so much good food...oh, and a little homework

;)
I just started working at Ettore's and one of the great things about it is that every shift i work, i can get a meal from the breakfast or lunch menu for just one dollar! Friday after i got off at 2p i got the turkey club sandwich with the chicken salad:

Saturday after i covered a shift at Zuda Yoga, i went over to Old Soul coffee shop to get some coffee/food, and work on some homework. My vanilla latte was probably the best i have had from there so far. And the grilled cheese was delicious:

any guesses as to who's on my computer screen?! I'll give you a hint: she's my bff...

Church at BOSS was awesome. Sherwood spoke about releasing leaders in to the community and humbling yourself through serving others. More homework/studying later this afternoon, and i'll finish off the weekend my favorite way: a yoga class with the awesome teacher Corri Chadwick:))

xo,

kb

  

The Starbucks chapter in my life is closed...

for good! hopefully;)

FIVE years of my life was spent working for Starbucks. It really was a great job, over all. Some situations broke my heart, some warmed my hearth. I suppose you'll get that no matter where you are in life, with work or relationships...Helps you cherish the good times, right?

from the arden&morse store:))

Last week i started nannying these two adorable girls:

Sophie's on the left, Chloe's on the right:))

And tuesday i started working at Ettore's! Evan used to work there, but now that he is a real human being with a legitimate job in which he actually uses his college degree (go big brother!!), another Boylan had to step in and continue on;) One of the perks? yummy cakes to sample:

yours truly,

kb

<3

SARA BAREILLES

I saw Sara B in sacramento in late August here in Sacramento, at Raley Field. I was like three people away from her, you guys!!! Gah...She only played a short set because she was "opening" for Sugarland. But it was heaven for those 40 minutes:))

The GREAT news is that she's coming to San Fransisco in December!! ahhh..already have the date programed into my phone for when tickets go on sale. She's headlining that show too, with Joshua Radin opening for her. I like his music, too! And tickets are only $31 for general admission, on the floor! fuck.yes.

I recently made this window treatment with lyrics from Sara B's "Let the Rain."

:)

take caution when watching this...i hoot & holler quite a bit;) i am my mother's daughter...

xo,

kb

all i wanna do is have some fun...

until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Blvd;)

I spent last weekend down in SoCal with my cousin, Patrick, and his girlfriend, Sara:)

the first day i got there we went out to a late lunch at this great mexican restaurant at the very end of the Santa Monica Pier. I had the most amazing peach margarita! andddd, didn't even get carded the whole time i was down there;)

After lunch we rode our cruisers around by the water and stopped by their friend's apt that overlooks the ocean...gorgeous. I went there when i visited last summer!

For dinner we met up with a couple of Pat's buddies at this place on Main Street called Stella Rosa. The pizza crust was delicious.

The next day Pat had a baseball game. Sara and i drove out to watch him play because Aunt Debbie & Uncle Mike would be there. My cousin Mike was there also with his two young boys. They're so cute:):) After the game (in which Pat's team won...and he got a home run!!), Sara and i stopped to pick up lunch at Whole Foods. A friend at the yoga studio i go to showed me this video:

i recognized the Whole Foods right away by the lincoln & rose mural on the side of the building from when i was down there last summer. When i went to Whole Foods with Sara that was all i could think about!! And it was so truuuue. That parking lot is crazy busy and does not have enough parking spots.

One afternoon Pat and i went out to get a coffee. He took me to a coffee shop called Inteligencia (gah..i think that's how you spell it...shame on me for not taking a pic of the name!). My friend Danni from work told me about it before i left on my trip. Danni is from Orange County and had heard good things about the coffee shop. IT WAS DELICIOUS. I got just a plain latte and put a little of their sweetener syrup...YUMM

The second night i was there we went to an irish pub for a beer and appetizer. 

oh...and i took a shot of whiskey...no big deal...;)

apparently this is called a blowfish face...the idea is to shake your head really fast from side to side and have someone take a photo to see how weird your skin looks. haha....

