Friday, October 31, 2008
bats!
I realize that this is now the third posting of halloween images.. this might be the last one.. maybe 
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More things to remind me of Halloween!
As a side note.. This weekend marks the opening of the much-anticipated Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francsico. I want to go!
Isn't this dress devilish!
and this bag... bootiful! Ok, enough of the silly words
As a side note.. This weekend marks the opening of the much-anticipated Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francsico. I want to go!
Isn't this dress devilish!
and this bag... bootiful! Ok, enough of the silly words
H.A.L.L.O.W.E.E.N. spells Halloween
Halloween is my favorite holiday! I love it!
We hope that your day is spooktacular!
We hope that your day is spooktacular!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
I love paper
Those of you that know me know that I am obsessed with paper products. Cards, prints, and most of all collage. I am so smitten that I have based my graduate studies on collage and montage. So when I saw the following images I almost fell off my chair, gasped and have had a warm fuzzy feeling inside ever since!
I have always loved post-its. I got this from my father who fills his whole car with the colorful papers only leaving a tiny hole on the windshield to look out while he is driving. I get this love naturally from him I suppose.
Beautiful pixilated Post-it decor in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman
The America’s Society Gala designed by David Stark
I have always loved post-its. I got this from my father who fills his whole car with the colorful papers only leaving a tiny hole on the windshield to look out while he is driving. I get this love naturally from him I suppose.
Beautiful pixilated Post-it decor in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman
The America’s Society Gala designed by David Stark
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
celebrate
Only now that I am typing this do I realize what an idiot I am for not taking any pictures during sweet ream's sweet birthday. This is a new bad habit of mine that I need to break quickly! I always forget the camera. Well, regardless we had a great birthday! John and I went here for dinner:
we ate this:
Soup Dujour Cup (Cream of Mushroom)
Chef's daily creation which often includes vegan options
Chicken Picatta
Pan Seared pounded Organic Chicken Breast topped with a reduction sauce of White Wine, Butter, Lemon, Garlic and Capers. Served with fresh Linguini and Broccolini
Achiote Pork Loin
Garlic and Achiote Marinated Pork Loin seared and roasted. Served with a White Polenta Cake, a Roasted Green Pepper Mojo and Seasonal Baby Vegetables.
and drank this:
The Tin Cosmo
Vodka, Grappa, Cranberry and Cassis make this Cosmo a little different but very drinkable.
House Chardonnay
Jack and coke
PBR Cans
Never forget your roots!
and ate this for dessert:
my homemade blueberry upside down cake!
yummy!!
Thanks to Jane and Merlin for bringing over these:
and thanks to mom and dad for coming over to help us celebrate, eat cake and bring these:
As I have taught John it is best to spread the birthday thing out over the month.. so more parties to come in the next week! The End
we ate this:
Soup Dujour Cup (Cream of Mushroom)
Chef's daily creation which often includes vegan options
Chicken Picatta
Pan Seared pounded Organic Chicken Breast topped with a reduction sauce of White Wine, Butter, Lemon, Garlic and Capers. Served with fresh Linguini and Broccolini
Achiote Pork Loin
Garlic and Achiote Marinated Pork Loin seared and roasted. Served with a White Polenta Cake, a Roasted Green Pepper Mojo and Seasonal Baby Vegetables.
and drank this:
The Tin Cosmo
Vodka, Grappa, Cranberry and Cassis make this Cosmo a little different but very drinkable.
House Chardonnay
Jack and coke
PBR Cans
Never forget your roots!
and ate this for dessert:
my homemade blueberry upside down cake!
yummy!!
Thanks to Jane and Merlin for bringing over these:
and thanks to mom and dad for coming over to help us celebrate, eat cake and bring these:
As I have taught John it is best to spread the birthday thing out over the month.. so more parties to come in the next week! The End
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Happy Birthday
Dear Mr. Ream,
October 15, 2008
Today you turn another day older, a day more distinctively you. I cannot believe that it has only been a mere two and half years since you have come into my life and our separate “I’s” became us. It seems like I have had you in my life always, I can’t imagine my day without you in it. Our life together has been a flash, an electric bolt of wonderful. Life is so good as a “we” with you my love.
