I'm dying to write a new post but I need to find time to upload pictures and videos and other crap I have been saving up. And this week is not the week to "find time".

I have the Holiday Hit List show this Sunday which is one of the biggest and by far the coolest craft shows in San Diego. It's by the 'Craft Mafia' if that tells you anything. I have not really prepared for it much so that should be interesting, lol.

Work is busy (the kind of busy where i think about sticking hot pokers through my eyelids for relief), life is busy. I'm tired and stressed out...But happy to be alive and working.

Thanksgiving was awesome. Dinner was great. Drank to much wine and couldn’t play Mario worth beans. Went to Disney the next day with my Dad and my step nephew (he is 5) for his first time ever. It was really fun to see how excited he was for certain things. Disneyland is always super radical but going during their Christmas set up was pretty amazing. The haunted mansion was Nightmare before Christmas themed which was so well done and very very cool. Its a small world was Christmas crazy. And they had fake snow falling from the sky sometime after the parade. It was bananas.

OK, I have to get back to work before something explodes.

Love Ten

I have added 3 (in purple) and crossed out 1 (zip lining!)
Currently working on: Learning an instrument & Learning a second language

The Do or Die List:
See real cave paintings. Go to Canada. Visit each continent at least once (Asia, Africa, N. America x 3 - Aruba, Mexico, USA, S. America, Antarctica, Europe x 2 - Ireland, Germany, Australia) Visit another country. Visit Greece. Zip line (anywhere. Have a sleeper car on a train in India. See a real Rain Forest. Make friends with or feed an Otter, Ferret, Sugar Glider (I kind of already did this but I'd like to do it again!) and baby Sloth. Go to a European or Russian Rave. Take a boating/camping trip down a river. Go tubing down a river with friends. Have children. Own a house. Build a window seat. Own a business. Grow a really big garden. Have a backyard full of flowers. Have an up close and personal meeting with monkeys. Go on an African Safari. Do a long bike “tour". Drive across country in an RV with my husband and children. See Portland, OR. Shave my head. See the Northern Lights. Graduate from College. See Paul Simon in concert. See the Pixies in concert. Read all 100 books on the Snobs Book List by NPR. Get a dog. Learn an instrument. Learn at least a second language, fluently. Take a belly dancing class. Go on a cruise. Learn to sail. Own a boat. Sail to another country. Invest in a valuable piece of art. Stay in a hostel. Learn small metal smithing. Learn to knit. Snorkel in New Zealand. See as much of Asia as possible. Sing karaoke in Japan. Live in another country (if even only for a summer). Take a train across the entire USA. Write and illustrate children’s book. Play poker at a table in Las Vegas and win. Read the Genesis. Learn to hand felt. Eat Tapas in Spain. Drink local beer in a real Irish pub in Ireland. Have a box full of collected greeting cards in categories like my nana does. Eat sauerkraut in Germany. Have a huge 50th anniversary party. Retire. Fly first class.

Things I do not love this week:
* This coffee I am drinking. Blech. Seriously, worst coffee ever
* Emails that need to be returned
* Live TV, Commercials, Reality Shows (gasp, I have finally gotten sick of them)
* Noise…I just want to find one truly silent place.
* My hair. It’s at a very annoying growing out stage.
* My skin – Oh I’m just going through puberty again, no biggy. Sigh.


Things I love this week:
* “Qourn” Loafs for once again being dairy-free. They are also meat-free, gluten-free, soy-free, and make KILLER chicken salad sandwiches.

* Finally finding my Ipod Nano charger which has been missing since the wedding. It was in the case…imagine that.

* “So Delicious” Coconut milk creamer which is thicker than the soy creamer and the flavored ones don’t suck.

* My husband who is wonderful enough to make me love saying “my husband” and love being a “wife”. My husband who knows things like steaming broccoli for dinner will make me happy no matter what kind of day I have.

* Thinking about and planning a ski trip during winter break. Fun!

Hope you all had a great weekend! Ours was very relaxing and as stress free as we could make it. I learned to crochet again and made a cute scarf, bought supplies for a new baby quilt, watched silly movies, ate lots of food and enjoyed life.

Love ya!

My mom arrives on Saturday which is exciting. A few things I am hoping to do while she is here is to; Go to Old Town for lunch and shopping, go for a picnic and walk in Balboa Park, go to the La Jolla Tide Pools, and go to the Wild Animal Park. Oh and play rock band. She does not know it yet but she will inducted as a partial member to Tofuhammer. I suppose we should do some ocean stuff, maybe take her over the horrifying Coronado bridge to see the cool houses and take a walk on the beach.

I am currently reading the Torah otherwise known as the Five Books of Moses, translated by and with commentary from Robert Alter. I read his version of Genesis long ago and loved it so I’ve stepped it up and notch and am taking on a 1500 page mammoth of a book. It’s the kind of book that could break your toe if you dropped it.

Work is good. Very busy, but satisfying. I don’t have all that much to report on that front. I have a job, the transition is becoming less stressful, I seem to have my etsy and ebay crap under control and I like the people I work with.

Chris and I are great. Adjusting to the life of no one is home during the day and just enjoying each others company as much as possible.

All the pets are fine, we have new neighbors, I can afford to go back to my wonderful salon which I did last night, and my car needs a tune up.

That my life right at this second :D

Miss you guys!
Teneisha

Today we:

• woke up at 6am
• are carving pumpkins (I have a long tall one and Chris has a short fat one)
• are making tofu fried "chicken"
• are eating a Delectica Sqaush
• already ate a bunch of raw spicy sprouts and tomato soup
  
• will watch a scary movie
• might go out to watch the Hillcrest crazies celebrate Halloween
• might walk to where there is actual neighborhood to see the kids Trick or Treating

So Chris and I have been noticing a very annoying trend lately. Ad’s within shows. And I know that they feel like they need to do this because everyone has DVR’s now and just skip past all the commercials…but guess what? We are going to start skipping right past the show altogether is it gets any worse.

I can’t even imagine how the actors feel about it. It’s like the Trumann show. Creepy.

So please, network executives…Listen to me as a representative of lots of people like me….we have a DVR and we are not afraid to use it…past the crappy commercials whether they are within the show or during breaks. You are not fooling us.

I was prompted to write this after hearing on the radio that family Guy was to run an in-0show ad for Windows 7. They played the clip and it was terrible. “Oh, Stewy, what are you doing – just installing windows 7 – oh so that you can burn DVD’s, organize your pictures and stay in touch with family and friends?”

Really?

Thank god, when Microsoft screened the show they realized that family guy is extremely non-politically correct and pulled the in-show ad. I’m not sure why Family Guy didn’t realize even sooner that their fan-base would not appreciate some weird interlude in the show to talk about Microsoft 7 in a way that no one in that show would talk about anything.

Bla.

Anyhoo – that is my rant for the day.