a year, in brief

i cant believe it is the beginning of february! mostly because this means that ross and i have been in san diego for an entire year! Up until i was 21 years old, i lived in new york, on long island, and for the past 3 years i have been in constant motion. to california, back to new york and then back to california. although it seems hectic, ive felt quite content in this. knowing i dont need to stay anywhere. for years living on long island, i always wanted to get away, thinking that leaving would make me a happier person, make everything which was troubling me disappear. i felt this way for so long without doing anything about it that i began to make myself believe this was a fantasy. i think any sort of quick fix is a fantasy, really. except being here, in california, i have become so much more content and excited for my life. im not constantly worried about "what to do with my life" or "what i should be" or what i should go to school for. as cliche as it sounds life happens, and i think that anybody who is in question of what they should do with themselves, or if they feel like they are in some sort of deep hole of feeling stuck...move to california! haha, no, well i would say that, but moving changes everything. and its usually not what you expect. because i think the unexpected is the best remedy.
to celebrate my one year in california, i thought a picture recap of the past year is in order. mostly because i havent posted any sort of update as to what im doing in my life whatsoever. no myspace, no facebook, almost no internet action other than my phone. i like to keep in touch with the people who are really important to me but there are other things id like to share beyond words! plus only so much can come out when you only talk once a week, or once a month. so although they are few, here are some photos from the past 12 months (or past 9 months because there was a three month period where i had an nonfunctional digital camera) its hard to pick out pictures to capture a whole year, especially when you dont have very many, but i plan to document my life with photographs much more thoroughly. prepare for many photo posts! adios for now, this has taken too much time to figure out all this photo upload hoohaa.