Your sweet spirit, gentle touch, and pureness inspire me. You are so strong and yet so soft. I am incredibly lucky to have you in my life and for you to walk beside me through our beautiful journey. I love that you allow me to be so wildly and outrageously me. With you being so exceptionally you - and yet we are so us. You are unique, we are unique and our love is uniquely unbreakable.
Today on your birthday, I want you to know that you are oh so loved. I love you, Ebi loves you and our families love you. You have been for your family the strength, support and sweet smile through sadness and hardship when there was no one else. What a great burden to bear. It seems that you took on this great task and excelled. You pulled your family through tragedy and into happiness once again. I am positive that your dad is incredibly proud of you when he sees all that you have accomplished.
For me, you have brought light to a beautiful world and a solid love and friendship that I had never known before you and could never achieve without you. You have brought me companionship, laughter, joy, warmth, adventure, awareness and compassion. You show me everyday how amazing an “us” relationship is. Thank you for everything you do for me.
On your birthday know that I will always be yours and I hope that you will always be mine. Know that I love you and that the world is so much better and brighter with you in it.
I love you.
A
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Raw
The UMFA has just opened Raw, an exhibition of modern and contemporary art from our own collection. You should come and check it out. Warhol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg.. they will all be here plus many more.
Monday, October 13, 2008
and the floodgates opened
**Random thoughts for the day that quickly took on a life of their own!!
It seems strange that only in a matter of weeks we will be moved and starting a new album of memories in our very own home. The memories are already being created.. painting parties (thanks mom and dad), shopping trips and design meetings! How excited I am! Each evening John and I sit on our bed in the Browning flat with our heads buried in blogs and various magazines searching for more and more inspiration. "What do you think about this?" "how about that?" "oh! we should do something like this!" These days I feel as if I am overflowing with inspiration and there is just not enough time in a day to let all of my ideas flow from my brain into my fingertips. so many ideas and not enough time to execute. My inspiration folder is growing exceedingly excessive and hard to manage. Since when should inspirations be managed.. am I that old?
Often times lately I have stepped back and looked at my life and can hardly recognize it. I can't believe that I am old enough to have a house, be a graduate student, work a job, pay for insurance... let alone have a husband. When did I all of a sudden become such a grown up? And why didn't anyone tell me this was coming? It catches me off guard everytime to introduce my sweet man as my husband. Me married? what? I am still surprised by such wonderful news! As a young girl married people seemed so different than myself as I sit here today typing away.. so grown up. I don't feel that grown up. Are you sure this is ok for me to do all of these things that I do? I must have unknowingly passed some test that has allowed me to take the step into the realm of grown ups without really being a grown up at all. I still feel like such a kid! I say that in a good way.
I spent much of my young life trying to act older than I really was. I was always the mature one with all of the older friends. Now that I am actually the age that I used to hope to be, pretend to be.. I am struck at just how off I really was. My 25 acting of the past was not anything like my actual 25 real self. Real 25 Annie would never allow herself to act the way I did in my 25 of the past. My play acting of 25 appears to me now to be very transparent on just how young I actually used to act. I guess I WAS acting my age. The joke is on me. A joke that is still very funny and amusing to me! I must admit.. despite all of my stupid adventures of the past.. I don't think I would take my actions back. Maybe only erase the pain caused to my dear loved ones. All I can say is that I am sorry for being so damn stupid. I am healed for the time being although I am quite certain that I will perform many stupid acts in the future.. hopefully different stupid acts than in the past. I am still a student to my world after all. Can I apologize in advance?
