Today P and I cooked all morning: homemade biscuits, blueberry scones and a bacon/avocado/scallion scramble. Then we made a 20 serving batch of macaroni & cheese. We had to hurry to make it to A & R's lovely rain-drenched wedding atop Berkeley's Tilden Park. We quickly dressed and packed a bag of backup dry clothes (just in case), put the pan of mac-n-cheese wrapped in towels and placed in a large box. My little pink bag was a little too little and exposed for the rainy day (to keep the clothes dry), but if i were able to take it, here's what it would have contained:
my jeans
p's jeans
two pairs of socks (one mine, one p's)
UC Berkeley hooded sweatshirt
large bath towel
wedding card
Olympus camera
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Contents Day Two (quickly)
Yesterday was a stellar day - I was running (literally) from the moment I woke up, until crawling into bed at 1am to watch Kids in the Hall while eating a home-modified frozen pizza. I sprang out of bed at 7:30a yesterday and grabbed my stuff to go to the gym. Here's what got stuffed into my pink bag, where it stayed most of the day, while preparing year-end books for one of my clients:
dark pink exercise bra
pair of white ankle socks
black sweatpants
black t-shirt with pink and orange swirl
toiletry case containing the following:
shampoo
Dermalogica face cleansers
Pevonia face spray
Pevonia face cream
J'adore body lotion
hair pick
travel toothbrush & toothpaste
hair band
a few clippies
I also shoved my raincoat in the bag on the way to the car
After working all day on-site at my clients, P and I went to a few art openings. Electric Works collaboration with Flora Grubb is stunning: large palms and other plants greening the gallery, accompanying David Tomb's Mexican bird drawings exhibit.
We shared a taxi with Marianna Stark and her fellow art business cohort, Heather (seqa contact for the sfmoma) to SoEx's annual Monster Drawing Rally. We bought a piece of art (a lovely brush ink drawing of a pizza mobile by Kyle Mock), then had a beer in the lounge. It was nice to have a seat in the corner and people watch. We walked home, made a list for the grocery store, then headed to Safeway (which is always an adventure at midnight on a Friday). We got fixins for breakfast and to make a large pan of macaroni and cheese from scratch for rachel and mr. a's wedding tomorrow. So at the end of the night, my pink bag was emptied then refiled with the following (we both took backpacks to carry the bulk of the heavy items):
a 4-qt glass banking pan
tortillas
a little girls plastic doll dress-up set (for p to draw)
one frozen Kashi cheese and tomato pizza
dark pink exercise bra
pair of white ankle socks
black sweatpants
black t-shirt with pink and orange swirl
toiletry case containing the following:
shampoo
Dermalogica face cleansers
Pevonia face spray
Pevonia face cream
J'adore body lotion
hair pick
travel toothbrush & toothpaste
hair band
a few clippies
I also shoved my raincoat in the bag on the way to the car
After working all day on-site at my clients, P and I went to a few art openings. Electric Works collaboration with Flora Grubb is stunning: large palms and other plants greening the gallery, accompanying David Tomb's Mexican bird drawings exhibit.
We shared a taxi with Marianna Stark and her fellow art business cohort, Heather (seqa contact for the sfmoma) to SoEx's annual Monster Drawing Rally. We bought a piece of art (a lovely brush ink drawing of a pizza mobile by Kyle Mock), then had a beer in the lounge. It was nice to have a seat in the corner and people watch. We walked home, made a list for the grocery store, then headed to Safeway (which is always an adventure at midnight on a Friday). We got fixins for breakfast and to make a large pan of macaroni and cheese from scratch for rachel and mr. a's wedding tomorrow. So at the end of the night, my pink bag was emptied then refiled with the following (we both took backpacks to carry the bulk of the heavy items):
a 4-qt glass banking pan
tortillas
a little girls plastic doll dress-up set (for p to draw)
one frozen Kashi cheese and tomato pizza
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Contents Day One
Denise and her brother Alex proposed making plastic pink rose thank you shopping bags from fabric for the City|Space "Wish You Were Here" reimagined San Francisco souvenir show. You know the kind. With the pink cut out shaped rose, and the big bold THANK YOU beneath it. I bought one tonight from the opening at the Brava theater on 24th Street for $45.
The cashier asked me if I could like a bag to put my bag in. The irony escaped her. I flatly said, "No. I would not like a bag for my bag. That's the point." The February rains make it difficult to manage my long London Fog rain burka and anything else in a cramped restroom, so when I went to the restroom, I asked my husband to hold the bag, then also handed him my purse.
When I emerged, P had put my purse inside my pink shopping bag, which I carried with me to a cassoulet dinner at Solano Cellars in Berkeley. Kirstin & Matt planned an excellent winter meal, Jason graciously hosted and Keith backed everybody up. Peter stopped by to sample the delicacies his crew had made: fennel, blood orange, walnut & French feta salad; duck confit with white bean & sausage cassoulet; and a scrumptious dense chocolate cake. Jason and Kirstin hooked me up with perfectly paired wines, all French. A Sauvignon Blanc with the salad, I tried both a tannat and a grenache with the duck, and had a nice sweet dessert wine with the cake. It is such a cozy place, an authentic wine bar with an established community that goes back 30 years. And they'll be around 30 years from now when the current heyday of wine bars is long past.
I showed Kirstin my bag. She was quite impressed, as would any be who took a moment to inspect it's fine craftmanship and attention to details. This bag is going to carry my world for awhile. I need a little pink in my life.
Contents of my bag tonight:
French purse Magali sent me made by Sebastien's sister Ines
My new copy of Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"
Bottle of a 2000 Russian River Valley Walter Hansel Pinot Noir
The cashier asked me if I could like a bag to put my bag in. The irony escaped her. I flatly said, "No. I would not like a bag for my bag. That's the point." The February rains make it difficult to manage my long London Fog rain burka and anything else in a cramped restroom, so when I went to the restroom, I asked my husband to hold the bag, then also handed him my purse.
When I emerged, P had put my purse inside my pink shopping bag, which I carried with me to a cassoulet dinner at Solano Cellars in Berkeley. Kirstin & Matt planned an excellent winter meal, Jason graciously hosted and Keith backed everybody up. Peter stopped by to sample the delicacies his crew had made: fennel, blood orange, walnut & French feta salad; duck confit with white bean & sausage cassoulet; and a scrumptious dense chocolate cake. Jason and Kirstin hooked me up with perfectly paired wines, all French. A Sauvignon Blanc with the salad, I tried both a tannat and a grenache with the duck, and had a nice sweet dessert wine with the cake. It is such a cozy place, an authentic wine bar with an established community that goes back 30 years. And they'll be around 30 years from now when the current heyday of wine bars is long past.
I showed Kirstin my bag. She was quite impressed, as would any be who took a moment to inspect it's fine craftmanship and attention to details. This bag is going to carry my world for awhile. I need a little pink in my life.
Contents of my bag tonight:
French purse Magali sent me made by Sebastien's sister Ines
- Which includes:
- iPhone
- wallet
- Revlon fingernail file
- Lancome Strike A Pose lipstick
- Vincent Longo Wine and Peking Red duo lip liner
- car and house keys
- journal (almost full)
- favorite Japanese Zebra-brand SARASA clip pen (size 0.5)
- one latex-free band aid
- "You Go Girl!" compact mirror
- BART EZ Rider fare card
- blue plastic pencil case I got in Thailand in 2001
- one tampon still in the cardboard tube from the machine in the bathroom at work
My new copy of Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"
Bottle of a 2000 Russian River Valley Walter Hansel Pinot Noir
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