SuperEggplant

We have to have our house tented for termites, which means we will be out of town for the rest of the week while the pest killers gas our house and annihilate every living organism. I find this rather distressing, but I suppose it is preferable to our house crumbling around us. It was a lot more work prepping the house for the tenting than I had anticipated. It looks like we are moving!

We’re supposed to double-bag the food in these special plastic bags, but we ended up taking most of the food to our neighbor’s. Thank goodness for nice neighbors.
So, we’re off to Santa Barbara, the land of no pants (not as in pantless but as in the weather is so perfect you can wear shorts all the time), for the week. Our ridiculously overpriced hotel promises to have wifi, so I will try to blog. Okay, now I must go eat some ice cream (hey, not all of it would fit into the neighbor’s freezer).

Well, I made it back from San Francisco, but I’m sorry to say I took pathetically few photos! I had a great time, though, and got to see lots of people. Unfortunately, those people did not include Rachael or Becca, though I did see Rachael’s flaming hair and had the opportunity to yell at her as I ran by. Yes, so running. The race was fine and relatively fun, if you consider running all squished with 15,000 people when it’s still dark out fun!
What were some other highlights? Well, take a look:

That’s the coffee crunch cake from Yasukochi’s Sweet Stop Bakery in Japantown. We stumbled upon the bakery when we went in search of bentos. It was delicious!
And my first ever mani-pedi was delightful. Megan and I went to Lavande Nail Spa. I was pretty surprised by how busy the place was. I had no idea that nail stuff was so popular. I guess I need to get out more often. Here are my toes:

I’m headed up to the Bay Area Saturday for several days of fun and adventure! Sunday morning, bright and early (actually, is it even light out at 5am?), I will be participating in the San Francisco Half-Marathon with Rachael, Joanna, and Becca, to name but a few. It finishes at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park. If anyone out there wants to meet afterwards, how about we try to meet by the, say, NW side of the lake? Sort of? Well, maybe we will just recognize one another.
I won’t be back until Wednesday, so no blogging until then, most likely. I will be too busy chasing around town and getting my first ever mani-pedi (with Megan). See y’all later!
I leave you with a photo of one of our water pipes that Peter just replaced. It’s nice to be married to a handy person!

Have you all checked out zazzle yet? It’s a site that lets you “design” your own T-shirts and other goodies. It’s actually a bit friendlier to use than CafePress, because zazzle lets you manipulate images and text more easily. Anyway, I made a little supereggplant design, and though I wasn’t all that satisfied with it or the selection of shirt types, I impulsively ordered one, just because I could.