Blog Roll

I just updated the blogs I frequent over on the left hand column under "Need to Waste More Time?". You'll notice the name of the blog, followed by the title of their latest post and how long ago it was posted. If you read this blog and would like to be added - please leave me a comment and I will add you. Sorry if I missed anyone!

And while you're checking out blogs, make sure to head over to my baby blog to see Andy's latest picture!

Hi, my name is geefunk and I'm a twitterholic.

Why haven't more of you jumped on the Twitter bandwagon? Serio. Twitter is the safest way to stalk someone and I want to stalk YOU. You know who I'm talking to. My readers that don't ever comment...aka my family and most friends! I am very happy that Diana has finally joined. I am also very happy that Jessica and Mariela tweet way more now. I really do want more of you to open yourselves up to complete strangers...or just to me. It's so much fun. Trust me.

I love having a catalog of all my random thoughts and doings. Especially when I don't blog, twitter serves as a sort of micro-blog - like blogging one line at a time. I know a lot of you follow me thru the twitter updates on my blogs....secrectly...*cough*angelica*cough* So come on! Join! You can even make your updates private so only those YOU choose can read them. You can approve who wants to follow you. Join! Its so much fun to tweet from your phone or computer. Try it out...and if you don't like it...then delete your account. It's easy as pie. But remember to go follow me when you join!
Still unsure? You can also use Twitter to get your daily dose of breaking news or tabloid trash updates. Almost every media source is currently using Twitter - i.e. I follow cnn, BreakingNewsOn, E! news, and TMZ [and a few others]. Get updates sent directly to your phone. I think this one of the best aspects of Twitter.

Come on! Do it! Do it! Do it!

You Tube Tuesday

Feminist Palin

Mommy Movie Monday

Today I went to my first Mommy Movie Monday at the Krikorian Theater in Old Town Monrovia. The lights aren't completely turned off, the sounds is turned down just a notch, and babies and young toddlers are free to roam. Andy and I were joined by Diana and her sweet daughter Lara. The movie was at 10am and I was very sleep deprived, but after some coffee and just plain excitement of returning to the movies woke me up. The movie of the week was Ghost Town. It was very funny and touching. One of the few movies that has made me laugh out loud. Then it got sad, and I cried...thank gawd Diana was also on the verge of tears. Didn't feel so stupid.

Our kids were little angels. Even Lara, who Diana says usually has to be chased around, just sat close by and kept quiet for the most part. Andy woke up halfway thru and ate and starred at the giant people. He was so amused by the giant screen. I fear his love of television is growing.

After the movie we grabed lunch at a sushi restaurant near by named Mikomi. Really good sushi at a decent price [pricer than my fav spot Ichima].

Every time I hang out in Old Town Monrovia I love it more and more. It's so quaint and far from the over-crowded streets of Old Town Pasadena [my 1st home]. The best part is the free parking! 90 minutes on the street, and sections of 3 hour and 8 hour parking in the lots located on the side streets. My goal is to make it to the Monrovia Family Festival and Farmer's Market that happens every Friday from 5pm to 9pm. I have a wedding to attend this Friday, but hopefully next Friday will work.

It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to do it again next week! Thanks Diana!

Happy 1st day of Fall

Legalizing Weed in California?

This is a controversial topic, but just so you readers know...I'm all for it.

There is a good chance that there will be an initiative on November's ballot to vote on legalizing weed in California. It would be sold in stores that currently sell alcohol and tobacco [weed would finally be included in the same category as alcohol & tobacco]. You would pay an extra tax for the purchase which would help create more revenue for California. If you want to sell it in your store, you would just have to buy a $5 stamp [anonymously] for an eighth ounce of weed. A $50 annual license would be required to grow one plant.

I do think these fees are low. Considering how much can be made thru the growth and sale of weed, I think California should get more money out of it. Especially considering the financial crisis we are in.

Check out more details over at THCblog.com.

You Tube Tuesday

In case you live in a cave and haven't seen this - Hi-larious!

