Boyfriend and Girlfriend Arm Pillows

I found this gem on www.groupon.com 

Let me introduce to you the "Boyfriend & Girlfriend Arm Pillow"

What a gentleman!

Wow, he is even wearing a button up shirt?

The girlfriend even has boobs?

This is so lifelike! 

Well she looks happy! Holding his hand and all!

"Microbead- or polyester-filled men’s or women’s torsos and arms embrace whoever snuggles into the Boyfriend or Girlfriend Arm Pillows. The pillow provides a sense of comfort during winter nights or roller-coaster drops, and keeps dreams from being interrupted by snoring or tossing. The machine-washable body pillows can also function as a neck roll or be used to beat back a single bogeyman who emerged from the closet with a dozen dead roses."

photos and description were found at the groupon site

Um, really?

Self Made Walking Tour of Downtown LA

Rich finished his quarter and it was his first weekend off for summer!

We needed something fun to do, so we decided that we would spend the day downtown Los Angeles. 

Neither of us had ever really walked around, so we thought we would take advantage of our free Sunday.

We ended up driving and found a garage for $5 all day parking which worked out perfectly!

We walked through all of the major areas of the city!

I loved walking toward the MOCA.

The picture below is outside the AT&T building. If you look at it closely, it is all of the continents and the way we all stay so connected! It was REALLY neat!

On our way we stopped in the Water Court in California Plaza.

It was almost like we weren't in Los Angeles at all!

I didn't notice this until Rich pointed it out to me...

If you look closely at the building below...the "people cleaning the windows" and "the windows" are not real! They are painted on!!

The windows across the entire building were painted on! 

How neat is that?!

There was a trolley if you didn't want to walk up or down the hill!

It was only like 50 cents, but we decided we would have to come back and ride it!

At the top of the Water Court

Then we stumbled upon the MOCA

We took some silly pictures!

This was the timer on the camera! 

I put it on and ran over to Rich and he pulled me up! 

Too funny!

Past the MOCA is the Disney Concert Hall.

This was the coolest tree!

The Disney Concert Hall

Then we decided to walk over to China Town.

To get there, we needed to cross over the 110 Freeway

We thought this was a really neat vantage point!

Enter: China Town

After China Town, we walked back downtown and walked past City Hall and saw this awesome sign!

It has all different distances to awesome places around the world!

We walked over to a restaurant that I saw in the Sunset magazine, caller Perch for drinks and an appetizer!

We had an awesome day!

We were both bummed though because we were not dressed for the temperature!! 

It was super hot and we were in jeans and walking up and down on all of those hills and just baking int he sun!

Fortunately we put on sunscreen before we got started so we weren't sun burned!

Overall, we were glad we got to do this 'whirlwind' walking tour of Los Angeles. 

There are many more places we want to go back and check out in more depth!

Weekend in the City by the Bay

The husband got an awesome job for the summer and was gone for a week for the training.
He got back on Friday night, and by 'Friday night' I mean Saturday morning at 2am :-(
I didn't mention that we had planned to drive up north for a quick trip to the bay...
Yes...I know, crazy right?!
I slept a bit, woke up, picked him up from the airport, and then went to sleep and we woke up at 6:30 and were out of the house by 7:30 on our way up the 405 to the 5...Yikes!
I drove so he could get some much needed rest!

We got to his parents house, relaxed a bit and had lunch and then one of my greatest friends met us in his hometown. It was soo great to see her! It will be a while until the next visit, so it was a much needed get together!

We drove downtown and stopped in a wine shop, got a few glasses of wine and sat outside.
People watching and wine definitely go together!

My husband is so handsome!

Love this girl!

In the evening we headed over to Rich's friends house for a fun BBQ, beers, games and birthday singing!
It was nice to put names to faces of some of Rich's high school friends!

