This kind of cracked me up this morning. Maybe it's only funny because I love browsing Ikea and poking fun at the silly sounding item names? If I were a piece of furniture from a major Swedish company whose colors are blue and yellow and for shall not be named in this name generator, this would be me:
I would like to think I'd be something more interesting, maybe at least a cool arm chair with pretty modern upholstery, but thems the breaks. Find out what your name would be here.
Happy Friday!
My sister came in to town this weekend with 2 month old Jasper and we did some adventuring. We wandered around Rockridge in Oakland, had some fancy hot chocolate at the Bittersweet Cafe, and took a trip across the bay to the DeYoung Museum on one of the prettiest days we have had here in the Bay Area in quite a while. It's nice to spend time with family especially when it involves lots of art, laughter, and baby cuddling. There may have also been a little Miss America pageant watching, but I won't go in to that... All told it was an excellent weekend, here's hoping that this is a sign of an excellent week to come.
It's been raining, drizzling, dripping, and generally icking, pretty much non stop in these parts for the past couple weeks. El Nino has arrived and I've gotta say that it's been a little depressing. Especially because my adorable red scooter has been locked up in the garage and I have to wait at the soggy bus stops every day. Especially because that bus is taking me to work where everything is especially busy and hectic. It also doesn't help I'm fighting some kind of bug... But enough complaining! This blog ain't no pity party.
One of the things that is getting me through this little mid winter slump is lots of good homemade soup. Last night I made a huge pot of minestrone with loads of veggies, garbanzo and kidney beans, and cute little "O" shaped noodles. We slurped it down while watching some Dexter episodes (we're plugging away at season 3) and listening to the rain drip drop and splatter off the roof. That stuff was good for the soul.
Another thing that always helps my mood is some pretty and mellow tunes. I made a playlist of what's been floating my little boat lately, you can listen to it in the player embedded below.
What do you do to fight off the winter blues?
