Mornings

12-20-12

Biking to the gym early in the morning has its advantages.

White Elephant

12-18-12

We had our white elephant gift exchange at work today and this is what I ended up with (stole it, oh yeah!). It's Cyrus Noble Mine who was apparently sold for a bottle of whiskey. Apropos - this is actually a bottle of whiskey. Creepy? yes. Awesome? Definitely.

Symphony

12-14-12

The San Francisco Symphony! Handel's Messiah! It ws incredible!

Childhood

12-13-12

Someone brought See's candy into the office today! I love these horrid little suckers. Makes me feel like a kiddo! 

So much for my "no sweets" plan (I've been eating a piece of candy or 3 every day for almost 2 weeks now. Time to break the new habit. It's just EVERYwhere right now!). Nostalgia broke me.

Oh well. Tomorrow for realsies. 

Bread. SRSLY.

12-12-12

What better day than the end of the world to have a gluten-free ginger spice muffin and some g-free sour dough bread (not pictured) delivered via bicycle to your office. 

It. Was. Delish. And a much needed treat today!!

Early Christmas Part Two!

12-11-12

Aaaah. My beautiful new, personal, printer at work. Isn't she sleek? 

 This, in addition to the calculator, are making this insane time of year at work a lot easier to deal with. 

:)

Phone Books

12-10-12

Well that's a bit harsh.

Early Christmas

12-7-12

 

I just got a beautiful new calculator at work. It is pretty and prints and adds up the money and the count of transactions and it is making my life a million times easier!!!! No more counting by hand and using the calculator on my desktop! No more!

 

Next week I'm getting my own printer. Oh Sandy Claws, how did you know?!?!

 

:-D

Office Holiday Cheer

12-6-12

We all put lights on our cubicles!!! Yay!

It's My Cat in a Box!

12-5-12

I opened this box last night around 8 or 9. Hobbes promptly got in the box. This morning when I woke up he was still in said box.

He did not leave the box this morning. He did not get out when I made my breakfast, or opened the door to look at the rain. He didn't get out when I got dressed, or packed my lunch. He didn't even get out when I went to leave for work. Maybe since it was raining he figured, meh what's the point?!

However, I think he has taken it to the extreme because, while I can't be sure, I think he may have stayed in the box all day because when I got home tonight at 9pm he was, as you can see, still in the box.

As I write this he is...STILL IN THE BOX.

TGIF

11-30-12

 

I very rarely buy lattes any more. Too expensive and too not-good-for-you. However. It is raining like crazy today. The wind is vicious. I'm exhuasted from working until 8pm then doing homework until midnight and the fact that lately I wake up for at least an hour every morning around 2am (wtf!).

 

And it's Friday. And it's payday.

 

So I decided to splurge and treat myself to a double-tall gingerbread latte at Sbux today. It was everything I'd hoped for.

And their holiday cups are just too adorable.

 

The end.

Cleeeaaaannn

 11-29-12

I took an online webinar training today that lasted from 8am - 2pm. However, I often find the 'practice times' in these trainings to be far too long and unnecessary. So...I clean. Today I decided I needed to take everything out of the fridge and thoroughly clean all the shelves etc. Fortunately I decided to start this right before the 1 hour lunch break they gave us. And I don't think my fridge has ever been this clean. It is beautiful and I felt QUITE satisfied putting everything back in, organized, and fresh. Huzzah!

VOTE!

 

11-27-12

And now for something completely different.

Check out this really great contest that my place of employment is up for. We made it into the top 7 which means we will for sure receive $2,000.00 (awesome!) - but if we get enough votes to be #1 out of those 7 we will win $10,000.00.

 

That's $10,000.00 to help build safe, decent, affordable homes for hard-working families in the Bay Area, and $10,000.00 to help create community, and safe neighborhoods that we all can be proud of.

 

If you don't know much about our work, check out our website (it's new and shiny!).

 

And please vote! You can vote as many times as you want until December 10th, so vote now, vote often! :)

 

And just in case I didn't link it enough times, you can vote here ;)

 

THANKS!!!!

