It's been about 6 months since we've been living in San Jose, California. I'm already starting to forget what it was like living in Tucson, Arizona -- the desert, where we had stayed for about 8 months before moving to slightly sunnier California.

Urban life can sometimes be stuffy. I spend a lot of my time in my small 595 sq. ft. apartment, tending to a few plants in my tiny patio, and if I do go out, walk about 5-10 minutes to Starbucks or 20 minutes to the library across the tiny river.

Today's post is going to be a little more about both my journey towards being a real web developer and my zero waste minimalism life style.

I'm currently on my 6th month in the Thinkful bootcamp. I've been working on a React capstone for the past few weeks. Hopefully I'll be finalizing that project shortly. Still some rough parts to polish, but mostly good for now. Ironically, I'm also freelancing to improve a venture capitalist company's website in Wordpress. The ironic part was that my time in Tucson working irregularly in a design agency helped instill in me my knowledge of using Wordpress. Thankfully, you don't need to know a ton of php in order to word with the editors because most of the code is also basic JavaScript.

So, enough about that nothing too much happening in my career in terms of being more of an established developer. But it's a start.

Now, since moving to this new city. I've been blessed to enjoy foods from many different cultures. I can easily get some of my favorite foods like Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese with no problems. Which makes it sometimes hard for me to stay motivated to cook at home.

The bad part about not cooking much at home, is I can easily fall into making waste. Now part of our ZWM lifestyle is to minimalize waste. But we've been still good about carrying around our reusable spoons/napkins, cups and bags, so we're still working on minimalizing. But there are still items we are getting that comes in plastic packaging like noodles or cookies. I'm planning on making a lot more things from scratch. For example, tofu, noodles, breads, etc. I'll make a blog post shortly about that in the following weeks to come.

But one of the things I'm making sure to do better is to remember to enjoy and savor the moments with the ones we care most about. For me that is making sure my family and close friends are healthy and happy, and to stay in touch.

Life isn't a race, we don't have to try to be the best or the most amazing out there, after all life is short and if we don't stop to enjoy the moments we will end up missing out and regretting the awesome stuff.

So breath deep and go slowly.