the stars.
  
  We’re so busy this month that we wouldn’t be able to go until November, but it’s California, how cold can it be by then, really? I’ve camped many a May long weekend in Canada where there was snow on the ground and nothing but red Sourpuss and Sky Blue coolers to keep me warm.
  
  There is something so romantic and wonderful about just getting in the car and driving with no real plans. Maybe we’ll make it to the campgrounds, maybe we won’t. Maybe we’ll visit Hearst Castle, maybe we’ll get mugged on the beach. It’s a mystery, but I bet you it will be a memorable weekend.
  
  We’re seeing Matt Nathanson at the Fox Theater in Oakland tonight, I saw him last year at Now and Zen and he is great live, so great that I am willing to overlook his nose ring.
  
  Also on the agenda for this weekend, a massage, book club, and making perogies for Thanksgiving next Sunday while I creep all over the internet trying to find season 4 of Downton Abbey because it doesn’t air in ‘merica until January.
  
  Posted in California, exploring, life, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged birthday, explore, life, road trip, travel
- hello goodbye
  
  Posted at 10:35 pm by jasminedesirees, on September 25, 2013
  
  I still don’t know my way around here very well, probably because I’ve been so dependent on technology that I’ve never had to learn. My phone GPS is broken right now, so on the way home from San Jose last weekend, we ended up getting lost and going through San Francisco, which worked out anyway because I had a friend visiting and she wanted to see the city.
  
  It was a gorgeous day, not a lot of traffic, the sun shining and good tunes on the radio, and as we drove north on the 101 and came around the last curve and saw the San Francisco laying out in front of us, with it’s cute, colourful houses on the hillsides and the skyline off in the distance, I realized for the first time that I really love this city.
  
  It would be just like me to finally notice that just as we’re starting to get serious about planning where we want to go next, but you can’t have everything in life. The transition to living here was definitely rough, I’ve never been so lonely and homesick in my life, including when I moved to an island in the middle of the ocean without knowing a single person.
  
  It was a great experience for me in hindsight, nothing helps you figure out who you are faster than no longer have anyone around you to tell you who they think you should be. It’s scary at first, but once you figure out that the only opinion that really matters is your own, even if it’s because there is nobody left around you to have an opinion, it’s very freeing.
  
  Looking back, I can pretty clearly see how each new place I’ve lived has changed me and shaped my viewpoint, and I know I’m very fortunate to have had the ability to live in so many wonderful places. I can’t wait to see what is in store for me when I get to my next new home.
  
  Posted in exploring, life, San Francisco, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged exploring, home, life, San Francisco, travel, wander
- go
  
  Posted at 9:23 pm by jasminedesirees, on September 9, 2013
  
  Watching this video really makes you want to book a trip. I was kind of on the fence about a trip I was thinking of taking next month, there are always reasons to say no and just stay at home, but I decided to go for it. I read somewhere that if you’re having trouble deciding what to do, you should do what you’ll wish you would have done when you’re 80 years old.
  
  When I’m 80, hopefully playing bingo and skinny dipping every day, I think that it is much more likely that I’ll regret staying at home more than I’ll regret a crazy, expensive weekend in Vegas with my favourite girls, so why not?
  
  Posted in exploring, happiness, inspiration, life, loveliness, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged go, life, travel
- Lava lands
  
  Posted at 1:21 am by jasminedesirees, on August 31, 2013
  
  I’m in Oregon for the long weekend for my best friend’s wedding. It’s so beautiful here and I’m having a blast so far. I could definitely get used to this view.
  
  Posted in exploring, life, Oregon | 0 Comments | Tagged Bend, exploring, landscapes, lava, lava lands, life, nature, oregon
- at first sight
  
  Posted at 8:30 pm by jasminedesirees, on August 14, 2013
  
  I heard from an old friend last night, and it was so nice. It’s easy to get busy with work and other things and not make as much effort to keep in touch, and before you know it, it’s been months or years since you’ve talked.
  
