Puppies on the Town

After Jason and I took the pups on the trails, we took them to Sophie's Barkery for some special treats. They were lovely in the store and gave my massive canines huge samples. So we purchased pumpkin loaves and salmon pupovers, which the puppies promptly devoured.
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Behaving surprisingly well in the store:

Demon dog:

New Study Music

Life Lately

Wow, I think this is first time since I started my blog that I've gone without reading. Memo writing and school have been keeping me busy, but hopefully this week, I'll get back on track.

Last week, I also started my volunteering at a domestic violence clinic, had a doctor's appt, started actually integrating the gym into my sched, met Tawsh and Grant for dinner at Planet Raw (not nearly as good as Real Food Daily,) got to kick it with Brett on Third Street and see Stephanie afterwards for some girltalk.

Also last Sunday, Paige and I saw A Dangerous Method with Keira Knightly, Michael Fassbender, and Viggo Mortenson. It tells the story of the sex-obsessed patient that drove the theories and friendship of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud apart. I was blown away. Keira Knightly has never impressed me with her lack of range of facial expressions. But her performance was phenomenal and the story was interesting. I highly recommend it.

Friday night, I met my old roomies, Seda, Aline, and Alene at Kaffe Rouge for some hookah and hummus ("Is that hummus?") My ribs hurt from laughing so hard. I love them so much.

Yesterday, hit up the Spanish Kitchen for margaritas and sweet corn tamales for G's birthday! And then a couple of bars in WeHo with law school peeps. I have to say that we are so much fun generally, but a riot when we're not laden with books and case briefs. :-)

Today, laundry, puppies(!), and yoga. And of course, reading.

Looking forward to seeing Rahia and Kels this week. xoox
Anywho, some things that have been keeping me happy.

1. Lauren Moffat's Spring Line




2. New recipes:

Salted Nutella Tarts
Rose Water Glitter Cakes
Apricot Coconut Energy Bars
New hot chocolate recipes via Honey Kennedy - must try lavender as well as orange blossom and cardamom

3. The new Sessun line



4. Coachella Outfits

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5. Its that time again - tattoos?

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So glad this week is over...

Drinking a glass of merlot, reading Vogue, and listening to this:



So glad i have the weekend to sort my life out.

{Music} Soundtrack to SF

Back at the library. Eating my lunch. Just bought my books. Filling out my planner. Back to school, beezies.

Some songs that remind me of my epic trip to SF. xoxo.

SF Food Tour, Part 2: The Grove, Philz, Humphrey Slocombe

As I posted yesterday, Rob and I trotted around the city inhaling the best food while waiting for Carrie to get off work. On Friday, we enjoyed french toast and huevos rancheros at the Grove and Ambrosia Coffee from Philz followed by a scoop of brown sugar fennel and a scoop of roasted white chocolate lavender ice cream from Humphrey Slocombe. I think my favorite of the delicious treats was the lavender ice cream. HS is one of my favorite places in the city and I'm happy that I got a chance to go back again. :-)

Ritual Coffee and Senor Sisig

Rob took me on a tasting tour of SF the past couple of days. Last Thursday, we strolled around Hayes Valley with the most phenomenal soy lattes from Ritual and sat in the park soaking up the SF sun. After building up an appetite, we headed to Senor Sisig, the famed Filipino food truck, and had pork burritos - California-style. Holy mother of god, it was delicious, especially with Royal soda. If you're in SF, you must try Senor Sisig. The pork was crispy and flavorful and the ingredients fresh. Yummmmmmm.

{Music} Peter Peter

I'm getting ready for SF at the moment, packing and listening to this song by Peter Peter featuring Coeur de Pirate. Love:

I've been hitting up the gym everyday which is keeping me so zen. I've realized that when I don't channel my energy productively I have major issues.

Ugh now I have to kill a few hours until my flight but I don't what to dooooooo.

However, for you entertainment, here is a clip from my cousin's and my impromptu and somewhat painful rendition of "Rolling in the Deep." As you can see, I take this shiz seriously.

I love the "waho" part as well as my 11-year-old cousin saying "I have a really high voice."

Sunday Extravaganza

After a week in snowy Ohio of cosiness and lots of sleep and celebration, I was ready for some outdoor activity and yesterday, fit the bill fo sho.

The day started out with a trail walk at 7:30am with Kels and then I headed out to LA to pick up Paige-poo for brunch at the Omelette Parlor. Paige got the waffles (which were so incredibly good) and sides, and I had the California Benedict with pesto, avocado, and hollandaise - yum! Also the service was great and it is such a great spot for a Sunday brunch on the patio.

After that, we picked up an iced americano at Groundworks. Groundworks is a sweet, small space with organic coffee and beans and a wide variety of teas. I need to go back to do some more taste-tasting. The iced Americano was extremely smooth and perfectly made; I'll have to take Rob there when he comes down again. We then perused the farmer's market, where we saw some goats, newborn twins, and lots of doggies.

At 12:30, we met up with G at YogaPoser at Fred Segal. G and I got a legit GroupOn for this new little studio - 20 classes for $20. AMAZING. It was a foundations course and it was good to be reminded of my alignment and position to make sure I make the most out of my yoga practice. It was much more upper body strength orientated with downward dogs and chaturangas, the latter having always been my weakness. Since I've been doing mostly Bikram which has less inverted poses and also warms up your body for you, it was refreshing to go back a yoga I haven't done in a while. Certainly excited to go back.

After yoga, G, Paige, and I picked up our fourth musketeer, Steph at her apt, and we hightailed it over to Mandeville Canyon, which was a hike recommended by my former boss/bffl/hiking extraordinaire Rox. It is a four mile hike with an elevation of 1000 ft and it has the MOST GORGEOUS views of LA. Plus, it was a relatively clear day, so it was even more breath-taking. Def doing it again and maybe taking the pups :-)

Shit Girls Do: take yoga posing photos on hilltops.





After dropping off the amigitas, Paige and I realized we were starving and hit up Hikari Sushi in Santa Monica for some rolls, including the crunchy philly roll, the hot night roll, the spider roll and one more that i can't remember that we inhaled because we were ravenous. Literally, we polished off that meal in about 6 minutes.

We wandered around for a bit at the must-sees, i.e. VS for their semi-annual sale and then Anthro of course. And were about to head home when wer saw that that LAEMMELE, the indie movie theater on Second Street, was showing the new Michael Fassbender/Carey Mulligan movie about sex addiction, AND it was student night. Obviously we had to take advantage so we bought tickets. Since we had an hour to kill, we went to the Ye Old King's Head, where we indulged in the Santa Monica Pale Ale, extremely refreshing, and a Nicaraguan tourist regaled us with stories of why boys are stupid.

And our night was really just beginning. After finishing our beers, we watched the highly intense, extremely well-acted, and beautifully shot "Shame." I def wasn't prepared for the seriousness of the film, but it is def a movie to see. Then Paige and I went to the bathroom, where we (no big deal), ran into Freida Pinto from Slumdog Millionaire and then outside, met Dev Patel, also from the movie and Freida's real-life bf. Notes on this: Dev Patel is adorable and way taller than I expected. Freida has the most amazing skin and is also the tiniest person I've ever seen. I almost died/brown pride/holy shit.

Then I drove Paige home and collapsed into bed and woke up this morning feeling sore and happy. A good day, my friends, a very good day.