Tada!!!!...

Just like a little make-up can accentuate a woman's beauty, so a paint job can for a lovely home.

BEFORE (bland gray, purple trim, and a red door...uh...that's an option, I guess):

And AFTER (yes, a little overkill on "green" maybe...but I like it!):

Next up: new porch steps and a white picket fence...

"Bowl-A-Rama"...

My company just had our annual Summer Party. This year we did a "Bowl-a-Rama". Get a bunch of advertising egos into a room, put them into a competitive situation, add uniforms and beer...and you've got QUITE the scene. What a blast!

I know, I know...you wish you worked here too... :)

Color is king...

I have been going through torture trying to pick colors for my exterior house painting. I finally decided an a scheme and God willing, it just won't be ugly. That's all I ask. Nothing really clicked with me. When I finally decided on the main shade for the shingles, I suddenly noticed that 3 other houses on my street are the same color. What? In any case, hopefully pictures will be posted tomorrow. Until then, here's the Behr color palette:

Lauren Mist for the shingles, Jungle Green for the window sashes, and Cotton Puff for the trim

Project Daniel Vosovic...

Though I was giddy about the start of a new season of "Project Runway" (finally!), I was 100 times more excited about the "Project Runway All-Stars" that aired before the premier! First "Top Chef Masters" and now this? Really, it was almost too exciting for words!

Watching the show reminded me of my deeeeep, deep love for Daniel Vosovic. I want him to be my best-friend-in-the-whole-wide-world! I want him to be my reality-show-gay-husband. And he can design an entire line inspired by ME, ME, ME! (though none of that skinny-girl-athletic-inspired stuff he made on the show) I ADORE HIM! ("Its a mutha-fuckin' walk off!"...anyone remember how cute that was?)

And now, seeing that he's written a BOOK...well, of course I immediately went off to order it on Amazon! PS - my friend and I had an email exchange about the whole notion of coffee-table books (forget the fact that she was describing to me a coffee table she was adoring which I mistakenly thought she was talking about a coffee table book and proceeded to go into this whole thing about them...) But, really, the concept of a coffee table book is weird to me. Won't go into the whole thing as it looks like it doesn't matter as I am now a proud owner of one myself! Ha!

"Forwarded by Tim Gunn"...*j'adore*

True, true...

Just did a word cloud of my blog...found it really interesting what it came up with:

I really like that the words that stand out the most are "life", "embrace", "new", "trying"...

Indeed.

Weekend wonders...

If this weekend taught me anything, it was that life goes on and thankfully, I get to take part if I choose to...

Nice.

Berkeley Farmers' Market is a really peaceful place. Unlike the Ferry Building's, this one is really neighborhood-y and reminds me of the little one I used to go to in Brentwood down in LA. I love Summer and all the colors it brings out! I got myself some goodies...


Some of the gorgeous sights from the market:


I also ordered DirectTV this weekend so I can watch all of the NFL football games this season. Man, coming from a tv-aholic, this will sound weird...but, DirectTV just has TOO many channels! I can't even get to them all. I was seriously overwhelmed.

One thing my remote did end up settling on was a marathon of "Miami Social". Lord help me, I'm hooked! Ha!


Oddly, glad to be back to work today...keeping myself busy...it'll get easier, I know...

The simple things...

Friday night at home, on my own...starting to feel sorry for myself. NO! Snap out of it! Made myself a nice little snack, watching "Entourage" epi's on youtube, trying to finish the last few chapters of my book and making plans for a great day tomorrow @ the Berkeley Farmer's Market and then to see a matinee of "Julie & Julia" (and maybe sneak in "District 9" as well). All the things he wouldn't do with me, I can and will do on my own...

Ed & Pete's Organic Lemonade from BevMo, Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus from Trader Joe's, Petite Loaf from Acme Bread, Lo-sodium Salami from Trader Joe's