A few years ago I bought this cute cashmere sweater: it was cream and had an interesting pattern on the sleeves. Basically, they slit the sleeves in half and sewed it back together at two-inch intervals, with made it look like my sleeves had a pattern. Anyway, what made me remember this sweater vividly was [...]
Sometimes when there is nothing going on, like this past weekend for example, I like to supplement this blog with my past travel experiences. I went to Madrid almost six months ago as part of a business trip to France with my old job. It sounds so hoity-toity, doesn’t it? My business trip to France. [...]
In my family, October kicks off a bunch of birthday celebrations. During October, we celebrate the birthdays of Henry, Vivi, Sharon, Sean (and of course Chuy). In November, we follow that up with Sabrina, Sid, and me. Afterwards it’s Thanksgiving and Christmas, then New Year (aka Rene’s birthday). I am getting tired just thinking about [...]
Chuy had a little part-ay in honor of his sixth birthday today. It wasn’t a big gathering, just the three of us took part in the celebration. Chuy wanted to invite all the neighborhood dogs and have them wear lampshades on their head but we said no. Besides we didn’t want to have to clean [...]
Today is Chuy’s birthday. He is six years old today. To celebrate, I am posting the video Rene made last year to celebrate Chuy’s fifth birthday (there is a typo – the video says it’s Chuy’s 6th birthday but it was really #5 for Chuy). Enjoy! PS Princess makes a cameo here. We miss her!
On Saturday morning Rene, Chuy and I took a hike in Chatsworth. It’s been about a month since my last hike and we’d decided that fresh air would do us good. Rather than talk about the hike, which wasn’t very exciting, I’ve decided to make a photo essay instead. Behold: Chuy eager to pee on [...]
This weekend Rene and I were standing at the checkout line at TJ Maxx (where else would we be?) and were looking at a rack of books while waiting for the next cashier. We found this book showing pictures of dogs, and on page 154 we found the Chow Chow breed. Apparently, Chows originated in [...]
The same day after our visit to the San Diego mission we made our way to another San Diego landmark: Balboa Park. I’ve heard of the place but didn’t know too much about it, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that this park was huge. Apparently, it’s the largest urban cultural park in America. [...]
Last weekend Rene and I resumed our goal of visiting all 21 California missions. So far we had visited four: Santa Barbara (which we will need to revisit because we didn’t go inside the church nor the grounds inside the compound), San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, and San Luis Obispo. This weekend we visited our [...]
Japanese people are such clever multi-taskers. They learn English and work out at the same time. Brilliant!