Later we met up with the same group of friends, plus a few new ones, at another restaurant called The Galley. I had a rotisserie chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans:)) I think the best part of the trip was all of the awesome fooooood i had. 

The next day my girlfriend Victoria drove over to Venice from Irvine with her roommate to spend the day with me:D I love this girl...

Vanilla Latte with whip from Groundwork to start the day off:)

Breakfast at the Omelet Parlor

Cute little flower truck on the side of Main Street

Shopping at the 3rd Street Promenade

I fell IN LOVE with a shop down there called Brandy Melville. Such cute clothes. and i got a really cute bracelet with a bird feather charm on it:))

The last morning i was there Pat & Sara & i went on a hike:) Yay exercise after eating all of that food and drinking all that booze;) The hike took just over an hour. I loved it. The view from the top was a little dim because of the cloud coverage. But you could still see the multi-million dollar homes..wow. 

And as if God was sending me off in the most appropriate way...;)...we had breakfast at this amazing little diner called Maxwells. For someone whose favorite meal of the day is breakfast, let me tell you that i was in heaven. And Maxwell knew it, because on the cover of their menu it literally said "breakfast heaven." :D

xo, kb

ditto to everything in this article;)

I found this list at www.the-frenemy.com
especially like 14 & 22 (:

Why I Love Being A Girl (in 2011)

