Thank you for being a friend....

I don't really have anything interesting to say today so I thought I would just thank you all for reading and being my little support system. I truly do appreciate all your comments and am glad that I have had a chance to get to know some of you!! I rely on my friends A LOT in my life and now you are all a part of that...lucky you!!!


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Weekend Review - Sans Pictures

Another weekend flew by and Monday has arrived too soon A-G-A-I-N! I must say that although it is Monday, I am not as sleepy as I usually am on Mondays. Why you ask? I fell asleep at 7:30 last night!!!! I can't believe I got that much sleep, I must have been exhausted from the weekend festivities. But, if you think that is bad...Mr. Pickle fell asleep at 6:30. Yes, it is true, we definitely cannot hang like we used to.

Being that I was sleeping all evening, I didn't get a chance to upload my pics from the weekend. Good thing I kinda slacked off on taking pictures because there really would have only been one or two to include any ways. On to the picture less weekend recap.

Friday after work I went to my mom's house to have dinner with her and my sister. She left for Maui bright and early on Saturday morning so we thought making her dinner would be a nice way to send her off (since she was going to be without us in Maui on Mother's Day - yeah, I really don't think she cared, she is in Maui after all). After dinner my sis and I hung out at my house looking at some wedding ideas for her wedding. (Side note, although she isn't officially engaged yet, her and her bf have set a date. Her bf is continuing to save up for the ring since he wants my sister to have the perfect engagement ring!)

Saturday my sis and I woke up bright and early to go for a walk before we helped our friend move to a new apartment. We were literally moving ALL. Day. Long. Finally we got so hungry we decided to call it a day and go to dinner. Then we decided we needed to celebrate the move (my friend just got out of a long term relationship where she lived with her boyfriend, so this move was a little rough on my friend), so we headed out to the bars. I guess we don't get out too often because the bars in the area that used to be kick back bars are now charging cover and trying to be dance clubs. WTF? If I wanted to go dancing I would go to the swanky 'clubs' in a nearby town or go to San Francisco. We resorted to one of our typical bars where there is a juke box, photo hunt, pool tables and not packed with club goers. My sis and I had to be up early the next day so we swore we were only going to go out with our friend for an hour or two, yeah we ended up staying until closing time and didn't get to bed until 3. Oooops.

Sunday morning my sis had a maternity photo shoot for some of our friends. I went along to assist and did a pretty good job if I do say so myself (toot toot). When we got home we took a little snoozer while Mr. Pickle and my sis' bf were BBQing. Later we went to pick up my grandpa and brought him to my house for a Mother's Day BBQ for Mr. Pickle's mom. We had a wonderful time and ate some delicious food, but after everyone had gone home and the mess was cleaned up, Mr. Pickle and I headed to bed! I watched a little TV, but as I mentioned earlier didn't last much longer than Mr. Pickle before I was OUT.

Woke up this morning feeling pretty rested :)

How did you all spend your weekend?

PS. What is up with the rain in Nor Cal???? It is May. In California. I no longer wish to see the rain until November. Kthanksbye!

Eight Squared

A newer bloggy friend of mine, Molly at Stilettos and Diapers, tagged me in a fun little picture game. If you don't already know the oh so fabulous Molly, drop by and check her out!!

Le Rules
1]. Go to your photos files and select the 8th photo folder.
2]. Select the 8th photo in that folder.
3]. Post that photo along with the story behind it.
4]. Then challenge 8 blogging friends to do the same.

This is a fun picture!! This was 4th of July two years ago. We started the day at the Giants vs Dodgers game in San Francisco. Half of us (the Nor Cal born and raised crew) were rooting for the Giants while the other half (the So Cal born and raised crew) were rooting for the Dodgers. The festivities continued with a BBQ at my sister's apartment down the street and attempting to watch fireworks on the Embarcadero later that night.

I challenge...

Marcie at 365 Days of Marcie

Annie at Chapters of our life

Ashley at KiwisandCocktails

Sierra at OceanDreams

Katie at The Adventures of Katie and Josh

Jenn at West Sac Honey

Tara at thats why her hair is so big

Kelly at Adventures by Me (whatever they may be)

Aaaaand GO!

Music for Pinky

Happy Thursday all!!

As I have mentioned, I am working out in attempt to drop some weight. I usually go jogging/running with my iPod and am getting VERY bored of the same old music. I thought I would share with you some of my workout tunes and in turn you could share with me some of yours!!!

Pinky (my pink iPod) is fully equipped with ALL sorts of tunes, however for working out, I enjoy face paced music to keep me going. Some of my favs are....

