Drafts / Finally Caught Someone

Man, if I actually posted everything I write on this thang, there would be a lot more content. There are so many posts marked as draft that never see the interwebbings of the world. No lie, a lot of them are pretty stupid. Others I start writing and my complete inability to formulate sentences takes over and the post dies, labeled draft for eternity. It is Friday though, and I finished work early so here is a draft from last week.


I always get caught.

Whenever I am doing anything moderately embarrassing, someone is almost always there to acknowledge the fact that yes, you really are doing that right now.

Singing in the car with the window down when all cars stop and the entire world goes silent.

Tripping over invisible objects anytime a moderately attractive person is walking by.

Speaking of, if anyone knew what song just started playing on my itunes, I would be in one of those moments........ugh

But this time the glory was MINE! I was on the home stretch of a bike ride this afternoon and noticed a young lady walking a couple dogs in the distance. As I approached closer she suddenly stopped. Upon stopping she pulled her arms in, turned to the side, cocked her head back with closed eyes and tight lips...rolled the body and revved the wrists...then flipped it to the other side!
Repeat!

I am pretty sure after she completed her little shuffle, she got that hot feeling, you know that feeling like uhhhh someone totally just saw me do that.

Two feet away by this time she looks dead at me in horror. She busts out laughing...I do the same and keep on riding.

OH, the glory!

Avocado Festival

Sounds really cool doesn't it? Not so much. I guess there is the novelty of drinking beer and listening to bands in the street but we were truly hard pressed to see anything avocado. We envisioned endless avocado vendors with cool recipes and...well, just avocados everywhere. This was not so. I guess now we know.
We did take a nice long walk on the beach after. It has been pretty hot here so we try to stay outside as much as possible. Laine likes the beach...I think. She has a really hard time staying awake with the crashing waves and movement. But isn't a sleeping baby a happy baby? One form I guess.Laine is getting bigger by the day. She still is super small when I see her in pictures though.

Yeah, about that studying....

I started taking the architecture registration exams a couple months ago. I was doing so well, studying after work and some on the weekends and taking an exam a month.

Laine came after two tests and I haven't been so diligent. She is a great baby but come on, which would you rather stare at after work.
I will get back on it shortly but for now I am trying to spend as much time with her and her mother as possible.

CO Visit

Man this post has been sitting half finished for a couple months now so..better late then never I guess.

As I mentioned earlier I was able to spend some time back in Colorado to do some work on our little hut. It is really coming along now....dare I even say that it is almost done. Yes. I dare.
I admit, it is kind of silly how much time I have spent on this place. I mean its a hut...maybe a cabin. But as one who works in the field of architecture and construction I am constantly designing and building for other people. I love it...but there is immeasurable satisfaction in doing the same thing on something one can call their own. Seeing as I don't have one or six mill right now to do the same thing in Santa Barbara...the hut will have to do.

Grillin' up the trout my brother caught while up thereThe finished deckThe insideSolar Panels going in

SF Walking

It has been about a month but we recently went to San Francisco for a long weekend. Our anniversary weekend in fact. I had never been before so I was pretty excited. As most do, we spent a lot of time walking.Of course this being my first time there we had to see the things that everyone sees there. Now that I have those under my belt, we can dig a little deeper next time we head up there. We had a lot of fun though. Our hotel had a cool mail chute. Probably not used as much as it was a few decades ago.As you can see I was always excited about getting my picture taken.Ja really excited about her yogurt.

Concrete Counters

I have been wanting to try doing a concrete counter for years. I've had some close opportunities but they never came through. And at the speed our little cabin is moving at....the counter isn't ready yet there either. I will make some posts on that soon though.

The opportunity came and actually it was pretty straight forward. Some complicated but methodical and I do methodical like a methodist....or something. No actually, the hardest part what getting the "desired" color. Some colors are easy, a deep red...the hardest. I think we did six or seven samples to find the appropriate color chemistry to get the finished product.

The buffing was pretty cool. It gets the concrete as smooth as glass. And the finished product....The first picture is with the wax and everything so it's the deeper color. The other two were before the sealing and waxing.

May Fair 2010