Oh Intelli in Pasadena, I have missed thee. I’m thankful for low-key, sweet, blessed, Saturday late-afternoons, spent chatting/fellowshipping over really really good coffee.

Yesterday, I made pot roast for the first time in my life. I don’t like cooking with recipes so I browsed various ingredients people have used and then added my own. I let the 5 lbs of cow rest in my crock-pot for about 10 hours with some root-veggies. I was nervous and a bit skeptical of how it would turn out. But hooray! It was decent! No one barfed it up. And even got seconds! Since I was too busy shoving my face, I forgot to take a photo. So here is this one – it’s the leftovers I brought in for my lunch today. It looks gross in the photo, but I promise, it tasted good.

I’ve been joking around with T whenever someone gets a prettier heart on their lattes than I get. It’s all in jest and he knows I really don’t put any weight on the appearance of the heart (latte). But on Tuesday morning, when he made me this one, he was quite happy with it. And it is quite lovely. Yeah, possibly one of the loveliest. So I declared my glee at finally getting a purty heart out of the Barista. Poor Barista. For the record, I appreciate all the latte (he)arts.

T was happy to finally acquire the toffee-nut syrup. It’s the one they use at s’bucks to make their salted-caramel-hot-chocolate. I was happy to get this from T as a late afternoon treat. It’s made with great chocolate And it was as good as it looked in this photo!

After our before-the-sun-wakes-up run, T served up his usual coffee drinks for the rest of us weary (but happy) runners. We had some v-ice cream from my favorite (Handel’s) last night ’cause we had affogato. I don’t know why, but I wanted some this morning. So, how early is TOO early for some lil’ v-ice cream?

Settlers with a side of great coffee drinks is a perfect Monday Night activity! DP, AD, BY, EY, T and I had a blast. It was a very tame game and no real trash-talking. Hmm it was fun but maybe not feisty enough.

On my way to buy-bulk-warehouse tonight, I spied a gorgeous sunset to my right. Oh the perks of having my phone handy dandy nearby. (And please note the red light so you know I wasn’t snapping while driving. I mean, that would be dangerous. Especially if one was doing it in the rain. And yeah, this lil’ piggy has NEVER done that. Promise. ) Oh the wonder that He has made and allows us to enjoy. Oh how I love the beautiful sunsets So Cal gets to behold. Hmmm it just dawned on me… instead of taking these photos on my phone from my car, I should be at the beach, with my dSLR(wait, have I named him yet?) snapping away. Oh heart. Such is life.

Pork tenderloin experiment went better than I anticipated. It’s helpful to have a not-so-picky test subject. I’m thinking it would help for me to cook the tender’ with a meat thermometer next time. And FYI, one of us ate four pieces of the tender’ and had to ask the other one of us to take a lil’ walk to the nearby market.

This is what greeted me when I walked out of the office tonight. I love dusk! It was perfect. The air was a perfect balance of warm/cool and it smelled of summer nights. And then it dawned on me that it’s NOVEMBER and the air has no business smelling like summer. So maybe the scent was more what the air would smell like between summer and fall. As summer leaves and ushers fall in. Too bad we’ve been in fall for a while and the weather just hasn’t gotten a clue yet. But either way, it was breathtakingly gorgeous.

It was another average day. A few of us started the morning with our 5:30am Running Club jaunt. I dashed off to work and when I went to browse the photo library on my phone, this is what greeted me. Well, hello there eyeball.

It was another great day-o’-not-working! A great end to a great day was had in the form of dessert with the Ls. We miss them a lot so this was nice. What was also nice was this pear tart.

So, the night of BC and AT’s two-become-one night, we made a pit stop. It’s called Frostbites. It’s in Cypress. It’s awesome. This was mine. I devoured it.

Mondays are soccer nights. Tonight, I had the bonus of before soccer dinner a-la-J&DL. JL makes this great pasta dish. Man, I forgot the name, but it involves a lot of good stuff. I mean, it was man oh man good. Take my taste buds’ word for it.

We celebrated the end of VBS with a lovely luncheon a la In-N-Out. MT and I had a lovely date after over some tea at s’bucks. I like my dates with her. She’s fun.

BC married AT today. I usually don’t get the cow at weddings even though I love cows ’cause they tend to be dry at receptions. But I had a piece of CS’ and it was surprisingly good.

Everyday is a great day for ice cream. Tonight, I had the pleasure of dining with Miss.JW. We made a stop at Handel’s. YUMMMMMM vanilla.

It’s another typical day at work. I sip from my “office mug” as usual. But hark! What is this?! I spy an intruder in my mug! How dare it?!

Oh what a perfect day!

The Getty Center is as good (if not better) as I remember it.

Robert Robinson, you are the best Docent I’ve ever met. Thanks for taking a photo with us.

This is a row of hmmm I forgot the name. But I like how it came out. Hooray for my Canon T1i! (Yeah, I still need a name for him.)

I realize this is behind. My excuse is I am waiting for my friend TK to rescue my photos from my old green phone.

Tiramisu in the morning!
I gave one of our interns a very important task last night: Bring me back Tiramisu from the house you are kitchen helping at (for our church’s Apples of Gold ministry). Well, this intern is more than capable. I am joyfully enjoying this!

So, the other week, I wrote about how I lost my letter opener and how it was catalystic. I just made do without it ’cause it was no where.
Then, today, as I was tidying up the media cart at the office, what do I spy behind the TV? The letter opener! I seriously don’t know how it got there. I mean, I’m not usually opening a letter near the media cart. But yay! “Reunited and it feels so good…”