Just a quick Saturday note to tell you about our Valentine’s Day last weekend.
Woke up.
Read. Vegged. Intenet/email.
I think we had leftovers for lunch.
BBC Yellowstone Documentary.
more reading.
Trip to Trader Joe’s (decision: Andrew and I should not go grocery shopping together)
When we get home, Andrew puts on “romantic” music ….. or, rather just something I don’t hate.

Then he made us some caprese salad (and added prosciutto).

(um, yea, also, we got cheap cupcakes from Ralph’s because I have been craving butter cream frosting)

yum!
It was so so delicious!
tomato + basil + mozzarella + prosciutto …

I might have told you …. we went bed shopping recently …
It’s kind of a big deal.
Yes, I said it. 1 single piece of new furniture is kind of a big deal to us.
Picture this: We’ve been happily married for over 4 years. Our “bed” is simply a box spring/mattress on the floor because we’ve never had the $ to spend on a good bed frame. The mattress was a hand-me-down when I got it summer of 2002 (so you can just imagine the quality). Because of the awfulness of …

So, for the past couple of weeks Amy and I have gone bed shopping.  We’ve never owned a new bed together.  Not since we’ve been married.  When Amy moved to Arizona our co-worker, Matt, gave her a hand-me-down kingsize bed.  I think it was a hand-me-down to him, which makes it doubly so for Amy.  And maybe triply so when Amy and I got married a few years later.  Well, anyway, this bed is old and not so awesome.  As we’ve been bed shopping, Amy kept talking about how we …

Amy loves the 60’s.  She loves the music, loves to watch television shows that take place in that decade, loves the fashion, loves that Americans were fighting for change and for peace.  Ok, well she doesn’t love all the psychedelic music, but she knows just about every girl group song that ever was.  I can’t wait to build a time machine and take her back to the land of Mad Men & American Dreams & The Wonder Years.  It’s one of my favorite things about Amy, that she genuinely would …

I don’t often talk about other people than myself on this blog.  But today is about my wife.  Amy.  She’s hard to describe because I think she is completely unique and different than anyone I know.  She’s even a lot different from me…..I mean to say that she has everything that I lack and more.  We’ve been married for 4 years (and 1 day by the time you read this post.  If you read it after Nov. 7th 2009 then I will have no idea where our marriage is, but …

As I type this, we still have about 4 or 5 scary movies on our Netflix queue and at least 3 still in the house. Once we get started with this tradition, we just throw ourselves into it, I guess.
Plus, we missed 8-ish days of prime scary-movie-watching time because of a little thing called ‘international travel.’
Andrew’s already started our list for next year.
The thing we’ve noticed about scary movies this year is it seems like these characters/stories exist in an alternate universe where they have never seen a horror film …

Fall has been in SoCal for a few weeks now …. all of a sudden, it was a Sunday afternoon and I needed socks and a sweater to go outside! Just out of nowhere …. it was heaven.
There are not a lot of trees on our street, so I can’t judge the season by the leaves, but we have other external triggers that make it feel like fall in my heart:

craving soup
Santa Ana winds
apples/peanut butter
turning fan off when we sleep
apple cider
scary movies
hoodies
watching ‘Band of Brothers’
baked potatoes
cinnamon in the coffee
dry skin
scarves
candy …

Finally the weather is cooling down.  Finally at night it’s chilly in our apartment.  I love the fall (I think I posted about Fall last year as well).  Amy and I have a tradition of watching scary/sci-fi/thriller/cheesy spooky comedies starting in October….well, this is our second year.  But we don’t watch spooky movies all year round so that it makes it feel rather special when we start up in October.
I went for a walk the other night in Santa Monica and saw one tree with the leaves turned orange in …

I usually try to plan a lot of tasks/stuff/activities on my days off (I usually get one a week, sometimes two).  Those tasks usually involve driving to SCV to see my family and do laundry.  I’ll try to get together with a friend, and spend time with the dogs just running around the backyard.  But it seems like I have very few days where I just stay home and read and relax (in my underwear/boxer briefs; well just stay home I guess is what I’m saying).  Today has so far …

It is Labor Day and we are laboring ….
I hope you all enjoy your day off and BBQs or however else you are spending the day.
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Amy and I don’t watch a lot of broadcast television together. We maybe have two shows that we will watch on a regular basis: The Office and Phoenix Suns Basketball. In the past catching these shows and watching them through a veil of analog video fuzz has been a problem because we don’t want to pay for cable. But finally we ended up renting
an apartment/garage that includes basic cable. So we now have 60 + channels that we never watch but it’s there I guess …

The last post about our apartment. I promise. The final corner and ‘room’ to be profiled.
When you walk into our front door, straight in front of you is probably going to be a bicycle, and then just past that is our kitchen.
It’s a decent sized kitchen. Plenty of storage space for us – especially since there’s no oven and a tiny fridge, there’s not really a huge need for all this kitchen storage space. …
The microwave cart lives under the front window, right next to Andrew’s record player. Which is …

The bathroom of our new apartment is the only real color … there’s a beige/nondescript cream color in the rest of the apartment, but this lavendar is so much more cheery ….
This place so small compared to past bathrooms in our past homes. For whatever reason, the sink is stuck back in the corner, so Andrew and I can’t really brush our teeth together (“Teeth Brushing Party” is what Andrew calls it) …
Because we don’t exactly have a linen closet, we keep our towels in this over-the-toilet, glass front shelving …

As with the living room, our “bedroom” is just the designated corner of the converted garage …
Really, the decision of WHERE the bed was going to sit was made for us. The dresser and bookshelves in the above photo are actually part of the unit. … they come with the place and have stay there … so, with those + the kitchen+the front door, the bed couldn’t really be put anywhere but just immediately to the left of the front door.
There’s just barely enough room on the left side to …

Since we live in a converted garage, we don’t exactly have the same room divisions that the rest of you all have …. so, when I say “living room” I mean this little corner just to the right when you walk in the door.
This corner also houses my dresser full of clothes, so the only thing that actually makes it a “living room” is the presence of our big arm chair and Andrew’s record player.
Again, let me remind you that our home is not perfect. You will not find the …