Yearly Archives: 2007

Last weekend was so perfect and relaxing! Rob and I drove down to San Luis Obispo on Friday night and arrived about 10:30. After a gloriously quiet and dark night of sleep, we joined Margaret for breakfast on Saturday morning. It was sunny and 75 degrees out! Just right for breakfast burritos and lattes at…

Remember Mary? We helped her find something to wear to a wedding in Yosemite a few months ago. She had another question: Okay, I don’t know if we’re allowed to come back for seconds but I was trying to figure out what to wear to my best friend Alice’s birthday celebration in San Francisco next…

I’m officially out of recipes and completely stumped about what to make for dinner. Rob and I have been eating a lot of fish, artichokes, Mexican food and pasta lately. I’m craving something new. Does anyone have a favorite dinner recipe to share?

Busy, grown-up lives don’t make it easy to keep up with the latest in the music scene. The occasional hour of MTV and mix-CD from friends in graduate school only go so far! Enter Paste Magazine, each issue of this music magazine includes a mix CD with a variety of the latest and greatest songs.…

(Oops. I forgot my camera at home, so the weekend round-up will have to wait until tonight.) Even simple things can be a challenge when you are in a foreign country. Learning how to grocery shop, mind your manners or even boil water can tricky when you are away from home. Imagine attending a wedding…

Another busy week in the city. It hasn’t gotten much quieter in our apartment, but Rob and I have figured out a method to get some sleep despite it all. It is amazing what eight hours of rest can do for you! Earplugs + a waterfall noise CD on repeat + exercise to exhaustion =…

June is not San Francisco’s finest month. The city’s weather has a tendency to go to pot in a phenomenon called “June Gloom.” While the rest of the country is wearing sun dresses and flip flops, San Franciscans are putting on turtlenecks and jackets. It is 53 degrees outside right now. But no matter. There…

Graphic design software is so cool sometimes! I was playing around with that photo of the oak brackets in Illustrator when I remembered that they had come out with a new tool that would make this a breeze. Live trace instantly converts photos into outlined vector images (I know, this doesn’t really make any sense…

Lindsay wrote in with an urgent request for a not-fun appointment tomorrow: I know that you have done a lot of what to wear recently but I was hoping you wouldn’t mind doing one more. You see I am in need of a great outfit because I am meeting my cheating ex-boyfriend on Friday. A…

Rob’s one year old and nine year old nephews are having a big birthday party this weekend. I asked my future sister-in-law for her suggestion on what to get the baby and she mentioned a sock monkey. How clever! So I ordered one from Amazon…and somehow missed the several places where they mentioned that instead…