(Gasp!) Sacre bleu! Sacrilege! I’ll say it again: Napa is overrated. Napa may be wine country, but it’s also the country of mediocre, overpriced food, and way, way, way overpriced accomodations. I used to live there so I base this opinion not just on one or two visits, but on day in and day out of [...]
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Napa is overrated
Posted in Welcome!, tagged Artesa, dinner, drink, eat, fun, hotel, hotel valencia, meritage, napa, party, restaurant, san jose, santana row, spa, travel, uva, wine, wine country on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
GPS to no-man’s land
Posted in Welcome!, tagged brain, email, future, GPS, humans, people, technology on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It occurred to me today that there is a whole generation of kids growing up on GPS that may very well never learn to read a map or know North from South. How crazy is that? It’s like in Back to the Future 3 when we see that technology has taken over so many menial [...]
Art supplies
Posted in Welcome!, tagged art, create, draw, painting on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My art supplies have arrived! I have fully restocked my art supplies and now can start painting again. I have a couple ideas for pictures so far (and I owe my sister the first few or more), but I think even just the process of mixing colors will be awesome. Yea!
The last time I put [...]
Be nice to yourself
Posted in Welcome!, tagged encourage, inspire on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I ask you, when will we stop judging ourselves and start being our strongest supporter, encourager, friend? How many years have I woken up and thought, I hate this or that about my body, or I wish I was better at this or that, or I should be more this or that. When was the [...]
A little success
Posted in Welcome!, tagged donuts, exercise, film, walk on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I took a really nice, long walk yesterday. I left the house about 6:30am and walked out to the park and around the park loop and back. It took about an hour and 20 minutes. Afterwards, I took some time to stretch out my legs, which always feels so good, especially after walking for that [...]
Tomorrow is another day
Posted in Welcome!, tagged exercise, run, walk on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I didn’t go running/walking today as planned, but I had to drive all over the place and wanted to get an early start so instead of hitting the park, I got in the car and drove. Now it’s 103 degrees outside and there’s no way to get outside and exercise now. And I could [...]
Running and frustration
Posted in Welcome!, tagged exercise, run, walk on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Isn’t running supposed to help relieve frustration? I’ve just started running again, and it’s literally my fourth morning running, but I’m already looking at the parts of my body I want to firm up with running and saying “Nothing’s happening!” Like any change can happen in four mornings of running. When will I just let [...]
Movies, movies, movies
Posted in Welcome!, tagged food, friends, Italian, Morgan Hill, movies, restarant, wine on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I just had a really fun dinner with the director of the movie Spyware, his wife, the cinematographer, the lead male, and my husband. I’ve never talked with people who were such movie fanatics! It was so fun - every movie title or actor’s name would spring a whole new topic of conversation. We kept trying [...]
Memorizing lines
Posted in Welcome! on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, it’s a big week for the film. That is, I’m filming the majority of my lines this week and next. So I’m studiously memorizing lines…while watching Charlie Wilson’s War. Yeah, uh-huh. Studying hard.
Help - I don’t know how to memorize all this! I think I’ll have to type it out. Thankfully I have all [...]
The best masseuse in the South Bay!
Posted in Welcome!, tagged body work, massage, meditate, relax, spa on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I love my masseuse! Her name is Trish. She works at Burke Williams in San Jose. She is by far the best masseuse I’ve ever had and I’ve been getting massages for about 15 years. You can expect to pay $105 for the Pure Relaxation massage, and $125 for a Deep Tissue massage. And let [...]
