Big Basin--first camping trip of the year!

Berry Creek Falls

Spring!

Becky above the falls

Looking up on our 12 mile hike.

Becky and I had our first camping trip of the year. We went to Big Basin near Santa Cruz. It's very close to San Francisco and we did manage to go wine tasting on the way there AND back! How exciting! We did a 12 mile hike on Sunday and are both paying for it still today. What a wonderful way to kick off spring. Next camping trip? Next week! More pictures to follow. If you would like to see more from this trip, see the following link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10068723@N07/sets/72157616061205221/

Be well!

Crawling back

I went out on Wednesday night on a very impromptu trip to the bar with my pal Theo. He's been traveling the US of A doing all sorts of fun things and we got together to talk about it and play some pool at the Wildside. I had one of the most horrific days at work ever had in a long time and let's just say the tequila and Fat Tires were getting thrown back at a rapid pace. I made it through yesterday but barely. I felt like if a big gust of wind had come along it would have destroyed me as I would have just disappeared as I amounted to a big pile of dust. It made work excruciatingly difficult. But I am crawling back and am on the mend today. Oh tequila. It gets the best of me every single time. Here's to Friday and the week almost being over, 7 short hours from now.

My little Zami

This is one of Zami's favorite activities! What you don't see is the 10 foot drop below where she is walking known as our stairwell. It's a relatively new habit for her and I am not sure where it comes from. It scares the heck out of me every time she's up there but her balance is impeccable and has yet to fall.

I shouldn't say she's my little Zami. Miss B actually acquired her 10 years ago while living in a farm house in the country in Michigan. She had gotten Little Green the year previous along with another cat at the humane society. One morning when she came out to go to work, there was Zami, a perfect little ball of fur sitting on her doorstep as a teeny tiny kitten. She had the same chirpy meow she has to this day and with that, how could she not take her in? She's the sweetest little kitty on the planet although not a cuddler at all, only when she wants to do so, all on her terms. You won't see her at our house either as she always hides whenever someone comes over. Only after hours of being tucked in the smallest of places will she come out to say hello. I don't know why I am writing a post about one of our cats. But here I am, being the crazy cat lady once again.

Swiss Doughnuts

The announcement was made today and it's official. I will be making Swiss doughnuts from here on out. Merger set to close by the end of March. The "integration team" goes to work from there. Not worrying about it for now because there are simply way too many unknowns. I will continue to make doughnuts for anyone who will pay me at this point.

Bye bye Genentech. Hello "Genenetech--a subsidiary of Roche". Or even more possible, hello Roche.

Not so Dynamo Doughnuts

Saturday morning I wanted to surprise my lovely lady with the best doughnuts on the planet. We never go out for doughnuts. Ever. We started a cleanse this week so did it up in fine fashion this past weekend eating everything which isn't allowed once a cleanse starts and this included doughnuts.

The word on the street was that this Dynamo Doughnuts place was the new hipster place for yummy treats. I should have heeded the warnings of Miss A and her investigator as they said it was crap for $2.50 a pop. Everyone else said these things were the shit. Hello, I would like my money back please. I dropped $5 for two doughnuts, one which was small, coconut and rather feeble. The other was a disgusting chocolate greasy mess which wasn't worth the flour used to bake it. It looked amazingly good under the glass, tempting with chocolate frosting. We didn't even finish it. Dynamo Doughnuts? I think not.

To top it off we went to Sugarlump for coffees. Same mediocre experience. People need to go to Spike's for the real deal and stop wasting their money on this stuff in the Mission. Beware of the hipster hype. It ain't all that.

Maybe I am just grumpy because I am deep into day two with no sugar or carbohydrates. But I don't think so. Those doughnuts just weren't worth it!