bookending
the more i realize that i'm actually leaving, the more i find to appreciate about this crazy little city. austin was a fun adventure, definitely an interesting experiment, and she treated me well. i will miss her and her velvet rut. but mostly i will miss the people and hold tight to the magical memories.
i've been up to some bookending of my austin experience... unconsciously, like making a peach pie for my friends that helped me move the other day. my first peach pie ever was right before i actually moved to austin, but was visiting, and mj and i picked peaches from her friends' tree and mj suggested a pie. i wrinkled my nose at the thought, but my culinary fetish couldn't resist the challenge to make something delicious out of what i had priorly only experienced as disgusting. it was definitely a turning point for me as i had before only delved into the apple pie realm when i was pretty young. in the last year i have become a regular martha stewart of pies... even got a proposal out of one bite of my first key lime pie (thanks sugarsmile for the inspiration!).
austin is truly is a city of hidden gems, as someone once told me. labyrinths, swimming holes and waterfalls, special secret places that feel too magical to be real (one i hope to take mj to today)... the no longer quite so hidden feminist synchronized swimming troupe, the h2hoes, were incredible last night. as was stripping down to our skivvies afterwards and jumping in. another bookend.
tomorrow morning i drive off into the sunrise with mj and karen (my former boss). the possibilities of san diego are definitely exciting...but it's not yet real. seeing the austin skyline over the luminous water last night somehow made it even less real. i guess that's true with any move, but when i was coming to austin i had many of the puzzles pieces of a vision in place of what my life might look like here. with san diego i feel as though i haven't the slightest clue. scary. but i think this will be good for me.
i've been up to some bookending of my austin experience... unconsciously, like making a peach pie for my friends that helped me move the other day. my first peach pie ever was right before i actually moved to austin, but was visiting, and mj and i picked peaches from her friends' tree and mj suggested a pie. i wrinkled my nose at the thought, but my culinary fetish couldn't resist the challenge to make something delicious out of what i had priorly only experienced as disgusting. it was definitely a turning point for me as i had before only delved into the apple pie realm when i was pretty young. in the last year i have become a regular martha stewart of pies... even got a proposal out of one bite of my first key lime pie (thanks sugarsmile for the inspiration!).
austin is truly is a city of hidden gems, as someone once told me. labyrinths, swimming holes and waterfalls, special secret places that feel too magical to be real (one i hope to take mj to today)... the no longer quite so hidden feminist synchronized swimming troupe, the h2hoes, were incredible last night. as was stripping down to our skivvies afterwards and jumping in. another bookend.
tomorrow morning i drive off into the sunrise with mj and karen (my former boss). the possibilities of san diego are definitely exciting...but it's not yet real. seeing the austin skyline over the luminous water last night somehow made it even less real. i guess that's true with any move, but when i was coming to austin i had many of the puzzles pieces of a vision in place of what my life might look like here. with san diego i feel as though i haven't the slightest clue. scary. but i think this will be good for me.