Staying Warm in the Winter

11-27-12

Best. Handwarmers. EVER.

 

Thanks Kristi!!! :-D

Christmas Time Fo' Realz

11-25-12

Officially Christmas means officially Christmas party time. Which means I must try my hand at homemade eggnog once again. It needs to age for at least a week and has that entire bottle of Jim Beam in it. Plus a little rum and brandy thrown in for good measure. We'll see how it turns out!

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!!

11-24-12

Well Thanksgiving is over (successfully) and therefore it is officially Christmas time!!!! We (Jess, Kristi, and Josh) rang in Christmas as you should by getting a Christmas treee!!!!!!!!!!!! They're hella expensive though, ugh. Thanks to Jess for helping me get one! It's so pretty and joyful!! 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 11-22-12

So my brother has commandeered my camera so these are all the pics I have from Thanksgiving (on my phone). But here is a pic of my pumpkin pie (best one yet!) and the Butterfinger pie I made for Jonathan's birthday (which was on Thanksgiving this year). YUM!

Safety First

10-18-12

Finally got my hardhat for work! Red = staff. Purdy. 

Sundays

10-14-12

Mmm. Nothing like biking to Sunday brunch in sunny Berkeley with a dear friend. 

Stay Classy, Riverbank

10-13-12

Tell me this isn't the most hideous shirt from a race you've ever seen.

The best part? It's a sweatshirt. Like...early 90s style. I may have worn this all day after running the 5k.

And I looked GOOD.

Well Hello There, Fall

 10-11-12

Well Fall decided to show up suddenly today. Not only was it cold and cloudy all day (first morning in a loooong while that it was just too cold to get iced coffee from Peet's on my way to work), but we got some nice rain around 5/5:30pm. 

Also - it's Series time! Oakland made it to the ALC this year (and the Giants made it to the NLC)! All the buses in Oakland, and the transbay buses that go from SF to Oakland, have well-wishes on their marquees! Fun :) 

I kinda love fall. Now all I need is something pumpkin-y! 

Nom nom!

10-10-12

Found this recipe on pinterest, but just realized I probably shoulda waited to take a picture until I had put the seasoning in and...I dunno...maybe cooked it? 

Anyway it was delicious and just the right kind of low-maintenance meal to make while I watch Oakland and Detroit go at it. 

Ventana Wilderness

10-7-12

Hiking back out on Sunday. Goooorgeous day. Goooorgeous view.

Backpacking in California in October ftw!

Post-hike

10-6-12

After 10 miles of backpacking (mostly uphill) you are MORE than ready for some hot chocolate. And one marshmallow just will not suffice. 

Camping

10-5-12

Camping weekend! First official task for my new leatherman? Slicing limes for tequila shots, of course!

Oktoberfest!

9-29-12

Oktoberfest, Modesto style. Here I am attempting to win a feat of strength.

I lost. Bleh.

Cabin Time

9-22-12

Yeah. Those are gummy worms (and spiders. gross) soaked in vodka. Yeah. It is as good as it sounds. 

DONE!

9-17-12

And here is my newly organized, clean, spiffy room. I'm not totally sure it was worth all the headache...but yeah it probably is. That thing is HUGE and will forever live in this apartment much like my massive television which I never ever want to move again. 

Oh Little Dog

9-16-12

So Little Dog and I spent a good amount of time together today. Jess is not feeling well, and I was going to the store, and Jess suggested I take Little Dog with me. I figured since I was going to Alameda, I might as well take her along and take her for a walk along the beach afterwards. So that's what I did.

Little did I know that Little Dog insists on sitting on your lap as you drive. Not only that. She wants to drive. 

I successfully tuckered her out for the drive home, though, and she was content to sleep on my lap. Still refused to sit in the passenger seat though. She just would not have any of that. Oh well. I guess it's sorta cute? 

Hmmm...

