A Real Update

Hey, future Krislam! You're currently waiting for Michelle to arrive and for your frozen food you call dinner to heat up.

So yes, I have been incredibly lagging with the blog posts recently, forgive me. As I said in the last post I got "lazy" so here are few things to note that happened this month.

• It has been stated that I am moving out of this studio in September. Where I will go, who knows. BUT I am possibly moving in with Michelle, so that's a plus! Stay tuned!
• I did the ROC Race with Jay and his cousins in San Diego (Oh yea, I went to SD with Jay)! I did more running in this 5k than I did during The Color Run, but then again I wasn't entirely in shape at the time. Oh, I also met his parents. Yep.

• I've taken on a life change with my health. I've been going to bootcamp and hitting up the gym at least 3 times a week. My goal is to live a healthier life. I know I'm still young, but I feel like 25 is creeping it's way up here and well I heard it doesn't get any better than this, so I want to take a head start and work on it now. That does include a healthy and better diet that I am slowly transitioning myself into. That's probably been the hardest part. Knowing what to eat and what not to eat (other than the obvious junk food). Sugar is my no. 1 enemy and quite frankly the most delicious thing. SIGH* Working on it, working on it. I haven't really gone public about this because I don't want to disappoint anyone or seem like I'm fake, but I am definitely working on it. I even got a FitBit to keep me motivated! So stay tuned for that too! 

• I went camping for the first time! We celebrated Jay Bake's 26th birthday at San Onofre. I wasn't present during the first couple hours because I was in Dana Point celebrating Mother's Day, but I caught up with them at night. It was a pretty awesome experience (from what I could remember) The best part was coming up to the tent and realizing how incredibly cute it was. Credit to my guy for pitching it and making it a little home-y. (Glamping, LOL) I'd definitely go camping again! Sans... you know, all that alcohol. 

• I picked up an actual calligraphy pen and the rest was history! I am not going to lie, I hope to make something out of this new hobby of mine. It. Is. So. Much. Fun. !! I'll continue post more things once I get the hang of it!

In terms of myself, things are okay. I haven't been doing a lot of design work apart from what I do at JF and I took that hiatus on purpose, but now I'm ready to dive back in. I am a little uninspired at the moment and I hope I get out of this little rut. I have tons of ideas that I need to execute, but I think I'm just overwhelming my mind and constantly worrying about my relationship over my career. (There, called myself out) So hopefully I can shake this. Otherwise, things are good. Been running around everywhere... and I just can't wait to relax this weekend. Gonna do a little shopping for this upcoming shoot I have on June 1 with Martin, catch up with Jourel as always, see Jessica cause it's always a must to catch up with her before it hits 3 months since I've seen her and of course hang out with my family. The weather seems promising as it is a little gloomy, so I plan to nap in the cold...mmmm. Not going to see Jay until Tuesday. While my heart does get a little sad cause 6 days is a long time for me and him, I am excited to train myself that IT'S OKAY, KRISLAM. HAHA, weirdo. 

Okay, Michelle's here! Bye!

Not going to lie...

But I got lazy. Yep, there I said it, I got lazy. Lately, that's what I've been. I mean don't get me wrong I'm still active at work and doing a few things here and there, but honestly I've just been kinda living life and putting design on the side for now. I'm still incredibly passionate about my career and my future, but I definitely took a step back to enjoy living my life a little and not be so obsessed about trying to be perfect and kicking myself in the butt if I'm not. But I am excited to share that Michelle and I are working on a new project and I'm hoping to have that done by end of June or mid-July, get excited people! In other exciting news, Michelle might be my new roomie!!! I'm crossing my fingers that when September rolls around she and I already wined a new lease! So wish us luck :) 

In other news, I did another 5k marathon this month. I also went camping. Met the boyfriends parents and did some client work. So all in all I suppose the word lazy is wrong...

Been keeping myself balanced...

I'll blog more later when I get the chance. I'm hoping Memorial Day weekend will give me a chance to unwind, it's seriously been back to back adventures since SF, it'd be nice to breathe. 

Blog soon :)

Dynamic Duo x San Fran 2014

You read right! Jay and I got into his car and drove up 352 miles for a weekend getaway! It was his first time in SF so this was an extra special trip! Going to sprinkle in photos in no particular order throughout the blog, LOL. Some photos were taken on my phone, with my instax or on Jay's camera. These are the ones I took with my Canon - enjoy!

We were there for 3 days, well more like 2.5 days. It went by really quick, almost too quick. Felt like I blinked and I was back in LA, boo :( But we definitely jammed everything we could in those two days and boy was I pooped on Sunday after Wondercon. Yes, we even went to a convention afterwards.

