Ok, so I'm kind of embarrassed at how much I love watching The Hills, but I think this about sums it up. (crap, does Vox let you embed those links and I'm too stupid to figure it out?!)
The Whole Foods in Redwood City now lets you make your bag refund donation to the Nine Lives Foundation. Some of you may know that's where I got the adorable Baz (see below - SO CUTE).
Bring a bag to Redwood City
And help save a very cute kitty!
It's getting all Little House on the Prairie up in here.
Fall brings cooler weather (THANK GOD) which means:
1) Better wardrobe opportunities. Think coats, friends, think coats. Everyone looks better in a coat.
2) My nesting instincts. Last weekend I cleaned out two closets (ruthless!) and this weekend I'm ...
Making. Jam.
I'm wearing an apron, making jam. JCWTF?! That's what fall does to me!
I picked up a flat of strawberries at the farmer's market this morning and then the rest of the ingredients (um, pectin) at Draeger's and boom: I'm makin' jam. Now, this is freezer jam, mind, so not so hard in the end, but nonetheless I am taking food and storing it away for winter. Like, next I'll be slaughering my own chickens or putting potatoes in the cellar or something.
Well, no. Instead, after I clean up the jam making remains, I'll be making a pumpkin pie and then some thai curry for dinner.
As far as I can tell, the only thing wrong with Prison Break this year is the distinct and gaping hole left by the absence of Kellerman.
Sigh.
Not only do I hate sci fi, but the main character looks like Tom Cruise, who I loathe and yet... I am kind of enjoying Torchwood. Huh.
I spent the latter part of last week in Columbus, Ohio where we have a small office. I'd never been out there and we have a newish person on staff and the other person is due to have a baby soon so I figured it would be a nice time to head out, see the place and say Hi. And, now with Skybus (actually, not as bad as one might think. Sort of like flying in a commercial) being so cheap out of Oakland it was even more imperative.
Columbus is a nice place, particularly their Short North area. I didn't have as much time to explore it as I'd have liked but I liked what I saw immensely. Ohio State University is in Columbus and it's very obvious the influence it has, particularly at the breakfast room of the hotel on Saturday morning as OSU prepared to play Akron. As the only person not wearing red I stuck right out in that crowd.
(A buckeye is a nut. And Buckeyes are nuts about their football - they announced the score on the plane.)
We had a really great dinner at Rosendale's, which I can highly recommend for anyone thinking of going to Columbus. I would not, though, recommend the beet ice cream. I don't know what I was thinking... I'd love to go back and have a tasting menu with wine pairing there as they have a sommelier on staff (he served our wine I think - though I picked it all by myself). I'm not really a big drinker but since I was eating out every night I think I had a drink every night as well. If I could get someone to make me cocktails at home like those I drank in Columbus I'd probably take up the habit. Those buckeyes can make a good cocktail!
So yeah, that was fun and I hope to be able to go back again in the not too distant future. Maybe when there's some snow in the ground.
I've arrived back in California to find the weather has turned a little cooler, much appreciated. I will have to undertake a summer-to-fall closet purge soonish. I think I'm going to have to be particularly vicious and the coat/jacket front this time around.
When I do undertake my Fall Purge (tm) I'll be using the Tim Gunn priciples. I saw the premiere of his show while I was in Columbus and really liked it. I wish they'd never ever do the life coach guy again (more Tim please!) but I love it's sensibility and heart. And when Tim cried at the end, I cried too. What a lovely man.
