I never got around to my posting, but I at least did get Jason semi moved into his new humble abode online. So please go over to GeekoAndTheMan.com and tell him hi. It’s a bit bare right now until we can get some color swatches, knick knacks, and get it all decorated but it will look lived in soon enough. Also made some headway in moving my sister-in-law, Marie into her new hip place. She was starting to trip over all her things at blogger, so I’m helping her move across town over to wordpress. She ought to be settled in by the end of the week.

But the bestest news of all today? My laptop is here and I get to pick it up in an hour! *squeals* I love new toys.

sarah @ 6:55 pm | Comments (1)

I am hoping to make use of this three day weekend and finally get off my butt and post the pics I’ve meant to since umm…February? Perhaps give this place a new look while I’m at it since I need to update my version of Wordpress. And if time permits, get around to setting up wordpress for a couple of other people. May very well be the last thing I will do online on this old laptop of mine. Kind of funny to think that something that is just 3 years old is ancient. But it’s been showing a lot of wear and tear…mostly tear. So this past week I sucked it up and bought myself a new laptop. A bit sad because this means my dreams of a dslr will have to wait even longer, but a dslr isn’t very useful if I don’t have a laptop to view and work the images on. After forking over a grand, I still don’t have my laptop in my pretty hands yet. It was practically sold out almost everywhere and so I wait for mine to be truck transferred from Victorville. Should arrive by Tuesday! *fingers crossed*

Jason is gone at the moment. Been gone since Friday for a camping trip with his hiking class. And although I know I’ve spent many nights before we got married alone at night, it was just a bit lonesome without him. It’s not even like we’re all cuddly at night. Most nights we are tired from work and fall asleep on our separate sides of the bed. But I guess it’s the fact that I can wake up and know he’s next to me. He comes home tonight though after being beat up by nature….so off to do a quick grocery run and some cleaning before I pick him up!

sarah @ 11:35 am | Comments (0)

My personal trainer promises to not kill me. But between work and being pummeled at the gym, I have no energy to do a real blog on our anniversary and yes…still China. I really just need to get the images off my camera and I’ll be set. Maybe this weekend. I just barely got around to picking out the photos for our wedding album!

I’ve never worked out so hard in such a long long time. No pain no gain right? There is definitely pain. I know I will see results and I cannot wait.

sarah @ 9:49 pm | Comments (3)

The pain in my hand/wrist/arm came back. Noticed my arm swelling on Sunday and then the pain reared it’s ugly head on Monday. Back to the doc I went and got sent to get x-rays to make sure nothing was missed. So I’ve had to wear a wrist brace on my left hand for this week and let me tell you it makes typing on the computer extremely hard! We shall see what is going to happen on my next follow up.

This going to make my personal training at the gym a bit harder. I start next week! Time to suck it up and kick some butt! Or will my trainer be the one doing the butt kicking?

Before I get super super serious though, I will have one last hurrah with our anniversary food this weekend. Can someone tell me why the heck it is so hard to find a good bakery that makes yummy cakes and desserts? Maybe Riverside just isn’t hip enough, but I found it really difficult. I just wanted a simple small cake with Bavarian cream and fresh strawberries. If not that, then maybe some spectacularly indulgent individual sized dessert. There is a bakery down the street from us which does make some really neat looking wedding cakes, but the desserts we’ve had there were not all that great and just way too sweet. Then I found a place that I thought would surely be able to accommodate me if the owner was previously a hotel pastry chef. But no…they only do mousse filling and said they could do strawberries at my own risk of them not being sour because it was not yet “in season”. Should I just buy strawberries to supply to you too? And their display case just had cookies and scone type stuff. Guess I was spoiled by the Asian bakeries in LA that had sooo many choices. To think I used to be sick of the Chinese birthday cakes with strawberries and whipped cream! What I wouldn’t give for one right now. So I’m turning to Trader Joe’s whose desserts are frozen, but have never let me down. I was hoping they had the creme brulee framboise in stock that they’ve got me hooked on, but no dice. (Seriously look for it if you have a TJ’s near you. Creme brulee with raspberries made and imported from France in reusable ramekins!) Instead I went for their opera cake which I’ve been eying for some time but was too decadent to buy just because. Can’t wait to try it!

sarah @ 8:21 pm | Comments (3)

Maybe I will find time to write about China before our anniversary? I’ve been working like crazy since I’ve been back last month and I’m not quite sure when things will lighten up. But it’s what I signed up for…I wanted this position. I know though that at some point, I’ve got to step aside and think of myself personally. Jason is rather good at reminding me to stop working so damn much!

For our anniversary we are going away. Not terribly far, but far removed enough from the hustle and bustle of every day life. Our anniversary is on a Monday and I’ve drained all my vacation hours on China, so we celebrating the weekend prior. Me…not working on a weekend! I’ve rented us a little cabin up in Idyllwild.

Cute and charming, yes? It’s got a fireplace, whirlpool tub, and a private deck to stargaze. I’ll be picking up and packing with us some food at a great local Chinese restaurant to relive our yummy wedding banquet food. Eating fancy shmancy crab out in the woods away from civilization…can’t beat that!

sarah @ 8:08 pm | Comments (3)