CONGRATULATIONS MARLA!!!

My uberly brilliant friend, Marla, joined a flipflop design contest for OLD NAVY and WON! Her design got 2800 out of the 5000 votes that were sent in. Her design will be released along with the Spring 2009 collection. If you're in the US, you have to buy one! I'm so proud to have such a creative group of friends. Marla will be sent to San Francisco in February to meet with the company's design team! Woohoo!!!


her winning design

I forgot how it's cold here in the morning

Man it's cold in the morning! And to think I'm not even SF! I bet it's worse out there! Yesterday, the second thing I did when I got here (the first thing was have blueberry pancakes :p) was PLAY GUITAR HERO!



Chriselle has GH 2 and 3 so we took turns playing. She had a late date the night before so I let her nap a bit while I read her copy of Calvin and Hobbes. Later in the afternoon we had homemade tacos for dinner then we went out for a walk around the neighborhood. Everything I need is walking distance from here so I should be fine. There's a Safeway, Barnes & Noble, Jamba Juice, the train and bus stations, and even their own branch of Escape from New York Pizza!!! I won't have to go out to the Haight to have one again! I'm so stoked! They don't have a mall nearby and they have but one clothes store and it just so happens to be OLD NAVY. We went into a video game store and Chriselle saw another GH Guitar for $40 so she bought it! We walked back home and played GH together. It was cool how we could play in different levels together (she, in hard, I was in easy). It also felt like we were alternately playing like in a real band which was awesome.

Chris and her dad are out to work so I have the apartment to myself. Will make myself something for brekkie in a bit then maybe play GH until I've mastered my hand-eye coordination.

Btw, they don't have w-fi here so I'm stealing from the neighbor again. They do have internet but I don't want to use their only ethernet cable since they use it too. I just have to angle the mac a certain way to get the best reception. If I'm on YM and I keep logging on and off or completely disappear, that's because I lost my signal. Chris is a volunteer for their local library and they have free wi-fi there so I'm going with her while she works and I can be properly online then.