book club

here's an update on the book club!

our first meeting is going to be on friday, 20 november. we're going to have a little coffee shop picnic and discuss the geography of bliss by eric weiner. click this link if you're interested in the book.

feel free to read along. and if you'd like to sign up to join us, please email me:

jasmine.lael@gmail.com

p.s. i'm doing a special holiday rate for sponsor ads right now: november & december for the cost of one month. email me if you're interested.

p.p.s. i'm planning a little, bloggy christmas secret santa...i'll bet a lot of other bloggers have had the same idea, but i don't care! i'll update you with details when christmas gets a bit closer.

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fun with proust, take eight - stacey

i kinda forgot about my proust posts! oops!

i've been a little out of it lately.

anyway, this week we have the adorable stacey here to share her answers and favorite photo with us. stacey writes a cute blog called love and photographs. it's one of my daily reads. i'm also twitter friends with stacey. every time she tweets, i always want to respond to her with a big, giant "ME TOO!"

on to the questions:

1. what is your idea of perfect happiness?

being with my entire family, and husband of course, playing games, laughing at old memories and eating good food. Nothing makes me more happy than my family.

2. what is your most treasured possession?

my wedding ring. my journals. my pictures/cameras. and a lovely picture my nana painted for me.

If there was a fire these would be the items i would choose to save. (but lets hope that never happens)

3. what is your greatest fear?

losing my husband or someone in my family.

4. which talent would you most like to have?

oh a lot... to be a magical photographer, to be a better dancer, oh and to be able to sing...that would be amazing!

5. what or who is the greatest love of your life?

my wonderful husband, Christopher Michael Sargent. I feel so blessed and lucky to wake up next to him every morning. he is magnificent.

6. what is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

ahhh my jealousy. i would give my left arm to get rid of that side of me....im working really hard at it, but man is it difficult!

7. what do you value most in your friends?

that we can go months without seeing each other, but when we do it's like we were together yesterday. i love that about my friends, because i sometimes can get so caught up in my crazy busy life, that I don't see them much, but they love me anyways and never get mad!

ummm, stacey, me too, me too, me too, me too! especially number 7. jealousy is so hard to deal with!

here is stacey's favorite polaroid of herself, taken by her husband, chris:

thanks for playing, stacey!

help!

we are celebrating thanksgiving, with my family, in san francisco this year.

we're trying to find a good restaurant where we can celebrate thanksgiving.

it needs to be:

1.) $30 or less per person (i know, i know. practically impossible in sf)

2.) and in the city.

we don't really care if we eat "thanksgiving" food or not. honestly, i would love a good steak and some mashed potatoes.

any insider tips?

i kinda wish school was cancelled today too...

it's back to school for me today.

i really enjoyed my extra day off.

we spent it:

- finishing off that bag of kit kats that the trick or treaters left me with. stupid delicious kit kats.

- walking through ikea for over an hour and failing to buy anything

- eating see's candy. my favorite (at the moment; it's always changing) is the lemon truffle. yummy. what's your favorite?

- being a little freaked out by the christmas decorations that are already up at south coast plaza. i love christmas, but it seems a little premature. levi is just plain stressed out by this. christmas, in general, stresses him out. i'm not sure that he can take 2 months of it. i am making a silent vow to myself to not mention christmas to him til we get home from our thanksgiving trip to san francisco. but just between us, i've already got about a thousand things planned.

- playing dress up. i think we make pretty cute sharks.

- getting late night in & out vanilla chocolate milkshakes.

sounds like a pretty good day, doesn't it?

it was.

furlough day

i've got myself a day off from school today. woo!

an extra day with levi! yesssss!

so i'll be brief. our halloween included:

- shopping with my momma. so much fun. and she bought me super cute booties!

- no costumes

- a huge bag of mini kit kats. why oh why did no trick-or-treaters come to take them from me?!

- apple & gorgonzola salad and penne pasta with sage & prosciutto from bono's

- trad capp from peet's

- a duggar marathon (we decided that we totally should have dressed up as michelle & jim bob)

- a solo impromptu dance party for a solid 30 minutes. levi just watched me and laughed.

- disney's earth in hd on our gorgeous television at 2:00 in the morning. i sobbed when the wolf got the baby caribou.

- eating almost everything in the house

- staying up til 3:30 in the morning

it was definitely a slumber party halloween and soooo much fun.

(p.s. OH MY GOSH! can you believe that november is here already??)