(This is the only pic of Bret and I playing any kind of sport I could find, please disregard the fact that it wast taken in 2005)"I hear soccer in the suburbs is really aggressive"
This weekend Bret and I went to the beach to shoot hoops. What is that? Oh, you didn't know that I play pick-up games at the park? My favorite spot in all of Northern California is Stinson Beach and there is a great little park there with a perfect little basketball court. Bret and I played an intense game of 2-on-2 verses a father-son team. I found that my basketball skills are on par with boys ages 10-11 (but only if I have 7 inches on them).
(This is the only pic of Bret and I playing any kind of sport I could find, please disregard the fact that it wast taken in 2005)
(This is the only pic of Bret and I playing any kind of sport I could find, please disregard the fact that it wast taken in 2005)
Whichever
Year of the Creative Mind has got Bret and I using our space (very limited space) creatively. I turned a corner into a sewing corner, but it's actually the entryway to the apartment so I guess it could be called either a sewing corner or a nuisance.
2010 in List
I had almost forgotten that I started out the year looking like Peter Pan:
In fear of forgetting more about 2010, I've decided to do a recap in list form, so here you have it. Even though it is in "top three" format, it's more like 3 things i liked, not #1, etc. This is mainly me (Whitney) speaking with bret's opinion taken into consideration.
Top 3 Movies Watched:
1. Son of Rambo
2. The Brothers Bloom
3. Breaking Away
Top 3 Meals Eaten:
1. Ike's Sandwich in SF (pic below). This place blew my mind, I was almost in tears my sandwich was so good.
2. Chicken Macademia Nut sandwich in Hawaii
3. Curry Pasta Salad from this lady
Top 3 Albums that debuted in 2010:
1. Suburbs- Arcade Fire
2. Age of Adz- Sufjan Stevens (I may or may not have gotten into a verbal altercation with the girl sitting in front of me at this concert, but who the freak spends $50 on a concert ticket to scroll through facebook during the show? I thought she should be informed that this was a poor decision and the light coming from her phone was driving everyone behind her nuts).
3. Contra- Vampire Weekend
Top 3 Books Read:
1. Strength in What Remains- Tracy Kidder
2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down- Anne Fadiman
3. Hunger Games Trilogy- don't judge me, you know you loved it
Top 3 Bummers (not to be confused with hardships or tragedies, those don't need to be hashed out in a top three list):
1. Bret breaking his ankle
2. Me denying a somewhat good job to then go on a never-ending search for full time work... 3/4 time isn't cutting it.
3. The sky rocketing rate of car insurance after you total your car. real bummer.
Top 3 Shows Watched:
1. Pushing Daisies (maybe for a second time)
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Modern Family
Top 3 Documentaries:
1. State of Mind
2. Man on Wire (I fell asleep at the very end and apparently it got a little racey, but the first 1hr30mins was fantastic)
3. Babies
Top 3 Vacations:
1. Hawaii
2. Chicago
3. Quemada
I don't remember why we were making those faces, but I love how we're in the most beautiful place and we look miserable.
Top 3 camping sites:
1. Leo Carillo in Malibu
2. Sequoia Nat'l Park
3. Milk Lake, somewhere in the Tahoe Nat'l Forest
(That's Leo Carillo, and a lot of that white we're looking at is the ocean but since my camera is from 2003 it doesn't really capture how great it was, maybe I shouldn't have included this pic)
If you have your own take on any of the above categories, I'd like hear it.
In fear of forgetting more about 2010, I've decided to do a recap in list form, so here you have it. Even though it is in "top three" format, it's more like 3 things i liked, not #1, etc. This is mainly me (Whitney) speaking with bret's opinion taken into consideration.Top 3 Movies Watched:
1. Son of Rambo
2. The Brothers Bloom
3. Breaking Away
Top 3 Meals Eaten:
1. Ike's Sandwich in SF (pic below). This place blew my mind, I was almost in tears my sandwich was so good.
2. Chicken Macademia Nut sandwich in Hawaii
3. Curry Pasta Salad from this lady
Top 3 Albums that debuted in 2010:1. Suburbs- Arcade Fire
2. Age of Adz- Sufjan Stevens (I may or may not have gotten into a verbal altercation with the girl sitting in front of me at this concert, but who the freak spends $50 on a concert ticket to scroll through facebook during the show? I thought she should be informed that this was a poor decision and the light coming from her phone was driving everyone behind her nuts).
