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- surprise
  
  Posted at 8:03 pm by jasminedesirees, on November 5, 2013
  
  My little rat sister turned 21 last Tuesday, and I really wanted to be there to celebrate with her. One night in August after a lot of red wine I decided to buy a ticket to Hawaii without telling her about it. As it got closer, I started to get really nervous. What if she had plans or was not that excited to see me? I felt like she would be really excited but I’ve seen too many romantic comedies not to appreciate the true awfulness of a grand gesture gone wrong.
  
  I flew in last Wednesday night and walked up to what I hoped was the right door (I’d never been to her place before). She opened the door, and absolutely did not recognize me at first. An instant later when she realized it was me she got a look of sheer terror on her face, like she thought I might be there to tell her some really bad news.
  
  A second after that she must have remembered that it was her birthday and put the pieces together, because she was really excited and happy to see me, and I didn’t have to go sleep on the beach for the night.
  
  I had such a fun weekend, I love hanging out with my sister, and her friends on the island are really fun. Hawaii is my favourite place in the world and always will be, I feel happiest and most like myself when I’m there.
  
  Posted in family, Hawaii, life, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged birthday, family, Hawaii, life, surprises, travel
- colour me rad
  
  Posted at 3:54 am by jasminedesirees, on October 29, 2013
  
  One of the reasons I went to Vegas last weekend was to do the Colour Me Rad 5K with 2 of my best friends. I’ve done the Colour Run before, and to be honest, it was quite a bit better organized than this one, but the company for the Rad run was spectacular.
  
  My hair was green for the rest of the weekend, and I’m pretty sure my lungs are still rainbow on the inside, but it was really fun. I put my “RAD” tattoo on my arm, and for the rest of the weekend people were like “RAD! I LOVE YOUR TATTOO” everywhere I went. There was so much enthusiasm for it that I briefly, after several martinis, considered making it permanent.
  
  Love them.
  
  Another accidental .gif. I don’t know how this keeps happening but I love it.
  
  live colourfully, or not at all
  
  Amanda poured water on Kristine..
  
  Look how mad she was. Priceless.
  
  That face.
  
  Before
  
  After
  
  Posted in friends, life | 0 Comments | Tagged colour me rad, exercise, friends, life, running, travel, vegas
- buzz
  
  Posted at 3:42 am by jasminedesirees, on October 18, 2013
  
  It’s such a gorgeous day in San Francisco I just want to go play outside. I find it strange that it is 60 degrees here in July and 90 in mid-October, but that’s just one more thing to love about this weird little city.
  
  I am literally don’t think I can eat any more turkey, but I feel really guilty going shopping for any other food while we still have so much left because there are lots of people in the world that don’t have enough to eat, so there is actually no other food in our house.
  
  As a direct result of this situation, I had a very large coffee and some chocolate for lunch today and it was delicious and decadent but between the caffeine and the sugar rush I am feeling a bit crazy and I might be developing a twitch in my left eye.
  
  It might just be excitement though, I’m off to Vegas tomorrow to see two of my most favourite girls, drink a lot of margaritas and spend all my money. It’s not the gambling that gets me, though I do seem to have a unusual talent for craps, it’s the shopping.
  
  There is a Zara here in SF, but for some reason when I walk into the one in Vegas I want EVERYTHING! Plus they have a Top Shop. Life is good.
  
  Posted in life, San Francisco | 0 Comments | Tagged coffee, Las Vegas, life, San Francisco, shopping, travel, zara
- move
  
  Posted at 12:07 am by jasminedesirees, on October 8, 2013
  
  Love this.
  
  Posted in exploring, life, loveliness, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged adventure, explore, life, loveliness, travel, video
- 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
- favourites
  
  Posted at 10:23 pm by jasminedesirees, on September 26, 2013
  
  Here are a few things that are making me happy right now:
  
  This article about living in Hawaii. Makes me happy/homesick.
  
  My co-worker went to Italy for a few weeks and brought me back some truffle risotto. Amazing.
  
  I love discovering news words like this one:
  
  fernweh – (noun) a craving for travel; being homesick for a place you’ve never been.
  
  Also, I have recently discovered this amazing spray that has actual magical powers. I’ve been kind of hating on my hair lately because no matter what I do it seems kind of dry and frizzy. I tried using WEN for a few months, and as always happens when I try to do nice things for my hair, it completely rebelled and looked worse than ever.
  
  Apparently my hair is still 13 years old and only likes things that are mean to it. But I tried It’s a 10 spray with Keratin last night, and my hair is soft, shiny and frizz free, and for the day after I wash my hair that is almost unheard of.
  
  It usually takes at least two nights of me sleeping on/aggressively rubbing my head against my satin pillowcase to achieve this kind of sleek manageability. It’s a bit expensive, but worth it if these are going to be the consistent results.
  
  Posted in favourites, Hawaii | 0 Comments | Tagged beauty, favourites, hair, Hawaii, risotto, 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
- more montana memories
  
  Posted at 4:53 pm by jasminedesirees, on July 16, 2013
  
  More pictures from our July 4th Montana trip. So excited to go back in August, and next time my big sister is coming and bring her two kids, aka my favourite people in the world.
  
  Mom’s Hawaiian martinis. The drink is delicious, the pineapple tastes like paint thinner
  
  the beast
  
  love these two
  
  so beautiful here
  
  basically taught her everything she knows
  
  fireworks over the lake
  
  me and billy jean
  
  skills, NBD.
  
  Posted in family, life, Montana, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged family, martinis, Montana, summer, travel
- montana memories
  
  Posted at 10:39 pm by jasminedesirees, on July 8, 2013
  
  I’m back in California after 5 days of luscious relaxation. If there is anything better than being surrounded by your favourite people out on the water with good music and tasty drinks, I haven’t found it yet.
  
  They say you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tickets to Montana in the summer, and that’s pretty much the same thing.
  
  Hail storm
  
  hydrate or die
  
  sister sister
  
  please sir, i’d like s’more
  
  Posted in family, life, Montana, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged family, july 4th, lake life, Montana, summer, travel
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