Caffeine Buzz

These two were made for each other. How I missed making espresso at home. I bought some illy espresso coffee at Fresh & Easy and it is the best! I have tried many different brands of espresso and this beats them all...of course...right? At almost $13 a can it is expensive, but oh so worth! I love sipping espresso from my little espresso cup & saucer set from Crate and Barrel. My sister loves it too and I can't wait for her to come over so we can enjoy it together.

Side note: I had 3 espresso cups....and....um...yeah....I thought my head might explode. It felt so weird. At least I'm not sleepy!

I mentioned Fresh and Easy. It a grocery store in our neighborhood. It reminds me of Trader Joe's and Costco put together. I love it! They sell their own brand food, but also normal stuff you would find at any grocery store [i.e. lunchables, Lays chips, Coke, Tide, Corona]. Prices are great. It's pretty small and there are only self check-out stands. I like them. It is not a one-stop shot for me, but it's on my way home when I take Foothill and it is defintiely worth the stop. I'll still be at TJ's [which is about 3 blocks from me] but I like being able to find national name brand items at a competitive price along with other specialty items.

A month? No way!

Can I use this for an entire month?

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post here. I always think of things to blog about, but finding the time to actually write out posts is tough. I've also been reading a lot lately. I had stopped for a while, but now I'm really into reading during my free time [instead of my usual watching crappy TV]. I'm hooked on the books by Emily Giffin. I have a whole bunch of other books lined up. Pretty much all chic-lit right now. I need the light reading right now. I have some heavier stuff sitting on my book shelf, but I can't tackle that just yet.

What else has been happening? In all honesty, taking care of our new baby is all I have time for. Most of the time I'd rather be do nothing [aka watching crappy tv] when Andy is napping. Now I read. So internet time is sparse these days. But 6 weeks into this new routine I am finally settling in. Now I actually want to be out and about with Andy instead of wasting my days away. This may be because my maternity leave is quickly coming to an end. I have settled on an exact return date, but it's looking like it may be October 6th. That would take me back to work just shy of my 12 week allowance. I mostly want to go back because we really can't afford to leave on one full paycheck and one 60% [disability]. Sad...but true. If it was up to me...I'd TOTTALY be a SAHM [stay at home mom]. I would LOVE it. Serio. Never get bored. I have so much I could be doing every day. :-p Being a mom is hard work! I get it now.

So no promises, but I hope to blog more often. Even my baby blog has been neglected with all my reading.

1 month picture

*moment of silence*

Making time to blog

It's hard getting time to write on post on this blog. Especially when I want to keep this blog as baby free as possible. But here are some interesting things I've come across lately that I'd thought I'd share.

#1
So late on seeing this picture and article. But a caption for this can go in so many directions. Hilarious!

"Show me something out there!" Bush urged May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh, who promised him "We'll make you proud."

Courtesy of USA Today. Check out the article.

#2

WTF can I say about this. But there are SO many things wrong with this.

Check out the article over at Gothamist.














That's it for now. G returned to work today after 3 weeks of paternity leave, so I'm all alone with le bebe. But all is good. Hes actually waking up so I must wrap this up. I'll be making more of an effort to blog here.

You Tube Tuesday

That Paris. This may be her biggest moment yet. Good move Paris.

And I think she watched "Legally Blond" a few times before doing this ad. I can see her channeling Elle Woods. Vote for Paris!

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Cheers

- 1st postpartum beer...I missed this bitch!

Cheers to the end of pregnancy, the beginning of parenthood, and to an amazingly calm baby - Andres. I'm knocking on wood as I type that I think we won the baby lottery. Andy has been the best sleeper, eater, and sleeper. That's all he does. With an occasional smile thrown in. So cheers for what I can say we have - the happiest baby on the block. :-)
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Updates

A quick list of what's been happening since I haven't blogged in forever.

- We're stilling settling into our new apartment. Boxes still sitting around, but not too many left.

- Been sleeping on our assome mattress for almost a week now and it's so perfect. We love it. A cal king is a heavenly thing when both G and I need some extra space. Although I am having trouble finding a simple white bed skirt. At least in store. May just have to order it online.

- Maternity leave is cool. I have tons of time to go looking for all these things we still need. I also have time to go relax at my cousin's pool and do daytime stuff. I was always so envious of everyone that was always out and about on weekdays. I even get to catch up on movies by going to matinee shows! OMG and sleep! I get to sleep in. Not much of a napper these days, but it's nice to know I can. And I hardly sleep at night so I totally sleep in.

