Andrew bought me a present recently. For no other reason than he thought I’d like it …
Sweet boy.
He found this Sesame Street Live album !! Soo fun.
First of all, I love Jim Henson. And the Muppets. And Sesame Street Live…..
AND….
Andrew didn’t know this, but I have a very distinct memory of going to a Sesame Street Live show when I was young …

I remember ….
I vaguely remember that this show was during the day, and we had to drive awhile and I’m fairly certain this was when we were living …

Andrew and I are in love.
And people who are in love get photos taken together.
We’ve decided to get a professional portrait session done every 5 years (or more often if we can afford it).
SO! Since our 5th wedding anniversary is in November, and since Jamie Delaine was in town to photograph Kaitlin’s wedding ….
Last week Andrew and I got all gussied up and drove down to the LA Central Library to get pictures taken ….
And I LOVE them….
For reals, y’all.
I don’t often like photos of me, but I feel really …

I spend a lot of time in the car. Used to be about an hour and a half every day, but now I’m down to about 40-50 minutes/day. And I spend the time by listening to podcasts. There is a whole slew that I subscribe to – some daily, some weekly, and some … every once in a while. I listen through my list to work and home from work, and then every few weeks I load up my iPod with the new episodes and go through listening to them …

I used to collect key rings.
Somewhere in storage I have a huge wad of all-connected keychains from any number of places. A lot from vacations (pretty sure there is a Yellowstone keychain and a Washington DC keychain at least), some I just liked, at least a few that I made (remember lanyards?).
But that was all before I really had any keys.
Now that I have to be responsible for locking things behind me, I just don’t have the pocket (or brain) space for fancy schmancy keyrings.
Andrew is even worse….

Andrew’s keys (above)

2 …

Yes, that says ‘Monday’ ….
No, this is not my WHOLE to-do list.
This is just the stuff that should have been done last week, but I hung out with Andrew in the mornings before work instead.

Do you remember I gave myself a big ol’ year long to do list for 2010?
Well, now that it is already the middle of July (!!!) I thought I should probably look back and see if I’ve accomplished anything …. and remind myself what I still need to do for the rest of the year ….
Friends and family:

Joe and Katie’s wedding (August 6) – Um. It’s not August yet
Katie’s various bridal showers – done and done
host parties, holidays and get-togethers (assuming we are able to buy a house) – not …

We’ve been watching the X-Files recently.
Apparently (according to Wikipedia), true X-Files fans have named themselves X-Philes (from the Greek root “-phil-” meaning love or obsession). Not that we’re obsessed by any means, but I kind of love that fan-name!
Sidenote: I LOVE that we can live stream movies via Netflix through our Wii. We may not be watching our Netflix discs all that quickly, but we are DEFINITELY getting our money’s worth with the live streaming.
Andrew’s bday was Monday and he decided he just wanted to stay in all day and …

this little girl – this blonde suburban girl – wanted to be Diana Ross when she grew up.
true story.
Also, just found out that around the same time …. on the other side of town …. A little suburban boy named Andrew wanted to be Michael Jackson when he grew up.

Another in the series of Top 5 Favorites.
We really like where we live and all the food options around us …. I figured I should narrow it down somehow, so for now just the top 5 favorite restaurants ON Ventura Blvd NEAR us …. Otherwise this list could go on forever….
P.S. When you come visit us we’ll take you to any one of these places.
Top 5 Favorites
My favorite restaurants on Ventura Blvd (in no particular order)

Tomato Patch – Fresh fresh salads, sandwiches and soup. The kind of place where the …

I need GPS.
I don’t drive to new places all that often, but when I do I inevitably have a hard time finding the streets/exits I need to turn on.
I hate Google Maps. It always confuses me.
Luckily, I think I have a *decent* sense of direction, so even when I KNOW I’ve missed my turn (too late to do anything about it) I can usually figure it out.
Usually.
But it would be so much easier if I had a GPS system.
So, when we went to San Francisco earlier this year we borrowed …

Andrew may not get a lot of days off to spend with his wife, but his boss certainly shows his appreciation in another way ….
Andrew’s studio works on A LOT of records. A lot of big, popular records. Records that win Grammys, for example.
The studio just passed it’s 2 year anniversary, and as part of their gifts, the big boss bought all the guys the plaques of the 2 records they made recently that went gold!
Too bad they’re not any bands Andrew really likes

Andrew now has started his …

Do you have questions for me?
Something pressing you want to know? About our house or our trips or the many ways Andrew is awesome?
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I will *likely* only answer the questions here on the blog – not on the formspring site.
Just an …

I know I haven’t done a really big post on our new apartment – do you still want to see pics of moving and a tour?
As an interim, I now present the first in a series:
Top 5 favorites
To start – my top 5 favorite things in our new apartment (in no particular order)

Balcony – Our balcony is HUGE. It’s actually a lot bigger than many of the other units in our complex. I don’t know why that would be or how we got so lucky, but it is BIG. Honestly, …

how did THAT happen?
And I can’t help it. …
I *want* to want to listen to the classical-music-vinyl that Andrew got out of storage – but you can’t really dance to it.
The worst one – or the BEST one, if you want to look at it that way – is Ke$ha’s TikTok.
Oh my word, I could listen to that song over and over again. I have actually. I could probably sing most of it by heart if I *had* to …
Both Maggie and Michelle made me mix CDs with all the …

I kind of love my Saturdays “off” when Andrew is at work all day …. I spend half the time working on my various projects and business and the other half the time lolling around being indulgently lazy.