We got a copy of our marriage license yesterday! Which means we’re married fer realz! It also means it’s time for me to start getting my name changed. Gasp. It’s a lot of little stuff to do. Here I go! I’m going to use an online service to help me. It’s called MissNowMrs.com. Anyone else…

Note to self: wok shop Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence This place is magical. It’s in chinatown at grant and commercial. They have all kinds of cupcake tins and cookie cutters and ravioli stampers plus fancy knives.

In honor of David Foster Wallace who died this weekend at the age of 46. This is his commencement at Kenyon College, May 2005. Thanks Hildreth for passing it along. (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go ahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles while pulling up…

Birthday almond cornetto Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence I stopped by the jackson cafe and got a pastry and a coffee to start off my birthday right. Yay birthdays!

San Francisco is not Hawaii on vacation. I have to sit on angry, crowded buses nearly two hours every day. There are far less pineapples and mangos to eat, and there are no cute little fishies swimming around me all the time. Tom is not by my side every minute of the day and I…

Starting something new Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence I busted out the wax and got to work today. Where will it go now?

Great video interview with Matt Damon on his fears of Sarah Palin potentially becoming one heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. From nymag.com. Yeah actually, prescription this whole thing does remind me of a bad Disney movie script. Like: “Baby boy falls out of a canoe, is raised by dogs in the…

Seems every year there are more and more virgos in my life. So here’s a big fat happy birthday to all of you: Tom Risse Bradley Allen Heather Crawford John Paul Ahern Peggy Schubert Martin Kojnok Gus Lanzas Erin Dunn Shannon Tucker Kenny Shelf Alanna Spence (that’s me!) Who am I forgetting? Mwa!

I saved you Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence I found a ladybug in the toilet at work. It was floating on it’s back, trying desperately to right itself. I considered flushing it. I figured, that ladybug is a goner and I’m not going to risk walking through work with a soggy piece of toilet paper…

Hey bloggers, CBS 5 is hosting a little shin-dig for you. It’s on September 25th at 6:30pm at Battery and Broadway in SF. Find out more on the cbs5 website under the ‘eye on blogs‘ section.

I wanted to throw in the towel today. I wish my studio wasn’t on the opposite side of town from my work. I wish I could ride my scooter in this town and feel safe. I wish I had more energy at the end of my work day. I wish I had a clear destination…

Little chihuahua Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence The Little Chihuahua Taqueria http://thelittlechihuahua.com/ 292 Divisadero ( at Page) San Francisco, CA Report (Scale of 1 – 10): Tortilla: 10 Burrito Contents: 9 Salsa bar: 9 Cleanliness: 7 Decor: 9 Prices: 8.5 Beverage menu: 9 Service: 9 We ordered the carne asade super burrito for $7.50. The…

Yesterday was a day of consumer disappointments. – Called to have our bed delivered, they said it was made and ready for a delivery date. Or regular guy wasn’t there so I had to talk to someone else. She was cranky and insisted our bed was not made and would take 2 weeks. I talked…

Thanks to codefront.net I have two versions of firefox running at the same time on my windows xp machine. Something they don’t note in their post is to rename your Mozilla folder in C:\Program Files before installing firefox 3. You’ll also need to make a new shortcut of firefox 2 once you install firefox 3.

I love you but you are hurting me Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence My sandals are beautiful, just now magic. I tried to do lots of walking in them and now I have painful blisters and I can’t get home with all my groceries. Worse yet, I have a sheet of moleskin in my purse…