We stayed at The Westin St. Francis located smack dab in the middle of Union Sqaure. Valet was ridiculous, enough said. Our room was cozy, a bed fit for two :) And we fell in love with the shower head, like, it belonged in an Usher music video (insider). We had a lovely view of the inside of the building, brick finish was quite the touch ;] 

Our first stop was the Golden Gate Bridge! We figured since we're already on the road might as well go straight to it! I'm glad we did because the day after it was foggy and gloomy and couldn't see the top of the rails, but on the day we went it was sunny! A little windy, no, not a little...a lot. But it was still great! I was so happy that Jay got to see the famous bridge! 

After we headed towards the park near the bridge. I can't think of the name at the moment, but it was like a battle fort. We explored and explored, got caught up in the cold wind and explored some more. Jay even tried to scare me... (-.-) he's lucky I like him. 

It was getting way too cold for us SoCalians so we headed to the hotel to rest and after a quick nap we headed out to dinner! I don't remember the place we ate since Jay picked it, but it was this cute little hole in the wall Sushi bar AND OMG...FRIED. CHEESE. That is all. 

The next morning we at Sears Fine Food, another hole in the wall for your traditional American Breakfast! It was okay, I got full off of Salmon Benedict while Jay enjoyed I think it was 18 little pancakes, haha, they were so cute and yes, indeed, there was 18 total. 

We headed to The Plaza of Fine Arts after breakfast where Jay and I sat on the grass while he sketched in this travel sketchbook :) He's so talented, I'm jealous. I ate gummy bears, edited a photo & mediated while soaking in the sun. We also saw a total of uh, 10 naked men on bikes -- that was a thing. 

Our next stop was The Walt Disney Museum to view The Art of Mary Blair. It was more of a history of Walt Disney's life, but nonetheless interesting and inspirational! I tried my very best not to buy a book because oh my goodness I am in love with Mary Blair's work, eeek! Cute illustrations, wonderful color theory and overall just amazing work. 

Within that same area was The Presedio Forrest. It was literally the perfect setting. Mid afternoon, foggy and windy. And booooooy, was it spooky :) I loved it. I wish I was better dressed for the occasion, I was wearing a Spring dress with open flats, so it was not in my best interest to go running around in a forrest. But I wish I could of stood in the middle of it all and embrace the tall trees even though I was lowkey scared shitless. Next time, SF! 

Fisherman's Wharf was our next stop, but before that Ghiradehli Square first! We bought chocolate and promised ourselves to come back for dessert after dinner at FW and that's exactly what we did! FW was walking distance and we made our way up and down the streets and found a spot to spoil ourselves with seafood. Lou's was our restaurant of choice and YUM, we feasted on calamari, garlic fries, fisherman's stew & clams! UGH, yum. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. It was so good, I got such a fat food baby and I don't regret a thing. 

We stopped by Boudin's for a small turtle! I didn't get to eat him, but I really wanted to buy him and get a picture with him. I'm sure he would be as delicious as the first time I bit into one in 2011. He's so cute! After that little detour we were headed back to Ghiradehli where I fell in line for a Sundae and hot chocolate! Jay had this yummy white mocha, it went great with our ice cream that I basically killed on my own with two spoons. Jay helped :) 

That night we planned on going back out, but I put my head on the pillow thinking I would knock out for about 30 min to get back up and get ready, but alas the boyfriend let me sleep until I finally woke up 3 hours later to find out that he'd let me stay asleep cause I looked so pooped, what a sweet man :) So we did just that, fell asleep since we were both awake by 4:30 the next morning. 

It was 5:30 am on Sunday when we said goodbye to SF. I was sad that the trip was over, but oh so excited to get home to LA. I was on medication for our drive so I was literally in and out of groggy sleep for the first 5 hours, it wasn't up until the last hour where I was finally awake and took over for Jay until we got to Burbank where we found out everything was closed because it was Easter. Darn you In N Out! We made it to Anaheim around 1 pm and ran to Wondercon where we pretty much let our inner nerd run around. I met Mike Yamada & Victoria Ying and OMGOD, I turned into this nervous wreck... but either way, I was so happy! I got a poster signed by them, eeek <3 :) 

After all that craziness, we stopped by Jolibee to pick up dinner, eat and then knock out for I think 3 hours at home. Woke up, took a shower & went back to bed. 

I had so much fun at the trip, bonding with Jay & going on adventures with him is always fun and I can't wait to take on more! Until next time SF!