HAPPY NEW YEAR, IT’S 2019?!

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: DECEMBER 31, 2018–JANUARY 6, 2019

Celebrating Japanese New Year aka New Year, cleaning up Christmas, going back to the office, photo shoots, and eating the best mushrooms of life.

Enjoy!

Happy New Years eve!

Joined my parents on a little walking outing

Birbs

Why yes my parents did encourage me to feed almond slivers to squirrels in the park

Casual sticks on fire in the park

Too many squirrel pics?

Play sculptures by Benjamin Dominguez

99 Ranch with mom

A classic ramen snack

Ozoni!

Tubby approves of the gyoza we made

New Year’s feast at my cousin’s house

New Year’s bean…kuromame aka good luck bean!

Rushed back home and Gabby helped me throw together some decorations from the 99 cent store.

Nailed it.

This party is going well

Tweedy and Sufi are moving to London

Karaoke through midnight! Happy New Year!

Morning and it is officially New Years and we officially have a lot of balloons just hanging out.

Gotta get started on my chicken wings to bring to potluck Japanese New Years

Forgot to have soba as my first meal but had toast instead

Done!

Had a few unopened Christmas presents, including some goodies from Hawaii (thanks, Alex!)

Love love

Can’t wait to put the dogs in matching bandanas

New indigo dress and lovely leather bag

HI, just covering up my neck rash. Dressed and ready to go.

Norma!

All the glorious yummy foods.

My perfect plate

Playing while trying to avoid children or parent’s ears

ICK back to work we go.

Thanks for the sweater, mom!

Said goodbye to all the Christmas stuff, including Douglas the tree.

Blessed by Zach’s soup at work

Another night sleeping at acupuncture

No fun to cook for myself, better to cook for friends plus Peanut on a Thursday eve

Chicken tacos and guac

Peanut is thirsty for tacos

Anybody read this when you were younger? I never read this but I am looking forward to…

Morning

Friday in Gettyland

Night

Din Tai Fung WHYYYY

Rejected by dumplings, so food court ramen it is!

Went out for a drink after seeing Ralph Breaks the Internet WOW out on the town

Saturday morning took my car in for a service. LAST time I went they took Dobby out of my car and accidentally put it in another person’s car (WHY) so this time I took no risks and took him with me all day.

Scared more than one person

Mandy picked me up and bought me boba (thank you Mandddyyy)

Rose tea

Sage

Shot some new headshots for Mandy

~Creative digital professional~ ~Hire her~

We out

Beverly Hills

It started pouring rain as we were picking up Snoop

Thankfully Snoop has a raincoat

Puzzle table cross-functional for Thai food delivery too

WOW a rainy evening, doing lazy stuff around the house, doing some puzzling, and eventually playing a game of Machi Koro

Sunday good MORNING Sufi. Why yes, I did finally get a second duvet cover

We kept saying we were doing our final shoots last year, but actually, our final shoot for the amwa cookbook. Angela’s zongzi, so delicious.

Should shower probably

Made an effort and wore a dress and then covered it up.

Celebrating James’ birthday! Pleased the tiny hats I picked up for New Years got a second more beautiful life.

Walking over to Bavel in Downtown

HUmmus!

Fried pita

Octopusssss

MUSHROOOOMS

James eating mushrooms and his brain exploding

Tajiiiine

Lambbbbb

Are these real? I’m not sure I will ever know

I’ll end it here with James enjoying some Salt N Straw 🙂

Happy New Year all, hope your first days of 2019 have been excellent.

Much love friends.