- I'm so boring. I have absolutely nothing interesting to say.

- I did LOVE Dark Knight. Best movie of the summer by far. Best movie of the year I think. It was long but I was glad it was. Wouldn't have been right to edit any of that out.

- I was at the pool on Tuesday and I think I got a little sun burnt becasue I have been very itchy since last night. Especially my poor belly that was already itchy. It was the first time my tiger belly had been exposed.

- I just told G that I have nothing interesting to say on here and he told me to talk about him.

- I have nothing interesting to say.

- He said I should have sports section. Yeah....maybe that would've worked when I actually kept up with sports. Not these days.

- I splurged today and got my eyebrows waxed at the Anastasia counter in Nordstroms at the Santa Anita mall. It was good, but not great. May be my eyebrows, but when I go thome and looked in the mirror there were quite a bit of hairs that had to go. So I cleaned it up myself. This girl at the counter is good, she does my friend A's eyebrows and they always look great, but it just didn't work with me. Still glad someone else did it and not me. I had been letting them grow out for a month so that I could wax them before baby G came.

- Just placed an order on babiesrus.com and used our 10% off completion coupon. Didn't even dent the total. Babies ARE expensive.

- It is now almost midnight. I should go to bed.

- Oh yeah...I miss baking. I should bake tomorrow.

Random Doings

I've been wanting to blog about The Peach Cafe in Monrovia. G and I had breakfast there on Sunday and it was sooooo good! We had to wait a while for a table [went during their Sunday rush hour] but it was so worth it. When we were paying the owner handed us a take-home menu and told us to call in before so that our table would be ready the next time. Assome!

It's a small place. They have a few tables outside which are nice on a non-hot humid morning. I don't have pictures because I can't find my camera and I was too hungry to think about my cell phone. But G had an omelet with a side of chocolate chip pancakes. Those pancakes were delicious! I had something off their weekend specials menu. It was the Peach Benedict - a giant waffle [smoked bacon, maple syrup, and cornmeal in the batter] topped with a huge piece of ham and 2 eggs covered in a cheese sauce [their version of hollandaise and so good]. I LOVED my dish. Wish they would have it on the menu permanantly. I guess it's better that they don't because then I wouldn't try any other menu items.

The Peach Cafe totally has that family-run feel. Everyone is very welcoming, especially the owner. They also found out we had just moved to the area and were gushing about how great the community was. I totally get that Sierra Madre vibe from this part of Monrovia. Love it.

If you're ever looking for a good place and are in the area - this is the place. I hear their panini's are great too!

In other news - This morning I'm taking the Rogue to get lojack and bluetooth installed. It's an all day job and they better have that rental car for me. West Covina is not my hood and I need to get shit done.

And speaking of the Rogue, it does get good gas mileage. We filled up today and it was at about 260 miles. Sticker says it gets 26 miles to the gallon highway and 21 street. This is pretty darn close to what my TC was doing. I think my TC was doing about 280 on avg. And as you can see, we've had the car for exactly one week and have driven a crap load! Times are busy trying to get things ready for baby G's arrival....which could be any day now [if he makes an early arrival].

Hopefully I'll get all of baby G's clothes and bedding washed today at my mom's [at least the stuff that is up to 6 months]. I'll be meeting up with Diana later. Can't wait! And then maybe a trip to Ikea when we pick up the car [since it's just across the way] to get the remaining furniture pieces needed.

You Tube Tuesday

For G:

The end of an era...

...the era of my Scion TC. :-(( Today......I said goodbye to my TC. My assome ass TC that I will forever love. But it was all for the better. Of course, I needed a more "family friendly" car. The 2-door was just not gonna cut it. So now I have a mommy-mobile....wow....saying that sure makes it so real...how much things are changing.

Introducing the newest member of the family:

'08 Nissian Rogue in Gotham Grey

We did some shopping at Ikea in West Covina, and then headed to Babies R Us where we finally were able to purchase the car seat that we have been waiting for since May. Afterwards, G decided that we should head to the Nissan dealership across the street to "see" the Rogue. Yeah...seeing led to test-driving which led to getting an appraisal on my TC which led to a quote which led to our magic number being offered that we could not refuse. Before I knew it we were shaking hands and emptying out my TC and driving off the lot in a new Rogue.

