A business contact at my former work used to always write “IRL” in his emails. It took me the longest time to figure out that IRL meant “in real life.” He used it in the context of the virtual world vs. the real world, but now I use it to differentiate my vacationing life vs. my regular life. For instance, I awoke super early this morning to catch a plane back to SFO. Goodbye Long Beach, fantasyland of 80+ degree weather, sunshine, palm trees, sandy beaches, blue skies, long walks and gansta bike rides, and entertaining gal time. Hello SF Bay Area. Back to living IRL, know what I’m saying?

Yeah, so my flight got in very early this morning. Because I like to pack a tight schedule, John’s friend’s wife P2, who happened to be in the Bay Area visiting from Annapolis, picked me up for a morning hike around Crystal Springs reservoir. I had forgotten how active this lady is. Shiit, I was thinking we’d go for 90 minutes tops. Nope, 3+ hours later, my FitBit was practically overheating from all the activity I’d done the last several days. Yup, 16k steps. After the hike, we went to Palo Alto for lunch and then stopped by my fav women’s center, Deborah’s Palm… By the time I got home, FitBit had clocked nearly 22k steps, or almost 10 miles. My feet are ridiculously blistery now. No more walking!! Ugh.

I can’t believe tomorrow is Wednesday. I haven’t sent my second email brain dump yet to S at the ranch. Gotta get on it and hopefully, I will be invited back for the second business meeting on Thursday. I may help my friend M with packing tomorrow. She’s moving house this weekend. Goodness, so much is going on with everyone these days. I’m pooped. Time for bed. Btw, this is my 8th consecutive post. NaBloPoMo is killing me. 22 more days to go. Yikes.
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