happy birthday mimsy!

Yesterday was Mimoun's birthday! Thanks brian and jared for a really fun evening and night. Dance party at midnight to Dominant Legs was tres awesome. Other highlights of the day/night include my fantastic peet's coffee and poppy seed bagels with cream cheese and cucumber breakfast made especially for mimsy, buying actually nice beer to drink (Shocktop and Red Tale Ale yum...), an enormous rosemary bush in the back yard of the party house that masked the beer and cigarette smell, and running in to old friends.

mimoun and I at ...

heart's desire beach in Inverness

holiday party

This Friday I am overly excited for my first ever holiday party exclusively with work people.  In movies there are always wild things happening at holiday parties, but I think this will be a little mellower.

The EPGP team is going to a new wine bar in the inner sunset after work on Friday called, cleverly, InnerFog.  And, because it's UCSF and San Francisco, we're calling it a "winter time gathering to celebrate the end of the year" party.  Anway, here are two of my favorite fog pictures I've taken while living here.

sitting on the bay

spilling into the mission

sushi party

Last week mimoun and I went to a delicious sushi dinner at our friend's house in the castro, up up up by portola. We all reminisced about the giants winning season and feasted on homemade tempura and roll after roll of caleb's amazing (of yourstruly) creations.  Thanks for the invite dudes!

mimoun and nate's roll - amateur, but delicious :)

house dog marley was reaallly into the food

events

The renegade halloween show saturday was a great success.  The wonderful hosts of the night, who own the event space the Common, sure knew what they were doing and I can't wait to see what goes down there next.  People were spilling out of the doors of the "secret" show to see the "secret" bands, and everyone showed up in really well thought out costumes (my favorites were the sister wives in long peasant dresses and their mormon husband).  Thanks to fellow partiers for your enthusiasm and lack of too-cool-to-wear-a-costume-ness, and general good behavior.  What a great halloween!

Tonight Dominant Legs, Melted Toys, and Holy Shit are playing at cafe du nord.  See you there!

wonderful sunday

Oh the excitement! (MLB please don't sue me for using this exuberant image.)  Sunday started out at Rosamunde yet again, where stef, gio and I gave ourselves panic attacks watching the giants hold on to their lead for 6 innings, then went and bought champagne when they finally won!  I rode home smiling for some delicious avocado toast, coffee, and a quick SVU episode. Later that day we drove to marin for lucy's Fall Harvest Dinner Party.  Thanks to the unchanging san francisco weather, I really needed a dinner of pumpkin soup, spiced lentils with apples and spinach, and a seasonal Harvest Moon pumpkin ale for me to feel like the seasons are changing.

how lovely - two kinds of hot sauce, fresh flowers from our garden, and candles

Lucy used this heavy cast iron mold for corn bread, in the shape of little corn cobs!  After dinner, we sat outside together under the stars and pondered this funny upside down big dipper we all saw on the horizon, but was not the big dipper.  I was so happy to introduce Stef and Oliver to my home and to Libby, most imporantly.  Thanks Lucy, Mike, and Jonathan Sanchez for a great day!

hello friends. hope you had a fabulous weekend. The aforementioned pool party was a great success! Everyone got to meet Libby, take a dip in the pool, and watch the Giants beat the Dodgers! However, we drank budweiser and I made guacamole instead of gazpacho.... and woops! didn't take any pictures. We ended the night each devouring our favorite flavor of Its-It which, for non-Californians, is the best ice cream cookie sandwich ever.

pool party

the Stillman's back yard

As I usually do on Wednesdays, I've been thinking about mind blowing-ly fun activities for the upcoming weekend. Two words came to mind = pool. party. What a throwback! A traditional marco-polo playing, sun tanning, fruit salad eating gathering for old friends, new friends, the Stillmans (minus Mike because he's with Ann in Michigan), and obviously Libby! Delicious gazpacho and refreshing drinks for all who make the trip out of SF.

gazpacho pics and recipe at cup and table