I’m in Oregon for the long weekend for my best friend’s wedding. It’s so beautiful here and I’m having a blast so far. I could definitely get used to this view.
I’m in Oregon for the long weekend for my best friend’s wedding. It’s so beautiful here and I’m having a blast so far. I could definitely get used to this view.
This is me today:
My sister is here visiting, and we had a really fun weekend, including a birthday party, a wedding, some power shopping, and a marathon binge session of “American Horror Story”. Possibly as a direct result of that last activity, I didn’t sleep very well last night, and I hit snooze for an entire hour before I managed to grudgingly drag myself out of bed.
I talked to my sister at lunch and she was cuddled up watching TV on the couch. I don’t want to be at work today, I want to stay home and bake cookies with her.
I heard from an old friend last night, and it was so nice. It’s easy to get busy with work and other things and not make as much effort to keep in touch, and before you know it, it’s been months or years since you’ve talked.
There are a lot of friends like that that I’ve made over the years, and then slowly, even though you still care about them and miss them, it gets harder and harder to keep in contact, as you know less and less about each other’s lives and actually getting on the phone and talking only makes that more obvious, and you start to doubt your friendship, and wonder if the other person even cares to hear from you anymore.
But then there are those people that you just click with, instantly. I don’t believe people only have one soul mate, and I don’t think that if you do have one, it necessarily needs to be romantic. There are just people in life that I have clicked with, sometimes honestly at first sight, and we’ve been friends ever since. And we’ll be friends forever because even if I never spoke to them again in my life, I know we’d still feel exactly the same way about each other.
Those are the kinds of friends that even if you don’t know the name of their dog, or even their address, you could see them after 10 years of not talking and pick up exactly where you left off, and those are the kinds of friends I am lucky enough to have.
For our anniversary a few weeks ago we went to see ZZ Top, Uncle Kracker and Kid Rock at the Shoreline in San Jose. It was, as my boss pointed out “The Most White Trash Concert I’ve Ever Heard Of”. It was really fun, people were dancing in the aisles and singing at the top of their lungs and they were selling tall cans of Bud Light Lime-arita. Legit.
ZZ Top was the best of the 3, they have the most amazingly deep voices, and the combination of that many sequins with that much beard has probably never been seen since or again.
Sadly my camera was confiscated as soon as I walked through the gate so I only had my phone to take pictures with and it wasn’t really up to the task, but I did get to wear my leather pants with my motorcycle boots without feeling like I was going trick or treating, so I’m going to call that a win.
I saw this video last year, and it really stuck with me. This couple was together for 5 years, and they are breaking up because he wants kids, and she doesn’t. They wrote a song together to break it to their friends and family, and explain the situation.
Even though it’s sad, you can tell they still really love each other, but they just know that sometimes, that’s not all there is to it. If they stayed together, one of them would eventually resent the other one because they weren’t able to do what they really wanted to do.
If you love someone, you want them to have the best life, and have everything they want, even if it means that you can’t be together.
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because, it wasn’t true love…”- The Alchemist.
Link to full article here.
I went to my first pottery class yesterday, and it was pretty neat. The instructor went over the basics with us, and then just kind of let us go, stopping to check in every once in awhile. We all got as much clay as we wanted so we were able to make lots of different things.
At first I made 2 bowls that looked exactly the same, and then a coffee mug that looked the same as both of my bowls. I think I was being a little bit hard on myself, I spent a really long time on each piece trying to get it perfect, but the people around me were just cranking through them one after another.
Our instructor was telling us how pottery is one of the most long lasting art forms, which is true, archaeologists are always finding pottery from ancient civilizations. Maybe one day, thousands of years from now, someone will find one of my pieces, and wonder what kind of society could have survived when it’s people were so bad at making pots.
I didn’t keep any of the pieces I made for the first class, I signed up for 3 classes so hopefully by the end of the third I’ll have improved enough to bring home a mug that will actually be able to hold coffee.
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| one of my pots will probably end up there eventually, let’s be honest |
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| this is where the magic happens |
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| pre-glazing |
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| finished works |
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| before |
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| after |
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| my first attempt at a plate. no bueno. |
Happy Friday!
It’s going to be a gorgeous weekend, and I’m pretty excited to sleep in and go for a nice long run tomorrow, and then to do some shopping.
But the thing I am MOST excited for is Sunday morning, I finally found a pottery class in the Bay that doesn’t cost your first born child to attend, and also offered weekend classes.
This is about to be me on Sunday, but with more Patrick Swayze (hopefully).
If you’re interested in taking a class, you can sign up with Create in Clay School of Ceramics, here. They offer classes 7 days a week, and it’s only $40 for a 3 hour class.
The same day that I had my first adventure at the SF Ferry building farmer’s market I also took the ferry across the Bay to Tiburon, which is something I’ve wanted to do since the first time I came to visit San Francisco.
We went to the wrong pier at first and almost missed the ferry and had to take a high speed pedi-cab ride to make it in time. Amanda was feeding the seagulls right off the back of the ferry and it was pretty neat until one almost took off her hand.
We wandered around Tiburon, poked around some cute little shops and ate some sinfully delicious chocolate truffles, and laid out on the grass where we had a front row seat to a happy couple taking photos on their wedding day.
We went to Sam’s for supper on the water, and just relaxed, it was a really great day.
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| our trusty stead |
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| wind blown |
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| Alcatraz (not Azkaban, which is what I accidentally call it most of the time) |
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| Such a funny face |
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| Gorgeous day on the Bay |
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| Eat ALL the things |
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| Soaking up sunshine |
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| Would love to live in one of those little brown houses |
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| Bubble man |
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| Homeward bound |
Our first wedding anniversary is on Sunday. I can’t believe it’s been a year already, it was such a fun weekend, and since I’m from Canada, and Derek is from California, and I met most of my best friends in Hawaii, it is probably the only time I’ll ever have all of my favourite people in one place, so it was really special to me.
I’ve always heard that your wedding day is really stressful, and that everything is going to go all wrong no matter how much work you put into it (thanks mom!), so when the caterer was an hour and a half late, and I spilled a bottle of red wine down my dress 10 minutes after the ceremony, I honestly didn’t even care. It was the best day.
I really don’t think anything has changed between Derek and I since we got married, things are basically the same, and we have a lot of fun together, so I guess I’ll keep him around for another year, if he is lucky.
This video will at the same time warm your heart, and also make you feel like you’re wasting your life. These kids are from a very poor village in Paraguay that is built on a landfill, but instead of feeling sorry for themselves, they are learning to play beautiful classical music on instruments made out of recycled trash.
The cello at :54 seconds in gave me chills. It’s pretty amazing.
loveliness. 