Busy, busy bee!

Well, it's been quite some time since I've posted. As you can imagine, life has been full of adventures and experiences in that time, and I regret to say that I haven't been updating this blog to reflect that. So I will try to rectify that with a brief synopsis of the highlights, in chronological order.

October 2009 - Got a new job! Started as a Project Manager at Eveo, working on digital media projects for pharmaceutical brands. Intense, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately a rewarding challenge. It feels good to know that your talents and brainpower are being put to use. The weekend before I started the new gig, we took a little impromptu trip to New York, which was lovely. I love that city. So much going on, I feed off the energy. Had great food. Met up with some old friends and made new ones.

November/December 2009 - Went to South America. Amazing. Spent a few days in Rio De Janeiro, which was gorgeous and relaxing and a beach paradise full of beautiful sand and beautiful people. But lesser discussed is the physical topography, a landscape of lush greenery, cliffs, and coast. Then we headed to Manaus, where we embarked on a week in the Amazon. This was an exhilerating experience. Flora and fauna of all varieties (seriously, we fished for pirhanas, swam in the river, held a baby caiman, heard the growls of jaguars, saw giant trees with crazy root systems, etc). After our time in the jungle, we did a quick pop-over to Sao Paolo before spending three final days in Buenos Aires. A sophistocated and very Euro-style city, this was the perfect end to a lovely trip. Still can barely understand Portuguese, even though on paper it looks SO similar to Spanish. At any rate, all trips must end and we headed back to San Francisco.

Winter/Spring 2010 - Life goes on in typical fashion. Worked a lot. Plenty of time spent up in the wine country, as usual. Did some sailing.

April 2010 - Made an unexpected trip back to Michigan. Unfortunately, it was for my grandfather's funeral. Seeing the family, though, was very cathartic. It was the first time in many years that all of the grandchildren reunited, and I had very good bonding time with quite a few family members.

May 2010 - Took a much-needed vacation. We went to Panama. Spent most of the trip in Bocas Del Toro - a beautiful group of islands on the Caribbean side of the country. We stayed in a perfect little villa built right over the water. There was a reef right in front of the deck, providing the ideal place for snorkeling. Went surfing for the first time (LOVED IT!) and ate lots of amazing food. Spent a day sailing. Asif was able to do a lot of fishing, and caught everything from bonito (related to tuna), to barracuda, to sting ray (we didn't keep that one).

Summer 2010 - Work, work, work. A little bit of play, though. In June, we took a fun weekend trip down to Santa Cruz with a friend of ours in her deluxe RV. We had an awesome time, staying at a local RV park, hanging out on the beach and boardwalk, and I got to go surfing (YES!). Spent most of June and early July obsessed with the World Cup - it was fun to wake up to the games, follow them on FIFA.com's matchcast during work, and catch games live at a pub (or on one occasion, broadcast from AT&T park) on the weekends. My bracket was totally busted, but it was a blast, nonetheless. Our company underwent a re-org, so as of August I am now officially part of EVLab, the video/animation branch of Eveo, so I am now officially a Producer working solidly within the production team instead of as a part of account group. I'm very happy about that. I think it's the right move as a company, to keep your production divisions strong and be able to have Producers and PMs be specialists instead of generalists. Plus, it really allows me to focus on the projects that I enjoy!
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As for the here and now, I am happy to announce some pretty big news - Baby Khan is on the way! I'm 15 weeks along and enjoying (pretty much) every minute of it. OK, so some of the fatigue and nausea is not so fun, but overall, I'm too excited to let those little details get to me. Trying to find low-impact exercise (I'm loving joining Mariah at the Y for water aerobics and other suitable activities) and starting to tackle the maternity wear issue now that my clothes aren't all fitting like they used to. Well, another week or two and I should hopefully have some interesting stories about my forays into that whole matter!

My next post will have pictures - that was just one detail that this post is lacking, mostly due to the computer that I am on. And it will not be a year from now, hopefully!