unplug & reset

this year has started off as a bust. getting sick just as the new year chimed in and staying that way for over two weeks was bad enough but a gentle break-up turned sour {and still creaking along} was the final straw.

so here i am
hitting the restart button conveniently timed with the chinese new year.

i am honoring this transition into the year i want to have with a three day getaway to vancouver, bc, completely unfettered by visiting friends or traveling with them* as well as my ever present companion, technology. my trusty laptop, sparrow, was handed over to the apple geniuses tonight to get a facelift and screen replacement and my smart phone will soon {after this post} become a dumb phone as i turn off data roaming and refuse to connect to wireless networks for anything more than getting directions {though i plan on using actual paper maps as much as possible}.

this time is for me
inward
quiet
yet adventurous.

i know i want to run through stanley park, eat at medina {sans s, sniff sniff}, find this paper store i have read a bit about, go to the aquarium and perhaps see a movie. but except for stanley and medina, it's all up to my whim and that's exactly what i need.

so this is nathania tenwolde signing off from vancouver, bc. catch you on the other side.

*not that i wouldn't adore having my go-to vancouver buddy, s, at my side right now.