New To Me Websites That I Will Share With You

Here are some websites that I have recently found or "stumbledupon" that I are my favorite:

1) Hipster Run Off - apparently your feet kneed to know what thyme it is. Also catchy lyrics.

2) SF Super Secrets - though it is not updated on a regular basis and I suppose that the more people find out about the "secret places" the less secret they become.

3) How to Cut Your Meat (instead of the cheese) - Now that I recieve 3lbs of meat a month from Marin Sun Farms CSA my interest in meat has risen to a higher level.

Enjoy!

I Jumped Out of A Perfectly Good Plane

Last Saturday I ventured out to Lodi, CA with some people that I vaguely knew. Well, really I went with a girl that I used to work with a few years ago and her boyfriend. I had never actually met her boyfriend before and had not actually seen her in 2-3 years. However, from the connection on Facebook *cough* she invited me to go skydiving with her. I could not say no! For only $100 you too can go skydiving in Lodi, CA. Check it out at the Parachute Center . It was an amazing experience!

First of all, the Parachute Center itself looks like some sort of summer camp. The people I was with said it was totally Burningman style.

There were couches inside and outside for people to lounge on. Both in the sun and in the shade. So we sat/laid around for about 3 hours watching others go for their ride of a life time. The place does not take reservations so you just get a number and then watch for hours. It was so nice to lay in the sunshine of Lodi. This is what we saw falling from the sky as we lounged.

This is the plane that came and took us away

Before loading in I met Mike. I felt super lucky to get a person who had jumped out of a plane 9 times already that day and total jumps were more the 18000. That's right, 18,000 jumps!!

I felt a little nervous taking off in such a small plane. But then I realized that I was strapped to a guy with a parachute on his back. There is not a safer way to fly in an airplane.

I thought that the hardest part was going to be the actual jumping out of the plane.

But actually, breathing during the free-fall part was actually the hardest part. I did not think about the wind rushing past me and the actual shock that your body goes through after jumping out of a plane. The amazing view and the pure rush made up for the lack of oxygen.

I have no idea how long the free-fall lasted. It felt like forever and a millisecond all at once.

Once the parachute was let out it was smoooooth sailing. Mike even let me control the chute. Pulling to the right makes you spin, pulling them both down lets you slow down to a near mid-air standstill. That was awesome!! We did some fast aerial spins while i looked up at the chute.

And then all of a sudden the ride was over.

I will totally and completely willingly jump out of an airplane to parachute or skydive again. The perspective that it gave was awesome and awing. I want to do more things that push my own personal limits in this way.

Ideas and suggestions as welcome.
Throw them my way!!!

New to Me Bands

So I always thought of myself as a strictly hip-hop and folk music gal (I know strange mixture). But recently, with my indulgence in the $36 a year subscription to Pandora ,I have been discovering so many other bands that I like. My musical tastes have expanded. Or maybe I am just being more exposed to more music. Yeah - definitely the second one.
Anyways, I wanted to share some new to me bands.

Here are two:

1. The Kooks
Cute lil younguns from Brighton. Which when I think about it, of course I love them, I love Brighton been there every time I go to England which has been twice now.
Check out an adorable video here.

2. Phoenix
These guys also are super cute, white and from Paris. Ahhhh I think I need to go to Paris now..... Check out a coolass video here.

I was going to do three but then I noticed the SWEET PATTERN in these two bands. I apparently am heart-aching for a modern day Beatles band! hahhhaaa!!! Will post more other bands that are new to me in the future. Skinny white dude music never really did it for me before. Maybe it is also induced by my travel lust. I would need to leave the country in order to see them both.

Okay I can't hold back - my ALL TIME FAVORITE new band to me and on the scene is The Irrepressibles

Here is a MIND BLOWING VIDEO. They have totally swept my heart away. I am in love. Or maybe I am lost in a rainbow......

Are You Ten Years Ago

For some reason this song is resonating with me a lot when ever I hear it right now. Maybe because it has been ten years since I accidentally moved to California. Maybe it is because I am single but find myself in so many different types of "relationships" that I do not have anytime for me. The confusion of being "taken" by so many and wanting to be alone but never wanting to be alone is a spinningly exhausting circle of trying to figure out what I want. It is much easier for me to identify what I DO NOT WANT.