1. Whiskey. I get to drink whiskey and I don’t give a shit if it ‘looks awesome’ or ‘is so tough’ because it’s not, it’s just delicious and I will drink too much of it and I will burp in your face and then order a taco. Screw you, that’s what I do.
2. I don’t have to wear heels, but I can if I want to. Heels make me look taller. If I feel like tricking people into thinking I look taller by wearing tiny pencils on the bottoms of my shoes, so be it. For the most part, I have flat feet and I trip everywhere and I can wear some weird-ass ankle sandals and so be it. But sometimes I wear heels if I want to sound like a tap-dancer when I walk.
3. Girls don’t really ever have to wear pants if they don’t want to. Skirt? Sure. Leggings? Fuck it. Most of the time, I can go months and years without wearing pants and I don’t give a crap-o who knows it. I haven’t worn pants since 1994. I’m not wearing pants now. I’m wearing shorts, which are like cut off pants who didn’t go to a 4-year college, they went to a community and still made a fucking name for themselves without the extra buttload of loans.
4. I can ask a guy out. I can just go up to a guy and say ‘yo, you wanna eat a slice of pizza and then kind of go to a smoky bar where I play Psycho Killer on the jukebox and then we make out? Because I don’t need to wait for you to ask me. As you can see, I’m doing that asking now.’ Sure, maybe I don’t ALWAYS ( or ever) go up to a guy and do that, but you can always text the girl or guy you like and that’s kind of the passive-aggressive way way out of things. And a lady is entitled to take the easy way out, if she so chooses.
5. I get to be all independent and shit. Focus on a career? Why, I have these ovaries that are exploding inside me! I have to pop babies out of them! Oh, wait, I’m 22. I can tell my ovaries to shut the fuck up and stop annoying me while I become a multi-millionaire or become a business person or do whatever else the hell I want. And then I can lead from there.
6. When I get my period, I bleed and it sucks! Nope, it sort of doesn’t. It doesn’t because I can roll around and eat all the nachos and all the food things and whine and bitch and watch movies and most people are SO SCARED TO FIGHT ME. Well, sometimes it hurts. But that’s just a side effect from all the pasta I’m eating.
7. I get to put all this colorful makeup shit on my face, kind of like war paint, and it looks awesome. I go out on a Friday night and I’m basically like Braveheart. Braveheart wore makeup, right?
8. I can shave my legs and they feel like two Zen stones that you find in the Zen garden where you take a tiny rake to all the sand. Or I can not shave them and see how crazy hairy my legs can get. Am I Bigfoot? No, I’m not nearly as tall, though I do have the tendency to run through the woods naked.
9. If I want to wear ruffly shit and some crazy ass necklaces, I can. Well, you can do that as a boy, too, but you’d look a little less like you were in a period piece. Same goes for dresses! I like looking like a flowy piece of shit sometimes, at least when I’m going to a barbecue.
10. I get to spray all this freesia scented perfume on me in truckloads, and when guys do that they kind of smell like The Jersey shore. And then I get to smell bad sometimes, because sometimes I don’t want bugs to eat me alive and get all the ‘amber romance’ in my mouth when I spray it. Although my deodorant gets to smell like BABY POWDER!
11. I don’t really care if you’re looking at my boobs, but I get to wear a Victoria’s Secret sack for said boobs and when I run they bob up and down, like two friends who are very excited to see me.
12. Nail polish is nice! I love seeing the progress of how much I have bitten my nails today because of how much polish has chipped off at the end of the day.
13. Ladiezzzz night! Let’s all put a bunch of hairspray shit in our hair and try to hit on people but mostly instead just find an excuse to eat something unhealthy late nights and wait on line in the bathroom and talk about all the sex we are not having or are having.
14. My crotch shoots fireworks! No, I’m kidding. It doesn’t, but at least I don’t have my genitals on the outside. That sounds a little bit daunting, especially because sometimes those things have a life of their own. 
15. I can truly enjoy not relating to Cathy Comics or The Bachelorette.
16. I get to be extra proud of women like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and my mama tearing it the hell up.
17. I get to fantasize about my wedding, or not give a shit about it at all. Sometimes I think a soulmate would be really romantic, most of the time I think that movies and my best friends and Gruyere are said soulmates. Who cares? I’m pretty intent on owning my own dog, so fuck it.
18. I can eat a whole lot of food, and I don’t give a crap who knows it. Sure, I might be expected to ‘wear a bra on the beach’ but mostly I don’t give a hoot about that because sand between my toes feels like little ticks all over my skin.
19. Guys think I’m so weak? Well what if I punch you in the face, or you know, get a better job than you. That’ll show you.
20. Totally allowed to vote SO I DO! Thanks Susan B Anthony, for giving us that shit and also for bringing back the bun hairstyle.
21. If I wanna carry a baby in my tummy? I can. If I don’t want to, I don’t gotta. And if I wanna cry at some fucking sappy movie I can do that too. If I wanna enjoy the romantic comedy, or make fun of it, that’s my business. I don’t have to own a ruffly apron or know how to bake cookies unless if I’m under the influence and want to. And if I want to tattoo Rosie the Riveter on my ass, I’ll so do so. Tattoos last forever though, y’all.
22. I curse a lot. That’s not so much ‘being a girl’ as ‘being an awesome human with a limited way of expressing herself’ but that’s fine, too.
23. I want to do ‘girly’ stuff like Google celebrities and tweeze my eyebrows but I read lots of books and stuff and all of these things I take pleasure in.
24. Shopppppppppping is both an activity I love and despise. This has nothing to do with being a girl, except sometimes I can stare a lot at a rack of bracelets without getting very bored.
25. I understand the movie Mean Girls a lot, and that is awesome, because high school sort of sucked for a lot of us. Except now I can’t wear a denim pleated skirt, which is something I imagine I have to really live with.
26. I can shake my booty at a bar and give you my number, but most likely I PROBABLY WON’T.
27. Well, I mean, I can buy face masks and Lean Cuisines and pints and pints of ice cream or chamomile tea and just be like ‘so what, I’m wearing a cool pleather jacket I’m one icy and progressive bitch.’
28. Nobody needs to buy me flowers. They just need to know I won’t put up with any kind of nonsense, that I can beat them at Jeopardy, and that holding doors is nice, but holding my own is better.
29. Other girls are the best. Girls who stand their ground. Girls who wear red lipstick. Girls who don’t. Girls who inspire me to want to do better and hang out and talk about how our hair looks good in this conditioner and how we might take over the world someday. I get to be very, very proud of the progress we’ve made. Very Beyonce of me. I also get to smugly dance to Beyonce a lot.
30. I can do what I want, and fuck you if you don’t like it. Be your own definition of what a girl is, I don’t give a honk. I’m sorry for being aggressive! Oh wait, no I’m not.