helllooooo!
not sure how to begin this blog except...halleluah, I'm back!
I'm currently waiting for my bf to come home from his dinner
with his photography friends.
I went to the gym and got back just a little while ago..around 11p.
of course, it took me 2 hours of lollygagging in front of the TV
before I finally my ass off of the couch and into my car
to make my way to the lovely EFX machine and treadmill.

I hate it when i get sucked in to shows!
This time it was "Camp Jim" & "True Life - Urban Cheerleaders" on MTV,
some special on Whitney Houston & a show about single female celebs
on VH1 with frequent channel changes to The Food Network for
this special on SPAM....amazing the things that intrigue me!

some wonderful things
this week was actually a pretty darned good one.
it started off with sat....
'got a last minute call from Bob telling me that El had to cancel
her session with me.
It was totally cool...even though I wondered what happened.
Did they have a fight?
Was there some kind of drama going on?

Little did I know that the woman was in the first stages of labor!
yes, L-A-B-O-R!!!

Sure enough, little Ryan popped out the following Monday.
GAWD! Just check out his pics (and bob's blog)...i swear, it gets me so veklempt!...
and Lu's version of events.
CONGRATS MAMA EL & PAPA BOB!!!!
WELCOME TO THE WORLD, LITTLE RYAN!!!

The rest of that Saturday turned out just as great.
Me and the bf headed out to Marin Headlands so he could take pictures.
It's been a while since he's been out shooting and this
was the perfect day to do it.

In fact, it was a perfect day for a wedding at the beach.
No, we didn't have one, but this other lovely couple
were in the middle of their ceremony just as we pulled up
in my bf's car.
Of course, highly excitable me tried to get as close to the ceremony as possible.
It was a Mexican/Spanish themed affair...
all the guests had mariachi's,
the groom wore a long sleeve Guyaverra (looks like a barong, but thicker),
the groomsmen wore short sleeved dark green Guyaverra's,
and the bridesmaids wore traditional mexican dresses with red shawls.

We also made our way farther south on the beach this time
and were amazed to find some of the most beautiful things around.
We saw one of the most amazing sunsets while standing on top of
a beautiful rock on the beach.
To our surprise, this rock was inhabited by HUNDREDS of mussels,
a few sea sponges and a couple of star fish.
Seriously, if I had a bucket, me and the bf could've fixed ourselves
some seafood paella that night!
Instead, we headed to Pluto's on Scott Street in the Marina and pigged
out on huge salads, stuffing, sauteed mushrooms, a turkey sandwich and
garlic fries.
yum.
'twas a very unplanned yet amazing day. ;)

this week
it started off with a call from my girl, R, on Friday at 4p.
R: "Girlfriend, guess who I saw in the Us Weekly magazine on page 30?"
Me: "Who?"
R: "LEN " (our friend the creator/director of "Underworld")

...so what was my mission for the remainder of that Friday evening?
Yup, you guessed it.
One grocery store, two major book stores and a magazine rack at Target later
led me to a copy of the damn magazine.
And since it was an old issue, I grabbed a few extra for some of my girlfriends, just in case.

Um, hello?
The boy who taught me how to peg my pants back in 7th grade
is NO boy any longer!!!
Plus, his oh so stylish mullet from back in the day
was finally laid to rest.
blessings! blessings!
He and Kate Beckinsale are just wayyy too beautiful a couple.

That was friday.

Sunday was even better.
'crashed one of my oldest girlfriend's wedding at this Walnut Creek
golf course.
Oh...it was perfect! simply beautiful!
and even better, I got to play with my other girfriend's (J) daughters.
I hope i get to see them grow up.
they remind me so much of J when we were growing up.

And the best part of all,
I got to spend the day with Cyn, my party-crasher partner.
And last minute at that!
As much as I whine about living in the burbs sometimes,
nothing beats moving back in the house I grew up in
with the same close friends of mine
living just minutes away.
And this time, I can actually go out and see them any time I want -
not like when I was younger (since my parents were so strict about me
going out).
Once I get this itch to live outside of California scratched,
i can see myself settling here, in this same neighborhood I grew up in,
with my own family.