Fighting the Groggies

I was (still am) super tired on this less than spectacular Monday Morning.
It's been a heatwave everywhere we went this weekend (this included San Diego, Agoura Hills, Pasadena and Van Nuys)and although I was not running marathons or anything, I was feeling like a human fountain of sweat - so perhaps all my sweat glands are taking revenge on me by sucking my remaining energy from me today.

I still managed to get 25 minutes of dog walking in and about 25 minutes at the gym before starting work. Now at least i'll be tired, but not feeling guilty.

Comic-con was great. We spent all day Friday circling the booths and looking for cool random items to take home. Don't let the words "Comic Convention" fool you... I was there to find a great drawing to decorate our walls or neat t-shirts you can't buy anywhere else. It's a place where artists of all forms are there to display their goods... and some aren't so great... and others are simply magnificent. And San Diego is such as awesome city too. I would safely put it as a good second choice if i wanted to move out of L.A. :)

Cute as a Button

These are real cars! I happened to see this on a flipped open page of Automobile Magazine...

Can you imagine zipping around in one of these? Snuggle up next to a motorcycle that's parked in a car's spot. Parallel park just about anywhere! Get colored covers just like a cell phone so that you can match your car to your outfit! Drive around yelling "Beep Beep!"












It's called a REVA - India's First Electric Car heralds a new era of non-polluting, cost effective, quiet city mobility - A boon for city commuters. This elegant, light-yet rugged, two-door sedan comfortably seats 2 adults in the front and 2 children at the back.

Welcome to the world of the diminutive, battery-propelled go-car, the Reva Classé. The Reva's designed for a fair bit of intra-city commuting - from home to work and from work to home, for that bit of veggie shopping, to take the pets to the vet and back, to a restaurant for a candlelit dinner for two. It is fully automatic and runs on battery, with a rugged two-door hatchback and is easy to drive (no clutch / gears), easy to park and maneuver.

I'd have to pick the purple one myself... ;)

Makeup Counter Confessions

Is it just me, or does it seem that when someone other than yourself does your makeup, it looks dramatically overdone?
I had a gift card to spend, and I decided that getting nice makeup that wasn't on clearance at Longs to be putting it to good use. (Not to rag on those clearances... some of my longest lasting eyeshadows were from those sales!)

I even went so far as to bring a magazine... in case i needed to point out faces that I felt were 'ideal' makeup looks. Then I chickened out from showing it because I didn't want to accidentally offend Shiseido by showing Chanel faces or vice versa.

My little makeup session wasn't so bad though. I asked for more day to day "work" makeup and the results were still a little much, but I think i picked up a few tricks in the end. (...and easily used up the funds on my gift card.)

So what does my little prince Barklee think of his owner's updated face?



"You woke me up for what???"

Coolest T-shirt

Is this T-shirt by Esprit cool or WHAT!

a birthday worth remembeRING

Wow. This is what it feels like to be Twenty-nine. The leap from Twenty-eight felt incredibly wide. One number feels firmly planted in your twenties. The other is one step away from a new decade of numbers.

I didn't really feel like making my birthday a big deal this year. It's been an emotional year, and I think i was just worn out. So Herman said he'd take care of my 'day' and that was nice.

"We need to leave by 10" was the only clue I would get on my big day. So at 10:08am that morning we were on the road heading north.

"Camarillo, in 11 miles. Are you taking me shopping?" But we passed the outlet exit, so I wiped the shopping spree imagination out of my head.

"I'm taking you to some guy's nice house in oxnard" That was what was said when we took a wrong turn and started driving into some nice neighborhoods with million dollar homes. After a brief Thomas Guide stop, we were back on the path to my mystery birthday location.

"A Restaurant within a Resort" We arrived at our destination... a gorgeous beachside location and we had reservations at Capistrano's. It was so nice, a waterfall was the centerpiece to it's underground parking garage...

"Open Your Present" Inside the giant purple gift bag was a brand new Sony Video Cam that would be an upgrade to my old school Panasonic camcorder - plus this thing carried 30 GB of hard drive space. Herman even charged the batteries so that he could immediately test it out...

"We've been together for a while now..." The camera is rolling. Herman's holding a camera and fishing around in his pocket for something... he's kneeling down... I guess whatever you have to do to get the shot... he's putting a red velvet box on the table......

The rest is embarrassingly caught on video, with my face zoomed in for most of it. (Like it's not big enough!) And I wouldn't be ME if I didn't edit something cheesy together with the footage and then sticking it somewhere online. However, I had made plans to visit my folks the following day... (still here as I type this) and I don't have the right editing software to alter these MPG files. (I can't believe my trusty windows movie maker won't convert it right!) So for now, I leave you with a still shot from the footage instead... :)