Flashbacks of awesomeness!

January - Happy 2011 start in India.
February - Birthday parties. Lots of.
March - Skydiving. Enough said.
April - Grad party. More stress than I needed. Almost over.
May - Graduation. Vegas. Alaska.
June - Bye bye Miss AK. Washington DC. NYC.
July - Boston and alcohol with my fav men.
September - Miss AK is back for a visit!
October - Niagara! Thank you bestie and Miss AK.
November- San Francisco. KP and piggyback rides. Roomie time. Cooking TG dinner with friends.
December - Portland. Christmas. Seattle. Food, nature, friends, cold.

Welcoming 2012 with people me hearts. Priceless.

Splenda-h!

If emotions had a taste, I went through the entire spectrum last week. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami (I think umami fits better than the traditional pungent, bear with me). The week started off as vanilla as possible - coffee, sandwich, muffin. Yay! Meetings, readings, assessments. And then, boom.

Unexpected news. Bitter. Sour. Salty.

The thing about unpleasant situations is that, if you are lucky, you find something sweet. I am lucky. My savior(s) came in, swooped me away and gave me not a free minute to mope around. In the truest sense of the word, शान्ति .

That, and food, and shopping and some MI4 action, all combine together, and leave me with umami. Somewhat impossible to describe, but overall pleasant.

PS: If you are wondering whats with the Splenda, its a story about how the girl woke up to the smell of coffee and pancakes. Oh-so-good-looking pancakes. Mmm. One bite of those fluffy pancakes, and the world went boom again. But bestie's sweetness showed through even those bitter pancakes, and the cake later in the night more than made up for the Splend-id disaster. Overall, umami.

:)