Yes, I fell off the wagon a bit this week. Getting back into the daily grind has overwhelmed my week.
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 20
January 21 and 22 did not get any pictures (oops!). Click through if you want to read more about the picture.
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We’re big Danny Trejo fans over (if you mention him in front of Jason you’ll get a long story about how he partied with him, not sure how true or not that one is). So when I saw this come in my email, I knew I had to share it:
Tough guy actor Danny Trejo has a soft spot for animals and is passionate about spay/neuter as the solution to the pet overpopulation problem. He has been going to urban Southern California schools to talk to students about it as part of a “Real Men Fix Their Pets” campaign.
In December, AngelDogs teamed up with Danny and Debbie Trejo of K9 Compassion and sponsor Dogs on Death Row to provide a free community spay/neuter day in Whittier. The event was a rousing success, with 51 dogs and cats spayed in 12 hours, and hundreds of Danny Trejo fans coming to meet their favorite actor.
Above is a photo of Danny with Alex, who came down to visit and brought six-week-old Lola with him. We were able to talk him into spaying Lola – she’s now micro-chipped, too!
Danny Trejo will be back to meet his fans and support spay/neuter during the “Real Men” event with AngelDogs Foundation, K9 Compassion and Dogs on Death Row, Saturday, Feb. 18 in Pacoima (location to be determined). Keep checking the AngelDogs website for the latest updates!
AngelDogs Foundation is a great organization, we got Chuy neutered and micro-chipped through them and it all went as smoothly as possible (probably not in Chuy’s opinion). Check ‘em out!
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Week two of Project 365 is brought to you (mostly) from New York City!
January 8
January 9
January 10
January 11
January 12
January 13
January 14
Click on each picture for more details…
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I’ve always wanted to do the Project 365 (post a photo a day for a year) but have never been able to get started on it. Well, what’s a better start than the start of a year? So here is the first week:
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 7
Click through to read about each picture.
Are you taking on a project like this? Let me know, I’d love to check it out!
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Last week we drove up to my grandma’s house in Salinas for a little birthday celebration. We weren’t there for very long, but took advantage of being so close to Monterey and spent the day at the aquarium and Fisherman’s Wharf.
It was a perfect vacation day. We got to the aquarium early to avoid the crowds, wandered around looking at hug tanks of floating jellyfish, tiny tanks of unusual seahorses, even touched a stingray or two. Then we had the perfect Monterey lunch – clam chowder, calamari, and artichokes. From there we wandered over to Fisherman’s Wharf, did some people watching, stopped in at Isabella’s for a drink and an ocean view. Did a little more wandering along the beach before taking off to meet up with the rest of the family for my grandma’s birthday dinner.
After dinner we exchanged gifts, and of course we had to test taste all the homemade fudge and candy, bottles of wine and whiskey that were given!
It was a great family road trip – even Chuy enjoyed meeting my grandma’s dogs!
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loving the start of a new year, fresh start
admiring my fun marble nails that my friend did for me
wishing the sun would set much much later in the day
realizing how much better I feel when I eat real food (duh…)
thinking about all the traveling I need to save up for this year
waiting for some paychecks to go through
planning where I’m going to eat while in NYC next week
making plans and lists galore
enjoying the beautiful blue skies and warm weather we’ve been having in Los Angeles
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Happy New Year!
I took the past two weeks to do a lot of planning (the thing I’m best at; see also: procrastination). I worked on my “Life List” and the things that I want to do in 2012 and have proclaimed it: The Year of Doing. As in, not spending the entire year planning and preparing. I want a year of action, taking chances, exploring, experiencing. So I revised my list of things I want to do and see. I gave myself a deadline to work on my business plan and my personal goals plan and now it is time to use the plan! Here are some of the things I want to do this year:
This is going to be a good year, I can just feel it. And if not – it’s supposed to be the end of the world anyway, right?! Let’s see what happens!
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My Labor Day Weekend was pretty good – White Trash Wine Tasting, plenty of lazing around, a relaxing massage – but I think my favorite part was actually Sunday evening. We got hit with a double rainbow (what!), a gorgeous sunset, and then an actual lightning and thunder storm (yes! Here in LA!). I really love me a good thunderstorm, and I really can’t even remember the last one we got here. Sure, it was no Midwest-style storm, but we got a few exciting cracks of lightning across the sky. Jason and I sat out on the front porch and watched it for a little while – it was neat seeing all the neighbors out and about and not glued to the television like we all usually are!
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(a.k.a. White Trash Wine Tasting 2011!)
This is my favorite event EVER. Pairing white trash foods with delicious wine (and sometimes beer)? Colorado Wine Company is genius. GENIUS, I tell you! This is the fifth year they’ve done it (last year’s “white trash” menus included fried pork rinds, bacon-wrapped lemonheads, a tater tot casserole, and cheese whiz rolled in wonder bread), and it did not disappoint.
We started off with corn nuts (original flavor, of course) paired with a Lucien Albrecht Cremant. A little bubbly with a salty snack? Perfect.
From there we moved to Tuna Cream Cheese Pecan Balls paired with Vina Clavidor Verdejo. This was a surprisingly delicious one to me, I could have eaten a few more of those odd looking tuna balls…
The third course included Brown Sugar Bacon Bourbon Baked Beans (what a mouthful) with a Dubaisson Scaldis Amber Ale. I had heard about this one a few days before the tasting and was looking forward to it. I don’t know if there is a more perfect combo. As you can see, Jason is devouring this course…
And dessert… a Poke and Pour cake with a sweet Tokaji wine. I had never heard of this “Poke and Pour cake” (I was actually disappointed in myself for not knowing about this delicacy). Basically it’s a vanilla sheet cake with holes poked in it and lemon Jello poured over the top. And then topped with a dollop of Cool-Whip.
I love it. I love every part of this menu, and the pairings are just amazingly delicious every single time. You need to put this event on your calendar for next year. DO IT.
Also, while uploading my pictures from this event I found quite a few shots of me in my “white trash” garb. I am slightly alarmed at how many different occasions I have expressed this side of my personality. Case in point:
And here is that trucker hat in close up:
Why yes, it does in fact say “Redneck Bitch” on it. White trash fashion is nothing if not classy.
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Ever heard of the Abbey San Encino? It’s right in the middle of Highland Park (just down from the York Blvd and Figueroa St intersection). This is Clyde Browne’s (contemporary of Charles Lummis, grandfather of musician Jackson Browne) dream home, built with his own hands and modeled after at 17th century monastery. He ran his printing business out of it, while his wife ran her wedding chapel business out of it.
Yesterday there was a wine and cheese fundraiser there, with the first tours of the home (the Browne family still lives there) since the 1990s. This building is really neat, complete with stained glass, a pipe organ, and a dungeon! Browne really wanted to create a little village based on medieval communities, with creative artisans living and selling their wares there.
One thing I thought was interesting was that Browne had people bring back pieces of important buildings in Europe (back when you could just pick things up and take them home), so the courtyard with the grape vine has these pieces of tile and brick from places like Westminster Abbey.
Abbey San Encino, completed in 1924. Still used as the Browne family home, as well as a film set (currently used in Dexter)
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