I do not want to be in a relationship with an immature alcoholic again. I do not want to date a co-dependent person again. I do not want to date someone who does not have a drive in life. I do not want to date someone who has expectations of me that I will never in a million years be able to live up to.

Is that too much to ask? And then in the middle of writing all of what I do not want in another person if I am going to chose to spend time with them, I realized that I do not have time in my life to make for someone to take up. I barely have time for myself. So........ I do not really want a "relationship" but that everything is a "relationship". It all makes my head spin. I just want to have fun and be happy. That is all that I ask of this life and of the people that I spend time with. Why not use the energy to make each other happy and feel good rather then clouded and confused.

On that note -I share with you the lyrics of that Tegan and Sara song.

Are You Ten Years Ago

If you're taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
I might stay out longer than I left the light on for you
Then if you show, you show
If you show, you show
When I feel like this
When I get so in
To myself
I lose track of where I'm going and lose track of how to get going again
I feel myself slowing down
Feel myself turning around
Is this taken?
When I feel like this
When I get so sick of myself
Where are you going now without me
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down
You've gotta turn that around
And tell me that I'm taken,
Tell me if I'm yours
You collapse
The pressure of this life is so
You can't be held accountable
If you go, you go
If you go, you go
When you act like this
When you get so sick, of yourself
The whole world falls away and since
I feel
Like I have only missed the feeling that I'm here again
The feeling that I'm clear again
I'm not taken
When you act like this
When you get so in
To yourself I lose sight of common goals
And letting go so I can be all alone
Feel myself, going slow
Feel myself, letting go
Not taken,
Not feeling like I'm yours
I'm taken, I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
This life looks like a sentence, though
A constant game of falling short
If you know, you know
If you know, you know
When I feel like this
When I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect
Is it right for me I never fight to see if coming clean
Would get to me I feel myself, holding back
I feel the pressure, it's finally back
I'm taken
When you feel like this
When you saw it call come crashing down
Subtle but not underground
I was there
I saw the signs, I saw unfair
And so I write to you
Through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours
If you're taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I'm taken, I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse I collapse I collapse

Sia

Sooo excited to see this amazing woman sing and perform at the Regency on Wednesday. I honestly have no idea what to expect but I know that I love her music.
I never know what to expect from Sia.

I have not been to the Regency in years. Last time I was there was to see The Swell Season. The place so soooo f&#@%ing hot. In the middle of one of their quiet songs (yes many of them are quiet) someone screamed from the balcony to call a medic. Glen stopped singing and asked for the lights to be turned on. Everyone looked up to the balcony. It was so hot the the person had passed out. Cold water was thrown on their face and they were brought back to. It was a jarring experience. After the person was revived, the lights went back out and Glen picked right up where he had been in the song.

Hoping that the show on Wednesday is just as good but not as jarring. I do however expect to be shocked by her performance and she is totally not from this planet.

Words of the Day

Some words that I am feeling/thinking today.

quell - to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity

stupendous - causing astonishment or wonder

Quell cause I am doing what has now become an annual spring cleaning of my digestive tract. The sugar cravings are not that bad but the chocolate cravings are throwing me under the bus. I seriously did not realize that I was TOTALLY ADDICTED to the delicious morsels of goodness that I would allow myself to have afternoons or evenings after a meal. I am looking forward to reintroducing them on April 19th. HOW WILL I EVER MAKE IT?

Stupendous cause I just like the sound of the word. I also like the sound of the definition.

Mix them together and you have a crippling word.

Quellpendous - thoroughly overwhelming astonishment and wonder
I can completely relate to that word at times. I am going to start incorporating it into my vocab.
"It was quellpendous how I 'randomly' ran into the person that I was just thinking about".

Things I Found Interesting Today

Here are the top 3 -

1) Article about the Congo

2) INSANE Booze Tax

3) Ipad seems silly

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