It all happened so fast [not really...more like almost 4 hours] that I became emotional about it all. The thought of saying goodbye to my TC was enough to bring me to tears. That TC was my first car purchase. All mine...in my name...with my momey. It was sad to see my TC go, but it had been my idea all along to get a bigger car. I seriously sat there in the showroom with tears running down my face. Would I have cried if not pregnant? Maybe....but the hormone overload just made everything so emotional. It was overwhelming. So many things have been changing....all good...but still....it's change....scary, exciting, worthwhile change.

So we have a new car. Wow...I mean YAY!

WEEKEND RUNDOWN

I haven't done a real blog post in FOREVER! So let's get to it before I run out of time since it was a long holiday weekend.

FRIDAY

Started my day at the mall shopping for a dress for my baby shower on Saturday and for gifts for my shower hostesses. After that I headed to my moms where we would be carpooling to Brookside Park over by the Rose Bowl [our usual 4th of July spot]. Park was pretty relaxing as it wasn't too hot. Lots of food. Fireworks were not as good as last year. And it didn't help that we happened to pick a spot right behind a tree that would block most of the fireworks show. Lame. Unfortunately G had to work all day so he missed all festivities. Sucks.

SATURDAY

Shower day! G and I headed off to Pasadena to kill some time before our shower at my parents house. We had lunch at Chipotle, stopped at target for gift bags and other misc. items, and then G came with me to get a mani-pedi. I went to a new place on Lake Ave and Union and I loved it! They give an awesome massage and do a great job for a good price. I hear they do great eyebrow waxing too. Might try it before I have this kid.

After giving G's mom a ride from work we headed over to our shower. There was quite a bit of people already there. It was decorated soooo cute! It matched our Safari theme for our nursery. There was a lot of green and brown which my sister described as our wedding theme but for baby. So true. I love that they used these colors since I'm not much of a blue fan. We had a great time and got a lot of good loot. I'll have a full re-cap on my Baby Blog tomorrow. I don't have the pictures from our photographer yet [my brother and his fancy camera].

Quick shout-outs:
Nancy - Thank you for planning an beautiful shower for us! It was perfect in every way.
Vanessa - Thank you for taking the time [while pregnant and managing a toddler] to pick and mail out our invites. It means a lot that you would help out like this.
Angelica - Thanks for the bangin' ass cake! Serio. Can't stop thinking about it. And G thanks you for his UCLA balls. So cute!
Jackie - Thank you for providing the yummy favors! They were totally cute and a great idea. I love edible favors.

Ladies, it just means so much to me that your would all come together for me!

As we speak, the loot is being delivered to our home. Can't wait to get all unpacked and start setting up the nursery!

SUNDAY

After having breakfast at my mom's and wishing Vanessa farewell, G and I headed off to Macy's to check out their sale on mattresses. We went with the intention of buying a queen size cheaper end mattress. We came out with a Cal King pricey mattress! It was one of those "go big or go home" moments. We were way overdue for a new mattress set. How over due? We had been sleeping in my college bed....my full-size bed from Ikea. So yeah....it was over due. Especially with a baby coming soon. we didn't want nor need the extra expense, but this is an investment after all [or at least thats what the sales guy got us to believe]. This is the mattress set we got and it was discounted well over 50%. This really is Macy's biggest sale.

After a quick lunch at Tops, we headed back home to sleep off the shock of our gigantic purchase. we had wanted to catch a movie but the times didn't work with us. We also had plans to work on the unpacking, but my nap went long [which is great since I hardly sleep at night now]. So we picked up chinese for a late dinner [so yeah...we eat out a lot....lately...we haven't unpacked our kitchen gear] and watched The Savages. Good sad movie.

YouTube Tuesday

Too early? LOL!

YouTube Tuesday

Since everyone is talking about the dumbass Shaq video...I'll spare you all. Enjoy this one instead.

YouTube Tuesday

That'll teach this guy to try and take a cap on the side of the road!



LMAO!