I dropped my nice digital camera a couple weeks back, and I have yet to send it in to be repaired. In the mean time, my generous friend Alie has lent me an older camera of hers to use, but I only bought a card reader for it this past weekend, so there were a ton of photos on the camera. Here are the photos:
I went to San Francisco for the weekend and was really nervous about it, having only gone back twice since I moved away. There are still so many places that hold strong memories for me, and I'm nothing if not nostalgic. I ended up having an amazing time though, and it felt like I sorta made peace with the city, for as lame as that sounds. I love it there, but I was so happy to come home to my Los Angeles.
The weekend was particularly sunny and warm, so we grabbed ton of cheese and fruit, a couple beers, and wasted the day in Dolores Park - people watching and talking. It was lovely. 
I got to visit with my ex boyfriend's daughter, whom I met when she was just a little girl. I can't believe how grown-up she is now! I had to stand on my very tip-toes just to be the same height as her. She's a lovely young lady and I'm so glad she's still in my life.
The view from my friend Becky's house, overlooking the Sunset district. I crashed on Becky's couch after a night spent drinking at a gay bar, and woke up to her two adorable kittens playing on top of me. That was a good way to wake up.
I had my obligatory cappuccino It's It, although I must admit it's not as thrilling now that we here in Los Angeles can get them (albeit only vanilla) at any Albertsons grocery store.
I came home to find my friend's cat visiting me and Elvis for a couple days while my friend was out of town. He's kind of a brat, but a charming kitty, nonetheless.
He's no match for this fellow, though.
A couple of Scenes From My Lunch Break
My first honest-to-goodness Korean barbecue experience. It was beyond words. 
It was my sister's birthday yesterday and she celebrated by throwing a cupcake and champagne party. Don't you just love her dress?!
She baked ALL these cupcakes, aside from the small ones which I bought, my plans to make vanilla cupcakes with salted caramel frosting having been thwarted by a hangover.
Happy Birthday, Lee Lee!
I got to hang out with my brother and his adorably pregnant fiance. They're such a cute couple.
I felt the baby kick! It was freaky! Really though, I can't wait to be Auntie Georgia. Oh, I also cut all my hair off, my decree of "No Haircut in '09" falling by the wayside after I realized that long hair made me look like a soccer mom.
Return of the cute haircut.
Finally, please follow this link to You Tube, where you'll find the finished McNuggetini video. That's right, we made a video. Watch as we guide you through the step-by-step process for making our most famous concoction: the legendary McNuggetini cocktail! Enjoy!
P.S. Thank you SO much for all your wonderful comments and excellent money advice in my last post. You guys really are the kewlest, nicest readers a girl could ask for.
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For disclosure purposes, let me say that I'm a little bit older than you, and our kids have gone through (and passed beyond, thank you very much)the soccer years. So, based upon personal experience, I'd have to say that some soccer moms are hot. Long hair, short hair, what-ever, it all works.
If you really don't want to look like a soccer mom, I'd suggest that you make sure avoid the following:
a) Mini-vans - Although tremondously useful in moving people and stuff, nothing screams I've given up like a van. Again, I'll admit that we've owned a few.
b) Frumpy Husbands - I'm pleading the 5th on this one.
c) Standing on the sidelines on a cold Saturday morning in your designer sweats hiding that 10 lbs you put on last winter, gripping your starbuck coffee cup with a GI Joe Kung-Fu grip and yelling at your darling little child TO "KICK THE BALL, KICK THE BALL, KICK THE BALL" like it's the olympic try-outs.
If you avoid this stuff, I think you'll do just fine avoiding the soccer mom label.
(Is that your mom's kitchen?)
Excellent work. Keep it up!
Being a Bay Area native I always love introducing people to the pure joy that is a Its It. Yeah, it's frustrating as hell that only vanilla is sold down here in LA.
They could take over SoCal if they only sold cappuccino It's Its. Now I hate you for making me crave one. right. now. :) I have to wait until Thanksgiving to have one :(
I was unaware that there were places where any form of Its It was not readily available. You were at a gay bar in SF this weekend? You may have seen my brother. Makes me wish I'd gone up there with him. I'd have seen you and been like, "Georgia Hardstark?! I'm Jake the Ripper. I read your blog!" And you'd have feigned joy at meeting me. It would have been totally cool.
oh, also, love the video. Linking it on my facebook.
Great Video Georgia! It was funny to actually hear your voice instead of reading it. I still love that kitchen!
Dude! How did you not have Korean barbecue until AGE 92?! I kinda...kinda feel bad for you!
Uh...29. Not 92. I dunno how that happened I am so, so sorry.
Mike - Yeah, the mini van is one thing I can't imagine myself ever acquiring. I AM a bit competitive though, with a well-hid mean streak, so the yelling from the sidelines is a very real possibility.
Captrenault - That's actually my grandmother's kitchen, which we decorated for the occasion. I used to sit on that counter and watch my grandma bake as a little girl!
Robert Dean - I LOVE introducing people to them. You can never quite describe how good they are, but when they take their first bite, you can just see the joy on their face. So awesome!
Jake - I would be totally happy to meet you!...as long as you weren't a creep. Don't be a creep, okay? Cool. And yeah, Southern California is sorely lacking in It's Its dispensaries. For some reason though, my jr. high and high school cafeterias in Orange County carried them, which is where I developed my taste for them.
Periodical Curiosity - I wonder if I sound different than one would think. I never mention that lisp of mine. Oh god, that damn lisp! Yeah, that kitchen is the one I compare all others to, which isn't really fair to other kitchens, cause there's no way they'd beat it.
Derek - See, I've HAD Korean bbq, I'd just never actually GONE to a Korean bbq restaurant and experienced the whole "cook your own food, be served a hundred bowls of yummy pickled things". Now that I've done it though, I'm madly, hopelessly in love with the process, and will make up for the past 92 years without (har har).
Living in Diamond Bar for a year was cool because there were like infinity Korean restaurants, but hardly any of them seemed to do the cook-your-own stuff.
Now there's a Korean bbq place right around the corner from my house in Fullerton, like a 2-minute walk.
It's awesome.
I can't promise to not be a creep, but I'll do my best. Next time you're in san fransisco, let me know and I might go meet you... as long as you don't mind hanging out and drinking with me and a few gays.
Ha! I didn't notice your lisp! For some reason I "heard" an East Coast style accent in your writing--I have no clue why--we readers obviously know you're a West Coast girl!
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