i've been busy, i swear!

even the sun has an awesome grill at sfai

the view from school, as breathtaking as ever

superbowl spread on the day the saints made history

sometimes he sneaks up on you

new batch of little girl headbands in the works

quick visit with djuna and her parents
(djuna models the mini beret i gave her for her 2nd birthday)

anton, writer/producer and all around sweetie
(currently script supervising for his short "charity")

happy birthday, little boots

birthday boy

it was nathan's birthday last week, but i didn't get a chance to bake him anything until sunday. here is a batch of guinness chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting waiting for daddy to come home. i finagled the recipe from nigella's domestic goddess baking compendium, which is a masterpiece.

m.o.r.e. d.b.a.

we went back to d.b.a. on frenchman last night for more jazz and blurry pictures.


right before i left san francisco, i saw mardi gras: made in china, a documentary about the young chinese women who make mardi gras beads and get paid a penny per dozen. it probably wasn't the best film to get me hyped for the trip, but it did make me appreciate this light fixture at d.b.a. that is made from recycled beads.

goin' to the quarter

on a streetcar named thirsty, britten lulls to sleep her purse full of beer.

girl trouble

some of my favorite times occur when i'm with these ladies: sara, clariss, and little boots (latter two pictured above.)

on a sober note, elizabeth twisted her little ankle later that night. does anyone have a pair of tiny crutches she can borrow?

2008 recap

i'm sorry i bailed on my beloved bloggy at the tail-end of 2008, especially since quite a bit happened that i would've liked to commemorate. here's a quick run through of some highlights:

above// shooting eat pray whatever in my bedroom. i was sooo tickled that we got to use a print i brought back from hammerpress in kansas city.

brenda's introduced a new breakfast item!

xmas in santa cruz.

my growing pyrex collection, thanks to carol sue!

a stroll down memory lane thanks to my oma. yeah, that's my dad. there were many drum casualties when i was growing up.

the view from our suite at the fairmont hotel on new years eve.

it was looking down at the financial district (one of my least favorite parts of the city) that i was unexpectedly overwhelmed w/ nostalgia and decided to spend my birthday at the punchline which is right next to the pyramid.

drunk people on nye, always funny.

i turned 29 on january 14th.

ted gave me a great present for my birthday: a framed picture of hisself from when he was little.

reunion aftermath

i got up early sunday morning after the reunion and went to TJs for flowers and brekkie fixings. jordan & marienne came over for pancakes and brought jordan's girlfriend monica. i wasn't sure if i knew who she was even though he told me we'd all gone to high school together. when they arrived, i recognized her from grade school! we had lots of fun cooking and making a mess. jennifer & her cool dude, alan, came by later to help us finish our mimosas.

that's jordan pictured above tickling the ivories. he's always had tremendous talent with regards to classical piano. i'm not being sarcastic.


a cat named mouse. she's our little alfa female.


the beautiful chocolate goose that is destined to never be eaten.


we all hung out long enough to digest brunch and grow hungry again. it had been a while since i'd been to oki's dog, so i had the pleasure of forcing my friends to go with me and watch me eat the signature oki's dog; chili, pastrami, and cheese on two hot dogs wrapped in a tortilla. it's under $4 and there's a signed glossie of en vogue on the wall you can stare at while your arteries cry. if you no longer have the will to live, have the oki's dog with chili fries.

10 years?

i headed to los angeles this weekend for my 10 year high school reunion. it was more of a mixer, very small and intimate; my old friend fredo organized it with a few other classmen in their spare time. it was very nice seeing those who could make it and daniel, one of my most prized high school friends, was my escort. we both went to different high schools and graduated a year apart, but we both had the same class song: in my life by the beatles.

dioramarama

saturday night, i managed to stave off collapse and went out to not one, but two parties. first, we headed to cristina and jenny's for the heated's ep release party and ogled all the little dioramas they made for cristina's first video the current or the undertow. i was really digging the faucet in the restroom that appears to be fashioned from three nails. ingenious!


i wish piglets hung out at my local bar.


farm animals getting sloppy drunk. it gets dodgey when you have to imbibe on every take.

welcome djuna

this weekend, i finally got to meet andrew & daria's precious little babe, djuna lucia. she was born about six weeks premature late january, and she is teeny tiny! her parents are totally in love and i am so happy for them, almost as happy as i am that she has red hair!




i gifted a sweet ciuccio lovie made custom by jenny in a palette of pink and brown which turned out to be andrew & daria's decided color scheme for the baby. yeah, i'm pretty intuitive.


dressed in jeans, cowboy vest & hat, toting a plastic saw and pliers, this little man arrived ready for pretty much anything. with young femmes like djuna and her one year old cousin isobel dominating the party, the boys had some big cuteness competition.


i haven't seen muscari since valentine's day. hello old friend! daria's sister anuta was very generous in inviting oodles of friends and family to come to her house and eat all her food. out in beautiful, peaceful orinda, the sun was shining and i couldn't help but check out her mini garden. she even had my favorite succulent that looks like shrek ears!!


there was a recurring owl theme going on.


it has been a long time since i've been in a house on baby lockdown.