Inhereting Stuff

So my mom started giving me some jewelery that used to belong to my grandmother on my father's side. For some reason, even as a pastor's wife, she had loads of jewelery...soome of it was costume and some of it was real but all of it was rather interesting. She passed away when I was in grade school and they had divided up her jewelery and passed it to all the kids. My mom got this ring which I had always admired as a kid...and now it's mine - mwha ha ha.

I have just always thought it was such a pretty color and shape with the delicate prongs. I'm thinking of having it re-set but the moms was pretty adamant that I wasn't "allowed to do that" so maybe I'll just get the tongs tightened....

Movie Review: The Happening

Not even worth my time in finding an image of the movie poster to use in this post. I liked Signs and The Sixth Sense but in this movie, all the suspense seemed like a bunch of cheap tricks...arg. Would it kill him to develop the characters or the storyline a little more? And really, he's got some money now so can't he get some other people to write the script, produce and direct the movie so he doesn't have to do all of it himself...you know, in a vaccum?

You want to know what was "happening?" A whole lotta nothing!
And it was the fucking plants! The plants were killing the people by releasing toxins.

My new uniform

Above I am modeling my latest cooking uniform....Hiroko got me the cutest cupcake apron for my birthday and this weekend was my first weekend wearing it. Thanks Hiroko!

Recently Forrest joked that I needed to get a "cake decorating uniform" something like a track suit, etc that I wear when I am in my baking zone... The man is crazy - but I think this new apron fits the bill.

Movie Review: Sex and the City

This weekend Hiroko put together a viewing of Sex in the City in the Marina...so I joined Susi, Vanessa, Melissa and Hiroko at Circa for cosmos and then over to the Marina theater for the 7pm showing.

Gotta tell ya - it was everything I hoped / wanted it to be....it was like an extended season finale, perfectly wrapping up all of the storylines neatly but not without a bumpy journey before getting there. The ending showed the characters in their true form...the type of people they were originally portrayed in the begininning of the series, finally reaching a place where they reach their goals, mature and are still exactly who they want to be.

I can't wait to get the DVD so I can add it to my Sex and the City collection :)

Fish Tales

I swear - I really caught that fish. Monday the in-laws setup a fishing trip in the Rogue River. Randy was our guide on the river and setup all of the fishing logistics for us. After sitting around in the boat for most of the morning, my fishing line caught onto something.....

It was a 15 minute struggle of me reeling in, then the fish taking more line, then me reeling in... it seemed like an exercise in futility at some point as we were fighting over the same 2 feet of fishing line over and over. Finally, I got the damned fish to the surface of the water and HOLY CRAP we all almost shit our pants when we caught sight of this monster. My arms still hurt from this experience and it's been 3 days.

Once we finally netted the fish and got it to shore to measure, we realized that it was freaking HUGE. We also noticed that it was a "native" salmon and therefore we had to throw it back. If the fin was clipped, it would indicate that it was a hatchery bred salmon and approved for human plunder. With recent decline in wild salmon, there are efforts to ban fishing in certain regions in hopes of increasing the spawning for future fishing seasons.

So here are my fish's stats...
45" long
26.5" girth
42 pounds (approx based on length/girth fish formula)

Roadtrip to Oregon

We went up to Ashland, OR for a few days to meet up with Forrest's parents . For those that are unfamiliar, Ashland is home to the largest Shakespeare festival in the US....and now it has expanded to the single largest theater company or something in the country that includes other non-Shakespearean plays as well.

Since it was a 6 hour drive from San Francisco, we decided to split up the drive....Forrest driving the first part and me driving the second half....I took a nap during the first half of the drive, much to the joy of Forrest - as it provides him the opportunity to take pictures of me sleeping with my mouth open (awesome).

Aging Gracefully

This picture is about 3 years old...but I apparently don't have that many recent pictures of myself, instead I have loads and loads of pictures...of food, particularly pastries.

So yesterday I celebrated another birthday, meaning I am now at the ripe old age of 31. I am officially in my 30's now. No more raging parties, late nights or even shots....Thank Goodness as in my old age it is getting harder and harder to get up in the morning...lol. Have a great rest of the weekend you'all.