BaddMinton

I’ve lived in LA for 5 1/2 years, and pretty much the whole time I’ve been here I’ve sung its praises. I love LA! I know I still do somewhere in here, but this summer, for the first time, I am ovah it. I want to get out of here. There are 2 reasons I […]

It’s dusk in Sayulita
Night one of our adventure
The air is warm, the ocean warmer
Sun sets on one side, Full moon rises on the other
and we are in between
Reflections on the water like yellow glass
Dinner has settled
Drinks have gone to our heads
We smile and spin, drowning in the romance
and holy mother shit, are those dogs humping […]

I went to North Carolina for Christmas, and the minute I got there I was immediately slapped in the face with the most intense culture shock I’ve experienced in my entire life. My mom, grandma, and my mom’s elderly friend all came to Charlotte to pick me up, and the friend drove no faster than […]

Wow! I beat myself at my own game. I wrote this when I was packing for Mexico (a.k.a. happier times) and never published it. Please somebody give me a (large monetary) prize for winning the championship of starting things and not finishing them:
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If there’s one thing I do well; maybe better than anyone I know, […]

Greetings! I am on drugs. Because I got my wisdom teeth out today. It was fun at first, like when I first woke up and was so heavily drugged I was a ragdoll and things were funny, but now I’m sitting here watching everything we’ve TiVo’d in the last two months while my friends are […]

I’m leaving bright and early tomorrow morning to fly to Vancouver for a family ski trip, and I’m still totally not packed. And by “bright and early” I mean pitch black dark and still the middle of the night. I have to be at my office building to catch my shuttle at 5:25, which means […]

So… 2007 is here. So far in the New Year, in reverse order, I have gotten a ticket for running a stop sign, have taken a short but beautiful road trip, and have shouted my S.A.T. scores to a stranger.
Wikki-wikki-what??? Yeah, I did.
I was drunk.
But I mean, this woman shut the door to the hotel […]

I fully indended to update my blog while I was in Chicago (let it be known that nearly every time I try to type “blog,” I first type “blob.”). But I didn’t, because I was so, so, so, so busy that I had nary a moment to myself. I arrived on Saturday, went […]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special report: Dan Hagen, a.k.a. the Danimal, a.k.a. the husband of Rachel Hagen, is completely insane. First, look at the lovely picture of him and his groomsmen with the rest of the wedding party. Aw.

Now click on the thumbnail to get a closer look.

You’ll be […]

Soooooooo, it’s back to the ol’ grindstone for me. Last week Jeff & I flew to Kauai for Rachel & Dan’s wedding and a week of fun (well, more like 5 days). Here’s Jeff and me at the wedding reception:

I got back to LA on Friday night, and the next day scooted off to […]

This weekend was different from some other weekends in that I went somewhere other than L.A. It was my friend Elise’s birthday, and I went to San Diego to visit her and go wine tasting in Temecula. I left work on Friday night, stopped and got a delicious steak and rice teryaki wrap […]

Yay! It finally feels like Southern California.  Jeff and I ushered in the gorgeous weather by spending Memorial Day weekend with his family, along with lots of friends, in Laguna Beach for their annual wine-tasting party.  The weather was perfect, and good times were had by all.  Click on my Flickr badge over on the left […]

Look at this picture from cuteoverload.com.  Can I go to that park in Japan right now, please, and look at that bunny, and enjoy the fall leaves?  I guess it is fall over there now, huh?
Anyway, if you're cool you're going to Japan right now.  Eric did, and Jeff and his family are going on Friday for […]

  I’m having trouble writing this week, so… I figure I’ll just post some old photos (blotos).  These are from Jeff & my trip to Paris last fall, a weekend trip from our 3 1/2 week stint in Barcelona.   Click on the photos to view them full size.  Why is Paris so f-ing gorgeous!!!??  I […]

Last month when I was in Spain, Jeff and I went to Madrid for a weekend to visit his friend Monica.  I hadn’t been since I was 21, when I lived there for a month while studying abroad.  Frighteningly, that was five years ago.  That was an incredible, unforgettable summer, and sadly I’ve lost touch […]