best 3 bucks i ever spent

at the end of dinner last night i found this on my platearf arf!

hakone gardens

today we took a trip!

haha i dont know why they kept gathering in front of the waterfall

hello sir turtle thank you for not being shy

my, what wonderful self-timing skills we have!


hello brandon thank you for celebrating 65 months with me :)

Can't you think of something spiteful?
Something mean that you could do?
Must you be so darn delightful?
You make it easy to be true.

<3

somebody's got a really good case of the mondays

i am not a spontaneous person. nor am i one to not worry about money. i am, however, so truly thankful to have someone like rochelle in my life to fill that void of awesomeness. thanks to her and jay, another lovely monday afternoon was spent in berkeley eating pancake souffles!!

while walking around a little to digest, i bought a new coin purse in this little japanese paper shop. u squeeze the sides and it opens up like a clam. soo cuute~

and then of course we finished off with more sketch ^o^raspberry ice cream with melon granita and fresh raspberries

about once a month i work at the st. justin's thrift shop next to the public library on homestead. as if $1 clothes weren't already enough of a steal, this past weekend everything was 50% off! meaning that i got a pair of nine west shoes that are still in really good condition for only $1!!

unfortunately they were half a size too small. no big deal. the mighty internet has tutorials for just about everything -- like shoe stretching. michelle phan is a genius. her blog is my bible :)

now they go too riduclously well with my dress. no big deal.
oh wait... YEAH IT IS!!

i shitteth thee not

as chris brilliantly noted, five stars yum for sketch ice cream!

strawberry/basil with strawberries & cocoa nibs
mm mm mm to the nth power!

and you haven't lived until you've tried this one...

vanilla with olive oil, sea salt, and candied almonds

take the amount of disgust you might be thinking and multiply it by 1millionxmajestic. ahmygah u just want to cry from how amazing it is

this afternoon at a delightful picnic, rochelle's delicious sliders struck brandon and me with a fat food coma (-.-) zz... and what better way to snooze it off than by wrapping ourselves in one big ol' burrito blanket in the soft grass under the shady trees? i'm told that a bunch of strangers were literally circling us trying to figure out what the heck this floral-printed lump of ugly (especially since you could only see our hair stick out on the side) was. hahaha man i'm so mad i forgot to take pictures!!

comic con 08

... was awesome! here are a few things i got:

egglings

i got 2 more "adorable little plant kits for growing" to add to my collection ^.^

goes from this...

... to this!

poketo plates
ahh i love poketo! imagine how psyched i was to find all 4 plate designs (on sale too) from one of my all time favorite artists, ogi!!

i had the hardest time talking myself out of buying his amazing prints because i figured the money would probably have been better spent towards my tuition.... needless to say, my heart broke multiple times during the process :'(

frankandfrank book
frankandfrank is one of theee cutest comics from chris appelhans. i haven't loved a simple comic this much since david scheirer's tuesday comic (and that's saying a lot)

i am soo incredibly thankful to PMBQ for allowing me to come help make and sell her awesome tshirts. i'm honored! :D


if it wasn't for her, not only would i not have been able to get the awesome things listed above but i wouldn't have got to see my precious lee pace (from pushing daisies) in person...

or get these above-and-beyond-awesome kenneth masks!



thanks again pmbq!

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i wish i could drop out of school and spend the rest of my life being the mail man that delivers letters to frank's mail box.