Month: January 2008

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I love this youtube video. One suggestion: play something a bit peppier in the background while you watch it. The music in the video just doesn’t work for me.

Speaking of music…for some reason I have been really into the acoustic version of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” song. My favorite is by the chapin sisters, but Yael Naim‘s rendition is just as good (she sings the “New Soul” song for the MacBook Air ad). I love it so much that I had to add it to my myspace page. I may have lost some points for enjoying Britney’s Toxic song, but I don’t mind. I will share my Toxic love with pride and confidence.

Cooper, on the other hand is obsessed with Yael Naim’s “New Soul.” He whistles it all the livelong day.

Mr. Squirrel (p.s. this is not my foto)

I promise not to link to my work blog often, only when it is really really important. I recently was introduced to this video from one of my favorite designers, Blu Dot. You just have to watch. That is all I’ll say.

“I am not a paper cup”

I love this mug. Although I have to acknowledge that I occasionally buy a cup of something warm in a paper mug, I try as hard as I possibly can to make my own coffee every morning. I personally don’t know how people can justify buying $3 lattes everyday, let alone think it is ok to collect paper cups in their trash cans. But, I suppose I am just a little frugal and perhaps a bit more eco-minded. Case in point: last night Cooper wanted to take me out to dinner, but a little voice inside me said…”Assin, you guys have 12+ trips coming up which will require $$$…don’t go buy a $4 beer when you have 3 cases of great beer at home. You also have food in your refridgerator that needs to be eaten.” Needless to say, I caved and we went out for beers and curly fries (oh my, I am now addicted to curly fries!).

Anyhow, I love this mug. It isn’t in stores yet…looks like some time in February.  (found at DCI…Decor Craft Inc.).

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I had a thought the other day…

I see that Kate Hudson is in a new movie with Matthew McConaughey called Fool’s Gold. I don’t know too much about the movie, but I do know that it involves a big boat. Hmmm. When I saw the preview I had flashbacks to Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in Overboard. I then realized that this new movie is not a remake, but a treasure hunting something something. Wouldn’t Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey make the perfect duo for a recreation of the original Overboard? Gosh. Perhaps I should get into screenwriting or something.

There are a few people I would like to have attached to my hip, and this little person is one of them:

Amelia hugging my leg

Eskimo kisses

Which do you like better?

Surfer-ish dude: 

or…

Caveman:

Funny how digital cameras make such an impact…one day I take these photos of my brother:

And the next day a little two year old wants to look at the photos on the camera…then she does this:

Last week it looked like this in Colorado:

Today in Oakland it was so rainy and windy I thought a tree was going to come through our window (to which Cooper decided to cut the branch from the window…I am surprised no one on the street below us got hurt).

It is time to recuperate from the holidays. Everyone seems to have had a cold and now I guess it is my turn (my nose is raw!). I don’t have a lot of mental juice, it seems to be seeping out of my nose every 2.5 seconds.

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A highlight from my time at home for the holidays… 

What do you do when your dad turns 65? Remind him of his youth: 

“Dr. Daddy Bruce Heads,” dinner at the Flagstaff House, Dad’s 65th birthday