If I could offer any advice to a child it would be to act young. Act your age. Enjoy it! skip and swing and laugh. Roll down a hill, get grass stains, don't care about your clothes, get dirty, sleep with a teddy bear and watch the same teeny bop movie over and over and over. In my 25 year body I look back and wish that I would have had the presence of mind to sit back and say "hey, I like being 7. This is what I do as a 7 year old and I am going to celebrate it!" *Although I still do all of the things listed above but now it is in a nostalgic way and that always leaves things with a effervescent tinge of rose colored fog!
So you get married, get a house, have a dog and pay insurance. I like this world. I think I will stay here and play for awhile. I still feel like a kid playing grown up and in all reality maybe I am! Maybe the key is to always feel this way. Grown up must be a state of mind after all. A kid in a grown up candy store where I get to drink legally.
The wheels of life keep on turning and now by some invisible authority that I can't see (and therefore can't trust)it says that it is time to have kids. *I need to intervene and add just how wonderful my dear and lovely mom is at not asking me this question of "when?" because I know she is dying to know. For now she has the furry one. I so appreciate her always letting me take my life at my own pace, both crazy fast and geologically slow- in my own time. thank you mom. I have so much to learn from you. Besides my mom and dad and the feminists at work, people have slowly started commenting on my ticking time bomb until detonation and impregnation. People my age and younger have kids so god dammit so should I. No THANK YOU is what I have to say to them! So for the few of you that have asked, I am not going to be having any kids for sometime! Get it? I am not just some breeding factory. I have a brain in this head and I love my life as it exists right now. This is where I need to be. I need to be me: selfish, independent, driven and passionate about my life and my career. Then I need to be me and you. Mr. and Mrs. It is just us together and thriving. This is where we need to be today. Hand in hand and building the foundation of us (this foundation will then stay strong for a rich future). Then I need to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good women, a good person and a good citizen to my planet. Have kids? I barely have time to get all of the other stuff done. Besides, as I noted before, I am still a kid myself. I am not to be trusted.
In reality, I do want some "can't live without" kid someday. Just not now. I need to be selfish right now. I need to work on me and we need to work on us. These things will make us whole lovely beings in the future. Full of experience and strength and love and laughter. Than we can pass that on to our bundle of kid someday. We will be ready to give everything over in the love of our child. With our foundation of us and I always present. You will be the delicious frosting on our cake, little baby, but the cake will already be there. We won't look back and say "we wish we would have," instead we will look to the future with our past standing behind us as tall towering walls of no regrets. Isn't that what every child deserves?
So as I enjoy my beautiful life and a new album of memories, I am going to try to take my own advice. I am going to sit back and say this is me at my true 25. This is what I do and I am going to celebrate it. This is great because my true 25 self drinks wine and spirits and enjoys yummy food!
I feel love (self,family,friends) all around me. I feel as if I am exactly where I am supposed to be and that my life is stretched out and waiting for me whenever I am ready to stroll or sprint. This is exciting, comforting, curious, lovely, and simply unexpected.
It seems strange that only in a matter of weeks we will be moved and starting a new album of memories in our very own home. The memories are already being created.. painting parties (thanks mom and dad), shopping trips and design meetings! How excited I am! Each evening John and I sit on our bed in the Browning flat with our heads buried in blogs and various magazines searching for more and more inspiration. "What do you think about this?" "how about that?" "oh! we should do something like this!" These days I feel as if I am overflowing with inspiration and there is just not enough time in a day to let all of my ideas flow from my brain into my fingertips. so many ideas and not enough time to execute. My inspiration folder is growing exceedingly excessive and hard to manage. Since when should inspirations be managed.. am I that old?
Often times lately I have stepped back and looked at my life and can hardly recognize it. I can't believe that I am old enough to have a house, be a graduate student, work a job, pay for insurance... let alone have a husband. When did I all of a sudden become such a grown up? And why didn't anyone tell me this was coming? It catches me off guard everytime to introduce my sweet man as my husband. Me married? what? I am still surprised by such wonderful news! As a young girl married people seemed so different than myself as I sit here today typing away.. so grown up. I don't feel that grown up. Are you sure this is ok for me to do all of these things that I do? I must have unknowingly passed some test that has allowed me to take the step into the realm of grown ups without really being a grown up at all. I still feel like such a kid! I say that in a good way.
