Mid Century Goodness

We love mid century style (with a little mix of industrial and modern) which makes it extra special that Brent has some mid century modern history in his family. Brent's grandparents were missionaries in Denmark in the late 50's/early 60's and collected a few pieces while living there. Brent was honored this Christmas with receiving some Danish family heirlooms, including this shelving unit above and the Hans Bolling ducks below (you can buy them new here). We don't have enough space to put the entire shelving unit up but for now this is PERFECT.

The ducks have a fun story behind them of a policeman that stopped traffic to let a duck family pass a busy intersection in Copenhagan in 1959.

And, while we were trying to figure out how the shelves hang on the wall, we found some fun old pics of the shelves and some chubby cheek cuties. Don't you just want to squeeze Brent and Amy Jo's cheeks? 

Thank you JoJo & Grumps and Tanja & Randy! 

Have I Mentioned This City Has A Thing For Nudity?

http://sfist.com/2012/02/24/large_naked_woman_stomps_on_car_in.php

I officially learned my lesson about bums yesterday....

...And maybe I accidentally almost got Brent beat up in the process. Or, maybe a bum almost got beat up. I guess we'll never know. 

I made a sarcastic comment to a bum forgetting that most bums are not right in the head and he started threatening to fight Brent. Whoops!

He asked for money and put his hand out with some dollar bills and change in his hand and I told him he had more money than I did. (meaning he had more money in his hand than I had in my wallet)

Needless to say, he went on to tell us he had no mom, kids to feed, one pair of clothes, and had beat up another "cracker" earlier this week for saying less than what I said. He followed us for awhile yelling at us. We got away but for a few minutes I was certain there was going to be some punches. 

That night I walked by another bum who went off on me for ignoring him when I walked by him. He said all girls ignore him. 

You just can't win with these bums! 

Luckily they are not all aggressive. I was walking in the crosswalk the other day and a dude started doing somersaults on the ground right next to me. He somersaulted his way across the entire crosswalk. Kinda impressive, mostly strange, but completely harmless.

I think I should start carrying mace. You KNOW I know how to use that stuff;)

Alright, you people with kids...

Treat the little stinkers to these juice boxes. They're tasty, all natural, and designed by my favorite graphic designer.

Bike to Work Day

We missed the business class bus this morning and to avoid riding the regular bus we rode our bikes to work. It was cold but fun! 

dututututoootu:)

Chili Pies + Bike Love

We tried a new place this weekend, Chili Pies. We're not great at branching out and trying new places BUT this wasn't really going out on a limb BECAUSE we were told to try their pie shake. Anyone in their right mind knows that will be good. And it WAS good!


The pie shake is super simple. Choose your pie, choose your ice cream, blend together, Enjoy!...then go on a diet!

I made the mistake of finding out that 4-5 scoops of ice cream go into this shake, plus the pie, that's basically a few days worth of calories I'm sure, but if you go buy a bike and ride it off it's no biggie. So, that's what we did.....

 I got a bike ya'll. We got some great road bikes for cruising around sf. There is something about bikes with baskets on them that makes me sing the "dututututoooootu"from The Wizard of Oz, in my head (anyone?).

The weather has been amazing lately. We had just enough time Sunday afternoon to cruise down to the beach before dark. The 45 min walk to the beach was an easy 7 min bike ride. That is a game-changer, I will be at the beach more often I think.

And believe it or not, there is a bike route called the wiggle that can get you around sf without really going up or down hill. Can't wait to try it out!