My new find!

I happened to be walking down to Freddy, a great sandwich shop this side of the Golden Gate Park, when I came across this great table. You see I finally got around to moving my bookcase from the entry way and I needed a console table. My sis was gonna give me an extra side table she had but that just wasn't happening fast enough and if I did not move quick the area would become a dumping ground for the hubby's work stuff. So I found this gem at a garage sale. It was $40 but i talked him down to $20. Turns out every Saturday this guy is having a sale.




I think the old lady that owned it before was using it for a wet bar. (Can you say Par-tay Queen!)






Hubby heard me pounding away and came to help out, bassically took over the project.





I have finished painting it a bright pink for the pop factor and I think it looks great. Chica Cherry came over and said all my frames have to have the same look/color to make more of a statement. Home decorating is never done but I like it, like it. Yes, I do!

Top films of 2009

This is just off the top of my head so maybe the #1 won't be as great as I remember it. I saw some good movies I just can't seem to remember them. Ugh, I really am getting old.

Well luckily I had my program from the 2009 SFIFF which helped to get the ball rolling
10. The Hangover - I was gonna make this my number one but although it was hysterical it wasn't as good as Old School. Still I love it and Alan character is amazing. You can be his friend on Facebook or see him on HBO's series Bored to Death; it is brilliant! The movie is good and totally quotable.

9. Sherlock Holmes I though it was excellent! Guy Ritchie did an awesome job and I am not saying that just because I love him. Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr were also excellent! Maybe there was a bit to much slow motion to tell you how Sherlock could defeat his enemies but it was well worth it.

8. French Girl staring Hafsia Herzi from The Secrets of the Grain was terrific and
the movie was a great feminist film about a girl who know what she wants and that is to return to France and make her own life.

7. This is it! Michael Jackson tribute with I saw with the director so we got to ask him questions about Michael Jackson vision for his final concert. It was very moving, creative and endearing. I really wanted to dance but behaved myself.

6. Whip It! Love this Drew Barrymore directed movie. Juno's star, Ellen Page, was the lead and she was terrific. I saw this a week after my roller disco party so I guess that really made me like it more. Also made me glad I don't live in Texas.


5. Small Crimes - set on a remote Greek island, it is a romance with a who done it twist.


4. 2012 - what can I say a John Cusack Movie with Woody Harrelson about the Mexican Calendar I am totally into it. Great special effect and a good conspiracy theory to boot about the government knowing that the world is heating up and coming to an end and making secret plans with other world leaders to save themselves and rich people who can afford to pay to get on.

3. Zombieland - great movie not totally a gore fest but completely funny and Woody Harrelson cracked me up. He is making quite a comeback. Playing these great character parts.


2. Sin Nombre - about immigration and gangs and how people get into the US from a cross the border but it was very good. The director actually rode the train for research and be friended gang members to get his story. Very touching.

1. Mid - August Lunch It is an Italian film and it is wonderful. They relationship dynamics are so interesting and it is so great to watch how other people live. It was like being a fly on the wall of someone's flat.

Blogging

So I was just killing time waiting for mom to call which she still hasn't called and I went to view our little blog and some of my other favorite blogs. I have come to the horrible conclusion that blogging is done, finished, it is over, Elvis has left the building, and the fat lady has sung! Nobody is blogging! It makes me so sad=(. Everyone is moving on or is everyone still so depressed about all those celebrities dying or maybe they just to busy twittering. It real is horrible. I don't want to know everyones thoughts I just want to find cute stuff, see different places, get a new take on an old idea. Please post!

No. 6 Visit Yosemite

Sorry, I should have put this up as soon as it happened but I got a new camera and a slow computer so things take time. We went in early June. I posted these photos on my FB page which has also been consuming my time. I must get back to the important matters at hand: My List of 40-4-40!

Here are some pictures of our adventure! I had a blast and really want to go back! Hopefully, we can get the bigger cabin or maybe actually camp like we did at summer camp (remember San Domenico Summer Camp). I made brownie and junior of the year the two years we went (Sis, not it wasn't that I was such a good camper but I was very endearing!)


Where are we exactly?

A red glossy creature!

Moi!

Hetch Hetchy Dam


View from Glacier Point!



A very social deer seen at the Valley Floor.

My First Brown Bear!

--A

Bubble Gum for Everyone

Got this old fashioned Bubble Gum Machine at a street sale on Market Street for $20. Turns out everyone knows how to rip off the machine and the only money I have made is what I have put into it. It does give you like 5 gum balls for 10 cents so maybe that is why I am not making any money. Well, I still love it. Just need a good place for it. I want to put it in the entry way but that is a little packed at the moment. Maybe when I am done with school I will be able to read more and get rid of some of those books on my waiting-to-read shelf.


--A

Happy Summer!

Flying Swings, originally uploaded by ChicaCherry.

On Friday, we went to the Giants County Fair. Wonderbread 5 was playing. There were carnival rides, carmel apples, and friends. Life is sweet.

--B

Oh no, it's July 6th!

Where does all the time go? Really? I can't believe it's been 3 months since we last posted or that the year is half over. Obviously, we need some time management help. Maybe we should give up our addiction to crackbook, oops I mean facebook.

--B