Sunday we had breakfast with Rich's family and then headed to my hometown to watch my youngest brother play baseball.
After baseball, we went to Blackhawk and had lunch with Rich's parents, friend and my mom.
Blackhawk is where Rich and I had our wedding reception, so it was quite fitting since we just celebrated our year anniversary! :-)

If you are ever in the area, the Blackhawk Plaza is beautiful! I would definitely recommend visiting and even taking a tour of the Auto Museum!
We had lunch at The Little Pear. It was in the best location because we had the waterfall in the background! It was great! And a beautiful day!

Sadly, we didn't take any pictures in front of this fountain during the wedding reception...which was a huge bummer...

Oh well, we got our pictures this weekend! :-)

Isn't it lovely?!

Sadly, we are missing the rest of my family :-(

Cute picture though, anyway!

Here is an overall weekend shot :-) 

(Thank you instagram)

Like I keep saying...I miss the bay!

It is just so beautiful!

Rich and I need to get out s**t together and start finding more beautiful places in LA!

Happy July

This is my 600th post! 

Wow!

Happy 600! 

:-)

Happy July!

I hope that July brings you sunshine and patriotism!

Can you believe it is already July?!
Where has the time gone?!

Cake

Rich and I had a small cake to cut in to for our wedding cake and then the guests got sheet cakes from the most delicious bakery in the Bay, Katrina Rozelle. If you are ever in the Bay, make sure to stop by and get something from them! Yum!

Anyway, back to our small cake...

We brought the rest of it home with us, and we ate it the week week the wedding.

We decided not to save any of it, because, lets be real, who wants to eat a year old cake?!

Not us!

We decided that we would buy a replica cake and eat on our anniversary.

Sadly, the bakery doesn't mail cakes, and neither of us were about to drive up just for cake...

So it worked out perfectly, because I was heading up north the following weekend for my brother's promotion!

I ordered a replica of our cake, the coconut cake (view menu here).

And OMG it was AMAZING!

We thought about going with a different cake, one we served to our guests, and we were both very glad we didn't, because holy cow, it was totally worth eating again!

Now that I am drooling, I am back to work!

Happy Thursday!

Weekend with the FamBam

My oldest little brother was 'promoted' from 8th grade, which is middle school, to 9th grade, which is high school! I flew up north to be at the ceremony and spend a long weekend with my parents, brothers and some friends!

My mom and the graduate!

One of my greatest friends came up and came with us to the promotion

Awe!!!!

We ate lots of food this weekend and drank lots of margaritas and fun drinks!

We made our way to San Francisco for a quick visit and we came across the annual naked bike race!

And we all know that I love naked people!! 

Mom and I drove the 911 through town, enjoying the sunshine with the top down!

We also had fun at a pool party to celebrate all of the graduates in the area!

My beautiful friend and I got to visit for the afternoon while we soaked up the sun!

Love my mom!

We also celebrated my brother's 14th birthday! 

Wow! He is getting so big and growing so fast! 

Where does the time go?!

All in all, I had a fantastic trip up north!

I miss the bay...

A Day in the Life: Customer Service Volume 39

We have to do call backs. 

(this is when a customer changes their address or they start a new subscription, we call to confirm that they received the paper on that particular day)

Typically we leave messages, especially when we do them on Saturdays

However, this customer answered...

Me: I am calling from <newspaper>and I am calling to check to see if you received your newspaper this morning?

Customer: What?

Me: I repeated myself

Customer: Yes, I got the Wall Street Journal and Barrons...

Me: I am actually calling from <newspaper>, did you receive our newspaper?

Customer: I subscribe to the Monday only issue that I get on Saturday...

Me: Right, did you get the paper today?

Customer: Oh, yes

Seriously?

What part of  "did you get IBD today" did you not understand?!

ha! oh man...

Cheers to Friday!

I saw this on Facebook and wanted to share it before the weekend!

Come back on Monday and blog about what number you lived through because you felt so inspired!

We all know how I feel about naked people...so I request 39 from all of you!

Cheers to an eventful weekend!!