The Daily Sabs

What the fig?

sabs — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:15:11 -0700

Okay, I'm no Ali, but sometimes I open my mouth and weird stuff comes out. Today as
I was telling Randall what I was cooking for dinner I said, "we'll
have roast chicken, I have a basket of figs in my new purse."
obviously. It is also obviously why I can't have nice things. Who puts
figs in a purse? This is why I can only buy things from h&m, if my
purse cost $2k I'd probably still put figs in it. *sigh*

In other news, the lemon chicken with figs and olives was delicious. I
meant to take a picture, but well, it was delicious and I forgot.

I prove I am part of the demographic by wasting money on shoes I will never wear

sabs — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:15:08 -0700

After a long day, i needed a little real retail therapy. I got a great
pair of booties that will never see the light of day and some flats I
can wear into the ground. They were on deep clearance for $15 so I
bought two colors. I never do that. I'll probably hate them just
because of it.

In other news, so f'ing exhausted.

Hot in the pot

sabs — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:20:06 -0700

I woke up this morning to a ringing telephone; it was morm calling for
no reason. We talked for nearly four hours. Afterwards it was time for
some open houses (one pretty good but not a wow), then back home to
talk to my dad. And then it was time for hot pot. We owed samshrew and
chris a dinner and chris wanted to cash in with hot pot. All you can
eat and drink for $29.99, nom nom nom.

Ps. Chris ate so much he's going to be ill all over samshrew. See?

Mad props.

sabs — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:30:06 -0700

This afternoon Melissa and I made a fun run to daly city. We're doing
a booth at blogher this year, and not to giveaway any spoilers, but
we've got some awesome tricks up our sleeves. These tricks involve
both candy and funny props, and since there's not enough time in the
week, we made a prop/candy run on the weekend.

Originally it wasn't going to be an outing, but then I discovered that
my prop run was near her candy run and so we made a date out of it. DK
texted saying she'd join, but it was too late we were already in daly
city. So afterwards we met her for lunch at nopalito. Yum!

Ps. It's hard to see, but Melissa has on a fuzzy tiara and dk is
wearing Minnie mouse ears.

Celebrating the officialness

sabs — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:40:06 -0700

I was the last one to leave the office today, and although I really
wanted to go straight home and sleep on the couch, I mustered up the
strength for a celebratory drink. You see lizzy's been officially
offered a job at shopstyle! We've all known for weeks that it was
happening, but today it's official! Congrats lizzy!

Field trip and lipgloss!

sabs — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:20:06 -0700

This afternoon dk, Melissa, and I headed down to menro park for a
social media seminar marketing meeting speech listening mingling
thing. It was somewhat informative but also made me glad to hear that
we're on the right path. It was great to hang out with these ladies
and it makes me so sad that the only way we can do it is if we have to
go to a work thing.

In other news I let a stranger do my lip makeup on the street today.
They looked official and gave me samples and coupons for my fave
lipsgloss, so I couldn't really just walk in by.

Ps. I almost forgot to post today because as soon as I came home I
started emailing and working for a few hours to catch up for leaving
work early. Sux.

Press check!

sabs — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:05:17 -0700

This morning Elsa and I headed over to see Noel, our print guru. We
had an early(ish) press check (although the weather made it feel
earlier than it really was). It's been a long time since I've done a
press check (Internet media company and all) so that was kind of fun.
Besides I'll take any excuse to get nonfrazzled Elsa time!

Oh and how'd the check go? Fantastic! Can't wait to see the finalized
brochures!

Ps. Bonus points to Mitch for posting photos that should be kept in a
shoebox to facebook. Extra bonus points to Nicole for printing them
out at work.

Those laptop people

sabs — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:00:06 -0700

This afternoon Randall and I escaped from the house to work a while at
coffee bar. I had a few things I needed to take care of before
tomorrow morning, but was sick of sitting in the living room. So I
suggested lunch at a place with wifi. Originally I said atlas, but he
prefers coffee bar so we went there. Truth be told I had never been to
coffee bar, but I really liked it there. Even if it was a bit
ridiculous that every single seat (no exaggeration) was occupied by
someone with a laptop. There was just a really good vibe there and I
was able to get a lot of crap done quickly. Plus the Vietnamese ice
coffee was delish.

Also, I was able to focus and forget about the fact that I saw my
(realistic) dream house today. Realistic in that it's not unfathomable
that we'd live there, but dream in that it's just out of reach and so
we're not making an offer. Cryface.

xl and I become best friends

sabs — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:35:05 -0700

This evening Randall and I drove down to san Jose for a scheelbarrow
potluck party. We were running a bit late (the peach puzzle pastry was
taking longer to put together than I anticipated), but arrived just in
time for the eats.

It's always great to see these folks, but is more interesting to see
how their kids are growing. Mikela is so much more expressive than the
last time I saw her, and Xavier is finally coming out of his shell. In
fact, he and i became best pals at the end of the night. Actually, it
was a pretty big deal. His parents were shocked by the breakthrough.
This is the first time he's ever opted to hangout with an adult while
his mom is there. Normally he's attached at her hip. In fact mom's
sisters are actually upset by it and mom wasn't sure if she was even
going to tell them. I told her to tell them not to feel too badly.
Afterall, I have a big round head kids can relate to, and I'm like
only 10 years old anyway.

All just a dream, or is it reality?

sabs — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:10:04 -0700

A few weeks ago, chris bought us all tickets to inception at the
kabuki. His dad came to town and joined us and then we all devoured
too much food over dinner. We also chatted about the film, which I
sort of loved, although I kind of wish I had never seen shutter island
because my brain kept mixing leo's characters from the two films
together. I'd love to talk more aboutthe movie, but I won't ruin it
for you. Did love the ending though, even if I saw it coming.