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Limoncello is a sweet, lemony liqueur popular in southern Italy. It is usually made with everclear and is prone to giving you painful headaches. My version uses softer, gentler vodka. You can make this with any fruit, grapefruit or pomegranate are two good options. It’s important to use only organic fruits, especially if you are…

Nervous energy I have a studio visit on monday and I’m sooooo nervous. So I’m starting up my daily ritual of walking up the filbert steps to coit tower. Wish me luck, both on the walk and the studio visit. Posted via Pixelpipe.

Nervous energyI have a studio visit on monday and I’m sooooo nervous. So I’m starting up my daily ritual of walking up the filbert steps to coit tower. Wish me luck, both on the walk and the studio visit. Posted via Pixelpipe.

As my birthday gift, order Peggy donated a gift of bees to a family in Armenia. Donate your own bees on Heifer.org. Thanks Peggy!

I shouldn’t eat this Originally uploaded by Alanna Risse But I’m going to anyway.

I went to the Social Security Administration building in Chinatown yesterday to commence “the changing of the name.” I was the only non-asian, which wasn’t that big of a surprise since I was in Chinatown. But after I got my number and sat down, with all those eyes staring at me, I started to think…

Hey az, look is this the place? Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence Kearny at I think pacific.

My first meal as alanna risse Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence Just got back from the social security administration! I am officially alanna risse now. I don’t think I really realized I was changing my name until the man at window 5 asked me to sign a document in my new name. I celebrated with…

What a nice Sunday this is. I made burritos for lunches, packed up some freshly made chicken stock from last night, made smoothies for breakfast, wrote some lyrics for the songs Tom and I are working on, went to Amoeba for some records, and now I’m making a website for the Yosemite Place Open Studios.…

CommunicationBees are also symbols of communication. The saying ‘tell it to the bees’ meant using bees to transmit wishes and desires out to God/dess. Bees work in complete cooperation, communicating with each other so that their hive remains intact and productive. Bees in a dream may indicate a need for communication either with a group…

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So, in response to more financial institution bail outs, Michele Bachmann made a comment “What’s next, Starbucks? Too big to fail.” The comment confused me. Was she insinuating an extreme? Or does she really like coffee? Because last time I checked, Starbucks was a cafe chain and the rest of the bail outs are major…

In San Francisco’s Potrero Hill, San Francisco Center for the Book will be holding it’s annual steamroller print event. Festivities will take place between 12pm and 5pm at De Haro and 16th Street on Saturday September 20th. Check out the sfcb website for more info.

Yay, shop all over the city, store and many other cities, seek regular parking spaces will be turned into temporary parks for the day. Visit the Parking.org website for more info. To view an itinerary for San Francisco, go here. I love park(ing) day. Last year I got to see chickens. They were cute.