I spent much of my young life trying to act older than I really was. I was always the mature one with all of the older friends. Now that I am actually the age that I used to hope to be, pretend to be.. I am struck at just how off I really was. My 25 acting of the past was not anything like my actual 25 real self. Real 25 Annie would never allow herself to act the way I did in my 25 of the past. My play acting of 25 appears to me now to be very transparent on just how young I actually used to act. I guess I WAS acting my age. The joke is on me. A joke that is still very funny and amusing to me! I must admit.. despite all of my stupid adventures of the past.. I don't think I would take my actions back. Maybe only erase the pain caused to my dear loved ones. All I can say is that I am sorry for being so damn stupid. I am healed for the time being although I am quite certain that I will perform many stupid acts in the future.. hopefully different stupid acts than in the past. I am still a student to my world after all. Can I apologize in advance?
If I could offer any advice to a child it would be to act young. Act your age. Enjoy it! skip and swing and laugh. Roll down a hill, get grass stains, don't care about your clothes, get dirty, sleep with a teddy bear and watch the same teeny bop movie over and over and over. In my 25 year body I look back and wish that I would have had the presence of mind to sit back and say "hey, I like being 7. This is what I do as a 7 year old and I am going to celebrate it!" *Although I still do all of the things listed above but now it is in a nostalgic way and that always leaves things with a effervescent tinge of rose colored fog!
So you get married, get a house, have a dog and pay insurance. I like this world. I think I will stay here and play for awhile. I still feel like a kid playing grown up and in all reality maybe I am! Maybe the key is to always feel this way. Grown up must be a state of mind after all. A kid in a grown up candy store where I get to drink legally.
The wheels of life keep on turning and now by some invisible authority that I can't see (and therefore can't trust)it says that it is time to have kids. *I need to intervene and add just how wonderful my dear and lovely mom is at not asking me this question of "when?" because I know she is dying to know. For now she has the furry one. I so appreciate her always letting me take my life at my own pace, both crazy fast and geologically slow- in my own time. thank you mom. I have so much to learn from you. Besides my mom and dad and the feminists at work, people have slowly started commenting on my ticking time bomb until detonation and impregnation. People my age and younger have kids so god dammit so should I. No THANK YOU is what I have to say to them! So for the few of you that have asked, I am not going to be having any kids for sometime! Get it? I am not just some breeding factory. I have a brain in this head and I love my life as it exists right now. This is where I need to be. I need to be me: selfish, independent, driven and passionate about my life and my career. Then I need to be me and you. Mr. and Mrs. It is just us together and thriving. This is where we need to be today. Hand in hand and building the foundation of us (this foundation will then stay strong for a rich future). Then I need to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good women, a good person and a good citizen to my planet. Have kids? I barely have time to get all of the other stuff done. Besides, as I noted before, I am still a kid myself. I am not to be trusted.
In reality, I do want some "can't live without" kid someday. Just not now. I need to be selfish right now. I need to work on me and we need to work on us. These things will make us whole lovely beings in the future. Full of experience and strength and love and laughter. Than we can pass that on to our bundle of kid someday. We will be ready to give everything over in the love of our child. With our foundation of us and I always present. You will be the delicious frosting on our cake, little baby, but the cake will already be there. We won't look back and say "we wish we would have," instead we will look to the future with our past standing behind us as tall towering walls of no regrets. Isn't that what every child deserves?
So as I enjoy my beautiful life and a new album of memories, I am going to try to take my own advice. I am going to sit back and say this is me at my true 25. This is what I do and I am going to celebrate it. This is great because my true 25 self drinks wine and spirits and enjoys yummy food!
I feel love (self,family,friends) all around me. I feel as if I am exactly where I am supposed to be and that my life is stretched out and waiting for me whenever I am ready to stroll or sprint. This is exciting, comforting, curious, lovely, and simply unexpected.
Monday, October 6, 2008
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