In anticipation of a feast.

I simply cannot wait until 3pm today when get to leave work early, while it is still light out no less, and start enjoying my four-day weekend. So excited.

We are having a FEAST tomorrow. And, because I love this word and around the holiday season is really the only time to use it without being strange...there will be a smorgasbord of food.
***Le Menu***

Basil Pesto Deviled Eggs
Baked Brie
***
Gourmet Mac & Cheese
Creamed Spinach
Swiss Chard & Sweet Potato Gratin
Rotisserie Chicken
Stuffing (NOT from a box!)
***
Apple Pie
Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake

I also plan on...
planting flowers outside,
outlet shopping on Friday in Camarillo,
continuing a holiday apt window display with Naomi,
working on my hexagons,
going on a 6-mile (nervous though, it's been awhile since 5+) run...

...and simply enjoying not working. :)

Here is a snowflake preview...they're addicting to make. We've been having whoever comes over try and make one, it's fun to see what each person comes up with.
*before*
*after*

Jason Segel + Swell Season

Project Hexagon

So I've always thought that crocheted afghans blankets are just about the most beautiful and soft as blankets come, and I had this beautifully crocheted blanket growing up that my great grandmother Snowdie made for me as a little girl that I've always loved. Now, thanks to my birthday gift from Jackie and Naomi of yarn, knitting needles and a crochet hook, I've been inspired to learn the basics of knitting and am moving on to my dream crochet project - a hexagonal blanket.

Hexagon how-to HERE.
While the colors I'm using are much more "retro" than this picture...isn't this beautiful!? It's just so bright and simply radiates color, I love it.

I will try to take a picture of two as I learn how to make hexagons, guided by the ever-patient craft mistress Naomi.

our little monster.

Bad iPhone picture, but Moby and his little heart made it safely through surgery yesterday. Poor little guy was on serious drugs last night, he was snoring and burping and everything. So funny.

I bet he's so mad at us though...I think he feels like this about Jackie, Naomi and I at the moment.

What happened?!

[via Neon Polish]

Where has 2009 gone? That's what I'm wondering.

an apple a day.

Can't afford a sweater this fall like this beautiful Gap cardigan?

Well how about you save yourself some ca$h and knit your favorite piece of fruit a camel-colored sweater* instead like this Etsy shop? Much more cost effective. I wouldn't actually mind shielding my usual bananas from excessive bruising in my purse, but I can't even keep a straight face thinking about how awful the connotations of a banana-sweater would be... ;) Enjoy thinking about that the rest of the day - Happy Monday.

[from HandmaidenBC's Etsy shop]


*I'm not actually serious about knitting fruit sweaters.

Happy Halloweeeeen.

Runway Halloween fashion.

Me as a more down to earth riding hood at my desk. With a really strange look on my face for some reason, I look like I tasted something gross.

Have a wonderful weekend, I'll have better pictures at some point. :)

Ps. Look! P90X is now mainstream enough to be a Halloween costume. Although this guy doesn't look like he's even thought about starting the program yet...

A thoughtful mug.

[via Smitten]

Sister sister.

So Jess has been visiting for the last week...and needless to say we have traversed Los Angeles, hung out in Berkeley and at Treasure Island, been on multiple adventures in Hollywood, gone thrift shopping, eating, eating and more eating...we fit in so much in a relatively short amount of time. One of my favorite things we did was on Sunday. This is one of my ideal days, consisting of...

1. Bay Cities Deli's "Godmother" sub. And oh my God, it is a mother.

2. The Getty - specifically, I really enjoyed the Irving Penn special exhibit they have on display right now. This is the first time all of his 252 photographs of his "Small Trades" Collection have been together in a single exhibit. It was just a cool reminder of just how many professions do exist, and kind of takes you back to a different era when different jobs existed. I felt like a kid sort of, when you have the most wild ideas (vs. when you get to college and decide to be "practical") about what you want to be when you grow up. For example, I wanted to be a firefighter for the longest time. At least five years. Here is of my faves...old school scuba:
Other faves I couldn't find pictures of online were the "cheese man," a smiling man from Paris with a "fromage" tub as well as the "female dancer" (NAOMI, she had tassels) and "female acrobat" (who was still smiling in a leotard at at least age 55).

But anyway, this combination of activities, combined with a Hotel Cafe Greg Laswell show FOLLOWED by finally seeing Where the Wild Things Are, made for a fabulous Sunday.
Doesn't her hair look amazing there? Pretty long locks.
Such beautiful gardens at the Getty, Jess took some amazing macro flower pictures that I can't wait to get my hands on. Much better than my pathetic iPhone pics. I'm so lazy, I should just carry my camera.

I'll have to get more pictures of my adventures with the clone and post a few later. Now back to real life/work.

Friday.

Jess is here, the work day is over, Naomi kidnapped me from work today for a fabulous FREE Sprinkles cupcake run (thank you Naomi for being on Twitter!), I met my goal of working out five days in a row...and I am taking Monday off. *sigh* it just feels great to think about it...

:) Have a wonderful weekend.