Archive for January, 2010

Weather

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

This is California dammit. Stop having weather.

Every day I commute from the desert valley to the mountain range above. When there is extreme weather like we’ve been having this week, it makes mountain driving super annoying and dangerous. The only plus side is that this is the prettiest time of the year for my commute (yup, those pics are from my drive home) and we get all that much needed moisture to make the plants happy.

Folks with real snow, I don’t know how you do it. We get a few feet and I’m ready to throw in the towel and totally wander into the wilderness to die. We’ve got tornado warnings in Hemet on the plus side. Say what!


Art Center

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Had to go to Art Center for work this past weekend. Forgot how much I love black exteriors – like LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Sigh.

Black exterior and a killer view of Pasadena?

Sigh again…

Not Thrifty!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I went to a Salvation Army a few towns over that I hadn’t been to in quite awhile. The real estate firm next door had gone out of business and SA’s solution was to take over the WHOLE building and move the furniture and larger home items into the old office.

Well, it was weird. Like REALLY weird.

It started off thrifty enough but soon derailed into something akin to a horror movie with the leftover cubicles and empty offices stacked high with vignettes of cast off furniture and home goods.

All the blue chairs are mesmerized by their own reflection…

Hastily taped signs led you down corridors and around empty conference rooms to look at a sad assortment of LAMPS. There were no vacuum cleaners to be found…

I’m glad they kept the LAMPS and lampshades separate. Who knows what horrible and grotesque shenanigans these fiends would get up to if not separated into their own offices.

It’s like the most depressing diorama you’ve ever seen.

I love how they play with angles and symmetry. SOLD.

More Furniture! Yippee!

Oh wait, it’s just piles of phones.