Brennan turned 1 today!

Life is nice for a dog, huh?

for one, This is bad-ass. Ali, I think you need that in your front yard!

Secondly...
Place, Chip Time, Pace: 445/493, 1:38:33, 15:52/M in the 10K yesterday! (I walked the whole way with short jolts of a jog down hills and past the finish line!)

Cucumber, red bell pepper (my personal favourite), early girl tomato and cherry tomato (in back) and basil (small box in the front)

Still pretty emotional so my boss let me skip the morning meeting and go for a walk. I sit here looking at the arena wishing to whatever god is out there to have one of the sharks management come ask
me to join their work-force. It's all I've ever wanted was to work in sports. It's a long ways away, tho. I feel so limited and stuck all too often - even with the other offering/option. We'll see.

best...icons...evar LOL

My co-worker is in LA for a training and he went to the game...and took a pic of Tony for me! :):):)

Down the street it was both 10 cents lower AND higher!

GO A'S!!!

An artichoke and a chili pepper hung out on a bench one day and agreed, "my, what a pair we will always be!"

Really. Seriously? Lawn bowling? Well, at least it's free!

Oooo. . .look at the pretty lights

At Sex in the City opening day with my friend. It's a total cougar-filled theatre.

Not a fab band but decent sound considering where they are playing. We have super wonderful seats for the show tho!

go figure i finally finish this up when Ali is in Africa! Good grief!

So back in March my darling dear friend Ali (aka rosey27 came to visit...cuz she's just that bitchin'. We took lots of pix...most of which she has already posted cuz she's way more on top of things than me! Now I'm finally posting mine...and hers :) We hit up a variety of places - Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Napa, Big Sur, San Francisco...even found something to do in rusty-ol' San Jose.

My pix

Pix of Platehead Connor (thanks Lisa & Ken for sending him with us so soon after he was born! What a crazy party animal your kid is!!!!!!!!!!)

Ali's pix (ali has pix from Big Sur...I didn't have any room on my camera for that last day)

So, let's see, what can I recall from all that fun we had...outside of my dog getting super sick and later getting diagnosed with pancreatitis :(

Ali flies in...we kick back at the house. Next day we hit up Santa Cruz with Mom and took a longish walk along the cliffs. Next day we went to the Egyptian Museum in San Jose...which never has anything different...but I have to admit I get freaked out whenever near the mummies. I keep thinking they are going to rise from the dead and come get me for staring or something. I just find it slightly disturbing when bodies are dug up, don't you? Doesn't that disturb their soul that was arranged in that way for a reason? Hmph.

Anyhow...next two days were Wine Country (Napa & Sonoma). Had some FANTASTIC food while we were there. YUMMMMMMMMMM. Especially Rutherford Grill. Mostly cuz they gave me the recipes for a few things :) And the Portuguese restaurant in Sonoma...Represent bitches!!!
We drank lots, laughed like nothing else, and had a fucking fun time...even tho the Sterling Winery gondola wasn't working :( And the dude chatting up the Republican ladies next to us. *uch*
On the way to Sonoma we went to the Petrified Forrest. Learned how trees become petrified. Apparently it has nothing to do with getting scared. Damn.
In Sonoma, mom got a bit tipsy and began to skip around like a kid at the BR Cohn winery. This was mostly cuz the owner was the Doobie Brothers manager. I have never seen my mom so excited in my entire life. Seriously. She was ecstatic. It was slightly disturbing, in fact LOL

Next day...hiking in San Francisco along the Pacific coast area. Great views...fucking crazy stair cases. Oi! I don't think I've bitched that much in my life! But it was well worth it. We started at the Legion of Honor and hiked around to China Beach and then back to the Legion where we ate lunch...and were stalked by a billion crazy birds. They wouldn't leave us alone! Then they flew away in a pack - like their mother got home and yelled to get their asses back to the tree. So weird. We then drove to the Sutro Baths to explore. Cool place, but it really upset me to see how people defaced the ruins with spray paint "claiming their turf"...fuckers. Afterwards we went to the movies to watch Zombies take over the world.

Next day we stayed home to rest after the day of hiking. This was also when Cleo got super sick and we had to take her to see Doc...who is not looking healthy these days! :( Cleo apparently has pancreatitis (sp?) and has to remain on a bland diet for the rest of her life...aka boiled chicken, rice, cottage cheese. Gross.

Next day...haircuts! Ohhhhhhhhh how fab it felt to chop off just about 10 inches of hair and finally get to donate it! I've always wanted to do that :)

Ali's last full day of her trip we drove down the coast to Big Sur and picnic'd at Bixby Bridge. This is where we watched Ponch & Donald Sutherland investigate the bridge. To clarify - there was this random cop looking down the top of the bridge towards the base. Later, this other dude (a detective, from what we could tell) came by and was observing with him. Cop looked like Ponch from CHiPs and the detective looked like Donald Sutherland...hence the names. I think Ali has a couple pix of that. I still want to know what the hell was going on down there!

SANTA CLARA VALLEY... INCLUDING SAN JOSE- 607 AM PDT FRI MAY 16 2008

...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING...

THIS EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS BEING ISSUED UTILIZING THE NEW HEAT HEALTH WARNING SYSTEM. IT IS SPECIFIC TO THE AREAS INCLUDED IN THIS HEAT WARNING. IT IS TARGETED AT THE ELDERLY OR INFIRMED... WHO MIGHT BE MUCH MORE SENSITIVE TO HEAT AND THUS AT GREATER RISK. INDIVIDUALS WHO FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL BY DRINKING PLENTY OF WATER AND SEEKING A COOLER LOCATION FOR THE DAY IF NO AIR CONDITIONING IS AVAILABLE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT FRIENDS OR RELATIVES CHECK FREQUENTLY ON THOSE WHO MIGHT BE PRONE TO HEAT SENSITIVITY.

ALSO...NEVER LEAVE CHILDREN...ELDERLY OR PETS UNATTENDED IN ENCLOSED VEHICLES...EVEN FOR A SHORT TIME. TEMPERATURES QUICKLY RISE TO LIFE- THREATENING LEVELS EVEN WHEN THE WINDOWS ARE PARTIALLY OPENED.



Yesterday was in the 100s...when I got home at 5:15 pm it was over 100. At 8 pm it was 95. At 11 pm it was 85-90. This morning at 6 AM it was already 80. (this is all Fahrenheit, btw). Not sure what it is right now, but the supposed high is 97....it will probably be over 100 again. and i have NO A/C in my car...and pretty much work out of it. fun. really. i swear. damnit. i should be in the pool!