9-15-12

So...this is my bedroom floor right now. Yeaaah. I am about to go sleep on the living room floor tonight because...I got this awesome shelf for free off of freecyle. However, it was a bit more of a bear to put together than I thought it would be. So my bed is inaccessible, as is the rest of my room basically. It's a bonafide disaster. 

Hopefully tomorrow I can get it together, with Jess' help. I just can't get it done alone - it's too big! I can't lift it by myself...but I can't do anything else/move forward until I can lift it. 

Better be worth it 'cause sleeping on the floor is not what one might call ideal. 

Treats!

9-14-12

I worked from home today, so after getting a lot done I decided to get out in the sun for a while. I figured I'd head out to Mariposa Bakery 'cause usually I get home too late and they're closed. Which is both good and bad. It's bad because this bakery is seriously amazing, especially if you can't have gluten (everything is gluten-free! And fantastic, too. You'd never know it was gluten-free a good amount of the time). It's good because...I want to eat all the foods when I'm there. All. The. Foods.

So. I biked 'cause I figured if I wanted a treat, I ought to work for it. Here's what I got. Mmmmmmmmmm...it's been SO long since I have had a cinnamon roll. It was SO worth the 15 mile (round trip) bike ride up and down Oakland's hills. They even warmed it up for me a little bit. mmmmmmmm....good way to spend a Friday afternoon if you ask me!

HIMYM

9-13-12

Officially fall with pumpkin-flavored things everywhere. Even better, though? HIMYM references at Peet's! From my all-time favorite episode. Hahaha! Awesome. If you don't get the reference, you need to watch that episode, that's for darn sure.

 

Season premier soon! Can't wait!

Gotye

9-9-12

Gotye in concert. This is during my favorite song. He kept changing the dates and venues of his shows, but Delphine and I both agreed after the show that he redeemed himself. Really great live. And animations during every song, which I loved. Reminded me of Gorillaz (though not as good, sorry Gotye).

Tonight's Dinner Brought to you by Pinterest

9-8-12

I was in a cooking/cleaning mood this weekend. Not sure why, but I decided to try out some recipes I found on pinterest. Above are the BEST freaking potatoes you'll ever eat. Seriously. They're amazing. And it's awesome because we often have way too many potatoes hanging around (they come in our CSA a lot). Mmmmm...super easy, and incredibly delicious.

Then I decided we also had waaay too many sweet potatoes (it's true. Like...3 bags), so I decided to try out this recipe, too. However, as you can see I used broccoli, not cauliflower because we also had 3 heads of broccoli, 2 of which were threatening to go bad. So I substituted. This soup was delicious, and really easy to make. I may have made it again a couple nights later...

Getty

9-2-12

Yay! Jonathan! LA! Sun! Art! 

:-D

Greek Loaded Fries

9-1-12

omfg. FOOD TRUCKS!!!!!

here is the belt I won last weekend. No idea where to put it, haha. 

8-29-12

Gooooorgous SF day!!! Driving across the Bay Bridge to work this morning. Not a cloud in the sky! WHAT!?!? <3 p="p">

8-28-12

Imma eat all the grapes.

 

ALL OF THEM.

Fight

8-25-12

Bring on the fight. 

Puppy!

Ok. So Jess brought a puppy home. Apparently he is a mix between a chiuaua and a cocker spaniel (aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww). No home that we can tell...Jess says she's going to try and find him a home...or keep him... I know what you're thinking "don't you already have two cats? Isn't that a little ridiculous? What is this animal farm? Your apartment is tiny! You guys aren't home enough for a dog."

We know. We know.

And...we're toootally not getting attached, as you can see.

Ridiculous

Ok, finally getting some pics up. Sorry I've been so lame. Things have been crazy. I'll try to be better! 

Here is Jess and her whole freaking case of moscato this weekend. We went biking and wining and she realized she'd joined this club like a year ago and never picked up her wine. So. We now have an entire case. Ridiculous (and awesome)! 

8-15-12

Um. The pepper was open more than I realized. 

8-14-12

Best casual carpool passenger ever! He was soooo cute.