Congratulations to Miranda and Nate!
Azalea, born February 12
Congratulations Sylvia and Larry!
Lexie, born February 19
Author: eaumaison (Page 180 of 210)
We had a fantastic three day weekend in beautiful San Francisco with my family. We stayed in a posh hotel near Union Square, next to lots of shopping.
That night we met with Drew for dinner and good old Ghiradelli ice cream.
Saturday morning we took a tour of Chinatown with Wok Wiz. Our guide Lola gave us cultural insights into the area, having grown up there. The tour capped off with a dim sum lunch.
At night we saw the local cabaret must-see Beach Blanket Babylon. I’ve seen it three times now, my parents much more. It’s a hilarious fast paced musical revue with pop culture parody. It’s been playing for 32 years and sells out every single show. They pack you into the Club Fugazi tight, elbow to elbow. But you forget about that as soon as the show starts.
Sunday we rented a car so we could cross the bridge to see our old house in Marin and the beach we used to visit.
We drove to Muir woods to ogle at the redwoods and sequoias. Despite huge crowds, the forest felt magical.
We crossed back into the city and did a driving tour of the Castro and Mission neighborhoods. We stopped to take photos of the pretty painted lady houses.
Then back to the hotel for a quick rest before eating a superb meal at Zingaro’s. I’m going to try to recreate my entree later this week. To walk off dinner we hiked up to the Grace Cathedral and walked the labyrinth.
That night I opened some birthday presents and ate Valentines chocolates. Ben and I had a fast, safe flight back to Denver early Monday morning. The Salt Lake crowd weren’t so lucky, but they eventually made it back too. We are all tired, like usual after a Waterhouse vacation, but we had a great time!
I took a wrong step today and fell splat on the gravely asphalt. Yuck. Just a big swollen bruise. Although I scratched up the casing of my cell phone I was holding, luckily it appears to be functioning still.
How nice that Ben had a Valentine gift to give to me today – these cuddly pajamas! My old set were 7 years old and shrunken from the wash. I’ve been wearing sweats and t shirts to bed. It’s so cozy to slip into these instead.
In other news, Miranda had her baby!! After a long labor (I think about 30 hours) she was finally delivered by c-section this morning. I’m so happy for them!
So very not pregnant. The only thing gestating in me is a nursing degree.
uhh, 4? I have to agree with mom that the short trim above the lip is kind of weird. But on a “gross out” scale it’s really not gross. Note how well the eyebrows complement the stache. Then again, I’m biased. Ben calls my crush on Edward James Olmos a “daddy crush.” 🙂
Bruce sorry I couldn’t include you in my scale, but I didn’t have a photo! I welcome other submissions though.
Intuition from Brian Omura on Vimeo.
I made some changes to my moustache scale in the previous post. You can click on it again in the original post to see the new one. With some reflection I decided some of the order wasn’t quite right, and I wanted to change some of the representation. I take these things very seriously. Serious.
Ben wanted me to point out that this is a “gross out” scale. That means 1 is the least gross, and 10 is the most gross.
Songs and Bands I wish were in Rock Band
1) Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
2) Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
3) I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness
4) Don’t Tell Me – Madonna
5) Don’t Speak – No Doubt
6) Psychokiller – Talking Heads
7) Birdhouse – TMBG
Here are some of the good things we’ve been eating.
Magic bars, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, and coconut on a graham cracker crust.
Steamed cabbage rolls with sweet and sour pork.
Roasted turkey, potatoes, and acorn squash.
Cupcakes!
Balsamic rosemary chicken skewered with cubes of brie.
The lovely spread for our Movie Club showing of Marie Antoinette.
And here are the few crafts I’ve been doing.
A Wool & Hoop embroidery kit project.
A design I came up with myself (well, inspired by some stuff I found online, but mostly mine).
A cotton dishcloth. I need to make more of these with a thicker pattern. Maybe cables…
Ben is growing a moustache. Yesterday he asked me “on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being Tom Selleck and 10 being John Waters, where is my moustache?” I placed it at about a 6, but it’s only partly grown in. We hope it will place a 4 or 3 when grown in. His scale intrigued me. What would a full moustache scale look like? I came up with the following. (Click to get the full sized view).
Doing this lead me to create the three laws for judging the awesomeness (and skeeviness) of moustaches:
1) A thick moustache almost always better than a thin one.
2) Moustaches look better on older men.
3) The eyebrows must match the moustache in bushiness.
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