dont text while driving

well can i take camera phone pics whilst driving?!?!

cause i do! i mean how can you not when the sky looks all crazy cool like this!

the art of re-gifting

some people may shy away from such taboo things as re-gifting. but no, not my friend christina! she confronts what many of us want to do, head on. that is by having a re-gift white elephant xmas exchange!

so in addition to having my first potato latkas (amazing by the way! who would have ever thought sour cream and apple sauce would work so good as a topping together too!) i also am the proud owner of a broken santa ornament, circa 2007.

i mean it was broken. little did the person who brought it know that im

super crafty. and i actually had a hot glue gun with me. why? cause that just the kind of friends christina and i are.

so santa got his head reattached. the sharpy corrected the date (for some reason i crossed out the 7 and wrote an 9 by it... i simply failed to see how easily a 7 could be changed into an 8)

and i now have a new ornament for my tree, price tag and all!!!

other honorale mentions:

pig and monkey sling shot toys. you put your fingers in their front paws and fling them thru the air, and in doing so they squeal... no literally!! they oink and ? WHAT DO MONKEYS DO???

light up drink fountain.

a half eaten advent calendar, up to the day it was of course.

note cards, a bath sponge, and cd set of bill clintons autobiography (cause these 3 things go so well together)

2 holiday pre-charged pez dispenser and a cigar.

and there are for sure more but i cant remember them! so this was an amazing start to the xmas gift giving season and i hope our foreign friends (representing sweden, germany, and belgium) enjoyed a random american holiday tradition.

oh and our poor explaination of the grinch. its hard to explain! try some time!

double oh and my jingle bells ear rings!!

beautiful but boring

i was in washington last week (state not dc, cause everyone asks that :)

for work and even though i lived there for 2 years i was struck by how beautiful it is. so much so that i busted out my phone on the airplane while still flying... i know, im a rebel!!!

the second thing that struck me is why i left. it was so boring. i instantly missed the constant stimulation you get from being in a big city like san diego.

so instead of boring you (and myself again by re-living it) im not going to say much else but about the most fun i had was walking in the snow to subway. HA!

just enjoy the pics! thats about the only reason for this blog entry really.

ashley

it never ceases to amaze me how wonderful my friends are. this weekend ashlin came to visit from irvine. i can not even tell you how cool she is... if you know her, then you get it!

we went to U-31 in north park to see the vokab kompany show (im such a groupie).  well she ended up loving them just as much as me. we had a few drinks, including a 24oz PBR!!!

danced our bootys off and mingled with the band a bit. ok really just the bass player. but ashlin said 'hey you should get kim on your next guest list for the san fran show'

hahaha. thats just the kinda gal she is.

so had an amazing night. and a delicious morning. went to the little mexican place by my apt to have breakfast burritos and coffee. im sitting there and ashlin comes running in saying you need to see this dog. 

and this is what i see!

is it a dog, is it a horse blanket, or did some hippie ditch their dreds on the side walk. so i had to snap a pic. and apparently i cant figure out how to rotate it :(

so after my appointment (once again if you know, then you know :) i needed coffee. well ashlin had her coffee from another place in starbucks. the guy said 'i will give you a free whatever you want to throw that away'. ummm what?!?!

ok. so she does. she orders and he asks for her name. she says 'its ashley'.

i say: YOUR NAMES NOT ASHLEY!!! haha and thats why i love ashlin!

a little amendment. i went to facebook to post my blog address so ashlin could see the extent of my crush on her by reading this. well i re-read her happy birth day post to me. i think i  need to share this too:

Well they say it's your birthday (Guitar goes nah-nah-nah-nah-nah) Well Happy Birthday to ya (Guitar goes nah-nah-nah-nah-nah) They say it's your birthday (in higher pitched voice getting louder) (Guitar goes nah-nah-nah-nah-nah) Well Happy Birthday to ya ... Repeat Chorus until crescendo! Glad to see you getting older!

boo hoo

so if there is no use crying over spilled milk, can i at least cry over a broken open yogurt?
btw mmmmmm!!! plum honey lavender!

december nights

oh december nights. 2 days. over 300,000 people. way way way too much food!

for those who dont know, december nights is the holiday season kick off for san diego. balboa park is covered in lights, all the museums are open for free and there are carolers and other christmas type performers.


and then there's the international cottages.

had some of the most amazing food ever. falafel, lentils and rice, grape leaves and fried dough from palestine. flat bread, currey, and stuff i dont even know what it was from inida. and ukrainian sausage and saukraut.

now thats just the food that i single-handedly purchased. the benefit of going in a huge group was munching on what other peeps got. had some sausage and saurkraut and pastery from astria and stew from ireland.

and then lets get to the beverages. super yummy horchata from mexico. then hit up the international spirits.



i was like everyone before me when i approached scotland because i didnt know what hot toddy was either (hot tea, honey, orange, cloves, whiskey). also tried some swedish hot spiced wine and of course jello shots.

yes jello shots. apparently they are native to fineland (actually just the vodka is but what eves)

by this point i was so close to a food coma i couldnt go see any of the museums. also there were so many people there that it was almost uncomfortable.

i couldnt even get my pic taken with the grinch (not santa for a change). too long a line. boo!

but none the less december nights was amazing!!!

the apocalypse

when mass chaos breaks out it makes me think its the end of days. last night was like that.

around 145 in the afternoon a jumper ran out onto the coronado bay bridge.

when work was over at 3 the bridge had been shut down. the only way off the island is the strand and hundreds tried that... i wasnt so silly!

i stuck around until 5: went on the roof with binoculars to see, constantly refreshed sigalert, and pretended to work (in an effort to get off an hour early today:)

lucky enough a buddy from work left, couldnt get any where, and came back.

so we went to have dinner and some beers. and wow! every restaurant on orange ave was packed!!! and the traffic was as such.

so it did feel like the apocalypse. which is slightly funny cause we were talking about it the other day cause apparently bananas are going to be extinct in a year (and that for sure is another mark of the end)

and then i remembered i had this pic on my phone. mini bananas at the grocery store. hahaha!