Right now about 100 balls are sitting in the fridge chilling, waiting to be dipped in various chocolates… tomorrow. It’s almost midnight and I have that work thing to go to.. and sleep to be had.. so tomorrow will be chocolaty goodness time.

Until then, here are some teaser pics..

Little bit of chocolate…


Chocolate + Red…


Red Velvet Cake + Cream Cheese Frosting

It was Iris’ Birthday Weekend of Fun and even though there were a few things we didn’t do, it was still jammed packed with sunshine, friends, and good food. The breakdown:

• I drove to SF and back! ME! Shocking, no? It was good practice, I gotta keep doing it so I’m not a big sissypants over it anymore.
• Marc and Shanta were able to hang out with us! It’s always great to see them. It was even more fun watching everyone’s shocked look on their faces when they saw M&S sitting at the table of the restaurant.
• Before the restaurant, Marc, Shanta, Iris and I stood out on the beach and watched some kite flyers and tried to avoid being knocked over by the wind. It was great. I loooove the ocean. Love love love.
• The conductor of the N Judah laughed at us because we didn’t stand in the right spot to get on the train – he then thought we were from Canada.
• Dinner! Crepe Vine had so many yummy choices.. savory and sweet crepes, french toast, various versions of eggs benedict. Mmmm..

• David Bowie visited too! – Ok not *that* David Bowie, but a friend of ours from college who I gave him this nickname after a weird conversation and it just stuck. It stuck so much that for the most part, everyone refers to him this way. Whoopsie
• Fireside (bar) and Yancy’s Saloon were pretty awesome. I didn’t quite understand why everyone kept calling Yancy’s “Yangtze’s” I must have missed the joke at some point.
• Friends and How I Met Your Mother are our generation’s I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke Show (or other comparisons) – Vijay, Umang, Meg, Adam (DB), Iris, and I had a long ass conversation filled with favorite moments, quotes, and related stories.
• Before going to sleep I set my alarm for 9am (on my cell) and after finally falling asleep.. I woke up to find my phone’s battery had died. The hotel room lacked clocks (no alarm, no tv clock, no clock on the microwave!) I had to charge it in my car for a bit. Then Marc came out and was going to run along the ocean. Instead we both went for a walk and it was good I got a nice 30 minute walk in and walked along the ocean.
• Then the 5 of us (David Bowie-Adam joined us) crammed all our stuff into my little car, and ourselves (clown car!) and headed on up to the Cliff House. Yay for my little car!
• We met up with Sarah and Jon and had some yummy food at The Cliff House. Then some fun photos from the observation decks.

• Camera Obscura! It is so awesome, you really have to see it in person.

Iris’ birthday was so much fun – thanks girlie!

One thing I noticed, I didn’t take as many photos as I’d had liked to. I did capture a few nice ones I’ll be sharing this week, though!

Now, it’s time for bed. I’m SO EXHAUSTED and Mondays are always so tiring.

[More photos here]

Personal achievement for today: I drove to SF! Me! Yea that’s a big
deal.. believe me.

In other news.. Kendra is less than 20 miles away from finishing
Ironman in Florida! I’m so proud of her. Go Kendra, Go!

1. Watching Ghost Adventures – a new episode. I just finished watching the LIVE Event recap episode. It was pretty boring actually – a bummer they didn’t share anything new. Sooo I guess all those static camera’s didn’t pick up anything other than what they shared during the event? Pishposh. But on to a new episode! They’re interesting and Zak isn’t that bad to look at teehee!
2. Sitting on Facebook; done with farming my crops and set up the rest for tomorrow morning. I’m a good little farmer girl.
3. Chatting with Adam, telling him about the Ghost Adventures LIVE event and Cowboy Bob and the wind-up-throw fake-out

What am I supposed to be doing?

