Cake for Breakfast

We had a really good weekend spending time doing what we love best, with each other and with good friends. ::smile:: The weather wasn't the best for San Diego. It was overcast and cloudy, and actually kind of cold, with highs in the low 60's. But we can't complain as we have year-round great weather, so this little glitch was alright with us. I had cake for breakfast this morning! So bad I know, but it was sitting there on the counter calling my name. Our next door neighbor Annie made it and brought it over for our get-together lunch yesterday. It's chocolate with light chocolate frosting and caramel sauce. Inside has cherries. Yum! Sally came over yesterday too, and it was so great to see her. I hadn't seen her in almost a month it seems. Dad finally made it home from Europe on Saturday. He went to France and various cities in Italy, plus Monaco. I'm going to visit him this weekend and check out his photos. I did get a chance to work out some this weekend. I walked a lot. I got to go to the beach and take a walk on Saturday, plus have Bongiornos pizza! I watched Grey's Anatomy. I am a couple of episodes from the season finale. I also watched Juno. What a great movie! I cried and cried, although I think I might have been extra-emotional due to the fact that I am off my medication that I've been on for a year, after my panic attacks. I'm still getting used to being off the meds. It does seem like I feel the highs and lows a little more, but we'll see. It's back to work Tuesday today. I've got stuff to do for work, plus some bills to pay.

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Friday Favorite

It is Memorial Weekend and the Sweet Shoppe Designs blog wants to know what one of my favorite red, white, or blue kit is. I took a lookie around and found this one by Micheline Martin:

My Blue Valentine

It's cute and red, white and blue!

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May Songbird Avenue kit

If you haven't seen this HUGE collaboration between some super-awesome designers at Songbird Avenue, you NEED to go take a look!

Take Flight

The designers who worked on this kit include: Shabby Princess, Dianne Rigdon, Gina Miller, Robin Carlton, Carrie Stephens, Nancie Rowe-Janitz, Amy Wolff, Jenna Desai, Kate Hadfield, Jacque Larson, Michelle Coleman, Shabby Miss Jenn, Susan Bartolini, Kate Teague, Leora Sanford, Meredith Fenwick, Jan Crowley and Janet Phillips. Now if that's not an all-star line-up, I don't know what is! Go pick it up because it's only available in May. After that it will be permanently retired! 100% of the proceeds from this kit will benefit the Susan K. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research.

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I love food

This past week I've eaten so many good things! And I did exercise a couple of times too... Let's see... Tuesday night I took Todd to Cafe Japengo in La Jolla. I had a free $100 Night On The Town allowance from work, because of something extra I did a while back. I got the seared scallops and potato cakes with lemongrass beurre blanc. Todd got the Kobe Flat Iron Steak with wasabi mashed potatoes, bok choy, and hon shemiji mushrooms with ginger-port reduction. Both were yummy and full of flavor. Oh, I also had a crab cake appetizer. Todd doesn't eat crab so I got it for myself! :) Then for dessert I had the chocolate lava cake with vanilla gelato and fresh fruit, while Todd had cinnamon dusted tempura banana with caramel sauce and ganache with vanilla gelato. Todd wolfed it down so fast and said it was one of the best desserts he'd ever had! Then Wednesday night after dinner, after I cleaned up the dishes, Todd said I could go to Yogurt World. Who am I to turn down Yogurt World, so off we went. I just love their original tart flavor with sliced almonds and little white choco chips. So good! Thursday evening we went running at Miramar Lake. Afterwards we went to Chile Peppers for our favorite Mexican food. I had 3 rolled chicken tacos and scarfed them down really fast. Then I got another three because I was still hungry. But I gave Todd one so I wasn't SUPER piggy, just slightly piggy. Yesterday we went running at the beach in Encinitas. It was hot already at 10 AM. So we put our time in, then went over to Bongiornos nearby and had our favorite pizza. That pizza is soooo good. Then about 5:00 PM we drove down to Bread & Cie so Todd could get his favorite brownie. He claimed that it's his "birthday brownies", even though his birthday was back in Feb. But his sister Amy had bought the brownies for him and they never delivered them, so I guess they're still his birthday brownies.

After that we went to BaiYook for Thai food. It used to be our favorite Thai food but somehow this time it was different and we're not sure why. After dinner, we went to nearly Balboa Park to just walk around and enjoy the weather and the scenery. We're so lucky to live in San Diego. Balboa Park is so pretty. We brought our tripod with us, and now we have some good photos of both of us together! Speaking of photos, here is one we took at Balboa Park. I have a trial version of Adobe Lightroom, and I am starting to love it for photo editing. It is SO much easier than Photoshop! I went from the first photo (SOOC) to the second photo in 2 clicks!

Today we're just sticking around the house. I'm catching up on some digi-scrapping stuff. This weekend has been quite warm around here, like in the 90's. So we've got the A/C going. I'll be back later this week to post some scrap stuffs.

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Color Quiz

I did this color quiz on the internet today. It's not totally accurate but I'll highlight a couple of things that seem to fit me. "Anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to explore all its possibilities, and to live it to the fullest. She therefore resents any restriction or limitation being imposed on her and insists on being free and unhampered." "Open to new ideas and possibilities which she hopes will prove fruitful and interesting." I'm always open to new possibilities, even though I am cautious and will evaluate things before I try them, especially if I'm unsure about it! And the "living to the fullest" is dead on. It's basically been my mantra for years.

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