Padres Fanfest + A Cat Circus

Last Saturday (2/8) we met up with our good friends AJ & Meera downtown at Petco Park for the Padres Fanfest.  Baseball season is almost here!

We got to walk around the whole stadium and look at it from different seats.  We took lots of photos, and generally had a great time.  We could have stood in line for a long time to tour the locker room and clubhouse, but we opted to just hang out.

It was a really gorgeous day, if you couldn’t tell by the blue skies and tshirts.  :)

AJ took this photo of us on top of the visitor dugout.  It’s my fave.

We walked around with AJ to find some lunch at the stadium.  Unfortunately, Phil’s BBQ stand was not open.

The boys in front of the stadium.

We finally settled for a stadium cheeseburger for me and a pulled pork sandwich for Todd.  For a $12 burger it really sucked, lol.  The patty tasted like a frozen burger thawed and grilled.  The cheese wasn’t even melted.  And the bun?  It’s like a bun from a pack of grocery store buns.  Yuck. Todd’s pulled pork sandwich was slightly better.

The small boys really enjoyed clinging onto Uncle Todd.

We even got a photo with the Padres mascot, the Friar!

Makes me want to go back to Arizona for Spring Training again.

After the Padres Fanfest, we drove a few blocks to see a cat circus.  We had seen an ad for the touring Acrocats at the Victory Theater a while back.  I’ve always wanted to see a cat circus, so we got tickets right away, lol. 

When we got there the cat bus was parked out front. 

There must have been about 16 cat performers in the cat circus.  They each had specialties.  They stayed in their respective cages until the door opened for them to come out.  They each performed their tricks and then a whistle would blow and they would go straight back into the cage.  Very well-trained.  Once in a while a cat would dart out into the audience to explore, lol.  The stage was set up like this.

The show started with some other animals, such as this ground hog.

And this chicken.

This cat is number one!

Pushing a cart.

Jumping through hoops.

And walking on barrels & balls.

They made cat training look easy.  And we all know that it’s not, ha ha!  The cat circus was very entertaining and well worth-it.  The finale was the Rockcats.  A band of three cats and a cymbal/tambourine playing chicken.  Hilarious!

We had a lot of fun both at the Padres Fanfest with AJ & Meera and at the cat circus.  It was quite a day!

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Today

Today:

• is Valentine’s Day.  It is also the day that my mom went to heaven seven years ago.  On this day and always, she is my most special Valentine.  I miss her so.  <3
• is my first day off from work this year.  I’m very excited, especially since work has been hard and grueling since December.  I finally submitted the final 2014 budget yesterday.
• I also celebrate Todd, the love of my life.  He’s everything to me.
• I’m spending the day organizing my craft studio (again).  I am almost done.  My workflow changes have made it necessarily to rearrange.  Plus it’s so good to know what I have so I use my stuff.
• I’m picking up Indian takeout from Punjabi Tandoor to celebrate with Todd.
• I had a good weigh-in.  I’ve lost the vacation/holiday weight.  Now to move on to the goal weight that I set for myself back in July.
• I’m organizing some pre-digital photos to send for scanning.
• I’m enjoying some alone time and scrapbooking.
• I’m… mostly, I’m just missing my mom and remembering her. 

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2014 Project Life | January Part 2

I finished January Project Life pages this weekend.  I cleaned up my craft room and then promptly covered my whole tabletop again working on my pages.

I planned out my pages in Lightroom before printing out the photos.  I wrote a post with a video about planning Project Life pages in Lightroom last year.  At first when I planned out my pages, I tried to squeeze my January Part 2 photos all onto 2 pages (Design A & Design D).

But that didn’t leave very much room for journal cards & embellishments, so I added a third page (the back of Design D).

That gave my photos a lot more room to breathe.  My final layouts is still slightly different than this, but planning it out gave me ideas of which photos I wanted to print full-size at 4x6 and which ones to print smaller.

To see my pages from the first half of January, click here.

