Fall photos

My goodness, time flies. Where have the past three months gone?!

Every time I do something fun, go somewhere new and exciting or eat pretty much anything I always plan on coming back here and writing about it. It's important to me that I can always look back and remember how life was (I still to this day find myself occasionally logging into livejournal and reading about my adventures...and misadventures). But life happens and I've been so incredibly busy with work and getting ready to go home for the holidays, so here is a little photo round up of the past few months, if only for myself to look back on what it was like living this single life stint in San Diego, before picking up and moving this journey on elsewhere...













December Nights:


















obsessed with salt & vinegar chips, like her mama



Disneyland:










Space Mountain, on repeat




Die Hard, pool side


5am hotel baths


First, last and only photo taken with my brand new instax camera before accidentally/stupidly leaving it at said hotel of jerks and thieves

The Hangover II plus snacks

After grabbing bagels (jalapeno cheese with sun dried tomato spread) Jon had to basically drag me to the theater as I didn't have very high hopes for The Hangover II. I'm not a fan of sequels in general (minus Back to the Future, Scream and Toy Story), but it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Although it was indeed the same movie, different location as the first.



Funny little story, I filled a water bottle with Sprite that I could sneak into the theater ($5 for a soda is unacceptable) and inevitably left it at home. When we parked I realized the water bottle was missing so we grabbed a bottle of Sprite at the corner store and I smuggled it in. Since Jon bought our tickets via Groupon it randomly came with two small drinks. Oops. Popcorn for the movie: extra butter and some hot sauce, please!

more presents!

One of my favorite things from other people's travels are postcards! Jon has known since the day we started dating that if there is a trip being taken, which happens often in this household, it's imperative that a postcard had better follow. I've collected a few dozen postcards from friends, family members and internet buddies over the years.


[via]

Jon sometimes brings me home extra goodies because he knows that I can't afford to travel as much as he does. Here were my presents from Boston (and I'm sure a postcard is somewhere in route):


new toothbrush holder, i love teeth!


artichoke parmesan dip


something pretty


rad book he found for himself and $1 to boot

ps; We saw Scream 4 this afternoon and it was superb. So many clever one-liners and not all that predictable (until near the end). It absolutely made my month!

Lazy day + Florencia's

What a lazy day off. Jon has been visiting friends and family in Boston for the past week and comes home tomorrow. It's been lonely not having someone to cuddle with at night, but kind of relaxing and awesome being able to sprawl out in bed with Marty.



I'm totally jealous of all the awesome food Jon's been engorging, so this afternoon I splurged on a large pizza and finished Teen Mom 2 (via Hulu Plus). I don't know what I was thinking starting Teen Mom, but it definitely pulled me in. The first episode had me wanting to see what kind of crazy shenanigans Jenelle would later get into and how these young teenage girls were going to handle mature adult life at a juvenile stage.



Back to the pizza. After a friend sent me pictures of her artichoke heart pizza from Florencia's, I poked around their website and noticed that you could order online (awesome) and have it delivered, that's just what I did. Once it got here, it smelled like chinese food and a donut shop (weird), I snapped a quick photo and dug in. There was something sweet about the pizza that I did not like and the cheese was...not very good.



Shortly after I had finished about half the pizza, I started feeling nauseous. I'm not sure if I overate or if it was the food in general. I don't know if I'd be up to try Florencia's again after the way my stomach has been feeling, BUT I really appreciate and loved how simple everything was online.

Insidious

After a friend said Rose Byrne (Wicker Park, 28 Weeks Later) was my doppleganger in Insidious (I just don't see it) and hearing that this movie was great, unpredictable, oh and my love for horror films, I had to see it.





My opinion: this movie dragged. To me, it was totally predictable and there were so many long, drawn out scenes. The music/loud noises they played in just the first 5 minutes of the opening credits even made me want to walk out! I also think the best actor overall was played by Lin Shaye, random.



What I am really looking forward to is Scream 4! We're seeing it immediately when Jon gets home from Boston.




I can list 100 horror flicks that I love to death, what are some of yours?

A day in La Jolla

Last month Sprinkles opened a new location in San Diego, so Jon and I ventured to La Jolla yesterday.

After waiting in line for 50 minutes, we finally got our hands on my favorite cupcake, Red Hot Velvet! I've been craving their Red Hot Velvet for a couple of months, but since it's only available for about a week during Valentines, we made sure to be there the day they released it. As if Red Velvet wasn't the best cake ever created, they add a bit of cinnamon to the cream cheese frosting to really put it over the edge.


[red hot velvet, available feb 4-14]

After we meandered over to the theater across the street to see The Fighter.

Not only do "Based on a True Story" movies catch my eye, but Christian Bale is one of my all-time favorite actors. He isn't a typecast character, but truly versatile and does a superb job of any role he delivers. He does an amazing job of playing a cocaine addicted brother/trainer to his brother Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), before Micky's pro boxing career took off in the mid-80s.



Since World Market is in the same complex as the theater, and Jon had never step foot inside of one, I had to take up the opportunity. Any time I visit World Market don't expect me out of there within an hour and this time wasn't any different. Places like this make me want to buy house and decorate for days.




Whenever I drive to La Jolla, I make it a point to stop at an old "secret spot". There is little place just along the beach where seals naturally come ashore. It's a fantastic place to relax. Unfortunately over the years, more and more people have been finding out and visiting, making it a real touristy spot. But just look at how cute they are!