3. Contra- Vampire Weekend
Top 3 Books Read:
1. Strength in What Remains- Tracy Kidder
2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down- Anne Fadiman
3. Hunger Games Trilogy- don't judge me, you know you loved it
Top 3 Bummers (not to be confused with hardships or tragedies, those don't need to be hashed out in a top three list):
1. Bret breaking his ankle
2. Me denying a somewhat good job to then go on a never-ending search for full time work... 3/4 time isn't cutting it.
3. The sky rocketing rate of car insurance after you total your car. real bummer.
Top 3 Shows Watched:
1. Pushing Daisies (maybe for a second time)
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Modern Family
Top 3 Documentaries:
1. State of Mind
2. Man on Wire (I fell asleep at the very end and apparently it got a little racey, but the first 1hr30mins was fantastic)
3. Babies
Top 3 Vacations:
1. Hawaii
2. Chicago
3. Quemada
I don't remember why we were making those faces, but I love how we're in the most beautiful place and we look miserable.Top 3 camping sites:
1. Leo Carillo in Malibu
2. Sequoia Nat'l Park
3. Milk Lake, somewhere in the Tahoe Nat'l Forest
(That's Leo Carillo, and a lot of that white we're looking at is the ocean but since my camera is from 2003 it doesn't really capture how great it was, maybe I shouldn't have included this pic)If you have your own take on any of the above categories, I'd like hear it.
the hills are alive
In case you were thinking, "Man it has been too long since I've seen Bret or Whitney in a helmet" well Merry Christmas. That little speck halfway up the road is me and I'm glad you can't hear through film because my huffing and puffing was as loud as a 400lb man.
If you're ever looking for a beautiful place to ride your bike in Northern CA, I'd recommend Tamales to Dillon Beach, it is beautiful. And if you huff and puff all the way up the mountain, you're not alone.
It's Turkey Time
I don't mean that in the Thanksgiving sense, I mean, I look out my window in the mornings and there are turkeys wondering around my front yard. I keep trying to tell them that this is a really bad time for them to be flaunting their stuff. Bret almost hit one of the turkeys on his bike the other day. I can't imagine how rugged he would have looked had he hit it, then tied a little rope around its neck and brought it home tossed over his shoulder.The Turkeys have become so popular that they made it into the Oakland Tribune, you can read about it here.
Get World
I was going to get Whitney a gift for her birthday, but there's a 98.4% chance that she would just take it back. So instead I gave her a card that read...
and by odd, I mean awesome
Today I saw a man driving a motorcycle that had 3 flag poles welded to it. I thought that was a little odd and then I saw that riding in his side cart was a golden retriever wearing goggles.
WORLD CHAMPS
When I saw the Giants bandwagon coming about two weeks ago, I decided to jump on. And boy did I! I had never watched a baseball game until two weeks ago and in the past few weeks, baseball is all we talk about in this part of town. Today a six year old won a coin guessing game and ran around the classroom doing this famous Brian Wilson pose, while another student chanted "FEAR THE BEAR, FEAR THE BEARD"
Those two six year olds aren't the only Wilson lovers, Bret too has an affinity for the beard, so much so that this was his pumpkin this year:
While I am now a big Giants fan, I thought it was kind of funny that the headline in the Tribune, in size 340 font, read WORLD CHAMPS!! The Giants have proved that they are the best baseball players, but can they really declare themselves world champs if they played another American team? Maybe they can, I'm new to this baseball business.
Those two six year olds aren't the only Wilson lovers, Bret too has an affinity for the beard, so much so that this was his pumpkin this year:
While I am now a big Giants fan, I thought it was kind of funny that the headline in the Tribune, in size 340 font, read WORLD CHAMPS!! The Giants have proved that they are the best baseball players, but can they really declare themselves world champs if they played another American team? Maybe they can, I'm new to this baseball business.
Conference Cloud
Since I usually only speak in superlatives on this blog, I'd have to say that the white cloud couch that can turn into a huge bed is by far the best purchase of our marriage.
#1
My number one all-time favorite thing to do in the whole world is to see things I've never seen before. More specifically places I have never seen. They don't have to be famous, or glamorous, or international, you can drive me through a suburb of Sacramento and my heart will beat fast. Well this past week Bret and I went on a business trip and I got to see lots of things I had never seen, such as:
Kenosha, Wisconsin (I've also never seen myself stand so awkwardly for a photo)
The Chicago River (I may have seen this when I was 14 but I didn't remember it)
I had never seen a man randomly wearing the exact same outfit as Monica and carrying his purse on the same shoulder
I had never tasted a donut this large or this good or from such a ghetto place
I also tasted the best pizza of my life (I didn't take a picture of the pizza, but this is us standing outside the pizza place)
I've also never seen a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with boxes and had to sort through 850 boxes and count over 17,000 items.
Kenosha, Wisconsin (I've also never seen myself stand so awkwardly for a photo)
The Chicago River (I may have seen this when I was 14 but I didn't remember it)
I had never seen a man randomly wearing the exact same outfit as Monica and carrying his purse on the same shoulder
I had never tasted a donut this large or this good or from such a ghetto place
I also tasted the best pizza of my life (I didn't take a picture of the pizza, but this is us standing outside the pizza place)
I've also never seen a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with boxes and had to sort through 850 boxes and count over 17,000 items.
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