Happy Halloween Season!

Saturday event at work, running to soccer to coach a game in pearls, getting costume advice from a seven year old, home to go to Target, getting a new calendar board for the hallway, going to Office Depot for a new board for the kitchen with picture frames (one of you and me, SS), going to Staples to get myself a portfolio, home for lunch, talking to my brother for 30 minutes about algebra 2 and life, working on the website with Jeff, a brand new spice rack from Jeff (and the Home Depot) that we put up Saturday night, and bed early.

Sunday farmer’s market, home, breakfast of omelet with heirloom tomatoes and onion, polyurethane on our dining room table, grocery shopping (trader joe’s and ralph’s), home for another coat on the table (but not before sanding), pot roast in the crock pot, laundry at the laundromat, home to a finished pot roast, another coat of polyurethane (sanding, too), a second trip to Ralphs for pumpkins, dinner of pot roast, and then carved four pumpkins. Corelyn’s is looking up, mine looks down. They are friends.

Pictures to come.

Five good things:

1. Carved pumpkins
2. Heirloom tomatoes
3. Finished dining room table, FINALLY
4. A new calendar, and new spice rack for my new spiffy house
5. Updated blogs.

Get away, and come with me…

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Hi chickens!!! I am back, and I am sorry I have been gone for so long. The flu is no fun, but I feel mostly over it now, although I keep getting tired, but we’ll see how that goes. Today was a holiday at my school, so I have one more day of rest before I have to go back to work tomorrow. And what did I spend that non-sick day off doing, you ask?

10:24 – Woke up, after snoozing the alarm a few times, because I knew that if I didn’t get up soon I wouldn’t be tired by 10, and if I wasn’t tired by 10 I wouldn’t get the right amount of sleep tonight before I go back to work tomorrow. It was hard to get up because I was tired, warm, and having a strange dream, but I did it.

10:30-11 – Ate a bowl of Kix cereal and watched the Barefoot Contessa make lunch for the Historical Society.

11 – Put the bowl in the sink, kicked on the tunes, and cleaned my room, my closet, and hung up all my clothes. Swept the bedroom floor.

12 – Swept under the couches after realizing that I still couldn’t find my camera, and no, it was not in the couch OR under the couch but you know what WAS under the couch HAIR HAIR HAIR so I cleaned in.

12:15 – Found the camera. It was in my backpack all along. Which I had already checked. Twice. Took all the clothes out of the bathroom that were drying over the bathtub side and hung those too. Took 2 of Jeff’s hangers in the process. Shhh! Don’t tell him.

12:26 – Sat down on the couch, disgusted with my house. Got up and swept the living room, hallway, cleaned off the broom, and went through the papers on the hallway bookshelf.

1:10 – Got an email from Jeff saying he was about to go on lunch, and would I like it if he came home for lunch?

1:15 – Updated facebook with the freshly uploaded pictures that were on my camera.

1:20 – Into the shower, after ordering lunch from Village.

1:45 – Dressed, clean, on the couch, reading NYTimes, CNN, and LATimes.

2:00 – Jeff’s home! Lunch time.

2:45 – Jeff’s gone. Dishes from last night’s dinner.

3:00 – Pester Corelyn to come home! already, so we can watch Everwood. Clean off coffee table.

3:30 – Light some candles. Put on some tunes. Read Real Simple September and October. Smile.

3:40 – Reset the time on the coffee maker, and set some decaf to brew at 4:10, hopefully around Corelyn’s arrival home.

4:00 – Write this blog entry, help a friend pick out shoes, and listen to Carbon Leaf.

4:23 – Check Carbon Leaf’s website. Realize they have a new CD. Get excited.

So there you have it, friends. My day off. Now, I’m just waiting for Corelyn to get here, already!!

My heart losing ground (slowing down)

The other night I went with two of my Kasteel Muffins (the ladies I studied abroad with) to Amoeba. Traci and Caitlin had never been, and I was horrified. After a full day (including the Getty Center, pictures to come) we headed to Amoeba, myself ready to buy nothing.
Alas…

I bought:

– Tantric’s “Tantric”
– An old James CD I didn’t have, “New Moon Shine”
– Finlay MacDonald’s CD (Celtic)
– Paul Simon’s “Surprise”
– Aqualung’s “Strange & Beautiful”

Five new CDs. $13.13. Lucky me. 🙂

San Gennaro Festival, LA

Corelyn called me yesterday to tell me, and Jeff texted me. “The Italian festival is here!” And indeed, it was. Last night we checked it out, and it was everything this Italian could ask for, and more.

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This is the band that was playing. They were great, and got lots of people dancing, as you can see.

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This is the three of us on the way to watch bocce ball for a while.

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This is where you put a pin in wherever you are from in Italia. Jeff and I had to participate.

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I made a comment about how I thought the Palluzzis where from outside Roma, but I wasn’t sure about the Iannuccis. Which prompted the woman to go, “Oh my god, Iannucci? I-A-N-N-U-C-C-I? Stop it. Do you know Rudy?” To which I said, “I’m not sure, where is he from?” to which she said “He lives in New Jersey.” To which I said, “I don’t know, maybe, I’m from back east.” And she proceeded to tell the other man working the both, “Oh my gawd, she’s from back east. Hon, write your name down. Write down you’re email. He’ll email ya.”

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And of course, it wouldn’t be complete without running into my own family at the Festival, basically the only other Italians I know in California.

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Photo of the Italian’s on the way out…Corelyn, I think, learned a lot.

We all knew it was coming.

Guys. I’m sorry I’ve been MIA.
If you remember last fall you’ll remember it’s quite busy at my job in the fall. No excuses: pressing on. Anyways, I wanted to let you know some exciting news. After pestering a bit and lots of encouragement, Corelyn and I have decided to start a food, life, love blog. I will continue to post here, but occasionally I’ll point you to there to enjoy food photography, recipes, etc. We’re excited to be starting a project together, and we’re excited to share it with you. We hope you’re excited, too.

Garlic, My Soul.