Category: irl

Epic ramen fail…

My goal is to try every type of ramen sold in the local Japanese grocery store. This one had no English anywhere on the package, so if there were cooking instructions, but how hard could it be? It’s cheap ramen.

Look how simple and organized everything is! This is gonna be *so* good!

Something horrible happened. It was inedible. I was so disappointed.

And so we met our next little pack member…

(We would come to understand the truth behind those shoe-button eyes, and those tiny puppy teeth sooner than we ever imagined…but I’m getting ahead of myself…)

These are not my photos, by the way. They were taken by people with the rescue from which we were to adopt this little beastie. More on that later…

Smoke from the Palisades fire…

This is all we saw of it.

God help the residents of Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

We donated some of my mom’s huge collection of sweatshirts to a local nursing home where some of the refugees ended up. I think she would like knowing that they went to keep some people in dire need nice and warm.

The colors! The colors!

Had a great New Year’s dinner with Friends-Who-Are-Family, and received an especially warm welcome from the Labradorks. These greetings go something like this:

Or sometimes they just climb on your lap. There are no photos of this happening to me, because everyone was pointing and laughing too hard. Trust me, it was a special experience.

Get a load of all of those Christmas trees in the background. That’s not even all of them. It’s a regular holiday forest!

A grand start to the year. The bar has been set very high indeed.