December 2008
WatchHow Joe Met Meghan, as told by Stephen Bolles at Joe’s 30th birthday.
A year ago plus a day
A year and a day ago I started this blog with a lovely photo of my god daughter Maya. 28 pages of drivel later the blog is still going *relatively* strong. I wish I posted more, I wish I had more creative things to say, but that is the case for most things in my life. So I just wanted to thank anybody who has read this blog, or continues to read or might read it someday. Its nice to know people...
Ride Along with Andrew →
My friend Andrew will be doing the AIDS Lifecycle 8, a 545 mile bike trek from San Francisco to Los Angeles. While some may call this “crazy” you have to support and respect a guy for willingly jumping into this! GO ANDREW!
The Oprah Hug
Last night, at Velvet Cantina with Kelley, Jenn, Cara and Sarah, I was introduced to the Oprah Hug. What is that you may ask? That’s when someone goes in for a hug and instead of embracing you grab their hands with yours and do a kind of open mouth, tad bit of wailing, shake. Its actually kind of brilliant. So, as the holidays get closer and there will be many people going in for the warm...
“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I’m...”
– David Sedaris
“It distresses us to return work which is not perfect”
– Peter O’Toole’s chosen tombstone epithet, taken from a dry cleaner’s note stuck on a battered jacket.
Movies I want to see
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Rachel Got Married
3. The Wrestler
4. Gran Torino
5. Revolutionary Road
Anyone interested in joining?
I have been really lame on the blogging front
The last three months have seemed to fly by, not that it should be any excuse. But many pictures and stories should be coming over the next few days. I am working on getting into a more regular pattern over here, and blogging is definetly part of it. Am also trying to figure out how to have my twitter feed show up here, but if not check my out there. My very secretive and creative twitter name is...
“Julia Child began learning to cook when she was thirty-seven years old. She...”
– The Julie/Julia Project
“Too many people are spending money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t...”
– Will Rogers, as quoted in “The Law of Subtraction” over on the Huffington Post. Thank you to reader Monica, who sent this to me. (via juliaallison)
