Tomatoes and Blueberries: Breaking News, I have seen Pelicans every time I've walked the lake this week.

PELICANS!!! I wish I had a bigger better camera with zooms because this shot is almost fabulous.

Hello, my name is Stephanie and I have some news. After a long break from the blog and WW, I am back! (I feel like this is a bit repetitious but so is life?) Since we last met, I have designed and teched 4 shows, gone to the UK for work and watched tech of another one and watched a bunch of plays. Also, my hair is getting longer and longer.

Once again, I have done a pretty good job of maintaining. (Whoo!) Before I left for the UK I was doing really well at the loosing of a little bit of weight I had gained during some of those techs. When I was in England, I did not do a very good job of tracking. In fact I didn't track at all. I was looking forward to coming home from England late Saturday night and then waking up on Sunday going to WW then going to my friend's wedding. Then there was a plane crash at SFO and we got diverted to PDX and didn't fly home for another 24 hours. When I finally got home my whole schedule got crazy and then I got nervous about going because I had waited and not tracked for like 2 weeks. (Also, this other thing happened two days after I got home, which I am now working on resolving but is quite stressful for me and I didn't really want to do a whole lot of things for a few days.) I am working on a post about England but bear with me. There will be a lot of photos

But I went to WW on Sunday! And I gained 3 lbs. When I got home I decided that I should probably start tracking and do some planning. I am happy to report so far so good. I made a grid and a list of food to make and eat. I've been sticking to the plan, I've made food for my week of work and I'm hopeful that with my extra weekly points I can survive the three parties this week (one congratulatory and two going away parties). I am even going to try to walk before work since I am working afternoon/nights for two days. (We'll see how it goes.)

I saw this today at a meeting at Pizzaolo.

(Break for a walk.)

After a conversation with a friend, I remembered some of the cool Oakland photos I took of the neighborhood when I first moved here. I've been feeling that the lake photos that I take are a nice seasonal/sky experiment but very repetitious and I kinda feel like I've covered most of the territory already. Tonight, I was looking for new non bird/sky/lake things to take photos of and I mostly succeeded. Apparently, all I want to do is post photos! Maybe I really should use Instagram more.