Mommy and Me

This post title kinda creeps me out, whatever.  My mom came up last Friday.  We went to the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the de Young.  Lovely.

Bad News

Just thought I'd let you know (it is all over blog land) Domino is going under.  First Blueprint now this.  If Dwell goes under I am killing myself.

Pants

Mike really hates buying new clothes for himself.  He hates the dressing rooms, looking through racks of clothes, or feeling rushed.  Our friend tipped us off about the in-store sale at Banana Republic, lots of clothes for cheap.  After work I popped into BR and got five pairs of pants, ranging from $13 to $50.  Mike is keeping three pairs of pants.  A job well done.  Mike likes having a personal shopper, and he did not have to go into any dressing rooms.  He was very happy.  And now my favorite jeans ad.

New CD

I can't recall the last time I purchased a new CD.  We do listen to new music around here (Mike can find almost anything on the internet for me) but you know what I mean, you go out and get the CD because you can't wait to hear it, you are just that excited.  We saw Mia Riddle last night thanks to Rob and Sharon.  It was totally worth listening to the two forgettable bands that proceeded her show, it was worth going to bed at 2:00 am.  She was really great live.  And now I've got hair inspiration again.

photo via flickr

Some Catching Up

So Bille and I have been slacking on putting anything up on the blog, so there are a lot of pictures taken that need to be posted. On New Year's Day we decided to take a little trip to get out of the city. On a whim, we chose to go to Santa Barbara. Nice place. Being winter, there was a laid back vibe and not a lot of people. On the way back home, we stayed in San Luis Obispo so we wouldn't have to drive all the way home at once. Overall, it was a nice relaxing weekend.

BTW, besides the pictures of Bille or a sunset, Bille most likely took the picture.

I'll Buy Anything If It's Shiny and Made by Apple

Well not really, but won't someone?

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboardfound

Found on Swiss Miss

Out With The Old In With The New

Happy New Year to all! We were pretty quiet last night, we walked over to the Embarcadero to watch the fireworks and then walked home. We are driving down to Santa Barbara today, so we have lots of time in the car for fine tuning our new resolutions.

[Picture via Flickr]

Vacuum

We need a vacuum. Any suggestions?

My Muse

I am my own muse. Actually, I was just bored and I don't have anyone else to photograph. Bille is usually not willing so I have a lot of pictures of myself. I used two flashes off camera for these pictures. One through an umbrella camera left and another behind me camera right.

My gift to you, me. Merry Christmas.

Christmas Came Early...

for me. Bille let me buy a new camera (not that I actually needed her permission, I mean, I'm the man of the house, right?). Finally took it for a spin today around S.F.

Day in San Francisco

Today Bille and I went for a walk in the city. We didn't really have any plans on where we were going except that we would walk to North Beach. We went up the Embarcadero and then climbed the stairs to Coit Tower(which was not easy). On the way up we saw the famous "Parrots of Telegraph Hill" squaking it up and flying around. Kind of cool to see wild parrots flying around SF. We walked around North Beach and I blew a great photo opportunity of a woman scrubbing a red floor in a laundromat. The lighting and colors were perfect but I chickened out. I came back 15 minutes later and it was too late. We just walked around and stopped in a few stores and came back home through the financial district. We should have made plans so we could have done more, but it was nice to get outside on a really nice day.

Who Knew...

Food fights could be so political.




Explanation here.

Snow in San Francisco?

Well sort of.  I snapped these pictures with my camera phone on the way home from a meeting last night.  On further inspection, i.e. handling the stuff, it seemed to be lots of hail stones that never melted from earlier in the day.  Needless to say it was cold yesterday, and Winter is here.  

If You Need a Dentist

My brother in-law Wade is the bomb dot com as far as dentists go.  He did this gal's teeth on the cover of this here magazine.  So if you live in the greater Boise are you should check out his offices.

 
 He also did my mom and dad's grillz, and mine too.  If you want to see some before and after pictures of my mom and dad's mouths click here.   

Macarons

I made these cookies on Thanksgiving and I was so pleased, they turned out perfect!  I've been wanting to make them for a while now but I was looking for the perfect recipe, a tried and true recipe that had very specific instructions.  So thanks to Emily Martin from Inside A Black Apple for doing all the hard work!

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-Jig

We bellied up and got our own connection to the internet.  Yes I know we should have had our own connection all along, but seriously when you live in an apartment and you don't lock your wireless signal it is an open invitation to piggybacking.  Anyhow, we are now enjoying using Skype.  Elizabeth and I were on it for almost two hours yesterday.  Well I haven't seen the girl since August.

On another note, we will get around to putting pictures from our trip up here, it was fabu.  The trip home was not, or I should say flying first class from Hawaii to Lax was, but flying standby was a beast. 

We're Back (with no internet)

We just got back from Hawaii yesterday. What a blast! Thanks to Sheila and Keoni and Anna and Zane for letting us stay with you. It was really good seeing all of you. Pictures will be up eventually. We just need to catch up on some sleep(staying up 36 hours to catch all the flights).

In other news, it looks like the people, who's internet connection we've been using, have moved out. So no internet for at least a few days at home. I'm typing this at work, which I should probably get back to.

Mike

Still Here

Just a quick post, we are still in Hawaii and loving it. We will be flying home a day later than we thought, oh the joys of standby.

Tippi and Rod Do Halloween

This year our theme was from The Birds. I bought the perfect dress from eBay, but after waiting 2 weeks for it to arrive, it never came. So after work on Friday I frantically searched through numerous thrift stores for a new costume. Running out of time, I settled for this yellow suit dress thing straight out of the 80's. We were an hour late to a party we were invited to by some people from our ward. Despite the late start I think the costumes turned out well. After the party Mike put together a little photo shoot for us.

Aloha, Hawaii!!!

We finally got tickets to go to Hawaii (thanks very much Emily).  We will be there November 9th to the 16th.  We can't wait to see everyone!