Last night the lovely Helen Jane and James had everyone over for a BBQ before the wedding kind of shindig. The happy, almost married couple just moved into the cutest little house in Rockridge so we had to help initiate the new abode. The drinks were flying and the food was cooking and everyone was having a great time. Friends from all over the country were in to help celebrate the union. I think one of the things I liked the best was hearing all the stories from the people that walked into the wrong house due to an error on the invitation, in all I think six people. I have to say that I think the bride to be is a little loco for having a party two days before her wedding with at least 10 people staying in their house and a canoe trip the day before but you’ve got to hand it to her for having the courage. With a party like this one I can’t wait for the wedding!
Congratulations to Helen and James!
Ok folks the big wigs are in for a board meeting today so of course my blogging time is going to be affected. Hopefully it will calm down a little later so I can regale you all with much witty commentary.
When I was a young girl my mother used to get all dressed up and go dancing at different clubs in Austin. She is a very good dancer and her greatest joy was to find someone as good as or better than her to spend the night twirling around the dance floor with. She would come home all excited and talk for hours about the dancer that left her breathless.
Well, I can now say I have had the pleasure of knowing how she felt. Brett and I went to a friends wedding in Healdsburg on Saturday and I had one of the best times since my own. We were seated at table two with three other couples and the fun never stopped. I knew it was going to be good when the waiter left two full bottles of wine on our table. Every chance we got we would clink our glasses so the bride and groom would have to kiss and then we would all raise our own and yell, “Table Two!” Fun!
We had finished eating and Tudor, one of the fabulous gay guys at my table, took my hand and led me to the dance floor. And honey all I can say is that he was FABULOUS! He led me and twirled me and dipped me all over that floor. I was spinning and laughing and by the end of it I was in Love with this man! Luckily for me Tudor is a neighbor of mine so I told him we MUST dance again! He was truly amazing! Ahhhh Tudor, where have you been all my life?!!
A few weeks ago a couple of guys at my work were talking about how they had all these business suits sitting in their closets collecting dust. They got the bright idea that they should wear these neglected garments on Friday, kind of as a joke. The first couple of weeks only about four guys participated and every time I would see one of them I couldn’t help but laugh. I work at a dot.com (of course we have dropped the dot.com part of our name) so no one wears a suit and tie. No one, not even the CEO. So I happen to find this very amusing and the boys bring a bit of eye candy to the office, so it’s all good.
Yesterday an email was sent out to all the ladies in the office, which is all 19 of us, that we couldn’t let the guys outshine us on this dress up Friday. So today my whole office, besides my CEO are dressed to the nines and looking mighty fine. This Friday has turned into one of those theme days like Crazy Hat day or Hawaiian Shirt day but its dress like Other Offices Do day. Got to love it!
p.s. I just ran into our Head of Marketing, who is usually in a pair of jeans and black shirt, decked out in a black sequin dress. Nice!
Hapless or Current Resident
An Important Message About Recycling and Garbage Service
Your 3 New Carts will be delivered soon!
Recyclables
Paper, cardboard, bottles and cans…in the SAME cart!
Compostables
All food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings!
Garbage
Anything non-recyclable and non-compostable.
How cool is it that my city is going to be passing out compost bins for its citizens.
Goddess I love this city!!!
On days like today I revel in the beauty that is San Francisco. At 11:30am this morning there was a little ceremony at the Ferry Building to celebrate the old clock working again; it has been stuck at 12:00 for the past two years, so my handsome boy and I went down to check it out and get some food for the week, they also have a fabulous farmers market in front of the building. The mayor was on hand for the unveiling and chocolate cake was passed out to all. If you haven’t checked out the Ferry Building in awhile you are definitely missing something. They redid the entire inside of the building so that natural light seeps through and illuminates all the booths filled with luscious chocolates, breads, meats, cheeses, coffees and seafood. I feel like I’m in Europe every time I go there. I just love what they did with the place!
It’s Monday and I’m definitely feeling it. I had a great weekend, got my hair cut in this really cute little bob, relaxed, got some sun on my deck, had lots of good loving, walked to the Mission for some great food, slept, cooked, watched TV and did a little cleaning. It was good but right now I’m wishing I was back there. I can already tell this is going to be a long day.
Oh, work how you bug me at times!
Wow, what a great evening I had ladies! Thank you so much for coming!
I would like to apologize if your hostess was a little tipsy near the end there it’s just that I got so excited being around all you truly amazing women that I got a little riled up. Next time I’ll remember to eat before I start drinking wine.