January page 4:  We had lunch with AJ & Meera and the kids at Chipotle; went running at the coast; Noodle antics; dinner with Dejah & Roby at China Max.

Supplies:  One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digital kit; washi tape, sequins, date stamp, Sharpies pens, AC Amy Tangerine “Cut & Paste” mini PL kit; WRMK File Tab Punch; Studio L2e “Labels & Tabs” and “Labels & Tabs: Sentiments” stamp sets; Catslife Press cat stamp; Simple Stories Sn@p letter stickers; Elise Cripe “You Are Here” stamp.

Closer looks:

January page 5:  I got braces; I had lunch with Julio at Ortegas; We went to Sat night church; Todd and I put the finishing edges on my DIY Craft Island; Noodle cuteness.

Supplies:  One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digital kit and journal cards; washi tape, date stamp; AC Dear Lizzy Neapolitan mini PL kit; arrow paper clip; Evalicious Camera Love Puffy Stickers.

Closer looks:  I made the left side 6x4 journal card digitally using the One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digi kit.  The cassette tape was also from the digital kit.

January page 6:  Chinese New Year lunch at Pearl with work friends.  I only filled up half the page, so I’ll add some photos from February when I work on that this weekend.  It doesn’t bother me at all that January photos end mid-page.

I diversified this time and used a Design D page protector, not just Design A!  :) 

Other Project Life Supplies That I Always Use:

• Adobe Lightroom
• We R Memory Keepers 12x12 faux leather album
• Project Life page protectors
• Sharpie pens
• Date stamps
• Scotch ATG
• Glue dots
• Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
• Cutterbee scissors

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Around Here

Around here |  I printed out photos for Project Life for the 2nd half of January.  I also printed out some digital goodies from One Little Bird’s digital kit “Positive Spin” and journal cards, for use in my Project Life pages.  I’m in love with the cassette tapes.

 

Around here | Todd celebrated a birthday.  The birthday boy got a fitting breakfast and we went out to dinner at Buona Forchetta for his favorite pizza.

 

Around here | I celebrated Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse) by going out to dim sum lunch at Pearl with some work friends.  There were dragon dances and we fed the dragon red envelopes for good luck. 

 

Around here | Last Saturday we went to the Little Italy Mercado (farmer’s market).  It was a glorious blue-skied sunny day.  At the market you could see all the way to the nearby ocean.  There was lots to see and we purchased some awesome veggies to cook this week.

We had lunch at Mama’s Lebanese Deli afterwards.  Yum.

We also stopped by Blick Art nearby, where I purchased some art & calligraphy supplies.  So excited to use them!

 

Around here | We also hibernated and relaxed.  Sometimes the best part about weekend mornings is just laying around the couch and reading blogs on Feedly on my iPad. 

And watching the three episodes of Sherlock Season 3.  So fantastic!

Apparently, Noodle feels the same way about hibernating.  Except he likes to sit on Todd’s lap and snooze and purr.  And watch Sherlock and the Super Bowl.

 

Around here | We cooked lots of delicious food.  Most of which I have to cut into little pieces so I can eat with my new braces on. 

Turkey Piccata (we made it with chicken) + sauteed Chinese broccoli

Had to cut it all up at work for lunch the next day, so I could eat it with braces on without looking like a savage.

Creamy Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup

Thai Grilled Beef Salad – took me forever to eat it, but so good.

And lastly…

Around here | We watched Jay Leno’s last Tonight Show.  The show is moving from Burbank to NYC.  While I’m excited to see it with Jimmy Fallon, I feel nostalgic.  Definitely an end to an era.  I had to dig out our photo from Nov. 12, 1997 when we went to the Tonight Show at NBC Studios in Burbank.  The guests that night were Tim Russert and Matt LeBlanc.  We were still living in Ohio, but visiting my parents in LA and friends in San Diego.  Little did we know two years later we would move here.

Around here | After a full week of work, I’m glad it’s the weekend again.

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