Paris at church?

I'm not sure how I'd concentrate if I were at church to worship and in walked none other than Paris Hilton herself. Appearently that is what happened the other day...



From TMZ.com

"Paris and a pal attended an evening church service at Bel Air Presbyterian Church, which offers several classes on Tuesday evenings, including an Adult Discipleship class -- the perfect course for a future convict! TMZ spoke to one of the church's Bible Study leaders, who explained, "The bible is the key thing. Without the bible you don't have anything. You get to know who your God is." This might come in handy in jail!
The other Tuesday church group is "The Foundry," for ages 22-35, which according to their site, helps to "Grow them up in the likeness of Christ through small groups, and go out to serve with their gifts and passions." Retail therapy to save the world! Hoorah! Shop for Jesus!"

Going Green

No, we did not put a biodiesel engine in our car (although we are passively trying to sell one and just rely on one car). We did not sign on to help Al Gore in his mission. We are not swearing to use only 1 sheet of TP each time we go to the bathroom (sheryl crow). We actually put a 1st coat of paint up in our bathroom. The toilet area is already painted with a slightly darker color. It looks really bright...almost too bright, so hopefully a 2nd coat and some dark brown towels/decor will help tone things down.

burnt chicken.....

....made me get out of bed for 45 long minutes last night. I'll explain. I awoke in the middle of the night to the awful sound of the fire alarm. It's 4:15 a.m. and my initial intuition was to put the pillow over my ears and wait it out. I can't even explain in words how loud and obnoxious that thing is, so when the pillow idea didn't work, we had to go into the bathroom for an excape for our ears. We finally left the building to greet our equally amused neighbors outside for an early morning social event. I actually smelt smoke outside the building which was surprising since past fire alarms have been caused by excitiing things such as a fog machine at a party or just dust. This time it turned out that "unattended chicken" set the alarm off. I kinda hope their whole condo smells like the inside of a microwave after you burn something in it. Ah the joys of condo living.

President's Suite was sweet

Heidi invited me to sit with her in the President's Suite at the Padres game. What a treat! The box is DIRECTLY behind home plate and at a lower level that the other luxury boxes. We had all the food and drinks we wanted. They even had the best chocolate cake ever. To top it all off, and much to our surprise, Ozzie Smith deceided to sit next to us. A great night.
Notice the gold emblem in the corner: This is for the special seats only.

Friends

We had a full house (well...condo) last weekend. We had some good friends from out of town come and visit us. Six people in our little condo....and it was actually relaxing. We went to the beach, took a tour of UCSD from our personal tour guide Katie, and hit up a Padres game. Here are some pics of our time:
Obviously I didn't have a chance at 3 files up with these guys.





Hmmm, small photo....7th inning stretch "1, 2 ,3 strikes you're out"




Now here's an unrelated pic I just found from Sam's 26th bday party. Can anyone say "Samtini." ....And Steve, why are you so serious?

Bad Luck

I don't actually believe in luck. With that said....boy do we bring the Padres bad luck any time we step foot into Petco Park. We went to the game last night. It was a sell out croud. Great atmosphere. Great sounds. Great scoreboard entertainment. The only problem was the actual baseball preformance put on by the Padres. I think the Pads only got 4 hits all game long and didn't even score a run. They made errors in their fielding and the pitching was not crisp by any means. It was a blow out and not too exciting to watch. We actually left a little early and got dessert at Extraordinary Desserts.....which was truely extraordinary.

Sam the cooking guy

Sam and I watched an episode of Sam the cooking guy the other night. For those of you who don't live in San Diego, this is a cooking show where "Sam" cooks food in his own home. It's a great show....and everything is simple and practical. He made ceasar salad wraps. They looked so great, I gave them a try. Here's what it looked like:


MMMMMM tasty.

Recipe:
1 package of ceasar salad mix (with dressing and crutons, etc. included)
chicken- from a rotisserie chicken in the deli sections of the grocery store (I used frozen breasts I already had in the freezer)
roasted red peppers sliced (in a jar available at Trader Joe's)
crumbled feta cheese
celery sticks (for a nice crunch
wraps or large tortillas

Mix it all and wrap it up in a tortilla. It's that easy.

photo shoot

Heidi and I took a little bike ride yesterday to OB. The perfect setting: a cool and crisp evening, clear sky, and the sun was setting. While cruisin' down Pt.Loma Blvd we thankfully stopped at a red light for a breather (I have not ridden a bike since October!). As we caught our breath we hear a car's horn being honked. Instinctively we both turned our heads and suddenly saw none other than...

... a Japanese tourist hidden behind his camera in the passenger seat of a rental car. We started laughing....and so did they. Crazy that they must have thought that two girls on beach cruisers belonged in their photo album of their vacation to San Diego.

MInt Drumsticks.....

....acutally exist. And they were on sale at Albertson's so I bought a box. Let's put it this way....two days later Sam (who never goes grocery shopping) went back and bought, not one....but two more boxes. MMMMMMM, mint ice cream with a chocolate/cookie outter cover. Still looked forward to the chunk of chocolate on the bottom. Sorry Larissa...if you read this I hope I don't make you gag.

The streak is broken

Sam and I went to our 3rd Padres game this season last night (Sam's actually been to 4) and they had lost EVERY time....until last night. For a while we were thinking we were bringing bad luck, but that has been proven to be untrue as the Pads cruised to a 3-1 victory over our former home team the Washington Nationals. I will have to admit that I was a bit worried when the brought Hoffman in for the 9th inning save...he got roped as usual, but they all turned into outs and he got his job done. 2-1 burgers at happy hour, a M2I social function, then a Padres victory....not a bad Tuesday night.