This Week's Food and Drink

So my mom made this organic chicken and salmon food for Sophie, complete with carrots and peas and rosemary. I have a container of Nutella. So that prompted me to make pumpkin Nutella cake, inspired by this recipe with a few changes, last night. Namely, I made into a cake since I didn't have a muffin tin. I added ground ginger, cinnamon, and vanilla to the batter. I also baked for around 50 mins. It was wonderful hot out of the oven, especially with a pinot noir. Jenaba, Ellie and I stayed up and watched Cabin in the Woods. Interesting. Weird. Not very scary, despite the fact that I screamed multiple times,

I also almost overdosed the pup with vitamins. Let's not talk about it.

In other news:

- Trip home tomorrow to pick up my retainer. I'm 12. Whatevs.
- Maybe a trip to Mammoth this weekend.
- Working on the following issues: transgender sex trafficking victims, cell phone privacy issues, and juvenile functional LWOP issues.
- Trip to SF after a symposium on juvenile justice on Oct. 12 for Carrie's bday plus pitstops in Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Monterey.
- YOGAAAAA

And on to the good stuff - Things to Eat and Drink this week. Who's coming with me?

My favorite new bar, The Hermosillo, is hosting a New Belgium beer tasting tomorrow night. From the FB page:

It's a night of puckering and lip-smacking at The Hermosillo, with a slew of New Belgium's 'Lips of Faith' beers taking over the tap wall. There will be New Belgium glassware to take home once you've tested your palate with the following beers:-Tart Lychee-Brett Beer-Peach Porch Lounger-Super IPA-Biere de Mars-Trip 13 Blondeand more from New Belgium! Obvs I'm going.  Also the Pie Hole just released their Banana Cream Toffee Pie. This is one of my favorite dessert places in the world. I'm hoping I can get Veronica to come with me post-yoga.

My friend Gillian checked Beer Belly out last week and my friend Anthony has been raving about it for the last few months. So I need to go. Things I want: duck fat fries, deep fried mint oreos with nutella ice cream and the pork belly chips. Yep. Definitely happy I'm starting yoga and working out again.

Also Sassafras Saloon opened up recently. Although it's a bit far from my normal stomping grounds, its by the same guys who did Thirsty Crow. They moved a house piece by piece from Savannah and reconstructed it in Hollywood. Win. You can build your own cocktail complete with homemade ginger beer, (original, apple-cin, or strawberry mint) or you can choose from their selection. I want the Grilled Peach Punch with rum, brandy, grilled peaches, spices and milk.

Also I raced my puppy around the backyard for like an hour last night. She's like FloJo.

Happiness is... {Music}

Fix Coffee on Sunday morning. (They have Verve - way to make me miss Santa Cruz!)

A Franzikaner at Wurstkuche to cure my Monday blues.

Puppy snuggles.

Sunday night dinner at Dusty's Bistro with V and Steph. (Yum French Onion Soup)

Making progress with work.

Making pumpkin donut muffins stuffed with Nutella tonight.

The following music:

Sophie's Meet and Greet

I had class yesterday evening so Evan kindly volunteered to puppysit his niece. The only caveat was that I had to bring to campus so she could be loved and adored by my law school peeps. After a dreary few hours of class, the pupster and I were reunited and enjoyed a beer tower with V at Good on Sunset.

Wooo xoxo

Beats by Dre + Lil Wayne

On Thursday, I texted V because I saw Lil Wayne was doing a collab with Beats. I LOVE LIL WAYNE. I've actually memorized portions of his monologues from two diff docs he's been in. NBD. So then V drops a bombshell - Lil Wayne was hosting a launch party/afterparty for the VMAs with Beats at Playhouse and I could come. Holy Mother Of God.

I literally couldn't be more excited. Throw in the open bar with Patron and champagne? Oh and Ronnie and Sammi from Jersey Shore? No words.

Thank you thank you thank you V for the invite. I love you.

Getting My Life Together

And part of that is finding someone to go see First Aid Kit with me in October at the Fonda Theatre. People get it together and come with me. Jesus.

 


In other news, headed back to the Fig House to set up for Sophie :-).

She now has a puppy cold but hopefully will be recovered for her vaccines on Saturday. My little baby bear is just too sweet to have to battle these viruses. I'm thinking the shelter never vaccinated her like they said they did. Blah.

Highland Park Artwalk this weekend and I HAVE to go to a yoga class on Friday morning. Otherwise, I'll go mad.

I should probably do some work in there (4 jobs and counting), as well as finish a law review assignment for tomorrow and another for Sunday. Oh yeah and class. NBD. I'm making another pot of coffee after I play some "chase the pink porcupine" with Sophs.

Sophie + Stick and Other Things I Love

Back to work after this weekend. Sophie and I were up early destroying pink porcupines and reading about juvenile justice. I'm heading to school soon for office hours and business associations. I would like to squeeze a workout in, but we'll see how it goes. A few pics from this morning and a few things I'm liking in addition to my babybear. (I need to diversify, or otherwise, I'll be completely anti-social.)

Sophie with my dad. She is as big as his shoe. Still about a pound underweight, but she's eating like a horse:

Love this new Dior doc.

 

 I want everything from Hello Pretty, a new online store, including these endtables and totebag.

Finally found my new bedroom inspiration from StyleFile via SFGirlBytheBay:

 All these dresses via Mint:

ERs and Weddings

Sooooo - its all been a bit crazy in these parts.

First, the pup:
My little sweetheart was diagnosed with tapeworm and giardia (another parasite) last week, right after she was spayed. On Thursday, she was doing way better and prancing around, but then on Friday, she was extremely lethargic and feverish. Her doctor in HP said that it was just the antibiotics, but when she refused water, I freaked out and took her the Orange County Emergency Animal Hospital. They are phenomenal and within minutes diagnosed her with parvo (cue my mother's hysteria.) Parvo has a really low survival rate, about 15 percent, without treatment. BUT with treatment, its just a little puppy flu. Catching it early and treating it with intense care with IVs and antibiotics, little Sophs just had to be hospitalized for three days (as in I'm not going to be able to eat out for the next six months). But she's home and playing and precious and everyone is in love with her. (My eyes are still puffy from the sobbing I did.)

Second, Rahia's wedding was this weekend and was phenomenal. It was held at the Long Beach Westin and was a proper Pakistani Muslim wedding with beautiful suits and delicious food. Rahia was the most beautiful bride and I'm just so happy for her and Farooq. It was gorgeous and of course I cried. (I really need to hydrate.) Maggie and I snuck into the honeymoon suite and went a little crazy with rose petal (lol see below).

So now I'm just cuddling with the pup, doing some reading, preparing for another new job, and just chillin and eating banana cream pie. yum.

xoxo