1. Putting away my laundry. Hey it’s folded! Just.. still in the basket.. but FOLDED!
2. Cleaning dishes.. and the kitchen. All that fish-cooking I’ve done this week.. it’s kind of stinky. Need to de-stink it.
3. Prepping for Iris’ birthday fun! I know someone who is getting season one of Ghost Adventures!! Ooh and maybe if she’s lucky she’ll get some Ghost Hunters too! (hahaha)
4. Sleeping? Ooh the soft pillows and warm blankets sound like a good idea. But this episode of GA has creeped me out a little bit so I have to watch some of The Office as a chaser.

I’m excited.. I get to take photos this weekend! OMG PHOTOS. I haven’t taken any for fun in awhile. Ok I’m tired.. wish I had something more interesting to say today!

The salmon I buy is actually a premade/seasoned package from Safeway. They’re called Waterfront Bistro and each bag has two giant fillets, packaged separately in vacuum-packed inner bags. I’ve had the Garlic Lemon Pepper Sockeye Salmon and the Parmesan Tilapia and they are tasty-delicious. Mmm. I took some leftover salmon to work and stunk up the kitchen (ha ha) with it today, matter of fact.

I meant to bake another fillet for tomorrow, but whoopsie I was too busy shopping (Container Store for my yearly wrapping paper purchase and PaperSource because it is SUPER AWESOME) today after getting a little eyebrow waxing at InSpa. Awhile back I decided I was going to find a place that I was happy with to routinely get my eyebrows done and occasionally a pedicure (and now that I’ve stopped biting my nails – a manicure too!) and that place is InSpa – the one located in Santana Row. It’s pretty sweet, very relaxing and they have a no tipping policy. Of course this means their prices are higher, but I feel they’re worth it. The lady that does my eyebrows could wax each hair one at a time and I’d still be totally relaxed and almost fall asleep. Totally worth the money. Yes I could “do it myself” but if you know me, that clearly doesn’t happen – so I let myself get pampered a bit. Granted, thanks to my sensitive skin, I look like a fool when I leave the building; the skin around my eyebrows are super red. Next week Shannon and I go back and get pedicures! I’ll also be getting a manicure; I haven’t had one in … 6 years?!? No way.. maybe?

He’s not helping much.

I’m watching Fraiser. It’s funny.. (I told Matt this and he said “OMG it’s 1999!”). I’ve been watching a lot of Fraiser and TMZ the past few weeks. Why? BECAUSE I LIKE TO OKAY.

I’m also eating Jello. Can you guess what flavor? No not that one. Nope, no not that either. Almost.. yes Lime, you are right.

Something keeps clicking, maybe every.. 15 mins or so.. in the kitchen. I don’t know what it is, but I think it might be the dishwasher. It was fixed the other day .. and .. I dunno it clicks.

Well enough blabber.

The only important thing I will blog about today — Happy Birthday Sarah!

That is one year’s worth of training for the Ironman Florida triathlon – and it was done by my friend Kendra. I’m simply amazed and so proud of her. She’s spent all year training and in the midst of that, she was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Kendra described it best as, “a genetic autoimmune disease that causes my body to attack itself whenever I consume gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, and barley.” So that meant she had to really focus on what she could consume, especially when it came to foods that would help her while training.

If you want to check out her training, she’s been keeping a blog.

The big day is this Saturday (November 7th) and not only will she be out there swimming, biking and running in Florida, she’ll be doing it for a charity! She’s been raising funds for the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness.

She’s SO CLOSE to her goal. If you’re looking to do some donating here at the end of the year, now is the time. Any amount will help her out – she’s even offered up some nifty numbers to make things easier; like why not donate $63 as 63 is her bib number! Or maybe even $17 since Ironman has a 17 hour limit.

Way to go Kendra, you’re a great inspiration and I send you all the best of luck on Saturday!

[Help Kendra meet her fundraising goal!]

So poaching. I did a little Googling and decided to go with Mr Breakfast’s directions. It worked out brilliantly and I’m now a Poaching master. Watch out Iron Chef, here I come!

So keep reading.. cause later this week I’ll share with you my adventures in making TOAST. Ok just kidding. Actually the next thing I’m making are cake balls. Yes. Cake balls.