Update: School's Out / Brain's Off

My first semester of grad-school ended about two weeks ago and I haven't posted anything here. After three months of intense work, I suddenly have no responsibilities, and I feel as if I was floating around. Even though I want to take advantage of the break, and do as much as I can around The Bay Area it seems as though planning things is too much for my mind at the time. So I have no trips or pictures worthy of posting about. But since I don't want to abandon the blog, here is a bit of what I have been doing (From My Instagram feed)

1. I've been eating and eating and eating. But most importantly, I ate this beautiful princess cake at IKEA

2. Penguins have been on my feet constantly. 

3. We bought and decorated a miniature christmas tree. This is our first real tree (in our life).

4. I've been trying to get better at running. I was very very proud of myself when I reached 10 miles in one week, that is until I called my sister to tell her about it and she informed me that she started running a month ago and has been running 35 miles a week. 

5. This actually what has been taking 90% of my time. I decided to try knitting after I found the free Hemingway Hat Pattern from Wool and The Gang. I want to knit more of their things, but I can't afford their kits/yarn/patterns, so I decided to make this hat over and over again for everyone I know (currently working on #5)

6. (Forgive my full cheeked/can't control herself happy face) Today was Lilo's last day off work until christmas, so we took a trip to Napa (It blows my mind that it is only one hour away). There I found a small Venezuelan food joint! (It's called Pica Pica Maize Kitchen) and although I heard that the one in San Francisco is terrible, this one was not bad at all. 

Now I'm back to knitting. I will try to keep on posting about life for my imaginary readers and for myself. But for now, happy almost christmas!