birthday weekend

my birthday weekend started off on friday night with a snowleopard party at the california academy of sciences. the jellyfish were my favorite.






the next day, after changing my oil without ANY supervision (thank you very much), we celebrated by watching dark knight at dolores park.






though i'm always encouraging sharpie use, i fell in love with these cups! GENIUS!







sunday was filled with a heavy brunch, homemade cupcakes and pho. i look forward to installing my new rear sway bar, using my new timbuk2 cooler bag, making some easy crock pot meals and enjoying a new ringtone.



i'm excited for this year, 29 has definitely started off on the right foot.

fruitful birthday start

love, kelsey and peanut

wicked white

backstage with blink182

this is my car

DANGER: low tire pressure

so, my left rear tire was low but i didn't make the time to fill it up until about a week after i noticed it. as i was pumping it with air, i started hear a crackling sound and actually noticed the tire starting to bulge out. long story short, the low tire pressure caused more heat which caused the side walls to separate from the steel belts, etc...blah, blah...basically it caused the tire to fall apart on the inside. i'm lucky the tire didn't explode or fall off en route. and since i just bought these tires, they gave me their "dumb ass" discount. apparently this happens all the time.

welcome to the family

anniversary cookies

my manager did it again. homemade peanut butter cookies in celebration of my 2 year anniversary here at apple.

homemade dustpan with handle

huge ice cream cookie

biggest i've ever seen! (TWSS)

THE answer

just this past weekend:

scenario #1
i was at the park and saw this flower. i said it was a dandilion but for some reason it didn't sound right. i polled a few other people and strangely enough, they said the same. they thought it was a dandilion but was only 75% sure. what did we do? busted out an iphone and looked that shit up. (it was a dandilion)

scenario #2
i was at a bar and randomly the punky brewser theme song came up.

"Maybe the world is blind,
Or just a little unkind.
Don't know.
Seems you can't be sure
Of anything anymore..."

then we were stuck. we couldn't think of the next lines to the song. time to launch safari and look that shit up.

how common are these scenarios? the iphone has become the be-all and end-all to every debatable discussion or unknown fact. the blackberry and palm treo existed way before the iphone was born. but for some reason, this type of culture never existed pre-iphone. is it because the iphone is so popular and more people have smartphones in general? well, no. i still don't see blackberry owners take out their phones like that to look something up real quick that isn't totally needed at that moment.

i think it says a lot about the usability of the iphone as a whole. the user interface pulls in the user to really utilize the phone through it's simple and extremely easy to use design. thus, causing a life change, creating this dependance to it. why else do we pull out our iphones without thinking twice in a bar or at the park? we know we can fulfill a curiosity, get our questions answered instantly. just like that.

or, maybe it's because everyone around me has an iphone and i work where i work. ha!

kayaking adventure

rooftop movie night & sleepover

GOONIES!

jarvis cocker @ the fillmore

HPBJ (homemade PBJ)

peanut butter and strawberry jelly made from scratch. i'm speechless.