strawberry & matcha fortune cookies

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Dec 25

MERRY CHRISTMAS FRiends!!!! ✨

Hope you’re tucked in your warm homes filled with family, great food, food comas, and reruns of love actually or home alone. My family on the other hand is currently cramped together with luggage in a 11-seat van with two cranky toddlers, and we’re all counting the minutes until we arrive at our cabin. i can’t remember the last time i spent Christmas at home-home at my parents’ place…was it four years ago? last year, i was alone in Paris watching friends re-runs on netflix, roasting a chicken, and shedding a few tears into my glass of sparkling wine because i hated the feeling of being alone for the holidays, and also because I missed my family so much.

i’d much prefer this Christmas over the last except though it could have been even sweeter if merman were able to join in on this car ride and other festivities. even still, there’s still so much to look forward to later in the day; we’ll be arriving in mammoth lakes in just about forty minutes, we’ll unload the van, Give an attempt at building olaf in the snow, have a gogi party, make s’mores, and play baby shark on a stick until it’s bedtime.

I almost forgot to mention, but today is also a video double whammy day on this blog. at the top of this post is a video that my brother @virtuousheretic made of Kristina and I making strawberry matcha fortune cookies, and at the bottom is a video that Kristina posted on her vlog about me sharing what it’s been like working at different tech companies. my biggest takeAway from these videos is that fortunes actually work because she opened a cookie that said “many exciting changes are coming your way” and guess freaking what?! she got engaged just a few days later!!!

Kristina is the first of my closest friends to get engaged and I couldn’t be more ecstatic for her and Dain. i remember witnessing it all unfold after she returned from studying abroad in the u.k.. Dain would randomly pop in and out of our apartment with chocolates when it was that time of the month for all of us and I remember screaming when they made it official and took pictures at the Safeway photo booth at union square in San Francisco. she might have to fact check me on that one, but these are my earliest memories of krisdaina. seven years later, they’re finally engaged and we all melted and sobbed as he got down on his knee and popped the question with the sun setting over the horizon.

it was such a special day to be a part of and I can’t wait for all of the other exciting things coming their way next year!

i could go on and on an on but i have some important business to tend to now, that is…singing along to the frozen soundtrack with Hudson and sia. Stay warm and happy holidays!!!!

xo, christine