  There are a lot of friends like that that I’ve made over the years, and then slowly, even though you still care about them and miss them, it gets harder and harder to keep in contact, as you know less and less about each other’s lives and actually getting on the phone and talking only makes that more obvious, and you start to doubt your friendship, and wonder if the other person even cares to hear from you anymore.
  
  But then there are those people that you just click with, instantly. I don’t believe people only have one soul mate, and I don’t think that if you do have one, it necessarily needs to be romantic. There are just people in life that I have clicked with, sometimes honestly at first sight, and we’ve been friends ever since. And we’ll be friends forever because even if I never spoke to them again in my life, I know we’d still feel exactly the same way about each other.
  
  Those are the kinds of friends that even if you don’t know the name of their dog, or even their address, you could see them after 10 years of not talking and pick up exactly where you left off, and those are the kinds of friends I am lucky enough to have.
  
  Posted in friends, life, love, thoughts | 0 Comments | Tagged friends, friendship, life, love, thoughts
- i don’t wanna be a grown up…
  
  Posted at 1:41 am by jasminedesirees, on July 11, 2013
  
  I remember when I was a little kid, thinking that 26 was so old. I pictured myself at 26 having everything I wanted. I thought I would be a whole different person, someone who didn’t bite their nails, or go to bed without brushing their teeth sometimes, or wear mismatched socks. I thought by 26 I would be a finished product, and would carry on throughout my life as this perfect version of myself, with no bad habits, no flaws, and a completely clear plan of what I wanted to do, and how I was going to make that happen.
  
  Honestly, I really don’t feel that different from 5 year old me. I don’t think we actually change that much, certainly our interests and tastes and those things can evolve, but the person we are at the very center of everything, I think that’s us, for better or worse, for life.
  
  Really the only difference for me between now and then, is that now instead of having someone else make decisions for me, I am making them for myself, and sometimes I really don’t feel like I have any more insight into what I should be doing than I did at 5 years old.
  
  I make myself go to the dentist now, and force myself to get a flu shot even though I would rather be doing anything else (do flu shots even really work?) but the feelings I have about those things, and so many other things haven’t changed. I would still eat chocolate frosting right out of the jar for every meal if I wasn’t already pretty sure I was going to develop diabetes from my sugar habits earlier in life. Seriously, Good Host ice tea crystals? It was bad.
  
  I think the only thing that changes from when you are a kid to an adult, is that you know now that there are consequences for your actions, both positive and negative, and YOU are the one who is going to have to deal with them, whether that be eating only apple sauce because you wouldn’t go to the dentist and all your teeth fell out, or you quit your job and can’t find a better one and end up homeless, or that you start your own business and become wildly successful, there isn’t anyone there to tell you what you are supposed to be doing, you have to decide, and then decide whether or not to do it, on your own.
  
  Just something I’ve been thinking about lately, it’s kind of daunting trying to decide what I want to do next, because every decision, especially the big ones are really going to affect how your life turns out, probably more than you realize. But when I start to worry about that, I just try to remember that I’ve pretty much been completely making it up as I go thus far, and I’d say things have worked out pretty great.I saw this the other day, and it kind of stuck with me:
  
  Posted in life, thoughts | 0 Comments | Tagged career, choices, growing up, life, thoughts
- The mother’s prayer for its daughter
  
  Posted at 7:41 pm by jasminedesirees, on July 2, 2013
  
  In case any further proof was need that Tina Fey is the most amazing person ever, here is a poem she wrote for her daughter, from her book Bossypants.First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches.
  
  May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the the Beauty.
  
  When the Crystal Meth is offered,
  
  May she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half
  
  And stick with Beer.
  