I’m so jacked about the group and I think we can really get a lot of excellent things accomplished. Thank you fabulous ladies for helping me feel more empowered!
I’m not sure but I really think that the weather is starting to get to me. I’m all sad and sleepy now. I just want to go and curl up on my comfy couch and sleep away the day. But alas I shall not because I’m having an amazing group of women coming to my house tonight for our first Feminist Reading and Discussion Group. I’m really looking forward to having this group at my house, it will be the first sort of adult type gathering at our new place, it’s just that my mood is not the best right now.
Hopefully things will be better later.
I just got an email from a friend traveling alone in Nepal and Asia. This of course has given me a very bad case of wanderlust. Oh, to be traveling with your pack through different towns learning about your strengths and weaknesses, meeting new people from all over the world, eating and drinking strange and wonderful new things. I really want to travel! Unfortunately that is one of the things I had to give up on for about five more years in order to get our new home. I’m very happy that we got our new place and at least I’ll be living in a great house until I get the chance to travel but having to put it off for more years than I like is a real challenge. Brett and I had made tentative plans to move to another country for a few years before the house became available but now we will just have to wait. Until that day I shall have to make-do with watching foreign films and living vicariously through my friends.
So much time spent on loving myself this weekend that I never wanted it to end.
Extra long baths in my lovely new tube.
Hours spent reading
Long siestas
Green Apple Bookstore run-new books to get my creativity flowing
Aquarium store to get gifts for Grumpy
Snuggling on the couch
Watching Amelie until 2:00am
Time spent being with myself, listening to myself and loving myself.
I couldn’t have asked for a better couple of days!
It’s Friday and I’m finally going to have a weekend to myself. This is the first time in almost two months and the last time for another month that I don’t have something planned. I’m so excited to hang out in my new home I have so many things that I want to do for myself. I’m only doing the things I want to do like working on my scrapbook, writing letters, calling friends and family just basically doing all the things I’ve wanted to do for so long but haven’t had the time. I’m working hard to try and find a balance in my life and this is one of the first steps. I need to remember to take time out of my busy schedule to replenish myself. I’m no good to anyone else if I have nothing left to give. So the next time you hear from me I will be nice and rested and full up with good stuff.
So I’m trying to become more politically and socially aware and let me tell you it is a little daunting. I was raised in a very liberal household where we were told not to trust our government (my dad refers to them all as Feds). When I was in high school I believed what my parents told me but as I got older I started to distance myself from politics altogether (unless it was an issue that was really important to me) and instead become the self-absorbed person I am today. So lately I have really wanted to start thinking about other people besides myself and to become more aware of issues outside my little world. I’m just starting and already I’ve been feeling disheartened and overwhelmed. There is so much work that needs to be done that I almost wished for the bliss of ignorance. Everyday I read about more and more horrible atrocities that go on in this world that it was making me feel I could never help enough to matter. I’m very blessed to have a wonderful husband that has already gone through this so he has helped me quite a bit to feel less helpless.
So what I have decided to do first off in my new found reality is to start being a conscious spender. I want to become more responsible with the money I spend and who I spend it with, looking for companies that I deem worthy of my hard earned cash. Unfortunately this means that I will more than likely be paying more than I do now for my items and it might be hard to find some companies I want to spend money with but I’m up for the task. So what if I have to wait longer to get a new pair of pants at least I’ll know that I’m not helping to enslave hundreds of third world women just for a cheap ticket price.
The Bubble Lounge was packed to the gills with fabulous people ready for a good time. The Women’s Literature discussion I went to last night was interesting but unfortunately not long enough to really get into a thorough discussion. Since I really don’t know much about the industry it helped me get a better grasp of what women authors have to go through and the judgments that precede them. All in all I had a lovely time and it made me want to go out and really utilize this amazing city that I live in.
Can I just say that my day just got so much better.
I just got my first link from a fellow blogger.
Thanks sassy little punkin!
Today I’m saddened by:
Mandy leaving this morning to go back to Connecticut
Dealing with issues of child abuse at the hands of my mother
The overabundance of homeless on the streets
The Senate passing a ban on so-called “partial birth” abortions
It’s a good thing I’m going to Women's Lit: Women as Writers, Characters and Readers at the Bubble Lounge tonight or I’d be having a really bad day.
It’s weird I started off the day all happy and ready to blog but when I got in to work I just lost the momentum. Things are going great in my life, besides the fact that Mandy is leaving tomorrow, but I’m just not in a writing mood I guess.
So if you feel like coming back tomorrow maybe I’ll have more to say.