Get out of here & get me some money too...

10.12.10

Nothing interesting going on in my life lately =(
Job hunting I guess, which is never fun...
I did manage to add some color to my day by playing with some colorful eyeshadow.. much more colorful than what I've been doing with neutrals lately...

I also did some hair for some bridesmaids this past weekend.. the first girl wanted something with a vintage vibe... that always makes me happy when people request that.. I love modernizing vintage 'dos. The 2nd girl was just an updo...

Other than that, not much is goin on with me =/

I got a new haircut today.. I suck at trying to grow my hair out. I really wanted to... but I ended up going for somethin shoulder length & choppier. I'm sure I'll be able to play around with it though and come up with some retro 'dos. I'll have to post pics later.

=)

10.1.10

So today is the 1st day of October... which means 30 more days till halloween.
yay!
I <3 halloween and always try to go all out with my costume. Usually my husband & I do some sort of matching costume and I thought I'd share what we did last year...

Mr. & Mrs. Freddy Kreuger
=)

No masks for us.. I actually used gelatin to make the texture for our faces & then painted it all up with makeup. I thought it came out pretty well for my first time takin a stab at fx makeup. We even had a few people asking to take pics with us while out bar hopping in SF.

I'm excited for this year as this years costumes will be from the movie Beetlejuice.

Darin will be Beetlejuice himself, and I thought well, since I currently have pink hair.. why not be Ms. Argentina?!

 yay, I cant wait!

9.19.20

I hate stockinged feet(or nyloned) with open-toed shoes.
Hideous.


That's all I have to say.

9.12.10 Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge

So this weekend was pretty uneventful.. but yesterday kinda stirred up the uneventfulness I guess...
after doing a whole lot of nothing, I had seen a couple flyers for some "event" being held at the Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda, Ca.. I guess there was to be a car show, some music, & drink specials..

I had never been to the lounge before, but have always heard things about it and wanted to check it out so reading up on this "event", I though it would give us reason to finally go. So my husband & I decided to go and brought along my friend, Ysel...
The car show was pretty lame & only involved like 6 cars... so we all decide to head on inside & get our drink on. =)
I ordered a Chamborlada which was supposed to be like a pina colada topped with chambord. It was actually pretty good.. we all agreed that it kind of tasted like a liquid version of Ambrosia salad.
Ysel got a "Comb Over" complete with a rat tail comb lol & Darin got a "Zombie".
Since we were able to score a table & seats we decided to share a Scorpion Bowl which got us nice & buzzed especially on our empty stomachs. That led us into a 2nd Scorpion Bowl & of course.. some cheese sticks & chicken strips to munch on.
The venue was pretty cool.. I'd go there agian. Darin signed up for their Red Devil Kill (or something like that) which is something like you have to try 97 types of rum and if you complete it you get a plaque on the wall with your name on it.. so I guess we'll be frequenting this place in the future.. which is good though, because I enjoyed myself, the decor & just over all feel of the place.

And for some pictures of our night...

Ysel & her "Comb Over" drink

The Comb Over

Darin & his Zombie lol

Myself with my Chamborlada

Scorpion Bowl!

The 3 of us sharing the Scorpion Bowl (ysel not pictured except for her straw)

Yea.. after the 2nd Scorpion bowl.. I missed the drink & sipped the cheesestick marinara sauce. Ugh lol

Ysel scratchin my back with a back scratcher ahhhhh. lol

I thought the dollar bills on the ceiling were neat...

I guess it was an ol' tradition when sailors were shipped off they would write their names on a bill & pin it up on the ceiling that way when they came back, theyd have money to buy their drink.

And one of Darin & I outside...

<3

9.11.10

I feel ugly today.

8.30.10 Wedding Anniversary!

Yesterday was Darin & my first year wedding anniversary.. =)
We survived! Yay! lol

We had originally wanted to go away for a short vacation for the weekend but since Darin had to go to LA for work stuff and didnt get home til Friday night, we just decided on doin something low key.
I picked him up from work in SF and then he took me out to dinner at this restarant we both liked along the Embarcadero called Palominos. Yumm...

While Darin was at work the whole day I decided to make us a mini version of our wedding cake (or more so what it should have looked like...

The story about that is well, the venue we had our wedding at had a referred vendor for cake baker and so since we paid for the package that included the wedding cake.. we had to go with them. The woman that ran the shop seemed pretty nice & when we met with her I showed her pictures and she even drew out what are cake was going to look like and then put it in a folder which would be our "file". We all came to an agreement and what seemed like an understanding of what the cake would look like, etc. She even emailed us as we got closer to the wedding about the time she would arrive & how if she had to, she'd decorated while everyone was outside for the ceremony. She even offered that since we werent going to be saving the top tier for our anniversary, that she would make us one when the year came, for free. Neat huh?

Anyways.. wedding day came, and as soon as we walked in to the reception room and were seated at the head table (which happend to be right next to the cake) I saw the cake.. and sadly, it was NOT what we had spoken about, or even what the baker had drawn out for us. The designs were all off, and when I got a closer look, the swirly designs were very sloppy and poorly planned out (if that).
I know.. a cake shouldnt be that big of a deal.. and it really wasnt that Huge of a deal.. just a lil saddening when you have a dream wedding cake that was simple and then seeing something completely different. You only really get one chance at it ya know. Well, what got me was when I decided to email our baker to just give her a heads up on what happened, and I just didnt understand how she seemed to be all on top of everything before the wedding.. and then gives us a blah cake. I wanted to email her as well, just so that this didnt happen to any future couples. Yea.. I never got an email back.. That is until she saw my negative review I gave her on yelp.com . She replied back saying something about how her mind was focusing on some other event or soemthing she had to do, and time slipped away, and blah blah she should have emailed me back. Never once though, did I get an apology.

So when it came to our anniversary, we sure as hell weren't going to be asking for that free anniversary cake, so I decided well, I'm more competant in making my own damn cake.. and I did. =) Go me!

Just so you can see....

This is what our cake was SUPPOSED to look like on our wedding day:

This is the sloppy version from the baker:

Can you see how sloppy the piping is? How unplanned it was and she tried to squeeze some squiggles in there? Also, notice the uneven tiers? =(


And this, is MY mini, round version!:

My husband as he walks into the kitchen to see the suprise I made:

Darin "oohing & aahing"

And finally, a pic of us and our cake for our First year anniversary! =)

<3 <3 <3