- Several Songs by Christina Aguilera, Justin (will be my husband one day) Timberlake, Rage Against the Machine, Britney Spears, Huey Lewis, Black Eyed Peas, Fergie and Usher

- Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-A-Lot

- Back That Ass Up by Juvenille

- Bad Boy For Life by P Diddy

- The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson

- Bombs over Baghdad by Outkast

- Chin Check by NWA

- Connection by Elastica

- Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry

- Da Joint by EPMD

- Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy

- Doorbell by White Stripes

- Feedback by Janet Jackson

- Fergalicious by Fergie

- Fever for the Flava by Hot Action Cop

- Gasoline Dreams by Outkast

- Get Right by J. Lo

- Get Your Freak On by Missy Elliott

- How Many Licks by Lil' Kim

- I Like the Way by Bodyrockers

- Maneater by Nelly Furtado

- Money Ain't A Thang by Jermaine Dupri

- The Perfect Drug by NIN

- Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe

- Rock Star by N.E.R.D.

- Stinkfist by Tool

- Supermassive Black Hole by Muse

- Them Jeans by Master P

- This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race by Fall Out Boy

- Tik Tok by Kesha

- Touch It by Monifa

- Walk it Out by Unk

- We Can Freak It by Kurupt

- Woman by Wolfmother

- Work It by Missy Elliott

What songs really get you to push through your workout?

Pic from Google Images

Wishful Wednesday

'I wish' .... I was fluent in another language in addition to English, and it would be ________!

I would LOVE to learn how to speak Italian. This in one of the items on my Bucket List and I always look at the classes that are being held through the Community Center, but never have the time to devote to the classes...one day. When I do learn how to speak Italian, I of course want to travel to Italy!!

Join in on the Wishful Wednesday fun by going to Kelsey's blog

Love is in the air

I mentioned here that I assisted my sister with an Engagement Session in Napa a few weekends ago. I love photography and wish I had more time to dabble in my interest, so whenever my sister asks if I want to assist her I am more than happy to accept!!

Here are a few of the pictures I took for the photo session. My sister edited so I must give her props for that!! I think they turned out great. Plus, it is no big surprise that my sis got some fabulous shots too.

What do you think??

Weekend Review

Another successful weekend, another Monday come too soon!! I seriously think three day weekends should be made mandatory for our well being. Between, running errands, visiting with family and friends, working side jobs, doing chores, and having a life over the weekend, I find myself longing for just "one more day" to be able to rest and relax before facing another week.

I got off work a little early on Friday which is always nice. I exercised for a bit and then headed to the mall to look around while I waited for Mr. Pickle to get off of work. Once we met up, we met up some friends at Benihana for dinner.

It is fun to watch them make the food right there in front of you. Our guy made a heart out of our yummy fried rice!


Saturday morning I woke up too early (why can't I sleep in on the weekends anymore?) and took one of my dogs for a walk/jog to get some exercise while enjoying the wonderful weather. When I got back home I got ready and headed to my grandpa's for the afternoon. We went out to lunch and went to visit the cemetery where my grandma and dad are buried. Isn't the view beautiful? If you look close enough you can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the background! It is so peaceful and pretty there. My grandpa goes to visit my grandma (and my dad since they are right next to each other) every week.

After spending the afternoon with my grandpa me and some ladies headed to Sonoma for a party at one of the wineries we are members at. We hit major traffic leaving San Francisco, but I got a better picture of the Golden Gate Bridge!


It was perfect weather and clear enough to see the whole bay so we decided to stop and get a picture with San Francisco in the back ground.

Once we got to Ledson, we were ready to do some major wine drinking!!

And of course we had to do the traditional bath tub shot. (Story has it that the house was built for the family to live in, but ALWAYS got visitors because it was mistaken as a winery so they made it into a winery....hence the bathtub at a winery.) We take a bath tub shot every time we are there!!

Group shot behind one of the bars set up for the evening!

The party ended sooner than we were expecting so we decided to head back to San Francisco and hit up one of our favorite white trash bars, Butter.


Typically we would have dressed appropriately for the occasion (ie. white trash attire-as seen here for Mr. Pickle's birthday) but we didn't have a change of clothes with us :(


We still drank 40's out of paper bag, tall cans of Bud Light and Jello shots and of course broke out in the robot at some point.

I actually slept in on Sunday (I guess that's what happens when you don't get to bed until 3:30 am). Mr. Pickle and I went to breakfast and then ran some errands and then I met up with my sister to help her with a family photo shoot...ummm hello adorable family with three boys (twins and an older brother). I will have to post one of the pics my sister took because they were adorable! Once we were done we went to my house where the boys were finishing up dinner. They entered another BBQ contest and are working on perfecting their ribs and chicken. It was delicious, as always! Spent the rest of the night finishing laundry and going to bed early.

How was your weekend?