Welcome to California

Now please proceed to finding a place to buy a fleece.

If you are ever in the city during the summer you can spot a tourist from a mile away, why, because they are wearing one of these bad boys.

Source: Only in San Francisco

Which can be found here any near any of the wharfs, but look now they are online. Seriously these are the biggest seller in the city. Now why does this come up? Because I have been wearing this guy all week:

Honestly I think Northern California keeps North Face in business. Don't get me wrong I am by no means complaining, my favorite outfit is jeans, a sweater and my chucks, but for the east bay it is weird. Next week we are supposed to be back up into the 80's though so for the time being I am going to soak up my mid 70 days and below 60 nights. 

Certainly going to enjoy some of this "outside weather" this weekend. Here is to a very stressful week being almost over and to our project hopefully getting way more progress this weekend. What project, oh this one.

The retaining wall that started falling down hard core after one of our last big storms, remember here. So we have been working hard this week and has gotten to this point, who am I kidding M has done all the work. The wall is out, and the digging has begun. Now the post holes have to be dug and cement and poles in then the wood actually has to be placed back and then the dirt will then have to be refilled in. Oh and draining is being added, we he DOES NOT want to do this again.

In good news about this is hopefully i can get those planks sanded down well enough to make our very own reclaimed wood table! Woop woop that would be awesome. So here is to a busy weekend.

Cheers!

Save me San Francisco

And then he said let there be light, or in my case fog.

(from wiki)

Seriously this heat is killing me! The fact that I can open the windows tonight I am absolutely loving. Call me a wimp but I grew up in the middle of the bay, literally on an island in the bay. So when temperatures are in the high 90's and 100's I turn into a big whiny baby and stay in doors. I hope the cooler whether sticks around for the weekend because my yard is screaming, "help me". Our wine barrel guest book is calling to be sealed, and Chloe is dying for an open space walk. So here is to crossing our fingers that it will at least cool down to below 90, oh that would be lovely.

Killing it.

Until I get my life together again (i.e. laundry, clean house, write thank yous, finish putting the corner of gifts away) I will be sharing pictures cause really who wants to know the daily details of getting my house orderly again? And I need to get it orderly again so I can start an outlet for my creative side again. Maybe build some more furniture, make throw pillows for the seesters. Thinking these pillows from Ballard Designs would be really fun to make for one of the seesters

(find them here)

But off to get this butt to work so I can get home and start the clean up the house process. So I leave you with this on this glorious Friday morning.

Seriously our photographer rocked it. Candice you are amazing!

(From our day after shots with Candice from Serendipity Studios).

BBQ and Country, What?!?!?

That's right, in the Bay Area, WHAT? And San Francisco none the less and San Francisco is about as non-country as you get but that is right the Zac Brown Band is coming to Fort Mason. See more information here: 95.7 the Wolf. So excited, now I just need to convince M that it is worth taking a day off from skydiving to go. I mean the city at the end of July should have excellent weather, BBQ, country music and I am sure alcohol. Country fans are the most party hard, well maybe not but at least everyone is there to have a good time.

So if you like country music check it out, and send some words of encouragement M's way since I need all the help I can get to help convince him that it will be wayyy more fun then skydiving.

East Coast vs. West Coast

Ok so my favorite thing about the west coast (more specifically California and the Bay Area) is the weather. I LOVE San Francisco (and no we NEVER say Frisco) is the mild temperature and the fog, yep I love fog. So this morning when I got off bart and saw the weather I stopped for a minute.  Kinda needed to make sure I knew where I was, cause this is the weather:

Yep, it says 91% humidity. I came in and told my co-worker from Boston to take this weather back with him because I definitely feel like I am in Boston. 

Heaven in a paper wrapper

So I came into work this morning thinking it was going to be your average Tuesday, well it was not. My co-worker called me over to his desk and thinking it was something work related I started the "walk" mind you its like 10 steps over there.  As I walk up to his desk I see this pink box sitting on his desk. I kinda went a little crazy (I literally started jumping up and down saying oh my gosh) so I provided a little early morning entertainment.

So what was it?  A coconut cupcake from Kara's cupcakes. My absolute fav!!!! So I ate it for breakfast, so so so good. I miss living in the city, everday there is something that reminds me of everything I loved so much about city living and Kara's is one of them. Hopefully once I have the house of my own that little tinge of pain that strikes of all the greatness of the city will go away. I mean really how many people can say they rode the worlds only moving historical landmark to work everyday, not many and I used to be one. Ahhhh San Francisco..