Lisa's Birthday (continued)

When back in San Francisco, we celebrated with some sushi and a fun game night with close friends. Thanks everyone!!

Happy 30th Birthday!!

While in New York we celebrated Lisa, Jenie and Sarah's birthday at Backals.
Thanks to everyone for celebrating with us!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving we had a "Turkey Showdown!"
Team White: Lisa's Dad (and Uncle Frank, jury is still out on his allegiance)
Prepared the Deep Fried Broad Breasted White Turkey

Team Red: Lisa's brother in law, Justin and grandma
Prepared the Bourbon Red Turkey, stuffed and oven roasted

After the votes were counted Team Red was announced the winner even though there is still much debate in regards to the outcome, since 4 voters abstained.

Laurissa and Justin visit San Francisco

Congratulations Keely and Ian!

Kodi, May 7, 2000-September 4, 2007

Kodi, we love you so much and you will be missed always. xoxoxo


(from Kodi's Catster page)
Nicknames:
Kodi Monster, Munchki, Munchkin, Munchkin Head, Relli
Coloration:
Black and White
Likes:
I love to eat! I spend much of my time during the day sleeping and sitting on my Amusement Park watching the birds and people walk by. I love kneading my mommy's neck when she comes home (so much that I drool)
Pet-Peeves:
water, getting my claws clipped, being combed, the vaccum, driving in cars
Favorite Toy:
disc flyer, bird toy that hangs off of my mommy's bedroom door, anything with catnip in it, toy mice, I love to play and hide in empty shopping bags or boxes
Favorite Nap Spot:
At the foot of or under my mommy's bed, on my Amusement Park, in the closet, on the ottoman
Favorite Food:
cat food, tuna, milk, ice-cream (I only get vanilla), peanut butter
Skills:
I can open up the kitchen cabinets and I play fetch with my favorite disc flyer toy
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story:
When my mommy went to Bide-a-Wee to find a cat I was in my cage meowing nonstop. She asked the vet why I was meowing so much and she said that I probably wanted to be held. With a pitiful look on her face my mommy said that she wanted to hold me. The vet handed me to my mommy and it was love at first site. I had a new home!
Bio:
Everyone always notices my super long whiskers. Although I like my independence, I'm also very sweet and friendly. When I hear the elevator's bell I run to the front door and await for my new friend to walk in so that I can rub myself all over their legs. I'm very curious about what is inside tall cups. I like to knock them over, but I hate when they're full and I get wet. My mommy used to have these cups that I liked to shove my head into, check me out in the photo. She doesn't have those cups anymore but I still like to knock over the ones she has now.

We've moved! (again)

Our building that we used to live in was sold and the new owner has issued the Ellis Act in order to evict all the tenants from the building. Therefore we had to move.

Although we were very sad to have to leave our apartment and neighborhood, we've found another apartment that we love. It has all the amenities that we were looking for and we can't wait for you all to come and visit us here.

Here are a few pictures of the apartment on moving day. To follow, hopefully soon, will be photos of the progress.

the entrance (1st floor)

the office (1st floor)

the master bedroom (1st floor)

the kitchen (2nd floor)

dining room/living room (2nd floor)

We've moved! (again) part 2

More pics

living room (2nd floor)

guest bedroom (3rd floor)

our private roof deck

Barry Bonds Breaks Baseball Home Run Record

Thanks to one of Shan's reps who gave him free bleacher seats to the game, we were there when Bonds hit his 756th home run.

a shot of Bonds right after he hit the ball

as Barry Bonds is coming into home plate

Lisa's Mom and Dad visit San Francisco

On Saturday mornings in San Francisco the Ferry Building holds one of the largest Farmers Market in the city.

We joined the other 10,000 shoppers here for tons of free samples and some of the freshest produce used for our dinner that night.

The vineyard so nice we had to go back twice! (those of you from NY, I hope you know where I stole this from)
Mom and Dad pose in front of the plentiful grapevines of Viansa Winery.

It's not summer in San Francisco without the fog. As the sun sets, we drive back into the city to see the Golden Gate Bridge disappear as the fog rolls in.

Shan's mom visits SF

Shan and his mom at Viansa's Winery

(Shan's cousin's, Sachiko and Emma)
Emma checks out her new toys!

(Emma and Greg)
Emma takes a ride on her daddy's shoulders

We're Engaged and Planning our Wedding!!

This is a pic from the night Shan popped the question. Please check the wedding info section on our blog as we'll be updating it periodically with our wedding plans.

A little bit about Simply Hired

You might notice what is called a widget on the right hand side of the page. This is a product that Simply Hired offers called Job-a-Matic. So far 1,500 of them have signed up for this service...in less than 4 months. This is going to allow us to ride the Web 2.0 wave that has been called the Long Tail or the Blogosphere. These publishers can sell postings on their board, and if they do Simply Hired gets a cut. We also provide backfill their jobs in case they don't sell that many. This allows for their job content to stay fresh and relevant. I'm not selling jobs. I just did this to see how the process works, but you can see that we have our own little job board on our blog now. It took me 5 minutes.

If anyone clicks on the backfilled jobs the blog gets a cut and Simply Hired gets an even bigger cut. Finally, w/ some of our larger publishers I can bundle a number of blogs into a larger buy and sell them to HP, Apple, etc. This is one part of our 3 prong sales strategy, which also includes Simply Hired (of course) and MySpace (which garners 10% of all page view online).

This component of our strategy allows us to take the jobs to where job seekers are living and breathing online instead of posting jobs and waiting for candidates to find them (i.e. HotJobs, Careerbuilder, Monster, etc). So far...2 months into the job our advertisers have been very receptive to the message.

Now maybe some of you will kind of, sort of, know part of what I do! That means you, Mom. I would love to hear what you all think.

Mom and Jen's trip to San Francisco

Here are some pictures of when mom and Jen came to visit. We had a great time and it was great spending Mother's Day together. Thanks for coming out here ladies!! - Lisa xoxo

at Pier 39 checking out the sea lions

"So that's how they get the fortunes into the fortune cookies!"

taking a trip on a trolley

at Muir Woods

Our recent camping trip to Sonoma Coast State Beach

our campsite

Shan's favorite camping activity

enjoying the sunset

Congratulations Laurissa and Justin!

their first dance

taking their vows

at the rehearsal dinner

Go Giants!

inside AT&T Park
Typical for San Francisco at night, it's a bit foggy. But, can you see the large boats out in the bay?

a popular chant for the evening

Lou Seal trying to rally the fans by dancing on the dugout.

Believe it or not, this is Shan's first major league baseball game!
Even though the Giants lost, we had a great time.