  Guide her, protect her
  
  When crossing the street, stepping onto boats, swimming in the ocean, swimming in pools, walking near pools, standing on the nearby subway platform, crossing 86th Street, stepping off of boats, using mall restrooms, getting on and off escalators, driving on country roads while arguing, leaning on large windows, walking in parking lots, riding Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, log flumes, or anything called “Hell Drop,” “Tower of Torture,” or “The Death Spiral Rock N’ Zero G Roll featuring Aerosmith,” and standing on any kind of balcony ever, anywhere, at any age.
  
  Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance.
  
  Something where she can make her own hours but still feel intellectually fulfilled and get outside sometimes
  
  And not have to wear high heels.
  
  What would that be, Lord? Architecture? Midwifery? Golf course design? I’m asking You because if I knew, I’d be doing it, Youdammit.
  
  May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.
  
  Grant her a Rough Patch from twelve to seventeen.
  
  Let her draw horses and be interested in Barbies for much too long,
  
  For Childhood is short — a Tiger Flower blooming
  
  Magenta for one day —
  
  And Adulthood is long and Dry-Humping in Cars will wait.
  
  O Lord, break the Internet forever,
  
  That she may be spared the misspelled invective of her peers
  
  And the online marketing campaign for Rape Hostel V: Girls Just Wanna Get Stabbed.
  
  And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister,
  
  Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends,
  
  For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.
  
  And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord,
  
  That I may see her, lying on a blanket on the floor at 4:50 a.m., all-at-once exhausted, bored, and in love with the little creature whose poop is leaking up its back.
  
  “My mother did this for me once,” she will realize as she cleans feces off her baby’s neck.
  
  “My mother did this for me.” And the delayed gratitude will wash over her as it does each
  generation and she will make a Mental note to call me. And she will forget.
  
  But I’ll know, because I peeped it with Your God eyes.
  
  Amen.Original link here.
  
  Posted in life | 0 Comments | Tagged advice, daughter, life, mother, tina fey
- oh canada
  
  Posted at 4:47 pm by jasminedesirees, on July 1, 2013
  
  Happy Birthday to the greatest country in the world.
  
  Posted in Canada, life | 0 Comments | Tagged Canada, canada day, June 1st, life
- 2 years
  
  Posted at 3:39 pm by jasminedesirees, on June 14, 2013
  
  Dear California,
  
  It’s been two years since I left my old state to come be with you. People warned me about you, and told me things like “You won’t like it there, people are rude”, or “Seriously, you’ll never be able to drive there, everyone has road rage,” but I ignored them and jumped in head first.
  
  The honeymoon period was great, it was all trips to Disneyland, Long Beach and Capitola, “Here have some more cherries”, and “Want to go wine tasting?”. But once it was over, and real life began, things got a little shaky in that I hated you and would stay up late at night crying over my ex (state).
  
  We’ve had our ups and downs, but as a wise man once said “You can’t force somebody to love you, all you can do is stalk them until they panic and give in.” It took some time (about a year) but you’ve definitely grown on me, and now we have a bond that will last forever. Or at least for one more year, whichever comes first.
  
  xoxo,
  
  Jasmine
  
  Posted in California, Hawaii, life | 0 Comments | Tagged anniversary, California, Hawaii, life
- mama-cita
  
  Posted at 5:27 pm by jasminedesirees, on May 1, 2013
  
  Today I am wishing a happy birthday to my beautiful, wonderful mother. She is constantly setting goals for herself, and works hard to achieve them, never taking no for an answer. She insists on having a good time no matter what she is doing, and she is always taking care of other people.
  
  Whether she is getting her motorcycle license, running a marathon, or hiking the Grand Canyon, she isn’t afraid to try new things. Also, she is probably the best dancer I know. I remember when I was little, I couldn’t wait to grow up and get big so that I could party with her, I always thought her and my dad were so much more fun than any other adults I knew.
  
  So happy birthday Billie Jean, thanks for being so adventurous and feisty, and showing us all that anything is possible with dedication, a positive attitude, and the promise of a margarita at the finish line.
  
  Posted in holidays, life, love | 0 Comments | Tagged birthday, life, love, mom
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